| Speaker |
Topic |
| Session I: |
Multi-disciplinary topic: Obstructive sleep apnoea |
| Dr A S Hiremath (Surrey) |
Obstructive sleep apnoea and difficult intubation |
| Dr I Gleadhill (Belfast) |
The respiratory physician’s view |
| Mr W Primrose (Belfast) |
The ENT surgeon’s perspective |
| Session II: |
Case reports : One slide wonders |
| Dr P Murphy (Leeds) |
Acromegaly |
| Dr M Weiss (Zurich) |
Video assisted airway management |
| Dr A Diba (London) |
Difficult decannulation predictable? |
| Dr A Diba (London) |
K + TTJV + FOI = OK |
| Dr R M Dravid (Oxford) |
Use of the flexible fibrescope for tracheal re-intubation in a patient with difficult extubation |
| Dr A Patel (London) |
Inhalational induction with 8% Sevoflurane for the difficult airway with acute respiratory distress |
| Dr A Patel (London) |
Tension pneumothorax associated with an airway exchange catheter in a patient with ankylosing spondylitis |
| Session III: |
Update of projects |
| Dr P Rich (London) |
Update on the difficult airway database |
| Dr T Strang (Manchester) |
A CD Rom update |
| Dr P A Farling (Belfast) |
Report from SAM, Boston |
| Dr D Gray (Liverpool) |
Waste not the butterflies |
| Dr E P McCoy (Belfast) |
Visions of heaven and hell |
| Session IV: |
Review Lecture and Free Papers |
| Dr T Randell (Helsinki) |
Fibreoptic review |
| Dr J Harten (Glasgow) |
Comparison of the Augustine Guide with the Ovassapian Airway for oral fibreoptic intubation in patients with normal airway anatomy |
| Dr G Rodney (Dundee) |
Propofol by target controlled infusion and the difficult airway |
| Dr H Manji (Oxford) |
Is an antisialogogue necessary for routine fibreoptic intubation under general anaesthesia? |
| Dr J Henderson (Glasgow) |
Increasing use of straight laryngoscopes by Consultant Anaesthetists in a Scottish hospital |
| Session V: |
Training and Education |
| Dr R Vaughan (Cardiff) |
The College’s view |
| Dr J Murray (Belfast) |
The REA’s view |
| Dr P McSorley (Belfast) |
The trainee’s view |
| Sr A Maginnis (Belfast) |
The assistant’s view |
| Dr T Turley (Cardiff) |
Training module update |
| Professor G Shorten (Cork) |
The virtual airway |
| Session VI: |
Lower Airway Problems |
| Dr D L Coppel (Belfast) |
The troubled airway |
| Dr E C Behringer (California) |
Airway problems in intensive care |
| Dr K G Lowry (Belfast) and Mr J McGuigan (Belfast) |
Problems in thoracic surgery |
| Session VII: |
Controversies in airway management |
| Dr R A Mason (Swansea) |
Anaesthesia for upper airway tumours |
| Dr E C Behringer (California) |
The COPA |
| Dr J Nolan (Bath) |
The intubating laryngeal mask |
| Dr G Greenslade (Bristol) |
Remifentanil during fibreoptic intubation |
