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Annual Congress 08

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23 - 25 September 2009

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scientific programme

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Thursday
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WEDNESDAY

1015–1145 SESSION I
 
A: Improving patient safety in the operating room
 
Lessons from aviation
 
Dr Nick Toff, Cambridge
Implementing human factors training to anaesthesia
 
Dr Nikki Maran, Stirling
NPSA incident reporting system
 
Dr Joan Russell, London
 
B: Vascular anaesthesia
 
Point of care testing of coagulation in the management
of major haemorrhage
 
Dr Alastair Nimmo, Edinburgh
Emergency vascular anaesthesia
 
Dr Jeremy Langton, Plymouth
Ups and downs of carotid surgery
 
Dr Mark Stoneham, Oxford
 
C: Burns & plastic surgery
 
Burns and smoke inhalation
 
Prof John Kinsella, Glasgow
Free flaps made easy
 
Dr Steven Oakey, Chelmsford
Anaesthesia for cosmetic plastic surgery
 
Dr John Holloway, Poole
 
1200–1300 SESSION II
 
Intavent lecture
 
Dr David Bogod, Nottingham
 
1400–1530 SESSION III
 
A: Excellent care for non-elective surgery
 
Care pathways for fractured neck of femur
 
Dr Richard Griffiths, Peterborough
Practical implementation of optimisation in surgical patients
 
Dr Chris Snowden, Newcastle
Emergency abdominal surgery: Can we do better?
 
Dr Carol Peden, Bath
 
B: Anaesthetists in management
 
Dealing with a clinical incident
 
Dr Melanie Jones, Bridgend
Ultimate problem colleague:
Preparing a disciplinary/GMC case
 
Dr Andrew Hartle, London
Corporate and medical manslaughter
 
Mr David Wood,
Bevan Brittan Solicitors
 
C: Free Papers
 
 
1600–1730 SESSION IV
 
A: Obesity
 
Why are some people fat? Can obesity surgery help them?
 
Mr Roger Ackroyd, Sheffield
Anaesthesia and morbid obesity
 
Dr Nick Barron, Sheffield
 
B: Focus on the kidney
 
Perioperative management of patients with chronic
renal failure
 
Prof Jennifer M. Hunter, Liverpool
Management of acute renal failure in 2009
 
Dr Mark Palazzo, London
Providing a transplant service when less people are dying
from head injuries
 
Dr Kevin Gunning, Cambridge
 
C: Anaesthetists responding to challenges in service
 
Dealing with varibility in standards of care
 
Dr Dermot McKeown, Edinburgh
Tackling the 18-week wait
 
Dr Iain Wilson, Exeter
Monitoring quality in the day unit
 
Dr Mary Stocker, Torquay

 


THURSDAY

0730–0830 Christian Medical Fellowship Breakfast
 
 
0730–0900 Schering-Plough Breakfast Satellite Symposium
 
Sugammadex in anaesthetic practice: Clinical experience
and issues from the first year
 
 
0900–1030 SESSION V
 
A: Association of Paediatric Anaesthesists
 
Stabilisation and transfer of sick children
 
Dr Sabeena Qureshi, London
Loco-regional techniques for children
 
Dr Steve Roberts, Liverpool
Paediatric neurosurgery: Where are we in 2009?
 
Mr Paul May, Liverpool
 
B: Focus on the heart
 
Protecting the heart in the peri-operative period
 
Dr Peter Noordzij, Rotterdam
What to do about stents and antithrombotics?
 
Dr Paul Erasmus, Plymouth
A practical approach to patients with valvular disease
 
Dr Richard Struthers, Plymouth
 
C: Free Papers
 
 
1100–1200 SESSION VI
 
John Snow Lecture
 
Prof Sir John Tooke
 
1200–1300 SESSION VII
 
A: Careers outside anaesthesia
 
Pharmacology/pharmaceutical industry
 
Dr Gordon Coutts, Schering-Plough
Medical education or teaching
 
Dr Mark Stacey, Penarth
Working with the Department of Health
 
Dr Julia Moore OBE, Wirral
 
B: Triservice Anaesthesia Society
 
Organisational aspects of deployment
 
Royal Navy
Management of war injuries
  Triservice Anaesthesia: The Royal
Army Medical Corps – Lieutenant
Colonel Rhys Thomas RAMC
Evacuation
 
Triservice Anaesthesia: The Royal
Air Force – Wing Commander Phil
Dalrymple RAF
 
C: Tales of the unexpected
 
New strategies to improve an old treatment: Snake antivenom
 
Dr Robert Harrison, Liverpool
Near drowning
 
Dr Gary Minto, Plymouth
Poisoning: Who takes what in 2009 and what to do about it
 
Dr Nick Edwards, London
 
1400–1530 SESSION VIII
 
A: Diabetes
 
In-patient diabetes
 
Prof Ian MacFarlane, Liverpool
Peri-operative management of the diabetic patient
 
Dr Heidi Robertshaw, London
Peri-operative glucose control in non-diabetic patients
 
Prof George Hall, London
 
B: Updates from our colleagues
 
Update in cardiology
 
Dr Julian Hobbs, Liverpool
Interventional radiology update
 
Dr Richard McWilliams, Liverpool
Microbiology update
 
Dr Vanya Gant, London
 
C: Question time & AGM
 
Your chance to pose pre-submitted questions to a panel of experts.
Includes Annual Members Meeting
 
 
1600–1730 SESSION IX
 
A: Revalidation and appraisal
 
Revalidation: Why are we doing it?
 
Prof Chris Dodds, Middlesbrough
Making revalidation work
 
Incoming Chairman of GMC
Revalidation: Right-of-way or red-amber-green?
 
Prof Alastair Scotland, London
 
1745–1900 Flynn Pharma Satellite Symposium
 
Enhanced postoperative pain management and its role in the recovery process
 

 


FRIDAY

0900–1030 SESSION X
 
A: Difficult airway session
 
Teaching airway management
 
Dr Ellen O’Sullivan, Dublin
Human behaviours/NOTECHS in airway management:
The SMART approach
 
Dr Ravi Dravid, Kettering
Aintree difficult airway management:
An alternative approach
 
Dr Peter Groom, Liverpool
 
B: Papers that you need to know about
 
Anaesthesia
 
Prof Robert Sneyd, Plymouth
Intensive care
 
Dr Richard Wenstone, Liverpool
Pain management
 
Prof David Rowbotham, Leicester
 
C: Free Papers
 
 
1100–1200 SESSION XI
 
Draeger Lecture
 
Prof Karen Domino, USA
 
1315–1430 SESSION XII
 
A: Obstetrics
 
Planning high-risk pregnancy in the DGH:
An integrated approach
 
Dr Mike Weisz, Peterborough
Massive obstetric haemorrhage
 
Dr Janet Pickett, Cambridge
Pain relief in obstetrics, old and new
 
Dr David Levy, Nottingham
 
B: SAS Session: Stress, stressors and strategies
 
Trainees’ stressors
 
Dr Susan Williams, Cardiff
SAS stressors
 
Dr Ramana Alladi, Manchester
Consultant stressors
 
Dr Iain Wilson, Exeter
Coping strategies
 
Dr Diana Dickson, Leeds
 
1430–1600 SESSION XIII
 
Play – The Mysterious Case of the Lost Syringe
 

 

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