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Cambridge 2007

The December 2007 SIVA UK Annual Scientific Meeting at Queens' College, Cambridge, was one of the most successful ever, attended by more than 170 delegates from four continents. Local Organiser was Dr Anthony Absalom, Consultant Anaesthetist and BOC Senior Research Fellow at Addenbrookes Hospital, assisted by Dr Lawrence Rowe, Consultant Anaesthetist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Dr Packianathaswamy Balaji (left), Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia at Hull Royal Infirmary, receives the Cardinal Health Prize from Mr Malcolm Stewart; awarded for the best free paper presentation by a trainee anaesthetist at the 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting in Cambridge. Dr Balaji's paper was entitled "A Randomised controlled trial of patient controlled sedation for colonoscopy: Patient maintained target controlled infusion of Propofol versus Entonox". In attendance is Dr Douglas Russell, President of the UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia.

 

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Session I: All Creatures Great and Small
 
*Principles of Pharmacokinetic Modelling
Professor Steven Shafer, Columbia University Medical Centre, New York
TCI for Children
Dr Frank Engbers, Leiden, Netherlands
TIVA and TCI when the patient is short for their weight!
Professor Michel Struys, Gent, Belgium
TIVA and TCI in non-human animals
Mr Derek Flaherty, Head of Veterinary Anaesthesia, Glasgow, UK
 
 
Session II: Toxic Effects of Anaesthetic Agents
 
An Attack of the Vapours - occupational hazards of inhalational agents.
Dr Phil Hodgson, Norwich, UK
Effects of Anaesthetic Agents on White Cell Function
Dr Dan Wheeler, Cambridge, UK
Etomidate - useful drug or Pharmacological Nihilism?
Professor John Sear, Oxford, UK
 
 

 

Session III: Measuring and modelling anaesthetic effect

 

Assessing Electrical Activity during Anaesthesia
Dr Hugo Vereecke, Gent, Belgium
Mapping the Anatomy of Unconsciousness
Professor David Menon, Cambridge, UK
 
     

 

Session IV: Free Papers
For the Cardinal Health Prize*

 

Observational study on TIVA with TCI Propofol and TCI Remifentanil for day case gynaecological laparoscopic surgery without muscle relaxants
S Chandrashekhar* and AA Samaan, Grimsby
Performance characteristics of TCI devices implementing the Marsh model
R Adapa*, A Bhatia and AR Absalom,  Cambridge
Randomised controlled trial of patient controlled sedation for colonoscopy: Patient maintained target controlled infusion of Propofol versus Entonox.
P Balaji*, S Maslekar, B Culbert and GS Duthie, Hull
Pharmacokinetics & Anaesthetic Effects of Propofol-PM: A Novel Water Soluble Propofol Formulation
A E Rigby-Jones, J R Sneyd, F Ravenelle, P Vachon, D Le Garrec, S Gori, D Lessard and D C Smith, Plymouth, UK & Labopharm Inc., Québec, Canada
 

Special Guest Lecture: TCI and the United States of America

Professor Steven Shafer, Columbia University Medical Centre, New York

 

 

Session V: TIVA and the Airway

 

Awake fibre-optic Intubation
Dr Orlando Warner, Oxford, UK
Extubation in the Patient with a Compromised Airway
Dr Ali Diba, East Grinstead, UK
TIVA for the Stridorous Larynx?
Dr Anil Patel, London, UK

The following abstracts were accepted for poster display:

Evaluation of Total Intravenous Anaesthesia for Intraocular Operations in Day Surgery. P-A Laloë, Dr A A Samaan

The use of TIVA in a super-morbidly obese woman for partial nephrectomy. P Gillen, A Kapila

Comparison of TCI Remifentanil and manual Remifentanil regimen as part of TIVA for day case gynaecological laparoscopic surgery. S Chandrashekhar, A A Samaan

The introduction of TIVA training using the Fresenius TIVA system ™ in a District General Hospital. A Wong, P Gillen, A Kapila

TIVA in paediatric day surgery in a DGH - a decade of experience. S Vijayaraghavan

Incidence of PONV after propofol ketamine deep sedation and intercostal regional block for tumour related breast surgery. C G Pollock.

   

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