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Course Programme
This course will cover the following topics:
Day 1
- Hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia: when should you start treatment in psychiatric patients?
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus: considering specific management approaches in psychiatric patient
- Weight gain in psychiatric patients: considering specific causes (including the role of psychiatric medication) and non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches to its management
- Shortness of breath
- Smoking cessation in psychiatric patients: insight from approaches at the Maudsley Hospital
- Chest pain
- Prolonged QTc: when to take action and what to do
- Cardiac side effects of clozapine: focusing on tachycardia, postural hypotension, and myocarditis.
Day 2
- Clozapine and neutropaenia: when to act and what to do, special considerations for patients with benign ethnic neutropaenia, and specific discussion around the pros and cons of strategies to increase neutrophil counts
- Sepsis: identification and management
- Anaemia
- Weight loss: investigation thereof, and cancer screening in psychiatric patients
- Raised creatinine: the role of psychiatric medication and how renal failure may necessitate a change in your prescribing practice
- Electrolyte disturbance: causes in psychiatric patients, when to worry, and what to do about it
- Hypo- and hyper-thyroidism in psychiatric patients
- Deranged liver function tests: the role of psychiatric medication and how hepatic failure may necessitate a change in your prescribing practice
- Constipation with a particular focus on clozapine-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility
- Autoimmune encephalitis: how to identify it, and what to do when it is suspected
- Stroke: identification and management.
Learning objectives
| Describe the link between severe mental illness and major physical comorbidities | Assess common physical health conditions in patients with chronic mental illness and recommend evidence-based management |
| Determine when to refer for specialist input and identify appropriate referral pathways | Safely and effectively manage risks associated with clozapine |
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Target audience
Consultant – psychiatry, CT1-3 – psychiatry, Doctors, GP, GPVTS, ST4-7 – psychiatry
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