AGE ANAESTHESIA MEETING, WALKERS STADIUM LEICESTER
6-7 MAY, 2010
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (UPDATED: 19/03/10)
Sessions Thursday 6 May 2010
Council meeting (11.00)
Lunch (12.30-14.00)
1. Vascular Surgery in the Elderly (14.00-15.00)
a. J Thompson. Pre-assessment in the elderly vascular patient. (14.00-14.30)
b. Mark McCarthy - Consultant Vascular Surgeon. Vascular surgery in the elderly. (14.30-15.00)
Coffee and trade exhibition (15.00-15.30)
2. Free papers (15.30-16.20)
3. Abdominal Surgery in the Elderly (16.20-17.50)
a. C Peden. Can we do better for the elderly acute abdomen? (16.20-16.50)
b. Mr A Miller. Damage control surgery, are the elderly good candidates? (16.50-17.20)
c. Irwin Foo. A simple solution to a complex problem: how to improve care in emergency elderly colorectal patients. (17.20-17.50)
Sessions Friday 7 May 2010
1. Elderly Orthopaedic surgery (09.00-10.30)
a. Opinder Sahota. The economics of hip fractures, can we improve the situation? (09.00-09.30)
b. Iain Moppett. Can anaesthetists improve outcome in hip fracture. QMC Nottingham. (09.30-10.00)
c. Katherine Andrews. NHS Networks a brief guide. (10.00-10.30)
d1. Hip Fracture Network Meeting. (10.30-11.00)
d2. Laparotomy Network Meeting. (10.30-11.00)
Coffee break (11.00-11.30)
2. The Elderly heart (11.30-13.00)
a. Dr Johan Benc. Trans-venous aortic valve replacement.
(11.30-12.00)
b. Giles Peek. ECMO, is it used for the elderly?
(12.00-12.30)
c. Prof Tom Robinson. How high is high? Hypertension in the elderly. (12.30-13.00)
AGM (13.00-13.15)
Lunch (13.15-14.15)
3. Session 3 (14.15-16.00)
a. Free papers. (14.15-15.05)
b. Debate. (15.05-16.00)
Echocardiography should be used in emergency hip fracture patients with a systolic murmur?
For: Michael McBrien, Belfast. (15.05-15.25)
Against: John Holloway, Poole. (15.25-15.45)
Q & votes. (15.45-15.55)
Closing comments and Prize Winners (16.00)
Depart (16.10)
