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Friday 17th May - Day 2 scientific programme

Time

08:00 - 08:45

Topic

Registration

Faculty

08:45 - 09:00

Welcome

Dr Amit Pawa

09:00 - 09:20

Session 1  -  Session Chair: Dr Morné Wolmarans

How to train the Regional Anaesthesia trainee

09:20 - 09:40

The Erector Spinae Plane Block - Where are we now?

Dr Karthik Srinivasan

Dr Ki Jinn Chin

09:40 - 10:00

3 Regional Anaesthesia papers from the last year to change your practice.

Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly

10:00 - 10:20

Ultrasound guided peripheral nerve stimulation

Dr Pia Jaeger

10:20 - 10:30

Questions

10:30 - 11:00

Refreshments 

11:00 - 11:50

Session 2  -  Session Chair: Dr Rosie Hogg

Just do it!  How to set up a Regional Anaesthesia service.

Awake upper limb surgery 

Dr Dave Johnston

Fascia iliaca catheters for hip fracture

Dr Jonathan Womack

Rib fracture analgesia

Dr Niamh Conlon

Day case spinal anaesthesia

Dr Ben Fox 

11:50 - 12:00

Questions

12:00 - 12:30

BRUCE SCOTT LECTURE: Opportunities and challenges in the renaissance of Regional Anaesthesia.

Dr Ki Jinn Chin

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

Session 3  -  Session Chair: Dr Peter Merjavy

13:30 - 14:30

Pro-Con Power Hour

Are we making Regional Anaesthesia too complicated? 

Dr Lloyd Turbitt (Pro)
Dr Amit Pawa  (Con)

Blocking the anticoagulated patient: yay or nay?

Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly (Pro)
Dr Sandy Kopp (Con)

14:30 - 15:00

How to integrate Point-Of-Care Ultrasound into peri-operative practice.

Dr Stephen Haskins

15:00 - 15:30

Refreshments 

15:30 - 15:50

Trainee oral presentations

15:50 - 16:10

Is the TAP block dead?

16:10 - 16:30

Pathway options for Total Knee Arthroplasty.

16:30 - 16:50

What peri-operative outcomes are important for Regional Anaesthesia and how do we collect them?

Dr John McDonnell

Dr Sandy Kopp

Dr Alan MacFarlane 

16:50 - 17:00

Questions

17:00 - 17:15

Closing remarks and trainee prize presentation.

Session 4  -  Session Chair: Dr Louise Moran

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