2024 Programme
Session I: Chair: Dr Simon George
09.00 Welcome
09:15 Ketamine
Dr James Pittaway, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
10:00 National paediatric pathways and guidance for general anaesthetists
Dr Simon Courtman, Consultant Anaesthetist, Plymouth University Hospitals Trust
10:45 COFFEE
11:00 Computer simulation of blast injuries
Mr Michael Hutton, Consultant General Surgeon, Royal Cornwall Hospital
12:00 LUNCH
Session II: Chair: Dr Simon George
13:00 Paediatric Anxiety
Dr Rachel Montgomery, Consultant Anaesthetist, Southampton University Hospitals Trust
13:45 Anaesthesia for Nasal Surgery
Dr Mark Lambert, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
14:30 COFFEE
14.45 Advances in obstetric anaesthesia (lecture and practical lumbar spine ultrasound session)
Dr Daryl Thorpe-Jones, Consultant Anaesthetist, Plymouth University Hospitals Trust
15:45 The sharp edge of cardiothoracics
Dr Sean Edwards, Consultant Anaesthetist, Plymouth University Hospitals Trust
16:30 CLOSE
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Friday, September 27th
Session III: Chair: Dr Simon George
09:00 One model to rule them all – Eleveld TIVA
Dr James Simpson, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
09:45 Children and young people – informed consent & risk of death
Dr Tom Bevir, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
10:30 COFFEE
Session IV: The “Gallo Barcelos” Trainee Prize
10:45 Trainee Presentations
12:45 LUNCH
Session V: Chair: Dr Simon George
13:45 Silian Rail on Bone – an examination of fixed routine and thinking
Dr Lewis Connolly, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
14:30 Update from the BMA
Dr David Bagelow Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Sussex County Hospital
14:45 COFFEE
15:00 Thriving in anaesthesia
Dr Mo Jayarajah, Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist, Plymouth University Hospitals Trust
16:00 CLOSE
2022 Programme
Thursday, September 29th
Session I: Chair: Dr Simon George
09.00 Welcome
09:15 Innovations in regional anaesthesia training
Dr Dave Burckett-St Laurent, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
10:00 Intravenous lidocaine infusion and the endothelial glycocaly
Dr Mark Johnson, Consultant Anaesthetist, Fiona Stanley Hospital Perth, Western
Australia
10:45 COFFEE
11.00 The ‘expert’
Dr Lewis Connolly, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
12:00 LUNCH
Session II: Chair: Dr Richard Hunt
13:00 Airway and C-spine imaging
Dr Tom Bean, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
13:45 Anaesthesia for Nasal Surgery
Dr Mark Lambert, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
14:30 COFFEE
14:45 Limb reconstruction after ECMO
Dr Edmund FitzGerald O’Connor, Consultant Plastic Surgeon,
Kings & St Thomas’s Hospital, London
15:30 CLOSE
2022 Programme
Friday, September 30th
Session III: Chair: Dr Richard Hunt
09:00 TIVA for paediatric anaesthesia
Dr Tom Bevir, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
09:45 Theories of consciousness
Dr Simon George, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
10:30 COFFEE
Session IV: The “Sagres Triple Crown” Trainee Prize
10:45 Trainee Presentations
12:45 LUNCH
Session V: Chair: Dr Simon George
13:45 Transoesophageal echocardiography accreditation
Dr Richard Hunt, Consultant Intensivist, Royal Cornwall Hospital
14:30 Obesity – a change in perspective for pre-optimisation
Dr Chris Ireland, GP MSK Specialist, Cornwall Foundation Trust
15:15 CLOSE
2018 Programme
Thursday, September 27th
Session I: AI in Healthcare Chair: Dr Simon Courtman
09.00 Welcome
09:15 The Rise of the Machines
Dr Paddy English, Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology, Plymouth Hospitals Trust
10:00 Management of Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electronic Devices in the Critically Ill and
Post-surgery
Dr Matt Lovell, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
10:45 COFFEE
Session II: Keynote Speaker Chair: Dr Mike Spivey
11.00 Death by Design
Professor Rob Sneyd, Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
12:00 LUNCH
Session III: Chair: Dr Kate Holmes
13:00 To transfuse, or not to transfuse?
Dr Mo Jayarajah, Cardiac Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
13:45 The Emergency Laparotomy – is NELA useful?
Dr Nick Marshall, Consultant Anaesthetist. Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
14:30 COFFEE
14:45 Difficult Patients & Difficult Doctors – A way of understanding challenging patients
Dr Adrian Flynn, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Cornwall Foundation Trust
15:30 CLOSE
2018 Programme
Friday, September 28th
Session IV: Chair: Dr Tod Guest
09:00 Obstetric Critical Care
Dr Daryl Thorpe-Jones, Consultant Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
09:45 Opioids. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Dr Mark Rockett, Consultant Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
10:30 COFFEE
Session V: The “Sagres Triple Crown” Trainee Prize
10:45 Trainee Presentations
12:45 LUNCH
Session VI: Chair: Dr Simon George
13:45 Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Dr Michelle Chopra, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
14:30 Developing World Medicine
Dr Simon Courtman, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth
15:15 CLOSE