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Podiatry Practice Update: Local Anaesthesia (LA), Prescribing & Emergency Skills

Course Date

Sat 8th Aug

Course Timings

9:00 - 17:00

Course Location

Wiggin Centre Sir Robert Peel Hospital Plantation Lane Tamworth, West Midlands, B78 3NG

Course Costs

Members: £349,

NON-Members: £399

Maximum 24 delegates

A intensive one-day update designed to refresh podiatrists’ knowledge and clinical competence in local anaesthetic use, safe prescribing within scope, and emergency first aid management. The course combines theory, case-based learning, and practical refreshers aligned with current professional standards.

About the Course

Podiatrists regularly administer local anaesthetics and manage infections, placing them at risk of encountering complications and emergencies. This course ensures:

  • Safe, evidence-based clinical practice
  • Compliance with medicines legislation
  • Improved patient safety and outcomes

 

Course Aims

Update knowledge on safe and effective use of local anaesthetics in podiatry practice

Reinforce understanding of prescribing responsibilities, including POMs and written orders

Enhance confidence in recognising and managing medical emergencies in clinic

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe pharmacology and safe dosing of commonly used local anaesthetics
  2. Select appropriate anaesthetic techniques for podiatric procedures
  3. Prescribe safely within legal frameworks (including POMs and written orders)
  4. Recognise adverse drug reactions and complications
  5. Manage medical emergencies including anaphylaxis and syncope
  6. Perform essential first aid skills in a podiatry setting

Course Sylabus

Session 1: Introduction & Legal Framework

  •  Scope of practice in podiatry
  • Medicines legislation overview
  • Prescription Only Medicines (POMs)
  • Written orders: who can supply/administer and when
  • Role of PGDs (Patient Group Directions)

Session 2: Local Anaesthesia Update

  • Pharmacology overview: Lidocaine (lignocaine) Mepivacaine
  • Vasoconstrictors (e.g. adrenaline): indications & cautions
  • Maximum safe dosing calculations
  • Contraindications & precautions

Practical discussion:

  •   Digital block techniques
  • Ankle blocks overview
  • Common errors and risk reduction

Session 3: Complications & Safety

  • Local Anaesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST)
  • Allergic reactions vs toxicity
  • Infection control & safe injection practice

Session 4: Prescribing Update

  • Prescribing frameworks in podiatry: Independent prescribing (if applicable) Supplementary prescribing Exemptions
  • Common medications within podiatry remit: Antibiotics: amoxicillin, erythromycin Analgesics
  • Documentation standards Session 5: Basic First Aid Practical Skills: Basic Life Support (BLS) overview Recovery position Use of AED (Awareness level) Emergency drug use (e.g. adrenaline auto-injector)

Session 5: Basic First Aid

  • Practical Skills: Basic Life Support (BLS) overview
  • Recovery position Use of AED (Awareness level)
  • Emergency drug use (e.g. adrenaline auto-injector)

Tutor

 Somuz Miah, CFPodM, BSc (PodM), Dip Sp.I, PGC IP, MFPM RCPS (Glasg),is a qualified Sports Practitioner &   Podiatrist (Diploma Sports injuries &Electro Therapy).  Somuz is qualified in Spinal & Peripheral Joint Manipulation   HVLA. He has been practicing podiatry for over 24 years. Somuz is a Consultant Podiatrist Prescriber & Member of   the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons Glasgow.

Somuz is a qualified First Aid Instructor.

 

 Martin Harvey, FPodM PGCert, BSc, MCPodS, has played a leading role in advancing and championing soft tissue   injection therapy within UK podiatry for nearly twenty years. As one of the earliest supplementary prescribers in UK   podiatry, he contributed to the development of independent prescribing (IP), collaborating with the Department of   Health and the National Prescribing Centre to establish a unified national prescribing framework.

 A highly experienced Independent Prescriber, Martin Harvey is adept at conveying complex pharmacological   concepts in an accessible manner, ensuring delegates acquire the essential knowledge to use potent steroid   agents safely and effectively. Alongside his hospital consultancy work, he has worked as member of the

Department of Health working party on extending controlled drug prescribing rights for podiatrist prescribers and served as a leader within the NHS Education England’s Foot Health Consortium project.

Venue

Wiggin Centre, Sir Robert Peel Hospital, Tamworth, West Midlands.

Free parking is available along Plantation Lane leading to the Hospital. On-site pay-and-display parking is also available.

Lunch and refreshments are provided.

This course is accredited by The Institute of Podiatrists.

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