Programme

"How I do it" Expert Clinical symposia sessions 

The highlight of this year's meeting is the "How I do it" expert clinical symposia sessions on day 1.  This new innovative format provides a full day of 5 interactive, dynamic, engaging sessions where international experts give clinical tips and practical pointers of how and why they use regional anaesthesia in their daily practice.  With real-life common clinical scenarios, live scanning demonstrations, audience polls and 'tweet-the-expert' questions, these sessions will provide delegates with the tools to incorporate regional anaesthesia into their daily practice, and make a difference to patient care.

Workshops
 

We expect that most delegates will prefer to attend all of the ‘How I do it’ sessions, however we will also run some clinically focussed workshops in parallel to the symposia for those delegates who wish to freshen up their scanning skills for a particular clinical subset of nerve blocks.  There will also be workshops targeted at the infrequent blocker or ultrasound novice, which focus on 5 nerve blocks that cover almost everything. For the afternoon workshop sessions, delegates can choose only 1 of the 4 sessions.

 

Day 1 workshop sessions

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  • 5 blocks for beginners to cover almost everything

  • Nerve blocks for shoulder Surgery

  • Nerve blocks for awake hand, wrist, forearm

  • Nerve blocks for abdominal surgery

  • Nerve blocks for hip fracture surgery

  • Nerve blocks for chest wall (breast/ribs)

  • Spinal and paraspinal sonoanatomy

  • Nerve blocks for awake foot and ankle surgery

  • Nerve blocks for total knee arthroplasty

  • Introduction to lung POCUS

  • Introduction to gastric POCUS

  • Regional anaesthesia for obstetric anaesthesia


Workshop sessions will run parallel to the expert clinical symposia, and delegates can choose which workshop session(s) they wish to attend (up to a maximum of 2). Please consult both the workshop and symposia timetables to avoid missing your preferred symposia. 

 

Workshop places are limited.

Day 2 Scientific programme
 

Keynote lectures from international experts, with a particular focus on clinical practice. Topics to be covered include Sustainability and Regional Anaesthesia, Compartment Syndrome, Paediatric Regional Anaesthesia, Social Media and Consent.

Dinner and Drinks reception - Monday 18th May

 

The RA-UK Annual Scientific Meeting 2020 - Gala Dinner will be held on Monday 18th May at an exciting Venue yet to be annoucned.