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Anaesthesia for the Patient Living with Obesity 2024

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  • A practical course on the key topics for the General Anaesthetist with Interactive lectures followed with case scenarios, discussion and Q&A
  • For consultants and career grade anaesthetists who are seeing an increasing number of patient living with obesity in their day-to-day practice
  • Format: Interactive lectures followed with case scenarios, discussion and Q&A
  • This event is accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists for 6 CPD credits

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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
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About the course

  • 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.
  • 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 and the patient that had COVID
  • 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?
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Feedback from delegates in 2024

  • I have been trying to do this course for years, so I am so glad I achieved my goals

  • Great meeting, excellent lectures, this feedback is useless because Informed has got excellent speakers who know what they do and know how to lecture. I am not comfortable to be a referee

  • Excellent course – presentations not too long and good use of breaks. Could have done with an earlier start and a longer lunch break

  • Excellent; highly relevant and learned lots; also reassuring to know I’m doing a lot of what they were recommending

  • Excellent organization, the usual Infomed

  • I enjoyed the variety of speakers, presenting their own experience and tips and tricks, on the topic from different angles with lot of images.

  • Excellent, thank you

  • Brilliant, streaming platform, can’t fault it, and any hiccups were dealt with sympathetically and promptly by Infomed

  • Excellent course – very well-informed speakers

  • Excellent speakers, no technical glitches and very good time management

  • Good variety of topics and updated information delivered at a nice pace with lots of interaction opportunities

  • Very good coverage with lots of practical advice and sufficient screen breaks

  • Interesting theory, procedural recommendation, practical advice

  • Detailed and thorough content which will be useful to my practice, this inspired me to set up an obesity clinic

  • All the presenters were very enthusiastic and clear

  • Popular themes covered including TIVA – using IBW or ABW or calculated BW

  • This thought me that I need a more efficient planning of anaesthesia for diverse cohort of obese people

  • Help me to know how to deal with patient with high BMI and how to avoid unwanted risk by providing better management

  • I gathered some great methods and ideas will definitely come into my practice

  • What I have learnt today will improve my pre-op assessment of these patients and consider an obesity clinic

  • I learnt a great deal and will take it back to our dept. I will also highly recommend the course/Infomed

  • I will pay more attention to detail in patient positioning for induction. I will look up more details about Eleveld and SOBA consent leaflet

  • This course will modify my practice and I would recommend this course to colleagues as obesity is a growing problem in any GA for non-bariatric surgery

Feedback from delegates in 2023

  • Real life scenarios very useful, excellent physiology and pharmacology with up to date evidence referenced in lectures.

  • Very Informative, well organised. Streaming service is very good

  • All topics were well covered , on line

  • On line, the ability to catch up on TIVA session later

  • Online, 60 day being able to review content, breaks were good

  • Topics, pace and ease of access via mobile app

  • Practical, interesting , breaks after every talk

  • Very practical

  • The content and coverage of topic

  • Screen breaks in between

  • Relevant, manageable talks with regular breaks, good levee of presentations

  • Practical based – not too much citing of papers and rushing through statistics.

  • Informative and comprehensive presentations; good IT support; opportunities to ask questions

  • It was very good – no improvement required

  • Coverage, flow through the topics, balance of knowledge covered

  • Change my practice in terms of triple anti-emesis, IV access, and use of forearm BP cuff where arterial line not necessary

  • More confident in dealing with patients with obesity

  • I need to learn spinal ultrasound

  • Very useful

  • Will use a lot of the tips and advice in clinical practice

  • Improve clinical practise

  • Importance of the subject to day to day practice

  • Lots of useful take home messages and points to implement in my practice

  • Reinforced that I am not doing anything too old fashioned. Will consider thrive more often.

  • Increasing number of obese patients in my clinical practice

  • Real life scenarios very useful, excellent physiology and pharmacology with up to date evidence referenced in lectures.

  • Very Informative, well organised. Streaming service is very good

  • All topics were well covered , on line

  • On line, the ability to catch up on TIVA session later

  • Online, 60 day being able to review content, breaks were good

  • Topics, pace and ease of access via mobile app

  • Practical, interesting , breaks after every talk

  • Very practical

  • The content and coverage of topic

  • Screen breaks in between

  • Relevant, manageable talks with regular breaks, good levee of presentations

  • Practical based – not too much citing of papers and rushing through statistics.

  • Informative and comprehensive presentations; good IT support; opportunities to ask questions

  • It was very good – no improvement required

  • Coverage, flow through the topics, balance of knowledge covered

  • Change my practice in terms of triple anti-emesis, IV access, and use of forearm BP cuff where arterial line not necessary

  • More confident in dealing with patients with obesity

  • I need to learn spinal ultrasound

  • Very useful

  • Will use a lot of the tips and advice in clinical practice

  • Improve clinical practise

  • Importance of the subject to day to day practice

  • Lots of useful take home messages and points to implement in my practice

  • Reinforced that I am not doing anything too old fashioned. Will consider thrive more often.

  • Increasing number of obese patients in my clinical practice

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We will contact you by email one week before the course takes place with all the necessary links and joining information.

We will re-send the links the day before the course.

If you have not received an email from us please contact us at webinars@infomedltd.co.uk and we will respond ASAP.

NO. Infomed shall provide you, upon registration a link to stream the course within your web browser, or you can download a small application to run it as a separate window on your computer. If you would prefer a mobile device, we shall also include a link download an app from the Play Store/App Store.

YES! It is very much encouraged. There will be Q&A sessions chaired by Infomed. You can type your questions in the 'chat' facility and they will be put to the speakers.

You can find your catch-up in your account page.

At the end of the catch-up page you will find a link to the feedback form, which will generate your CPD certificate when you submit your feedback.

If the catch-up is not visible in your account, please contact us and we will amend your account ASAP.

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£185 inc VAT

  • 120 days of access with unlimited playback
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  • Fee includes 120 days of access with unlimited playback during this time.
  • CPD Certificate of attendance upon completion with 6 CPD points
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