Workshops

Workshops

A selection of clinical and non-clinical workshops will be taking place throughout the conference. Below is an outline of the workshop schedule, however please note that this is constantly being added to and some topics and stations may subject to some change.

Booking for workshops is now open and you can make your selections during the main booking journey. If you have already booked your conference ticket and would like to book a workshop, please contact the events team.

Please note that space on workshops is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Click here to book your conference ticket and reserve a place on your preferred workshop.

Clinical workshops:

Clinical workshops

VR Human Factors

Virtual reality is an exciting, novel modality for delivery of education. It is particularly suitable for embedding and facilitating education in non-technical skills and human factors. Our experience at the CSC in CDDFT is that it benefits both trainers and participants. For trainers a cost-effective, immersive way of delivering training that can be adapted to many different specialties, grades and experience levels. Participants find that it complements existing ways of teaching (eg simulation) and is less stressful. Find out more about the use of VR-experience it first hand and talk to knowledgeable faculty about how to utilise this in your own workplace.

Tracheostomy stations

Lunar - Understand the relative position of the tracheostomy tube tip within the airway. Appreciate how tip position can change. Demonstrate techniques of endoscopic assessment. Trans-laryngeal L view. Tracheoscopic T view. Assess position of tracheostomy tubes in manikins. 

ACV - Understand the role of ACV and when to use it. Understand the potential risks of ACV. Describe safe guidelines for ACV use. Appreciate the potential benefits for ACV beyond voice restoration. Laryngeal rehabilitation. Bridge to early cuff deflation. How to troubleshoot ACV. 

Airway - Airway endoscopy and evaluation of laryngeal function

FEES - Understand the role of SLT and FEES in ICU. Understand indications and contra-indications to FEES. Report FEES clips showing . Normal swallow
Aspiration. Airway pathology after ICU . Understand the role of Phagenyx stimulation in dysphagia

Adult TIVA - Total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) has several increasingly obvious advantages over inhalation techniques. Traditional anaesthesia teaching, however, is skewed towards inhalation such that most practitioners are more comfortable with this technique. TIVA is often perceived as being complicated, difficult, and riskier. Much TIVA teaching is heavily weighted towards detailed exposition of complicated drug modelling and theoretical concepts.  While some understanding of these concepts is desirable, complete mastery of such details is not a prerequisite to the practice of this anaesthetic technique.  This situation, along with some historical psychological and social factors has inadvertently created a “behavioural” barrier for the anaesthesia practitioner in trying and learning this technique. Alongside this, a certain degree of maturity has come into the development, user friendliness, affordability, and availability and of both the drugs and equipment necessary to deliver TIVA, as well as brain function monitoring devices to allay certain anxieties.  The workshop aims to dispel myths and misunderstandings and to bridge the gap in translating theoretical knowledge into everyday practice. 
Target audience: Novices to occasional TIVA practitioners (less than 20% of cases are TIVA based)
Objectives
•              Acquire the minimum baseline theoretical and practical knowledge to safely conduct Propofol based TIVA using TCI in elective surgical patients
•              Appropriate use of opioid analgesic infusions (focus on remifentanil with TCI and manual techniques) and adjuvant drugs
•              Recognise common misconceptions and pitfalls in TIVA use

Clinicals selection B

HFNO - Safety and rationale of deep Propofol sedation for interventional Upper GI Endoscopy and role of high flow nasal oxygen therapy with THRIVE (transnasal humidified rapid insufflation ventilatory exchange): Current evidence and literature review. 

Non Clinical workshops 

Wellbeing

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Working with Objects and Art Materials to Address Issues Around Fatigue and Stress in the Workplace: the role of objects and materials and exploring the professional frame

Working lives today encompass constant attention to detail and high levels of responsibility. This can lead to loss of the reflection and the space that helps balance pressures and strains of the workplace with everyday life and self-care. Using art materials and objects, including some from the Association of Anaesthetists museum collection, we will contextualise fatigue and stress in the workplace. We will look at reflection, slowing the daily routine and focussing on the present, and on creativity and the established links to wellbeing benefits. We will consider the dual aspect of ‘lost’ time in anaesthesia: time to ‘go under’ and time ‘to come round’. Participants will have the opportunity to engage creatively with objects and art materials in real time in workshop activities, to investigate benefits of object handling and creative expression through art materials and how such activities allow us to think in a novel way and to process thoughts meaningfully.

Trainee career guide - Simple Steps To Ace Your Consultant Interview
In this workshop you’ll learn the 5 Simple Steps you need to Ace Your Consultant Interview. We’ll also cover the 3 Biggest Mistakes Interview Candidates Make (so you can avoid them). And we’ll help you find your Unique Selling Points so you can sell yourself well in your interview

SAS - Moving into the non-clinical

Allowing SAS doctors to develop in their careers is to the benefit of patients, employers and the doctor themselves. A motivated and engaged workforce that allows everyone to work at their full potential is associated with good patient care. The development of SAS doctors was embedded into the 2021 SAS contracts. Passing through the higher pay thresholds requires demonstration of contribution to a wider role, marking the increase in seniority in one’s career. Similarly, moving onto the senior grade, the specialist, requires contribution to non-clinical activity. However, this can be difficult to achieve as a SAS doctor. Come and join current and ex-members of the SAS committee for information and advice on how to achieve this.

Retired - Going, Going, Gone: reflections on retirement, Dr Pat McHugh, Leeds 

Musings about retirement and the peri-retirement period. Open format questions and answers from a peri-retirement consultant. Planning, preparation, hobbies and pensions

Allergy - Ever wondered which patients should be referred for allergy investigation after an adverse event in theatre? Or how to reduce the risk of perioperative allergy for your patient?

Perhaps you are the Allergy Lead for your department and want to connect with others in this field? Or maybe you have a question about allergy and weren’t sure who to ask? There is something for everyone in this workshop, which aims to demystify allergy and provide helpful, practical advice for anaesthetists of all grades. Using case-based discussions, we will outline the limitations and pitfalls of allergy testing, highlight recent developments in the management and investigation of cases, and discuss the challenges of improving care for our patients. All anaesthetists welcome - come along and get involved!