50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A03

Pre-operative Assessment and Preparations

Dr Sajith Kumar

Consultant Anaesthetist, Heartlands Hospital

  • Building up a strategy
  • Policies for doing elective surgery
  • Long COVID and obesity considerations
  • Comorbidities, BMI and Diabetes considerations
  • What assessment and investigations?
  • Optimisation
  • Suitability for Day Case Surgery
  • The practicalities of preparation

30 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

Anaesthetic Induction

Dr Wint Mon

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Where to anaesthetise the patient and positioning
  • Choice of anaesthetic technique and pharmacology
  • What monitoring?
  • Vascular access
  • Managing the Airway: techniques and management
  • Difficult intubation

30 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A03

Anaesthetic Maintenance and Reversal

Dr Wint Mon

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Ventilation strategy
  • Anaesthetic technique and pharmacology
  • Positioning and Warming
  • Managing fluid and blood levels
  • Continuous monitoring and reviewing
  • Extubating
  • Reversal

45 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A03,

2A07

Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist

Dr Thomas Wojcikiewicz

Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey

  • Indications for bariatric surgery
  • Overview of bariatric procedures and anaesthetic management
  • The top tips and cases
  • Returning patients to theatre after bariatric surgery – what the General Anaesthetist needs to know

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

Post-operative Care

Dr Becky Black

Consultant Anaesthetist, UCLH Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Pain management
  • Post-operative airway and ventilation management
  • Oxygen therapy
  • Fluid management
  • Opti flow in recovery? COVID issues
  • Postoperative complications
  • Where next: Ward, HDU, avoiding ICU

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2D02

The Child living with obesity

Dr Raymond Ackwerh

Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Paediatric and Bariatric Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, London

  • Overview of childhood obesity
  • Issues with weight-based drug calculations
  • Preoperative assessment
  • Strategies for reducing perioperative adverse events
  • Practical approach to airway management
  • Obese child with asthma
  • Obese child with hypertension
  • Key principles of postoperative care

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2B01,

2B02, 2B03

The Obese Parturient

Dr Sarah Wray

Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetist, Royal London Hospital

  • Maternal and fetal morbidity
  • Physiological changes in pregnancy and antenatal care
  • Labour analgesia for the obese parturient
  • Anaesthesia for caesarean delivery in the obese and morbidly obese patient
  • Managing the obstetric emergency case

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2B01,

2B02, 2B03

TIVA in the Patient living with obesity

Dr John Dick

Consultant in Anaesthesia, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Which drugs, what doses, what weight, which algorithms to use
  • How good is vascular access?
  • Safety, risk and avoiding awareness
  • Practical aspects of TIVA in the obese

38 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2C01,

2C02

The Patient living with obesity and the HDU/ICU

Dr Charles Oliver

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at UCLH London, and Honorary Associate Professor in health systems research, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science

  • Pre-assessment – who to admit, when, where
  • Obesity plus complications
  • Ventilation
  • Overnight monitoring: Sleep apnoea, NIV, hypoventilation, pulmonary hypertension
  • Emergency re-intubation plan
  • Guidelines for nutrition