DAY ONE

40 minutes

Orthopaedic Anaesthesia update

Dr Simeon West

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College Hospital, London

  • Anaesthesia for joint replacements
  • Anaesthesia for hip fractures
  • Regional anaesthesia
  • Pain management

40 minutes

Obstetrics Update

Dr Sarah Armstrong

Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Analgesia for labour
  • Managing complications and emergencies
  • Haemorrhage

40 minutes

Care of the surgical patient

Dr Sarah Armstrong

Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Perioperative assessment and preparation
  • Advanced monitoring
  • Developments in the care of high-risk patients

60 minutes

Paediatrics Update

Dr Lionel Davis

Consultant Anaesthetist, Homerton University Hospital, London

  • Perioperative care
  • Assessment and management of the critically ill child

40 minutes

Ultrasound in anaesthesia

Dr Tim Pepall

Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  • Quick anatomical revision
  • Performance, efficacy and benefits
  • Anatomical landmarks
  • Vascular access, airway management, etc.
  • Guided Nerve Blocks – when to/when not to use
  • Quick anatomical revision
  • Abdominal Blocks and beyond; TAP Block

40 minutes

Diabetic patient - An update for peri-operative management

Dr Jigna Modha

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London

  • Obesity, lipids and diabetes
  • Update on changes
  • Controlling peri-operative
  • Glycaemic levels
  • Drugs and fluids
  • Issues for day surgery

40 minutes

Update on sedation techniques

Dr Kirstie McPherson

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College Hospital, London

  • Optimising pain relief
  • Rescue techniques
  • Special situations – ICU, ED, radiology

40 minutes

Cardiology and vascular

Dr Dan Bromage

Consultant Cardiologist, King's College Hospital, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London

  • Acute coronary syndromes and PCI
  • Antiplatelet agents
  • Pacemakers and peri-operative management
  • Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention
  • OOHCA without ST elevation
  • ECG for the anaesthetist- what’s important

DAY TWO

50 minutes

Radiology for the busy Anaesthetist

Dr Monica Arora

Consultant Radiologist, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

  • Trauma radiology
  • Heart failure – CXR and CT interpretations
  • Appearances and position of all lines and tubes
  • Signs of Px, Hx and haemopx on supine CXRs
  • Collapse and atelectasis
  • When normal, pitfalls and commonly missed things

50 minutes

Out of theatre: Emergencies and transfer

Dr Christopher Edmunds

Consultant in Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, and Pre-hospital Care, Northwest Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

  • Common scenarios and cases in the ED
  • Covid 19 transferring practice
  • Out of hospital cardiac arrest and cardiology emergencies
  • Hyper-acute management of neurological emergencies
  • Essential knowledge from collapse to retrieval

50 minutes

Medicolegal update

Dr Philip Zack

Medicolegal Adviser, Medical Defence Union

  • Changes in the GMC consent Guidance
  • Getting it right when something goes wrong.

50 minutes

Assessment and management of major trauma

Dr Christopher Edmunds

Consultant in Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, and Pre-hospital Care, Northwest Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

  • Clearing the spine; spinal cord injuries
  • Managing the bleeding: acute blood loss; cell savers; shock packs; crystalloids vs colloids
  • Thermal injury and burns
  • Pelvic fractures – stabilisation; bleeding

40 minutes

Frailty in the perioperative setting

Dr Jia Liu Stevens

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Physiology of frailty and relevance to the anaesthetist
  • An update on current perioperative guidance on frailty
  • Frailty in pre-assessment, scoring tools and shared decision making
  • Intraoperative and postoperative considerations

50 minutes

Obesity - A widespread challenge

Dr Tom Wojcikiewicz

Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trust

  • Epidemiology and clinical implications (inc. Diabetes)
  • Overview of bariatric procedures and anaesthetic management
  • Obesity and other surgery- tips/take home messages-
  • Obesity in ITU
  • After bariatric surgery, if patient is back in theatre – what the General Anaesthetist needs to know.

50 minutes

Evaluating cardiac risk in non-cardiac surgery Anaesthesia

Dr Rob Stephens

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College Hospital, London, and Associate Professor in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University College London

  • Priorities in pre-op cardiac assessment
  • Periop beta blockade – who, what, how and when?
  • CPx testing
  • After Covid, Is regular echocardiography useful?
  • Long covid – any issues?

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