AAM 2025 Conference

Scientific Programme

AAM Conference 2025 Programme

The High-Risk Patient – Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Perspectives

FRIDAY, 21st February 2025: Workshops

  • Difficult Airway
  • Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anaesthesia
  • Echocardiography in 1 hour
  • Patient Safety and Non-Technical Skills
  • Simulation – The High-Risk Patient
  • Intro to Tracheostomies, Central Venous Access, & Vasoactive Drugs
  • ALS recertification

FRIDAY, 21st February 2025: Conference

  • 13:00 – 14:30 Registration & Coffee
  • 14:30 – 14:55 Opening Ceremony
  • 15:00 – 15:20 Keynote Lecture
    Assisted Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure. Giacomo Bellani
  • 15:20 – 16:10 Plenary Session 1
    • 30 years of studying intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring: still confused but on a higher level. Steffen Rex
    • The high-risk neuro patient. Federico Bilotta
    • Improving Obstetric Anaesthesia care. Nuala Lucas
  • 16:10 – 16:35 Coffee Break
  • 16:35 – 17:25 Plenary Session 2
    • Quality Improvement. Edgar Brincat
    • Peri-operative fasting in adults – what about it? Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta
    • Perioperative management of chronic cardiovascular medication – new evidence. Steffen Rex
  • 17:30 – 18:30 Super Submissions (Judges: Federico Bilotta, Idit Matot, Nuala Lucas)
  • 19:30 – 23:30 Networking Event

SATURDAY, 22nd February 2025

  • 08:00 – 08:30 Coffee
  • 08:30 – 09:20 Concurrent Plenary Sessions
    • Looking to the Future
      • AI and Healthcare. Gerard Gourion
      • Ethics and innovation. Nick Pace
    • Governance
      • The importance of Governance in the care of high-risk patients. Joseph Debono
      • National Reporting. Nuala Lucas
      • Patient safety, human factors, and non-technical skills. Andy Lockey
  • 09:25 – 10:30 Symposiums High Risk Patients Session 1
    • Difficult Airway
      • Clinical Cases with Interaction. Glenn Paul Abela
      • ENT Surgeon Perspectives. Kenneth Muscat
      • Difficult Airway Equipment and Nursing Perspectives. Justin Deguara
      • Managing the Difficult Airway in the Emergency Department. Keith Borg Xuereb
    • Intensive Care
      • Update on ARDS. Giacomo Bellani
      • The coagulopathic patient in the ICU. Alexander Gatt
      • Pain, sedation, and delirium in the ICU. Andrew Aquilina
      • Traumatic Brain Injury. Michael Buttigieg
    • Upper GI and Liver Surgery
      • Surgical Perspectives. JE Abela
      • Anaesthetic Considerations for Robotic Surgery. Tanya Esposito
      • Liver Resection – is there a place for regional anaesthesia. Idit Matot
      • Liver Failure in the ICU. Neville Azzopardi
  • 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break and networking
  • 11:00 – 11:50 Top Publications in past 12 months
    • Intensive Care Medicine and Resuscitation
      • Intensive Care Medicine. Michael Buttigieg
      • Resuscitation. Andy Lockey
    • Paediatrics and General Anaesthesia
      • Paediatrics. Andrew Grech
      • General Anaesthesia. Stephanie Mifsud
    • Obstetrics and Regional Anaesthesia
      • Obstetrics. Petramay Attard Cortis
      • Regional Anaesthesia. Keith Borg Xuereb
  • 11:55 – 12:45 Plenary Session 3 – The Elderly Frail Patient
    • Peri-operative optimization for better outcomes. Federico Bilotta
    • DOAC peri-operative management in patients with hip fractures. Alexander Gatt
    • Cognition, Frailty, and Postoperative Delirium. Idit Matot
  • 12:45 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster Sessions
  • 14:00 – 15:05 Symposiums High Risk Patients Session 2
    • Cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery
      • Pre-op Optimization & Investigation, including CPEX. Mark Abela
      • Management of Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction. Steffen Rex
      • Intra-op Considerations and Pain Management. Tiziana Pirotta
      • Resuscitation during Emergency Cases. Velitchka Schembri Agius
    • Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
      • Challenges in paediatric anaesthesia. Andrew Grech
      • Sedation in Paediatric Intensive Care. Edgar Brincat
      • Ventilation of the paediatric ICU patient. Stephen Sciberras
      • Resuscitation in the Emergency Department. Nandor Kosik
    • Pain Medicine
      • Management of acute back pain including acute sciatica. Greta Mattocks
      • Opioid sparing analgesics: latest updates. Muriel Bellizzi
      • Cannabinoids. Cherilyn Fenech
      • Chronic post-operative pain: who is at risk and how do we manage it, including neuromodulation. Greta Mattocks
  • 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break and Networking
  • 15:50 – 16:55 Symposiums High Risk Patients Session 3
    • Morbidly Obese Patients
      • Risk Stratification and Surgical Decision Making. Hon. JE Abela
      • Ventilation challenges in the morbidly obese. Giacomo Bellani
      • Management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Steffen Rex
      • Anaesthetic implications in morbidly obese patients. Daniel Farrugia
    • Patients for Major Vascular Surgery
      • Pre-operative evaluation and optimization. Tiziana Pirotta
      • Surgical Decision Making. Kevin Cassar
      • Neuraxial versus General Anaesthesia. Petramay Attard Cortis
      • Post-operative major vascular patient: quo vadis? Glenn Paul Abela
    • Non-Operating Room Anaesthesia
      • Radiology Perspectives. Kelvin Cortis
      • Cardiology Perspectives. Matthew Mercieca Balbi
      • Anaesthetic Challenges, including clinical cases. Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta
      • Intrahospital transfer of the high-risk patient – top tips. Denise Mifsud Bonnici
  • 17:00 – 17:30 Closing Ceremony – AAM accomplishments for the 2022-2025 term

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