NARM 2011

National Anaesthesia Research Meeting (NARM) 

To be held by the Anaesthesia Research Trust on

8th-9th December 2011

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
Portland Place 
London

Programme: Day 1

Thursday 8th December

09.30-10.00: Registration and coffee

10.00-10.05: Welcome to the meeting. Dr Karen Stuart-Smith

10.05-11.00: Controversies in perioperative β-blockade
Professor Pierre Foex (Oxford): Prescribing perioperative β-blockers. Where now after the POISE trial?

11.00-11.30: Coffee break and trade exhibition

11.30-13.00: Undertaking research:
Professor Virginia Miller (Minnesota): Posters: how to get your message across. Discussion and ‘walk round’ poster displays
Professor Martin Leuwer (Liverpool): Getting into anaesthesia research-the NIAA and the NIHR

13.00-14.00: Lunch and poster exhibition

14.00-15.00: Oral presentations

15.30-16.15: Controversies in regional anaesthesia. Dr Jose Aguirre (Zurich). What is the real value of ultrasound in regional anaesthesia? There will be an opportunity for open discussion and the end of Dr Aguirre's talk.

16.15-17.00: Controverises in analgesia for elective knee replacement surgery. Dr Graeme McLeod ( Dundee ).

Programme: Day 2

Friday 9th December

09.00-09.30: Registration and coffee

Controversies in post-operative pain relief.

09.30-10.25: Professor Donal Buggy (Dublin): Paravertebral block for analgesia in breast cancer surgery: the impact of pain relief techniques on outcome.

10.25-11.20: Professor Marc de Kock (Brussels): Morphine-induced immunosuppression: are opiates the right analgesics for cancer surgery? 

11.20-11.50: Coffee break and trade exhibition

11.50-12.45: Dr Jose Aguirre,: Local anaesthetics-more than just tools for regional anaesthesia

12.45-13.45: Lunch and poster exhibition

Controversies in fluid therapy

13.45-14.40: Professor Monty Mythen (London): The crystalloid versus colloid debate after the scandal: what should we give?

14.40-15.35: Professor Jeffrey Carson (New Jersey): In search of the transfusion trigger. Results of the FOCUS trial on the impact of Hb level on outcome in fractured neck of femur patients

15.35-16.00: Closing remarks and presentation of prizes
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