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The 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting was held at the De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton, on 27th-28th November.

Thursday Morning Workshops:
Advanced Remifentanil (sponsored by GSK)  
Intermediate+ Remifentanil (sponsored by GSK)  
Introduction to TIVA  
Open TCI (sponsored by Fresenius-Kabi)  
Thursday Afternoon  
Session 1:  TIVA - How to do it  
Equipment  Dr Nigel Huggins (Birmingham)
Day case anaesthesia Dr Kerri Houghton (Torquay)
Paediatrics Dr David Sapsford (Cambridge)
Thoracic Anaesthesia Dr Linda Nel (Southampton)
Session 2: How do our drugs work?  
Excitatory ion channels and intravenous anaesthetic agents Professor Bernd Urban (Bonn)
GABA and CNS receptor mechanism(s) Professor Jerry Lambert (Dundee)
Mechanisms and Uses of Alpha-2 agonists  Professor Mervyn Maze (London)
Friday morning  
Session 3: TIVA in the extremes  
Military applications Lt Col S "Jag" Jagdish RAMC (Portsmouth)
Day case craniotomy  Dr Crispin Weidmann (Southampton)
Bariatric anaesthesia Dr Peter Ravenscroft (Taunton)
Session 4: Free papers  
First human administration of MR04A3 (1.0% JM-1232(-)), a novel isoindoline derivative benzodiazepine agonist
 		 Ann Rigby-Jones1, Takako Ohkura2, Satoshi Shimizu2, Maurice Cross3 and J Robert Sneyd1 (1: Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK 2: Maruishi Pharmaceutical Company, Japan 3: Veeda Clinical Research, Plymouth , UK)
Day case microdiscectomy: Safe and affordable proposition Halder S, Klepsch P. Frenchay Hospital, Bristol UK
Comparison of Thiopentone sodium and propofol on heart rate, blood pressure, seizure duration and recovery characteristics following modified electroconvulsive therapy George GJ, Venkateswaran R. Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
Reaction time monitored patient maintained propofol sedation: safety and efficacy studies. Macpherson JA1 , O'Brien C2 , Urquhart CS3 , Allam S4 , Arnstein FE5 , Anderson KJ3 . (1: Lothian Salaried Primary Care Dental Service, 2: Glasgow Dental Hospital, 3: Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 4: Stirling Royal Infirmary, 5: St Johns Hospital, Livingston.)
An Evaluation of the Predictive Performance of Three Pharmacokinetic Models for Propofol Dr JB Glen, Glen Pharma Ltd, Knutsford, UK

Session 5: Guest Lecture - Putting kinetic and dynamic modelling into everyday anaesthetic practice. Professor Michel Struys (Groningen, Netherlands)

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