Intensive Care
For busy, hands-on Consultant, Registrar and Career Grade Intensivists and
Anaesthetists practicing Intensive Care
on Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 June 2007,
at The Royal College of Anaesthetists, Churchill House, London WC1

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Conference Advisors:

• Dr Marie Healy, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and Director of Intensive Care, Royal London Hospital

• Dr Charlie O’Donnell, Consultant in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, Whipps Cross University Hospital, London

• Dr Mo Thavasathy, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine,
  Royal London Hospital

About the conference

• Aimed at Consultant, Registrar and Career Grade Intensivists and Anaesthetists practicing Intensive Care Medicine

• A Faculty of leading consultants with a proven track record in the dissemination of Critical Care know-how to front-line Clinicians

• Concerns on your practice falling behind other UK centres - find out what’s new in Intensive Care practice

• For General Anaesthetists covering on call Intensive Care sessions at a DGH

• Practical and clinical – addressing the real life day-to-day decisions…what to do at 2 am in the morning!

• Topics and discussions are focused to up to date your knowledge of both the speciality and related disciplines that impact on it

• Clinical pearls to take home and use – not a forum for research based dilemmas

What attendees said about the event

What attracted you most to this event?

• Two days only. Not too expensive. Good venue and good general topics for general anaesthetist covering ITU.

• The topics looked interesting

• Update for non specialist Intensivist

• Trauma care and ICU

• The promise of good quality presentations on selected topics

• Topics advertised as up date for hands on clinicians, practical, clinical approach

What three things did you like most about the day?

• Content of subjects, topics and venue – support of the staff

• Friendly, nice venue, great food, good lectures

• Like informal style and lectures. Some of them could be more informative.

• Content of the lectures, well spaced, informal

• Content, coverage, venue, very entertaining

• Practical information, kept to time, good speakers

• Enough time between lectures, good lectures, good lunch

• Good lecture, content, good food

• Choice of topics, case scenarios, discipline of speakers, time keeping

What three things would have made the day better for you?

• Some radiology input

• Earlier finish

• Need to concentrate more on ITU specialists to meet my needs

• Management of renal failure

• Microbiology review coverage. More excellent speakers.

• Perhaps a bit too much detail

What impact will this event have on your future?

• Change practice in certain aspects
  I feel updated and stimulated and more in touch [with those] for whom I have to cover ITU when on call

• Change my practice. Better management of COPD.

• Better management

• Will keep in mind issues discussed and apply certain information

• More confident

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Faculty and Topics

• Haemostasis and Thrombosis Issues in Trauma
  Dr Marie Healy, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Thoracic Trauma Pearls
  Dr Anton Saayman, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

• Endpoints of Resuscitation: Pre-Intra and Post-Operative Standards
  Dr Martin Tweeddale, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

• Case Scenarios: Resuscitation
  Dr Martin Tweeddale, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

• Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in the District General ITU
  Dr Mo Thavasothy, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Mea Culpas
  Dr Peter Shirley, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Practical Tips for Anaesthetists/Intensivists Providing Out of Hours Trauma Lead
  Prof Tim Hodgetts, Hon Professor of Emergency Medicine and Trauma, University of Birmingham

• Case Scenarios: Multiple Trauma Patients in ITU
  Dr Peter Shirley, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• ARDS: A Practical Update
  Dr Geoff Bellingan, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Director of Critical Care, University College Hospital, London

• Getting the Most Out of Your CVP and Doppler
  Dr Mo Thavasothy, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital

• Obstructive Airways Diseases
  Dr Sanjay Agrawal, Consultant Respiratory Intensivist, Leicester

• Case Scenarios: CVP, Doppler and Haemodynamic Optimisation
  Dr Jack Parry-Jones, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

• Microbiological Dilemmas and Solutions in ICU
  Dr David Swann, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

• Acute Liver Failure
  Dr Julia Wendon, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Liver Intensive Therapy Unit, King's College Hospital, London

• Critically Unwell Children: Diagnosis, Stabilisation and Transport – Tips for the Adult Intensivist in the DGH & Trust Case Scenarios: Critical Unwell Children Transfers
  Dr Bruce Taylor, Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS