Preliminary Programme

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

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

FRIDAY afternoon: CONFERENCE LAUNCH

13:00 – 14:30: Registration & Coffee

14:30 – 15:00: Opening Ceremony

15:00 – 15:20: Keynote Lecture

• Title: High Risk Patient Ventilation

15:25 – 16:20: Plenaries

• Peri-Operative Fasting in adults – what about it?
• 30 years of studying intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring: still confused but on a higher level.
• How do you regulate innovation?

16:20 – 16:50: Coffee Break

16:50 – 17:30: Plenaries

• The high-risk neuro patient
• Optimising outcomes for high-risk obstetric patients

17:30 – 18:30: Super submissions

19:30: Networking Event

SATURDAY

08:00 – 08:30: Coffee

08:30 – 09:10: Pro-Con Debate

• Title: Do all high-risk post-operative patients need Intensive Care?

09:25 – 10:15: Hot-topics: Top Publications in past 12 months

3 parallel sessions:

• Room 1: Intensive Care Medicine & Trauma, Resuscitation & Critical Emergency Medicine
• Room 2: Paediatrics and General
• Room 3: Obstetrics & Regional Anaesthesia

10:15 – 10:45: Coffee break and networking

10:45 – 11:45: Symposiums: High-Risk Patients Session 1

3 parallel sessions:

• Room 1: Cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery
• Pre-op Optimization & Investigation, including CPEX
• Management of Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction
• Intra-op Considerations and Pain Management
• Post-op Surveillance in ICU
• Room 2: Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
• Challenges in paediatric anaesthesia
• Ventilation of the Paediatric patient
• Sedation in the ICU
• AKI, fluids, and vascular access
• Room 3: Upper GI and Liver Issues
• Surgical Perspectives
• Liver resection – is there a place for regional analgesia?
• Management of the patient with an upper GI bleed
• Liver failure in the ICU

12:00 – 12:45: Plenary

• The importance of Governance in the care of high-risk patients
• National Reporting
• Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment

12:45 – 13:45: Lunch + Poster Sessions

13:45 – 14:30: Plenary: The elderly frail patient

• Preoperative optimisation for better outcomes
• The patient on recent direct oral anticoagulants with a fractured hip: perioperative management
• Cognition, Frailty and Postoperative Delirium

14:45 – 15:45: Symposiums: High-Risk Patients Session 2

3 parallel sessions:

• Room 1: Intensive Care
• The coagulopathic patient in the ICU
• Update on ARDS
• Pain, sedation, and delirium in the ICU
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Room 2: Difficult Airway
• Clinical Cases with Interaction
• ENT Surgeon Perspectives
• Difficult Airway Equipment and Nursing Perspectives
• Managing the difficult airway in the emergency department
• Room 3: Pain
• Management of acute back pain including acute sciatica
• Opioid sparing analgesics: latest updates
• Cannabinoids
• Chronic postoperative pain: who is at risk and how do we manage it including neuromodulation

15:45 – 16:15: Coffee break and networking

16:15 – 17:15: Symposiums: High-Risk Patients Session 3

3 parallel sessions:

• Room 1: Morbidly Obese Patients
• Risk Stratification and Surgical Decision Making
• Management of patients with pulmonary hypertension
• Airway and ventilation challenges in the morbidly obese
• Respiratory support in the PACU
• Room 2: Patients for Major Vascular Surgery
• Pre-operative evaluation/optimization
• Surgical Decision Making
• Neuraxial versus General Anaesthesia
• Perioperative acute kidney injury
• Room 3: Non-Operating Room Anaesthesia
• Anaesthetic Challenges including clinical cases
• Radiology Perspectives
• Cardiology Perspectives
• Intrahospital transfer of the high-risk patient – top tips

17:30 – 18:00: Closing Ceremony – AAM accomplishments for the 2022-2025 term