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.
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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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*Professor Shafer's abstract is a ~500KB PDF document which requires Adobe Reader to view.
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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
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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
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
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| 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 KapilaComparison 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 |