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The General Anaesthetist on call: obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia

A Webinar for the General Anaesthetist

6 CPD Points

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

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Who should watch

This webinar is aimed at a level suitable for the Consultant General Anaesthetist and Senior Trainees with on call responsibilities

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CPD

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

Price

£145 (inc VAT) for 90 days of access.

  • Fee includes 90 days of access with unlimited playback during this time.
  • Certificate of attendance upon completion.
  • Opportunity to submit questions by email to the faculty.

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

  • Objective: To provide General Anaesthetists, particularly those with on-call responsibilities, with a practical and comprehensive course covering the full range of obstetric and paediatric anaesthesia procedures that we need to be familiar with, especially when on call at the DGH
  • Practical: Practicalities, top tips, evidence-based, but not research focused.
  • COVID-19 issues addressed where relevant
  • A comprehensive update on recent advances in paediatric and obstetric anaesthesia practice
  • Relevant to day-to-day practice and pitched at a level suitable for the Consultant General Anaesthetist
  • Lectures, including case scenarios and Q&A, plus Panel Discussions, covering
  • Maternal morbidity
  • Labour analgesia and anaesthesia
  • Obstetric haemorrhage
  • Paediatric and neonatal airway
  • Management of the critically ill child
  • Child analgesia
  • Paediatric retrieval

Programme

40 minutes

Maternal Morbidity

Dr Angela Nicklin, Anaesthetics Research Fellow, Homerton University Hospital, London

  • MBRRACE update
  • Preeclampsia
  • COVID considerations

40 minutes

Maternal Morbidity II

Dr Angela Nicklin, Anaesthetics Research Fellow, Homerton University Hospital, London

  • Obesity
  • Maternal collapse
  • The obstetric patient with cardiac disease
  • COVID considerations

40 minutes

Labour Anaesthesia

Dr Sarah Armstrong, Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust,

  • Epidural, spinal or CSE
  • Boluses or infusions
  • Troubleshooting tips

40 minutes

Anaesthesia for operative delivery

Dr Sarah Armstrong, Consultant Anaesthetist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Topping up the epidural
  • General anaesthesia - key issues
  • Post-caesarean analgesia

40 minutes

Obstetric haemorrhage update

Dr Rachel Collins, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff

  • Utertonics
  • Management of the PPH
  • Use of thromboelastometry
  • Clotting disorders

40 minutes

The Paediatric and neonatal airway

Dr Lionel Davis, Consultant Anaesthetist, Homerton University Hospital

  • Anatomy and physiology differences
  • Critical cases presenting in A&E
  • Approaches to difficult intubations

40 minutes

Assessment and initial management of the critically ill child

Dr Ganga Livange, Consultant Anaesthetist, Sheffield Children's Hospital

  • Sepsis
  • Trauma
  • Respiratory problems
  • Cardiac Issues

40 minutes

Analgesia for the child in the DGH

Dr Debbie March, Consultant Anaesthetist, Portsmouth

  • The importance of regular simple analgesia
  • Tramadol - its use in paediatrics
  • Oramorph and morphine including the use of PCAs in children
  • New drug - tapentadol - recently licensed for use in UK children
  • Other techniques eg benzydamine spray post tonsillectomy
  • Regional anaesthesia

40 minutes

Retrrival and the referring DGH: How to get good team working

Dr Craig Knott, Consultant at Children's Acute Transport Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London

  • Communication and clinical tips
  • Training the team
  • Case reports

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