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This event has been approved by the Royal College of Anaesthestists for 2.5 CPD credits.
The theme for the afternoon is 'Anaesthesia in the Humanitarian & Conflict Setting’
The order of speakers may change:
2.00-2.30 pm
Anaesthetists and Humanitarian Emergency Medical Teams
Professor Tony Redmond, Professor Emeritus of International Emergency Medicine, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
Outline of talk:
In this talk I will describe the international framework within which emergency medical humanitarian assistance is delivered. The World Health Organisation has established an Emergency Medical Teams initiative that has identified minimum standards for, and capabilities required of, international medical teams responding to humanitarian crises. Anaesthetists play an important part in humanitarian emergency medical assistance and I will draw upon my long experience of deployment to describe the broad range of skills that anaesthetists bring to Emergency Medical teams, both within, and outside of, the operating theatre
Learning objectives:
- the essentials of humanitarian assistance
- the medical needs in a humanitarian crisis
- the role(s) of the anaesthetists in an Emergency Medical Team
2.20-3.00 pm
Delivering Anaesthesia Critical Care in Low Income Settings (sub-Saharan Africa)
Dr Ben Morton, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT
Outine of talk:
- I will outline the contextual differences required for successful deliver of critical care in low-resource settings
- I will use our establishment of a high dependency unit in Malawi as a vehicle to explain our approach
- I will then outline how health systems thinking is required to nest critical care within the secondary care settings and highlight specific examples where these have been successful in sub Saharan Africa
- Two open access publications underpin this presentation and may be of interest to delegates
Learning objectives:
- Delegates should be able to describe critical illness burden in sub Saharan Africa
- Delegates should be able to describe how context-sensitive approaches to critical care delivery are required in LICs
- Delegates should be able to use “health systems thinking” to describe how critical care delivery should be nested within existing clinical pathways.
3.00-3.30 pm
Recruiting NHS Doctors from Abroad
Professor Sujesh Bansal, Consultant Anaesthetist & Honorary Clinical Professor, MAHSC; Director of Manchester International Fellowship Programme; Associate Director of Medical Education
3.30-3.45 pm
Short break
3.45-4.15 pm
Anaesthesia in Hostile Environments
Lt Col Emma Coley, Consultant Anaesthetist, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Talk outline:
- What is a hostile environment?
- Military anaesthetic training and the diverse role.
- Challenges of working within a military environment and risk mitigation
- Small team working and challenges with resource limitations and evacuation timelines
4.15-4.45 pm
Preparing for mass casualty incidents (MCIs)
Professor Paul Dark, NIHR Deputy Medical Director, National Coordinating Centre, Leeds and London; NIHR Senior Investigator, Chair of Critical Care Medicine, University of Manchester & Honorary Clinical Consultant, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Lecture Synopsis:
This talk will illustrate the latest WHO and UKHSA guidance on preparing health services for MCIs and explore unique data evidence from system responses to the Manchester Arena bombing which has driven change in MCI preparedness.