Final FRCA Teaching Day
Category: Training - Final FRCA Teaching Days
Date: September 11th 2014 9:00am until 4:30pm
Location: Anaesthetic Dept, Level 7, Bristol Royal Infirmary BS2 8HW
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
FINAL FRCA STUDY DAY
HEAD AND NECK ANAESTHESIA
0900 - 0945 Airway assessment and planning - Rachael Craven
Clinical examination, Investigations to include MRI, CT, flow volume loops, strategies for anticipated difficult airways
0945 - 1030 Head & Neck Emergencies, Rachel Alexander
Bleeding tonsil/ massive epistaxis, dental abscess, fractured mandible, upper/lower airway obstruction (theres a lot here bleeding tonsil and lower airway foreign bodies are probably covered in paeds…)
1030 - 1100 Coffee
1100 - 1145 Lasers & laryngeal Surgery, Daniella Smith
Lasers, hazards and safety, equipment, airway fire drill, jet ventilation, laryngectomy
1145 - 1230 Tracheostomies, Dan Freshwater-Turner
Indications, anaesthesia for tracheostomy, care of tracheostomy, management of obstructed/ misplaced trachy
1230 - 1330 Lunch
1330 - 1350 DAS algorithm, Nick Wharton
Management of unanticipated difficult airway
1350 - 1415 Awake fibreoptic & airway anatomy, Nick Wharton
Technique to anaesthetise airway, anatomy for local anaesthesia and bronchoscopy, how to set up a scope
1415 - 1435 Major resections and flaps, Rachael Craven
Set up for long cases, types of major resection to include maxillectomy, mandibulectomy and laryngectomy, flap management
1435 - 1500 Thyroid and parotid surgery, Rachael Craven
Endocrine considerations, anaesthesia set up, nerve stimulators and EMG tubes, massive goitre and retrosternal masses
1500 - 1530 Coffee
1530 - 1550 Ear surgery, Rachel Alexander
Different types myringoplasty, cochlear implants etc and anaesthetic considerations, PONV, hypotensive anaesthesia
1550 - 1610 Osteotomies, Daniella Smith
Maxillary and mandibular
1610 - 1630 Facial Trauma Surgeon?
Le Fort and mandibular fractures