32nd Annual Academic Congress 2016

College of Anaesthesiologists & Intensivists of Sri Lanka

30th-31st January 2016

Improving Outcome through Safety & Knowledge

DAY 1
30th January 2016
07:30- 08:00 / Registration
08:00 -08:30 / Plenary Lecture 1
Enhanced Surgical Recovery
- Prof.Michael Mythen (UK)
08:30-09:00 / Plenary Lecture 2
Outcome Improvementin Sepsis/Critical Care
-Prof. Derek Angus(USA)
09:00-09:15 / Break to visit Trade Exhibition
09:15-10:45 / Session 1
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Symposium on Quality & Excellence 1 / Symposium on Quality & Excellence 2
Measuring Patient Reported Outcomes After Surgery & Anaesthesia
- Dr Ramani Moonesinghe(UK) / Futility Of Critical Care; Who to Admit and How to Say No
- Dr Peter Young (UK)
Old Habits Die Hard; What To Change
-Prof Robert Sneyd (UK) / Patient Safety Training
- Dr Helen Higham(UK)
Moving from Measurement to Improvement
-Dr Ramani Moonesinghe(UK) / National Implementation of an ICU Training Programme
-Prof Charles Gomersall (HK)
Lessons Learnt from Critical Events
- Dr Jayantha Jayasuriya (SL) / Intensive Care in a Resource Poor Setting
-Prof Arjen Dorndorp (UK/Thailand)
10:45- 11:05 / Tea/ Trade Exhibition
11:05-12:35 / Session 2
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Management of Risk & Perioperative Care / Anaesthesia for Major Surgery
Pre-op Assessment & Strategies for Airway Management
- Dr Ravi Bhagrath(UK) / When Things go Wrong
-Dr Gary Wares(UK)
Lessons learnt from the largest study on Awareness: NAP5
-Dr Ellen O’Sullivan (IRE) / Peri -operative Fluid Therapy
-Prof Michael Mythen (UK)
Safe sedation
- Prof. Robert Sneyd (UK) / Orthopaedics in a Major Trauma Centre; Personal & Professional View
-Dr Serene Chang(UK)
Difficult Airway Guidelines
-Dr Ravi Bhagrath (UK) and Dr Ellen O’Sullivan (IRE) / Preoperative Risk Stratification –Dr Bernadette Rathnayake (UK)
12:35-13:35 / Lunch
Luncheon Meeting ECO TOURISMby Jet Wing
13:35-15:05 / Session 3
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Symposium on Obstetric Anaesthesia / Basic Sciences for the Perioperative Care Physician
Modern Labour Neuraxial Analgesia
-Dr Roshan Fernando (UK) / Physiology of Pain
-Dr Vishwarani Wanigasekera (UK)
Management of Spinal Hypotension – What’s new?
-Dr Roshan Fernando (UK) / Tissue Oxygenation – Lessons from Everest
-Prof Michael Mythen (UK)
Thromboelstometry in PPH
-Dr Klaus Goerlinger (GER) / Acute Kidney Injury
-Prof Anuja Abeydeera (SL)
Problem Based Learning-Case Report onFitting Patient Immediately prior to Caesarean Section
–Dr Roshan Fernando (UK) / Acid Base Interpretation
–Dr Jonathan Handy (UK)
15:05 -15:25 / Tea / Trade Exhibition
15:25 -16:35 / Session 4
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Dilemmas in Anaesthesia for Children / Issues of Contemporary Interest
Delivery of Paediatric Day Care Anaesthesia
-Dr Richard Rogers (UK) / Review of ECMO Services; Work load & Clinical Outcomes
–Dr Cliff Morgan (UK)
The Obese Child
-Dr Samitha Jayawickrema (SL) / Cancer Recurrence Following Surgery; Can Anaesthesia Make a Difference?
–Dr Gary Wares(UK)
Anaesthesia for Scoliosis Surgery in Children
-Dr Richard Rogers (UK) / Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis –Dr Cliff Morgan (UK)
16:45- 17:45 / B.S Perera Oration
DAY 2
31st January 2016
07:30- 8:00 / Registration
08:00 – 08:30 / Plenary Lecture 1
The Long Struggle Against Sepsis
- Dr Harshi Boralessa (UK)
08:30- 9:00 / Plenary Lecture 2
World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesialogists
- Dr David Wilkinson (UK)
09:00- 09:15 / Break to visit Trade Exhibition
09:15-10:45 / Session 1
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Update on Critical Care 1 / Update on Critical Care 2
New ARDS NET
-Prof Derek Angus (USA) / Massive Blood Transfusion
- Dr Andrew Watts (AUS)
Preventing VAP
-Dr Peter Young (UK) / Closed Loop Weaning
- Prof Charles Gomersall (HK)
Advancing Care in Sepsis
-Prof Derek Angus (USA) / TRALI
-Dr Cliff Morgan (UK)
Obstetric Sepsis
- Dr Jonathan Handy (UK) / Point of Care Management of Perioperative Coagulopathy in Trauma
Dr Klauss Goerlinger (GER)
10:45-11:05 / Tea / Trade Exhibition
11:05-12:35 / Session 2
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Update on Pain 1 / Update on Pain2
Persistent Post-Operative Pain -Prof Richard Langford (UK) / Headache- What Every Anaesthetist Should Know
-Dr Vivek Mehtha (UK)
Analgesia for the Pregnant Mother for Non-labour Pain
-Dr Bernadette Rathnayake (UK) / Imaging Pain and Analgesia in the Human Brain
– Prof Irene Tracy (UK)
Opioid Analgesia for Chronic Non-malignant Pain
–Dr Vishwarani Wanigasekera (UK) / Update on Interventional Pain Management
–Dr Vivek Mehtha (UK)
Neuropathic Pain
-Dr Victor Mendis (UK) / Imaging Anaesthesia Induced Altered Conscious Levels
-Prof Irene Tracy (UK)
12:35-13:35 / Lunch
Luncheon Meeting -INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN SRI LANKA - Dr Nandalal Weerasinghe (Deputy Governor Central Bank of Sri Lanka)
13:35- 14:35
End of Trade Exhibition / Hall 1 : LMV Attygalle Prize Competition
Hall 2 : Free Papers for Sashidaran Prize
Graham Arthur’s Prize Competition
14:35- 16:05 / Session 3
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Emergency Medicine / Symposium on Cardiac Disease & Anaesthesia
Emergency Intubation
-Dr Peter Young (UK) / Anaesthesia for Tansvalvular Aortic Valve Implantation-
-Dr Kate Grebenik (UK)
Protection of the Traumatically Injured Brain
- Dr Ravi Weerakoon (SL) / Anaesthesia for CABG in Patients with Low Ejection Fraction
Dr Shital Shah (S'pore)
Decompression Craniectomy
-Dr Nick Thomas (UK)
Management of a Burnt Airway
-Dr Jonathan Handy (UK) / Anaesthesia for Patient with Aortic Stenosis for Non Cardiac Surgery
-Dr Kate Grebenik (UK)
16:05-16:25 / Tea
16:25- 17:55 / Session 4
Hall 1 / Hall 2
Symposium on Liver Disease / 16:25-17:25
A Panel Discussion on Acute Lung Injury
Moderator:
Dr Harshi Boralessa (UK)
Panel:
Dr Cliff Morgan (UK)
Prof Derek Angus (USA)
Dr Gary Wares (UK)
Dr Ross Freebairn (NZ)
Intracranial Pressure in Liver Failure
-Dr.Alistair Lee (UK)
Liver Disease in ICU
– Dr.Bhagya Gunathilake (SL)
Therapeutic Hypothermia in Liver Failure-
Dr.Alistair Lee (UK)
Anaesthesia in Liver Disease
Dr.Andrew Watts (Aus)
17:55 / Conclusion of the Congress
20:00 onwards / Banquet

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