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Primary Care Learning and Development
This course is aimed at comprehensive evidence based learning of a variety of topics related to nose and sinuses encountered in day-today practice. Topic will be presented by specialists in their fields.
Registration Fee:
Early bird: £50 until 1st march 2017; late: £75 after 1st march 2017
For further information please email raghav.dwivedi@nhs.net
A practical workshop is also incorporated to give hands-op experience of basic ENT nasal procedures required in day-to-day practice.
Target audience:
? GPs (practicing/trainee),
? Respiratory physicians (practicing/trainee),
? ENT surgeon (practicing/trainee),
? Core trainees,
? Foundation doctors,
? Allied healthcare professionals
8.30-9.00 Registration/coffee
9.00-9.20 Allergic rhinitis: current update 9.20-9.40 Immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis
9.40-10.00 Sinusitis: current update 10.00-10.30 Case discussion
10.30-10.50 Tea/coffee break
10.50-11.20 Facial pain: current update 11.20-11.40 Epistaxis management in primary care
11.40-12.00 Case discussion+ quiz
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.20 Complications of sinusitis 13.20-13.40 Aspirin desensitization 13.40-14.00 Case discussion
14.00-14.20 Tea/coffee break
14.20- 16.30 Practical workshop (in 4 groups)
Skin prick test
Immunotherapy
Nasal cautery
Nasal packing
16.30 Concluding remarks & certificates
