Anaesthesia for the Patient Living with Obesity 2025
Taking place live, online, on Thursday 3 April 2025
- 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
09.20 – 09.30
Welcome and introduction
Mr Jack Hodson
Online and IT Services Manager
09.30 – 10.20
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
10.20 – 11.00
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
11.00 – 11.30
BREAK
11.30 - 12.10
CPD Matrix:
2A03
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
12.10 – 13.00
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
13.00 – 13.40
LUNCH
13.40 – 14.30
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
14.30 – 15.10
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
15.10 – 15.40
BREAK
15.40 – 16.20
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
16.20 – 17.00
CPD Matrix:
2B01,
2B02,
2B03
TIVA in the Patient living with obesity
Dr John Dick
Consultant in Anaesthesia, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- 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
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?
Faculty members
Dr Raymond Ackwerh
Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in Paediatric and Bariatric Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, London
Dr Becky Black
Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Wint Mon
Consultant Anaesthetist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Sajith Kumar
Consultant Anaesthetist, Heartlands Hospital
Dr Thomas Wojcikiewicz
Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Surrey County Hospital
Dr Sarah Wray
Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetist, Royal London Hospital
Feedback from delegates in 2024
I have been trying to do this course for years, so I am so glad I achieved my goals
Great meeting, excellent lectures, this feedback is useless because Informed has got excellent speakers who know what they do and know how to lecture. I am not comfortable to be a referee
Excellent course – presentations not too long and good use of breaks. Could have done with an earlier start and a longer lunch break
Excellent; highly relevant and learned lots; also reassuring to know I’m doing a lot of what they were recommending
Excellent organization, the usual Infomed
I enjoyed the variety of speakers, presenting their own experience and tips and tricks, on the topic from different angles with lot of images.
Excellent, thank you
Brilliant, streaming platform, can’t fault it, and any hiccups were dealt with sympathetically and promptly by Infomed
Excellent course – very well-informed speakers
Excellent speakers, no technical glitches and very good time management
Good variety of topics and updated information delivered at a nice pace with lots of interaction opportunities
Very good coverage with lots of practical advice and sufficient screen breaks
Interesting theory, procedural recommendation, practical advice
Detailed and thorough content which will be useful to my practice, this inspired me to set up an obesity clinic
All the presenters were very enthusiastic and clear
Popular themes covered including TIVA – using IBW or ABW or calculated BW
This thought me that I need a more efficient planning of anaesthesia for diverse cohort of obese people
Help me to know how to deal with patient with high BMI and how to avoid unwanted risk by providing better management
I gathered some great methods and ideas will definitely come into my practice
What I have learnt today will improve my pre-op assessment of these patients and consider an obesity clinic
I learnt a great deal and will take it back to our dept. I will also highly recommend the course/Infomed
I will pay more attention to detail in patient positioning for induction. I will look up more details about Eleveld and SOBA consent leaflet
This course will modify my practice and I would recommend this course to colleagues as obesity is a growing problem in any GA for non-bariatric surgery
Feedback from delegates in 2023
Real life scenarios very useful, excellent physiology and pharmacology with up to date evidence referenced in lectures.
Very Informative, well organised. Streaming service is very good
All topics were well covered , on line
On line, the ability to catch up on TIVA session later
Online, 60 day being able to review content, breaks were good
Topics, pace and ease of access via mobile app
Practical, interesting , breaks after every talk
Very practical
The content and coverage of topic
Screen breaks in between
Relevant, manageable talks with regular breaks, good levee of presentations
Practical based – not too much citing of papers and rushing through statistics.
Informative and comprehensive presentations; good IT support; opportunities to ask questions
It was very good – no improvement required
Coverage, flow through the topics, balance of knowledge covered
Change my practice in terms of triple anti-emesis, IV access, and use of forearm BP cuff where arterial line not necessary
More confident in dealing with patients with obesity
I need to learn spinal ultrasound
Very useful
Will use a lot of the tips and advice in clinical practice
Improve clinical practise
Importance of the subject to day to day practice
Lots of useful take home messages and points to implement in my practice
Reinforced that I am not doing anything too old fashioned. Will consider thrive more often.
Increasing number of obese patients in my clinical practice
Real life scenarios very useful, excellent physiology and pharmacology with up to date evidence referenced in lectures.
Very Informative, well organised. Streaming service is very good
All topics were well covered , on line
On line, the ability to catch up on TIVA session later
Online, 60 day being able to review content, breaks were good
Topics, pace and ease of access via mobile app
Practical, interesting , breaks after every talk
Very practical
The content and coverage of topic
Screen breaks in between
Relevant, manageable talks with regular breaks, good levee of presentations
Practical based – not too much citing of papers and rushing through statistics.
Informative and comprehensive presentations; good IT support; opportunities to ask questions
It was very good – no improvement required
Coverage, flow through the topics, balance of knowledge covered
Change my practice in terms of triple anti-emesis, IV access, and use of forearm BP cuff where arterial line not necessary
More confident in dealing with patients with obesity
I need to learn spinal ultrasound
Very useful
Will use a lot of the tips and advice in clinical practice
Improve clinical practise
Importance of the subject to day to day practice
Lots of useful take home messages and points to implement in my practice
Reinforced that I am not doing anything too old fashioned. Will consider thrive more often.
Increasing number of obese patients in my clinical practice
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Course fee
Early bookers rate:
(until 6 December 2024)
£210
Standard rate:
£235
Fees include VAT
- Live access
- Fee includes 90 days of access with unlimited playback
- 6 CPD points
- CPD Certificate of attendance
- Opportunity to interact, ask questions directly to the faculty.
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