Anaesthesia and the Obese Patient 2021

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Anaesthesia and the Obese Patient

A Webinar for the General Anaesthetist

Taking place on Thursday 13 May 2021

Catch-up with course playback for revison and reflection

We included in your fee, access to the course recordings for up to 7 day with an optional extra to extend this to 31 days.

6 CPD Points

Attendees will be asked to evaluate each session and will be provided with a certificate upon completion This webinar provides 6 CPD credits

Fully interactive webinar

Access to the live webinar allows you to fully interact with our faculty and other delegates. There will be extensive Q&A opportunities as well as polling on cases throgh the talks.

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Who should attend

This webinar is aimed/putched at a level suitable for the Consultant General Anaesthetist

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

Objective: to provide the General Anaesthetist with a practical and comprehensive update on how to best manage obese patients
Practical: Practicalities, top tips, evidence-based, but not research focused.
Covid 19 issues addressed where relevant
Comprehensive: the whole patient journey from initial assessment and preparation to post-op care. Covering adults, children, parturient, day surgery and critically ill.
Relevant to day-to-day practice and pitched at a level suitable for the Consultant General Anaesthetist
Aimed at answering questions, such as:

What investigations really are useful/needed/worthwhile?
The Covid patient
Moving and handling safely – how and what’s new?
Post-op management – where to send the patient and when?
What practical tips can I get from the bariatric anaesthetist?

Pre-operative Assessment and Preparations
Induction, Maintenance and Reversal
Post-operative Care
The Obese Patient and the HDU/ICU
The Obese Parturient
The Obese Child
Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist

Programme

Thursday 13 May 2021

09.30 – 17.30 (GMT)

09.30 – 09.45

Webinar opens for connections

09.45 – 10.30

Pre-operative Assessment and Preparations

Dr Brendan O'Connor, Consultant Anaesthetist, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

Building up a strategy
Policies for doing elective surgery
Covid 19 and obesity considerations
Comorbidities, BMI and Diabetes considerations
What assessment and investigations?
Optimisation
Suitability for Day Case Surgery

10.30 – 11.30

Anaesthetic Induction, Maintenance and Reversal

Dr Claire Nightingale, Consultant Anaesthetist, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Anaesthetic Induction

Where to put the patient to sleep (Covid in theatre?) and positioning
Choice of anaesthetic technique and pharmacology
What monitoring?
Vascular access
Intubation and minimising risk for patient and anaesthetist (ppe – Covid)
Managing the Airway: techniques and management
Difficult intubation

Maintenance and Reversal

Ventilation strategy
Anaesthetic technique and pharmacology
Positioning and Warming
Managing fluid and blood levels
Continuous monitoring and reviewing
Extubating
Reversal

11.30 – 12.00

Break

12.00 – 12.45

Post-operative Care

Dr Claire Nightingale, Consultant Anaesthetist, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Pain management
Post-operative airway and ventilation management
Oxygen therapy
Fluid management
Opti flow in recovery? Covid issues
Postoperative complications
Where next: Ward, HDU, avoiding ICU

12.45 – 13.30

Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist

Dr Santanu Mukhopadhyay, Consultant Anaesthetist, Homerton University Hospital , Consultant Anaesthetist, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

13.30 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 14.45

TIVA in the Obese Patient

Dr Nick Kennedy, Consultant Anaesthetist, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

14.45 – 15.30

The Obese Patient and the HDU/ICU

Dr Charles Oliver, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at UCLH London, and Honorary Associate Professor in health systems research, UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science

Pre-assessment – who to admit, when, where
Obesity plus complications
Ventilation
Overnight monitoring: Sleep apnoea, NIV, hypoventilation, pulmonary hypertension
Emergency re-intubation plan
Guidelines for nutrition

15.30 – 16.00

Break

16.00 – 16.45

The Obese Child

Dr Raymond Ackwerh, Consultant Anaesthetist, University College Hospital, London

Overview of childhood obesity
Issues with weight-based drug calculations
Preoperative assessment
Strategies for reducing perioperative adverse events
Practical approach to airway management
Obese child with asthma
Obese child with hypertension
Key principles of postoperative care

16.45 – 17.30

The Obese Parturient

Dr Sarah Wray, Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetist, Royal London Hospital

Maternal and fetal morbidity
Physiological changes in pregnancy and antenatal care
Labour analgesia for the obese parturient
Anaesthesia for caesarean delivery in the obese and morbidly obese patient
Managing the obstetric emergency case

17.30

Close

Frequently asked questions

Will I need any special software to partake?

NO. Infomed shall provide you, upon registration a link to stream the course within your web browser, or you can download a small application to run it as a separate window on your computer. If you would prefer a mobile device, we shall also include a link download an app from the Play Store/App Store.

Can I interact with the speakers (Q&A)?

YES! It is very much encouraged. There will be Q&A sessions chaired by Infomed. You can type your questions in the ‘chat’ facility and they will be put to the speakers.

Will I Be provided with a certificate of attendance?

YES! We shall ask for your evaluation of the faculty and organisation. Upon completing this, we shall send you a certificate of attendance by email.

COMMENTS from previous online courses

Some positive things come out of the current COVID crisis

Consultant Intensivist

Good content, short lecture format, remote access, great!

Consultant Anaesthetist

I think the online streaming format really works, it should bring costs down, more environmentally friendly...should be used more often now.

Consultant Anaesthetist

Good of Infomed in developing this on-line teaching format so quickly, I guess this may be the future.

Consultant Anaesthetist

Excellent interactive course with new on line option that worked very well

Consultant Radiologist

Speakers, topics, timekeeping, helpful organiser and content all very good.

Consultant Anaesthetist

Excellent - the streaming service was excellent in audio and video. There was no lag between the delivery and the AV content.

Consultant Radiologist

I must say that I was very impressed, given current Coronavirus issues, at late notice sorted out online streaming of the conference that worked well. The organisers showed a good understanding of the situation. Well delivered and well done Infomed.

Consultant Radiologist

Great day, did well above expectation given the existing Covid-19 pandemic and the unexpected online streaming

Consultant Radiologist