Primary FRCA Teaching Day
Category: Training - Primary FRCA Teaching Days
Date: March 14th 2014
Location: Anaesthetic Trainee Seminar Room, next to the Anaesthetic Dept in the main Theatre complex, 1st floor, Great Western Hospital SN3 6BB
8:45 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Introduction: Structure of the day, Syllabus
9:15 – 10:00 NMJ and Action Potential Generation/Propagation
10:00 – 10:45 Disturbances of NM transmission and Myopathies
10:45 – 11:00 COFFEE
11:00 – 11.45 Skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling and the motor unit concept
11:45 – 12:45 LUNCH
12:45 – 13:30 Depolarising muscle relaxants (Structure, mechanism, metabolism, adverse effects/contraindications)
13:30 – 14:15 Non Depolarising muscle relaxants (classification, comparison, metabolism and metabolites)
14:15 - 14:30 COFFEE
14:30 – 15:15 Reversal of NM blockade and nerve stimulators
15:15 – 16:00 Malignant Hyperthermia/Organophosphate poisoning