Workshops | Association of Anaesthetists

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Workshops

Wednesday 8 January  Session Location (Fourth floor, unless stated otherwise)
Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA) workshop - £10  10.55 - 12.25  Rutherford
Difficult Airways Society (DAS) workshop - £10  10.55 - 12.25  Moore
How to integrate anaesthetising younger children into DGH practice (APAGBI) workshop - £10  16:05 - 17:35  Moore
The NHS Pension Crisis workshop - FREE  16.05 - 16.50  St James
Mentoring taster sessions - FREE  Throughout the day Registration desk, ground floor
CV 1-2-1 drop-in sessions - FREE  Throughout the day Registration desk, ground floor
 Thursday 9 January Session
 
Ultrasound blocks - £45  09.00 - 10.30
 Abbey
Cardio-pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) - £35
 09.00 - 10.30
 Moore
SAFE paediatrics - £35
 09.00 - 10.30
 Shelly
Ultrasound blocks - £45
 14.00 - 15.30  Abbey
Cardio-pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) - £35
 14.00 - 15.30 
 Moore
How to publish a paper - FREE  14.00 - 16.00  Second floor
Mentoring taster sessions - FREE
Throughout the day  Registration desk, ground floor
CV 1-2-1 drop-in sessions - FREE Throughout the day
Registration desk, ground floor
 Friday 10 January Session             
Stuff that people don’t tell you (or you're too afraid to ask) – a workshop for new consultants - FREE  11.30 - 13.00  Rutherford
Mentoring taster sessions - FREE
Throughout the day  Registration desk, ground floor
CV 1-2-1 drop-in sessions - FREE Throughout the day  Registration desk, ground floor

Mentoring sessions

The Association are offering conference participants mentoring sessions with one of a team of highly trained and experienced mentors, all of whom use mentoring for themselves. The mentors are a selection of trainee and senior anaesthetists, some of whom have hold posts as Association Council members. Mentoring conversations are confidential.

Sessions will be most useful to conference participants who:

● Are strategic about their own development

● Want to discuss a potential opportunity or a dilemma

● Have specific educational or work needs

● Are at a crossroad in their career - Career/life planning

To book, please email [email protected] with your preferred time slot.

The NHS pension crisis

Talk by Dr Tony Goldstone, Consultant Radiologist, Hull and East Yorkshire, National Clinician Adviser on Pay & Pensions (BMA)

Ultrasound blocks

Use of ultrasound (US) is becoming an integral part of modern day medicine. US improves the quality, safety and delivery of various perioperative interventions. Advisory bodies such as NICE recommend the use of ultrasound for various interventions including central line insertion and regional anaesthesia. The knowledge and skills required to perform US guided regional anaesthesia is constantly changing and improving.

Our workshop at the WSM will facilitate safe and effective application of US in regional anaesthesia. The main focus of the workshop is to discuss difficult clinical scenarios and encourage hands-on scanning. There will be three workstations - Upper limb, Lower limb and Lumbar spine sonography. Experienced faculty (EDRA and Society for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia) will be demonstrating and coaching delegates. Attending delegates are expected to benefit from advanced knowledge and skills in performing ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia.

Cardio-pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET)

This very popular workshop is back again. Cardio-pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) is key to risk stratification for major cavity surgery.  This simple test has contributed towards risk stratification and successful outcome after major surgery. The practice has been embedded in perioperative medicine practice across UK.

This taster session will be an ideal introduction to all practicing anaesthetists and critical care physicians. For the expert group this workshop will aid in evidence based practice discussion.

The session involves live demonstration of CPET with top tips to interpretation of CPET.

SAFE Paediatrics

SAFE Paeds is a new course aimed at the occasional paediatric anaesthetist and anaesthetic trainees interested to learn more or refresh on the delivery of safe paediatric anaesthesia. It delivers teaching on core paediatric anaesthetic knowledge and skills and covers preparation, conduct and post op care of children presenting for elective surgery as well as the management of the critically unwell child. Feedback has been extremely positive that our course fills the gap left by current APLS / resuscitation courses and provides a great teaching and revalidation resource.

This workshop will provide a taster of the material and style of the 2 day course. Take part in small groups using discussion, scenarios, low fidelity simulation and skills stations with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss practice. 4 SAFE Paeds GB&I courses are planned nationwide during 2020/2021 and early booking is advised for those workshop delegates whose appetite is whet by this workshop!

How to publish a paper

Publishing a paper can be difficult, even for the most experienced authors and academics. Simple errors at the start of the process can lead to problems later, and not all projects succeed. This workshop is aimed at doctors of all grades and experience who may wish to better understand what journal editors are looking for when making decisions on work submitted for publication.

The session is delivered in three rotating groups with a team of experienced editors from Anaesthesia. Additionally, invited abstract authors will have dedicated time with an editor to discuss how to turn their abstract into a full paper.

This session is free to all delegates and booking early is advised.

Stuff that people don’t tell you (or you're too afraid to ask) – a workshop for new consultants

A chance to have an informal chat about life and work as a new consultant, covering any topic that delegates wish to discuss (e.g. appraisal/revalidation, how departments/hospitals work, contracts/job plans, etc). Aimed at consultants in the first 1-3 years of their substantive post, although those in locum consultant positions and trainees applying or about to apply for consultant jobs may also find it interesting/useful.