AAGBI Annual Congress

FULL PROGRAMME

Wednesday 17 September
Thursday 18 September
Friday 19 September

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WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2008

0900–1015 Registration and opening of industry exhibition

1015–1145 Session 1
A: Transfusion
Cell Salvage 08 - Dr Sue Catling
SHOT report - Dr Adrian Copplestone
Reducing the risk of allogeneic transfusion - Dr Dafydd Thomas

B: Making a difference – can the anaesthetist alter the outcome?
Improving outcomes in cardiac surgery - Dr Adarsh Lal
Improving outcomes in large bowel surgery - Dr Quentin Milner
Reducing myocardial risk in non-cardiac patients Dr John Goldstone

Workshops
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing w/s
Ultrasound w/s

1150–1200 Presidential welcome

1200–1300 Session 2: The Intavent Orthofix lecture
Nitrous Oxide: has it overstayed its welcome? - Prof Paul Myles

1300–1400 Lunch

1400–1530 Session 3
A: Current topics in intensive care (1)
Thromboembolism - Dr David Goldhill
Perioperative ICU – identifying high-risk surgical patients - Dr Rupert Pearse
What’s new in ICM education? - Dr Peter MacNaughton

B: Meeting the challenges of clinical education
Training vs service – how we learn in the real world - Dr Michael Clapham
Real world decision making – can we make better decisions? - Dr David Murray
After the Tooke Report – what has changed? - Dr Keith Myerson

C: Free papers

Case discussion session
Neuroanaesthesia cases

Workshops
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing w/s
Ultrasound w/s

1530–1600 Tea and coffee

1600–1730 Session 4
A: Neuroanaesthesia – managing brain injury
When and how to transfer a patient with traumatic brain injury - Dr Nigel Huggins
Anaesthesia for head-injured patients undergoing non-neurosurgical procedures - Dr Mike Nathanson
Methods of reducing ICP after traumatic brain injury - Dr Martin Smith

B: Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland session
Contemporary management of acute pancreatitis - Mr Rowan Parks
Minimal access oesophagectomy - Mr Jonathan Pye
Natural orifice surgery - Mr Mike Parker

C: Retirement
The NHS Pension Scheme - Mr Simon Bruce
Investments and savings for retirement - Dr Mark Martin
Life after retirement - Dr Robin Weller

Workshops
Thoracic Epidural w/s

THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2008

0730–0900 Christian medical fellowship breakfast

0900–1030 Session 5
A: Obstetric anaesthesia nightmares
Avoiding legal action - Dr David Bogod
Collapse on the labour ward - Dr Felicity Plaat
Severe pre-eclampsia - Dr Chris Elton

B: Health service re-designs
Delivering anaesthesia services in a treatment centre network - Dr Hans-Jurgen Bartz
Re-engineering the NHS - Dr Steven Allder
Transforming the patient pathway for elective surgery - Dr John Carlisle

C: Free papers

Case discussion session
ICU cases

Workshops
Difficult Airway w/s
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing w/s
Education w/s
Ultrasound w/s

1030–1100 Tea and coffee

1100–1200 Session 6: The Draeger Medical lecture
Pushing the boundaries in ARDS - Prof John Laffey

1200–1300 Session 7
A: Papers you need to know about
Recently published papers that you should read in the opinion of a panel of leading academics
- Prof Robert Sneyd & Dr William Harrop-Griffiths

B: Safety and anaesthesia
Safety thinking and systems - Prof Brian Toft
The AAGBI and patient safety - Dr Leslie Gemmell

C: ACCEA
Employer-based awards - Dr David Whitaker
National awards and filling in the forms - Dr Griselda Cooper OBE

Case Discussion Session
Obstetric Cases

1300–1400 Lunch & SAS session

1400–1530 Session 8
A: Current issues in pain management
Using basic science to treat patients in pain - Dr Victoria Harvey
Neuraxial complications - implications and challenges of the National Audit Project results
Dr David Counsell
Management of acute pain in the opioid dependent patient - Dr Joan Hester

B: Staffing the system – who will do the work?
Sleep deprivation, fatigue and complications - Prof Chris Dodds
The RCoA census and workforce planning – where from here? - Dr Andy Tomlinson
European Working Time Directive - Dr Anne Thornberry

C: Question time and AGM

Workshops
Difficult Airway w/s
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing w/s
Thoracic Epidural w/s
Neuromuscular Monitoring w/s

1530–1600 Tea and coffee

1600–1730 Session 9
A: Caudwell Xtreme Everest – from mountainside to bedside
Critical care and altitude - Dr Mike Grocott
Oxygen utilisation in hypoxia – CPX at altitude - Dr Denny Levett
Oxygen delivery and the microcirculation in hypoxia - Dr Daniel Martin

1745–1900 Schering-Plough satellite symposium

FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2008

0900–1030 Session 10
A: Current topics in intensive care (2)
What’s new in sepsis - Dr Duncan Wyncoll
What’s new in ARDS - Dr Geoff Belligan
New NICE head injury triage guidelines - Dr David Menon

B: Ultrasound and anaesthesia
Regional anaesthesia and ultrasound - Dr Barry Nicholls
Ultrasound guided vascular access - Dr Andrew Bodenham
Echocardiography for non-cardiac anaesthetists - Dr John Kneeshaw

C: Free papers

Case discussion session
Emergency cases

Workshops
Difficult Airway w/s
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing w/s
Neuromuscular Monitoring w/s
ACCEA w/s

1030–1100 Tea and coffee

1100–1200 Session 11: The 50th John Snow lecture
Do academic departments of anaesthesia really need to do research? - Prof Ronald Miller
(keynote speaker supported by Schering-Plough)

1200–1230 AAGBI awards ceremony

1230–1315 Lunch

1315–1430 Session 12: Coroner’s court
“An anaesthetist in the coroner’s court – an interactive dramatisation into a child’s death” 
Dr William Harrop-Griffiths & Dr David Bogod
(Session supported by MPS)