'How I do it' Expert Clinical symposia sessions
The highlight of this year's meeting is the new ‘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
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Nerve blocks for hip fracture surgery
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Spinal and Paraspinal ultrasound guided nerve blocks
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Nerve blocks for abdominal Surgery
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Nerve blocks for shoulder Surgery
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Nerve blocks for elbow, forearm & hand Surgery
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Nerve blocks for breast surgery and rib fractures
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Nerve blocks for Total Knee Arthroplasty and ankle Surgery
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Introduction to lung ultrasound for the regionalist
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Introduction to gastric ultrasound
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 education in regional anaesthesia, setting up a regional anaesthesia service, regional anaesthesia pathways, new evidence-based techniques to change practice, collecting perioperative outcomes and the utilisation of perioperative ultrasound.
Dinner and Drinks reception - Thursday 16th May
The RA-UK Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 - Gala Dinner will be held on Thursday 16th May at Belfast City Hall.
Belfast City Council has also kindly offered RA-UK a complimentary drinks reception in the Rotunda area of Belfast City Hall.
RA-UK would like to thank Belfast City Council for their kind generosity for the use of City Hall.