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Anaesthesia and the Obese Patient
A Webinar for the General Anaesthetist
Taking place on Thursday 13 May 2021
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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.
Individual attendance fees
£150: Live access to the webinar + access to the catch-up service recordings for 7 days
£195: Live access to the webinar + access to the catch-up service recordings for 31 days
Trust/Institution fees
3-5 Attendees:
£475: Live access to the webinar + access to webinar catch-up recordings for 31 days
6-10 Attendees:
£895: Live access to the webinar + access to webinar catch-up recordings for 31 days
Invoicing is available for trust/institutions bookings upon receipt of a purchase order.
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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?
- Lectures, including case scenarios and Q&A, plus Panel Discussions, covering
- 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)
08.45 – 09.30
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
Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist
Dr Santanu Mukhopadhyay, Consultant Anaesthetist, Homerton University Hospital , Consultant Anaesthetist, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
- Indications for bariatric surgery
- Overview of bariatric procedures and anaesthetic management
- The top tips and cases
- After bariatric surgery, if patient is back in theatre – what the General Anaesthetist needs to know
12.45 – 13.30
Post-operative Care
Dr Nick Kennedy, Consultant Anaesthetist, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
- 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
13.30 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.45
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
14.45 – 15.30
TIVA in the Obese Patient
Dr Nick Kennedy, Consultant Anaesthetist, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton Clinical Research Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, The NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility
- Which drugs, what doses, what weight, which algorithms to use
- How good is vascular access?
- Safety, risk and avoiding awareness
- Practical aspects of TIVA in the obese
15.30 – 16.00
Break
16.00 – 16.45
The Obese Child
Dr Raymond Ackwerh, Consultant Anaesthetist [invited]
- 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
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.
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.
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