Current Users
The AAGBI currently has 14 specialist anaesthetic associations making use of the services offered by the Specialist Society unit. Each society has a personal service level agreement with the AAGBI ensuring that the support given is tailored to the needs of the society.
Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists
www.apagbi.org.uk
Association of Dental Anaesthetists
www.dentalanaesthesia.org.uk
Association for Low Flow Anaesthesia
www.alfanaes.freeserve.co.uk/alfa-1.htm
Difficult Airway Society
www.das.uk.com
Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe
The Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE) was founded in 1987 to bring together from throughout Europe workers of all disciplines involved in the peri-operative care of liver transplant recipients. The aim of the group is to foster communication, and to stimulate and share advances in the scientific understanding & clinical management of patients requiring liver surgery including transplantation.
www.licage.org
Neuroanaesthesia Society of Great Britain & Ireland
www.nasgbi.org.uk
Neuromodulation Society of UK & Ireland
The Neuromodulation Society represents those who are furthering the development of implant technology. In particular, spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery.
www.ukandireland.neuromodulation.com
Paediatric Intensive Care Society
The Paediatric Intensive Care Society was founded in 1987 as a multidisciplinary society for professionals interested and involved in the care of critically ill children. The Society aims to provide a forum for discussion and specialist advice relating to the care of critically ill children. The Society also aims to provide training for nurses and doctors persuing a career in paediatric critical care. The Society has an annual scientific meeting in the autumn and the council meets 4 times a year.
www.ukpics.org
The Preoperative Association
www.pre-op.org
Society of Bariatric Anaesthetists (SOBA)
Society of Bariatric Anaesthetists (SOBA) is a newly formed specialist society for anaesthetists interested in anaesthesia and critical care for Bariatric surgical and other morbidly obese patients.
The society aims to provide a forum whereby specialists in this area, and others with an interest, can communicate as well as exchange information and other relevant data. It will also provide a voice for those working within the speciality, representing their views and interests. SOBA will encourage the formation of research networks and provide guidelines for anesthetising obese patients”. An email discussion forum is also available to members.
For further information, please email SOBA@aagbi.org
UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia (SIVA UK)
The object of the Society is to promote education and facilitate research into the use of drugs administered intravenously in anaesthesia and science related thereto, and to disseminate and help implement the useful results of such research for the public benefit. Our website can be found at www.sivauk.org - a forum for information, education and debate about intravenous anaesthesia in the United Kingdom.
Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry
www.saaduk.org
World Anaesthesia Society
World Anaesthesia Society is a specialist society working to support anaesthesia in the developing world through appropriate training material and equipment. We work to promote the education of anaesthesia and act as an advocate dealing with governments and agencies involved in anaesthesia, and we maintain a network of appropriately trained and experienced anaesthetists to assist members and advise those intending to work in the developing world.
http://anaesthesiologists.org
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