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2010 RA-UK Annual Meeting (Belfast) Programme

ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING & CLINICAL WORKSHOPS

You may download the programme in PDF format here

THURSDAY 6 MAY 2010

ANATOMY / PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION / ULTRASOUND WORKSHOPS

N.B This Workshop session is now FULLY BOOKED

0930 – 0945 Introduction and orientation
0945 – 11:15 Morning session - Cadaver workshops - 45mins per station

1. Upper limb a. Above the clavicle b. Below the clavicle

2. Lower limb a. lumbar plexus b. sacral plexus
1115 – 1130 Refreshment Break
11:30 -13:00 Morning session - Cadaver workshops - 45mins per station

3. Abdominal wall a. posterior abdominal wall b. Anterior abdominal wall

4. thorax and spine a. chest & thoracic spine b. lumbar spine
1300 – 1400 Lunch
1400-1515 Afternoon session- PNS / Ultrasound - 45 minutes per station

5. Upper limb a. Above the clavicle b. Below the clavicle

6. Lower limb a. lumbar plexus b. sacral plexus
1515 – 1530 Refreshment Break
15:30-17:00 Afternoon session- PNS / Ultrasound - 45 minutes per station

7. Abdominal wall a. posterior abdominal wall b. Anterior abdominal wall

8. thorax and spine a. chest & thoracic spine b. lumbar spine

 

 

THURSDAY 6 MAY 2010

REFRESHER COURSE

Refresher Course places STILL AVAILABLE

0930-1000 Welcome/Registration & Coffee
1010-1020 Welcome Dr Barry Nicholls, Taunton
1010-1050

Anticoagulants and regional anaesthesia: new drugs, new guidelines, old worries

 Dr Barry Nicholls, Taunton
1050-1130 Is regional anaesthesia good for you: can we really affect outcome? Dr William Harrop-Griffiths, London
1130-1230 Debate: This house believes that the use of ultrasound for nerve location
increases the success rate and safety of peripheral nerve blocks.
Proposer: Dr Peter Marhofer, Vienna, Austria
Opposer: Dr William Harrop-Griffiths, London
1230-1300 Case presentation and discussion
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1440 What’s new in regional anesthesia?
 Dr Kelly Place-RA-UK sponsored fellow 2009-2010
14:40-15:20 Nerve damage and peripheral nerve blocks Dr William Harrop-Griffiths, London
1520-1600 Regional anaesthesia and analgesia for children Dr Peter Marhofer, Vienna, Austria
1600-1620 Case presentation & discussion
1630 Tea & Depart

FRIDAY 7th May 2010

ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING

0800-0900 Registration & Coffee

Regional anaesthesia ‘Out of the comfort zone’
0900-0920 RA Ghana Dr David Semple, Edinburgh
0920 -0940 Military regional anaesthesia Surg Cdr David Birt RN, Plymouth
0940-1000 Regional anaesthesia for the A& E / non anaesthetists Dr Martin Shields, Belfast
1000 -1020 Extending analgesia in the community Dr Rafael Blanco, Lewisham
1020 – 1040 Discussion
1040 – 1100 Refreshment Break

Post operative care – Emergency abdominal surgery ‘analgesic options’
1100 -1130 Laparotomy in the elderly patient - considerations Dr Alex Goodwin, Bath
1130 – 1200 ‘Epidural anaesthesia and abdominal surgery – pros and cons’ Prof Francis Bonnet, Paris, France
1200 – 1230 Abdominal wall techniques – TAP and rectus sheath

Dr Christian Egeler, Swansea
1230-1400 Lunch and Poster Session
1230 -1300 RA-UK AGM
1400- 1440 Bruce Scott lecture: Dr Peter Marhofer, Vienna, Austria

Ultrasound guided regional anesthesia – what have we learnt during the last 15years

Spinal anaesthesia for twenty first century – ‘OLD BUT GOLD’
1440 - 1500

A brief history of spinal anaesthesia

 Dr Robin Russell, Oxford
1500- 1520 The pharmacokinetics & pharmocodynamics of spinal drugs Dr Kevin Milligan, Belfast
1520 – 1550 Refreshment Break
1550– 1610 Modern spinal anaesthetic practice – day case, low dose, unilateral Dr Beverly Watson, Kings Lynn
1610 - 1630 Spinal anesthesia for major abdominal / orthopaedic surgery / including spinal catheters Dr Mark Blunt, Kings Lynn
1630 – 1645 The role of ultrasound in spinal anaesthesia? TBA
1645 -1700 Discussion & Close Of Meeting