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

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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