Mediasite Presentation Catalog

Welcome Presenter(s): Dean Iain Martin Status: Available Air Date: 3/27/2009 Air Time: 4:30 PM NZST Length: 10 Minutes 25 Seconds View: Welcome	The Right Way to the Top Presenter(s): Jennie Vickers Status: Available Air Date: 3/27/2009 Air Time: 5:10 PM NZST Length: 53 Minutes 16 Seconds View: The Right Way to the Top
The Difference Ethics Makes Presenter(s): Professor Richard Gunderman Status: Available Air Date: 3/28/2009 Air Time: 9:15 AM NZST Length: 59 Minutes 11 Seconds When ethics appears in the popular media, it is often in connection with a lapse in judgment or even frank scandal. Over time, ethics has come to be associated with procedures, rules, and laws that help us to avoid censure. In fact, however, ethics is much more that a collection of "Thou shalt nots." Ethics concerns human character, the habits of thought and action that render us more or less admirable and people we would like to emulate. Ethics is the inquiry into the personal attributes of good human beings and good human lives. Healthcare has not realized its potential to enrich the lives of patients and health professionals largely because we have failed to appreciate the vital role of ethics in helping us to be our best. Through this presentation, we reexamine the difference deep dedication to ethics can make in our lives. View: The Difference Ethics Makes	Should we use medication in the elderly? Presenter(s): Lynda Bryant Status: Available Air Date: 3/28/2009 Air Time: 1:50 PM NZST Length: 54 Minutes 55 Seconds What are we trying to achieve when we use medicines in the very elderly? There is evidence that some medicines such as statins and blood pressure lowering medicines are beneficial in the elderly – and to not use these medicines is paramount to ageism. Yet these medicines may also cause adverse effects. What of quality of life versus quantity of life in the very elderly? This is an interactive session and issues, including current evidence, will be a debated with the aim of the discussion being to help identify factors that may be relevant to the decision making process for the prescriber and the patient. Medicines to be included in the discussion will be statins, blood pressure lowering medicines, bisphosphonates and psychotropic medicines. This is a patient-orientated, real-life practice discussion and audience participation will be sought. Intended audience: Suitable for any healthcare professional who is involved with older people. View: Should we use medication in the elderly?
“Is This Normal?” - When to Act and When to Relax Common Paediatric Condition in General Practice Presenter(s): Marguerite Dalton and Nikki Turner Status: Available Air Date: 3/28/2009 Air Time: 2:55 PM NZST Length: 56 Minutes 43 Seconds This session will focus on common conditions in childhood that present to the general practice. The focus will be on what is the normal range and what is of concern, when to intervene and when to relax. It will include a range of vignettes and examples. Areas covered may include topics such as common skin lesions, dental problems, head shapes and fontanelles, motor and neuro-developmental issues, coughs and constipation. Audience: primary health care staff who are at the front line for seeing everyday childhood issues View: “Is This Normal?” - When to Act and When to Relax Common Paediatric Condition in General Practice	What’s New? Hot Topics In Primary Care: Presenter(s): Team From The Department of General Practice Status: Available Air Date: 3/28/2009 Air Time: 4:15 PM NZST Length: 1 Hour 9 Minutes 27 Seconds CVD/Diabetes/Fever in Children/Hospice/Preventing Falls/Vitamin D Deficiency View: What’s New? Hot Topics In Primary Care:
Interpretation of Haematology Results Presenter(s): Claire McLintock Status: Available Air Date: 3/28/2009 Air Time: 10:40 AM NZST Length: 1 Hour 42 Seconds Let’s set the scene. It’s Friday afternoon, the inbox or intray is full of patients’ blood test results, they’ve been gathering through the week. All you want to see is normal results, confirming for your patient that everything if fine, no need to worry. But then you see them - the asterisks – * is bad enough but then you see some results with and, no it can’t be, here is one with * What does it mean? How worried should you be? What do you tell your patient? What do you do next? And when do you need to do it? This session will be a practical approach to interpretation of common – and maybe some not-so-common - haematological abnormalities. What to do, when to refer and when to worry. I will also discuss some of the newer diagnostic tests for haematological disorders and provide an update on new treatment options for haematological malignancies. The session will be interactive without being intrusive, it will be educational and enjoyable, leave you feeling confident about what to do and when to ask for help. View: Interpretation of Haematology Results	Connecting Research and Policy to Practice Through Knowledge Transfer: Developing A Culture of Learning Presenter(s): Dr Jane Mills Status: Available Air Date: 3/29/2009 Air Time: 9:00 AM NZST Length: 56 Minutes 54 Seconds As health professionals the way we work today is vastly different to the way we worked in the not so distant past. Technology has transformed work practices and our approach to finding and assimilating new knowledge. Even so, we can still conceptualise our health care landscape as a place where silos of research, policy and practice activity exist. Organisations, teams and individuals who move easily between these three silos, or domains, are rare because of the difficulties encountered in the transfer of knowledge and the application of evidence at the point of care. In saying this, the language of evidence-based practice pervades each of these domains. This paper argues that until organisations cultivate a culture of learning, the language of evidence-based practice will be empty rhetoric used for the purpose of meeting bureaucratic requirements. View: Connecting Research and Policy to Practice Through Knowledge Transfer: Developing A Culture of Learning
What is Quality Prescribing Presenter(s): Keith Crump Status: Available Air Date: 3/29/2009 Air Time: 10:20 AM NZST Length: 53 Minutes 43 Seconds Matching medicines with patient needs The busy practitioner is faced with a multiple of medicines related decision points many times within a busy working day. Are there methodologies that support the practitioner to enable these decisions to form a greater quality prescribing matrix? The definition of quality prescribing depends on the perspective of the audience. Patients would expect that quality prescribing would be associated with the safe use of medicines with minimal adverse events, tangible benefits that may include improved quality of life, greater longevity and reduction of symptoms. To the practitioner quality use of medicines may also include better management of disease states, improved health outcomes and ensuring that treatment follows best practice guidance. The healthcare funder quality prescribing may include targeting diseases states, optimising medicines and rationalising prescribing. This session will cover: • Managing Risk. • Reviewing the Use of Some Medicines • Treating the Patient • What are the priorities? Recommendations • Have a regular list of preferred medicines. • Work on the simplest solution first. • In patients with multiple medicines prescribing more may not be the best intervention. • Review medicines on an ongoing basis. View: What is Quality Prescribing	The Use of Opioids versus Traditional Concepts in the Treatment of Non-Cancer Pain Presenter(s): Brigette Gertoberens and John Dunlop Status: Available Air Date: 3/29/2009 Air Time: 11:25 AM NZST Length: 1 Hour 3 Minutes 3 Seconds Managing chronic non-cancer pain states has always been a challenge and it continues to be. The presentation will give a brief introduction into the size of the problem and the plethora of challenges health practitioners and patients are facing when dealing with chronic pain. Pharmacological treatment is part of pain management, though effects often do not meet expectations. NSAIDSs (Cox inhibitors) are widely used analgesics in non-malignant pain states (e.g. OA, musculoskeletal pain). The presentation gives a refresher course for the experienced or an introduction for those who want to improve their knowledge about the pharmacology of NSAIDs. The mode of action of Cox 1 and Cox 2 inhibitors, risks and side effects will be outlined. Treatment with opioids is generally subject to concerns for health practitioners and for patients as well. The mode of action of opioids, their potential risks and side effects will be shown, including opioid induced hyperalgesia. Development of tolerance and opioid rotation will be discussed. The talk intends to facilitate decision making about analgesic regimes and showing ways of a sensible use of opioids as an option. Discussing the pros and cons with the audience will surely add interesting aspects. Intended audience: Suitable for all health professionals involved in the care of chronic pain patients, but especially GP’s who are often struggling with the pharmacological regime in these patients. View: The Use of Opioids versus Traditional Concepts in the Treatment of Non-Cancer Pain