Life-saving drugs: 24 hours in A&E

An accident and emergency (A&E) department has to be always at the ready to receive and treat patients with life threatening emergencies. At the front door, staff need to use life-saving medicines to stabilize patients, before the more lengthy process of full assessment and treatment can put them on the road to recovery. In this taster lecture, you will become a virtual member of the A&E team as they use medicines to stabilize 16-year-old Lidia who is having a severe allergic reaction, and 68-year-old Chikelu who is having a heart attack. You will find out how medicines work in the treatment of these conditions, the challenges of giving medicines that need to work immediately to save lives and discover clinical pharmacology, the science of developing new medicines for use in healthcare.

This taster lecture is an example of what you could expect on our Clinical Pharmacology BSc course.

As well as a lecture on Life-saving drugs, you will have the opportunity to ask questions to our academics and student ambassadors