ABOUT THE WEBINAR
- Objective: to provide the General Anaesthetist with a practical and comprehensive update on how to best manage obese patients
- Practical: Practicalities, top tips, evidence-based, but not research focused.
- Covid 19 issues addressed where relevant
- Comprehensive: the whole patient journey from initial assessment and preparation to post-op care. Covering adults, children, parturient, day surgery and critically ill.
- Relevant to day-to-day practice and pitched at a level suitable for the Consultant General Anaesthetist
- Aimed at answering questions, such as:
- What investigations really are useful/needed/worthwhile?
- The Covid patient
- Moving and handling safely – how and what’s new?
- Post-op management – where to send the patient and when?
- What practical tips can I get from the bariatric anaesthetist?
- Lectures, including case scenarios and Q&A, plus Panel Discussions, covering
- Pre-operative Assessment and Preparations
- Induction, Maintenance and Reversal
- Post-operative Care
- The Obese Patient and the HDU/ICU
- The Obese Parturient
- The Obese Child
- Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist