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Respiratory

Join us for the next episode of our acute medicine series on respiratory medicine, featuring talks on an approach to haemoptysis on the acute take, an update on pleural disease management at the front door and asthma and COPD exacerbations — are we getting it right?

Rheumatology

Dr Caroline Cotton, Dr Zoe Syrimi and Dr Jennifer Christie discuss myositis presenting to the acute medical unit, acute inflammatory arthritis on the medical take and the evaluation of raised inflammatory markers in systemic illness.

Endocrinology and diabetes

Dr Mayank Patel FRCP and Dr Ganesh Arunagirinathan discuss guidance on wearable diabetes technology for non-specialists and the evaluation and management of hyponatremia.

Infectious diseases

Dr Christina Petridou, Dr Adam Dale and Dr Daniel Pan discuss fever in the returned traveller, pneumonia in immunocompromised patients and pyrexia of unknown origin in adults.

Acute medicine emergencies

Dr Claire Gordon, Dr Abigail Banfield and Dr Nick Scriven discuss sepsis on the acute take, GI bleeding and Respiratory failure on the AMU.

Neurology

Dr Rachel Todd, Dr Duncan Street and Dr Albert Joseph discuss epilepsy and seizures, approach to headache at the front door and acute management of functional neurological disorder.

Cardiology

Dr Trevor Wistow, Dr Donah Zachariah and Dr Kristian Skinner discuss chest pains for the front door, arrhythmia management for acute physicians and management of acute heart failiure.

Diabetes

Professor Ponnusamy Saravanan, Dr Sarah Brewster and Dr Sanjeev Sharma discuss Euglycaemic diabetic ketoacidosis, An introduction to continuous glucose monitoring interpretation for the on-call doctor and Acute hyperglycaemic emergencies