Breakout sessions
Breakout sessions A and B
These two breakout sessions will be identical, Session A taking place before lunch and Session B straight after lunch. A choice of four parallel topics is offered within each session. Delegates are requested to indicate in the online registration form the parallel topic they would prefer to attend in each of breakout sessions A and B.
1. Polytrauma in NICU
Presentation by the Chair (Word 17KB), Dr
George Eapen
Chest trauma Mr Jagan Rao, Sheffield
Spinal trauma Dr Justin McKinlay, Leeds
Abdominal trauma/imaging Mr Andrew Wyman, Sheffield
2. Multimodal monitoring; improving outcome?
Background and microdialysis (Word 28KB) Professor Urban Ungerstedt,
Sweden
Tissue oximetry Dr Arun Gupta, Cambridge
3. Stimulating simulation!
Point of care simulation; team training in NICU
Practical session with SIMMAN involving nurse/doctor interaction and simulation of emergency and everyday scenarios Dr Stefan Jankowski, Dr James Hoyle and Dr Karl Brennan, Sheffield
4. Optimising the brain injured patient and ethics
Multidisciplinary management
of brain injury in the DGH (Word 51KB) Dr Ian Tweedie, Liverpool
A legal service for neuro intensive
care (Word 27KB) Dr Andrew Eynon, Southampton
Withdrawal and organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) (Word 15KB) Dr Dominic Bell, Leeds
Breakout session C
This breakout session offers a choice of two parallel topics and delegates are requested to indicate in the online registration form the topic they would prefer to attend
1. Research updates:
Rescue ICP
Mr Peter Hutchinson, Cambridge
Eurotherm
Professor Peter Andrews, Edinburgh
RAIN.
2. Tracheostomy
management and weaning in NICU (Word
14KB)
(eg cuff up vs cuff down, Passy muir valves, Suctionaid devices, swallow assessments, dye tests vs fibreoptic assessments etc)
Sue McGowan, Queens Square, London
