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Anaesthesia for the Patient Living with Obesity 2023

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  • A practical course on the key topics for the General Anaesthetist with Interactive lectures followed with case scenarios, discussion and Q&A
  • For consultants and career grade anaesthetists who are seeing an increasing number of patient living with obesity in their day-to-day practice
  • Format: Interactive lectures followed with case scenarios, discussion and Q&A
  • This event is accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists for 6 CPD credits
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Programme

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A03

Pre-operative Assessment and Preparations

Dr Sajith Kumar

Consultant Anaesthetist, Heartlands Hospital

  • Building up a strategy
  • Policies for doing elective surgery
  • Long COVID and obesity considerations
  • Comorbidities, BMI and Diabetes considerations
  • What assessment and investigations?
  • Optimisation
  • Suitability for Day Case Surgery
  • The practicalities of preparation

45 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

Anaesthetic Induction

Dr Wint Mon

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Where to anaesthetise the patient and positioning
  • Choice of anaesthetic technique and pharmacology
  • What monitoring?
  • Vascular access
  • Managing the Airway: techniques and management
  • Difficult intubation

40 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

Anaesthetic Maintenance and Reversal

Dr Wint Mon

Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A03, 2A07

Tips from the Bariatric Anaesthetist

Dr Thomas Wojcikiewicz

Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey

  • Indications for bariatric surgery
  • Overview of bariatric procedures and anaesthetic management
  • The top tips and cases
  • Returning patients to theatre after bariatric surgery – what the General Anaesthetist needs to know

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

Post-operative Care

Dr Becky Black

Consultant Anaesthetist, UCLH 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

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2D02

The Child living with obesity

Dr Raymond Ackwerh

Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Paediatric and Bariatric Anaesthesia, 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

50 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2B01, 2B02, 2B03

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

45 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2C01, 2C02

The Patient living with obesity 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

45 minutes

CPD Matrix: 2A07

TIVA in the Patient living with obesity

Dr Nick Kennedy

Consultant Anaesthetist, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

  • 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
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About the course

  • 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.
  • 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 and the patient that had COVID
  • 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?
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Feedback from previous delegates

Easy access and good resource
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
Improve my confidence in dealing with ever increasing obese population of patients
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
Variety of speakers, broad range of topics, good delivery.
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
It will change my practice. It enhanced my professional development
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
The content and delivery was excellent and could relate to the presenters even though I do not anaesthetise for bariatric surgery.
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
Able to attend at home. Able to ask questions anonymously
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
Well moderated, good program, knowledgeable presenters
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
Sharpened my focus in areas where knowledge has started to become a little fuzzy.
Anaesthetist (delegate from this course in April 2022)
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We will contact you by email one week before the course takes place with all the necessary links and joining information.

We will re-send the links the day before the course.

If you have not received an email from us please contact us at webinars@infomedltd.co.uk and we will respond ASAP.

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.

You can find your catch-up in your account page.

At the end of the catch-up page you will find a link to the feedback form, which will generate your CPD certificate when you submit your feedback.

If the catch-up is not visible in your account, please contact us and we will amend your account ASAP.

Using the short videos below, we shall guide you through the process of joining a meeting using Webex. If joining from your own computer If you are connecting from your own device then it is likely that you will be able to join via the Webex application. If joining from a trust/institution computer However, if you are using a computer that is owned and restricted by your trust, then you may find it easier to join via your web browser. Please see the second video for guidance on this process.

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At the bottom of the webex meeting you may see a button that says "Connect to audio".

Click this and then select "Use computer for audio" in the pop-up box.

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If this does not resolve your issue please email us or call us on 0204 520 5081

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  • Catch-up streaming will be available from 28 April
  • 90 days of access with unlimited playback

£185

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  • Certificate of attendance with 6 RCoA CPD hours
  • Send your questions to the faculty
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