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What is Core Topics?
The Association is the UK’s leading provider of postgraduate education for all pathways into Anaesthesia.
Keep up to date with essential topics in anaesthesia and gain important CPD by attending out Core Topics meetings. Central to the Association's educational programme, these are one day meetings held at different locations are the UK and Ireland. Discover what's new, share ideas and network with with peers in these interactive sessions.
About this Core Topics
Join us in Nottingham on Thursday 13 March 2025 for the latest updates in anaesthesia. It will be an interesting day full of presentations from local and regional speakers who are experts in their field. The organisers Mark Barley and William Rattenberry are creating a fantastic programme.
Intended audience
Aimed at anaesthetists local to the region. Consultant anaesthetists, Resident Doctors (ST3+), SAS anaesthetists.
Learning objectives
Trauma Laparotomy, Dr Jake Turner
• How to pre-optimise a patient needing a time-critical emergency trauma laparotomy.
• What are the key intraoperative challenges, damage control principles, and metabolic resuscitation considerations?
• How to minimise postoperative pain, multi-organ dysfunction and coagulopathy associated with trauma laparotomy.
Head and Neck Trauma, Dr James Shilston
• Explain the principles of managing the threatened airway of a patient with acute neck trauma.
• Distinguish the key features of the ATLS primary survey that are pertinent to acute neck trauma.
• Broadly outline the next steps in management of acute neck trauma after the primary survey and securing the airway.
• Recall the key features on assessment of a patient with acute neck trauma that indicate impending airway obstruction.
Improving practice in the use of opioids in the peri-operative period, Prof Roger Knaggs
• Describe considerations for opioid used during the perioperative period.
• Outline risk factors for persistent post-surgical opioid use (PPOU) opioid induced ventilatory impairment (OIVI) and strategies to minimise PPOU and OIVI.
Moving on from MAC, Dr Mark Barley
• Appreciate that movements under anaesthesia are common and can appear quite complex
• Movements are generated by central pattern generators and spinal reflexes rather than from cortical output
• A functioning brain is not required for sophisticated movement patterns.
• Volatile anaesthetic agents suppress dorsal and ventral spinal cord function, propofol does not.
• Nocifensive movement can be expected with TIVA despite adequate hypnosis.
AEROendoscopy, Dr Reza Nouraei
• Nasal and pharyngolaryngeal anatomy from the perspective of predicting difficult intubation and face mask ventilation
• A structured approach to assessing the routes of oxygen using awake nasendoscopy
Thoracic emergency anaesthesia, Dr Stephen Hackett
• Outline common thoracic emergencies and their management.
• One lung ventilation and management of hypoxia during.
• Analgesia for thoracic surgery.
Sponsors and Exhibitors
Programme topics and speakers
Trauma Laparotomy - Dr Jake Turner
Head and Neck Trauma - Dr James Shilston
Good governance - Dr Georgina Pipe
Improving practice in the use of opioids in the peri-operative period - Prof Roger Knaggs
Moving on from MAC - Dr Mark Barley
AEROendoscopy - Prof Reza Nouraei
Spinal ultrasound - Dr Amr Hassan
Delirium - Dr Abi Noah
Thoracic emergency anaesthesia - Dr Steve Hackett
