DAS 1998 Belfast

DAS
1998 BELFAST

Postgraduate Medical Centre­­
26-27th
Nov­ember

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
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