Primary FRCA Teaching Day

Category: Training - Primary FRCA Teaching Days

Date: March 10th 2017 9:30am until 4:15pm

Location: Trainees Room, Anaesthetic Dept, First Floor, Great Western Hospital, Swindon SN3 6BB

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Topic: Muscle physiology & pharmacology of neuro-muscular blockers

Venue: Trainee’s Room, Main Theatre Complex, 1st Floor, Great Western Hospital

09:30-10:30: Action Potentials, Neuromuscular Junction, the Motor End Plate and Disturbances of Neuromuscular Transmission. Dr Amy Greatorex.

10:30-11:00: Muscle Types:  Skeletal , Smooth, Cardiac.  Dr Rory Carpenter

11:00-11:30: Disorders of Muscle Contraction. Dr Hussain Lahie.

11:30-12:00: Coffee

12:00-13:00: Assessment and Reversal of Neuromuscular Blockade. Indications, Mechanisms of action and Clinically Unwanted Side Effects. Dr Ben Maxwell.

13:00-13:45: Lunch

13:45-14:45: Muscle Contraction. Excitation-Contraction Coupling. Dr James Andrew

14:45-15:45: Muscle Relaxants, Classification, Sites of Action. Properties of an ideal muscle relaxant. Dr Hamish Breach.

15:45-16:15: MCQ’s

 

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