Keynotes and sessions confirmed so far | Association of Anaesthetists

Keynotes and sessions confirmed so far



Confirmed keynotes

  • 'How to make change happen and start a hand transplant service', Professor Simon Kay, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Leeds (credited with the UK's first hand transplant operation)
  • Featherstone lecturer, Dr Brendan McGrath, Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Manchester
  • 'Challenges of the workforce', Sir Julian Hartley, Chief Executive, NHS Providers

More to be announced


 

Confirmed sessions

Work is well underway on the programme for Annual Congress 2024. Please check back here for updates as the programme develops, but in the meantime we are pleased to announce the following confirmed sessions:

  • HIT or no HIT - are high-intensity theatre lists the answer to reduced efficient in the operating theatre?
  • Cardiothoracics and cardiology with ACTCACC
  • Pre-operative
  • Healthcare and the environment
  • Acute pain
  • Paediatrics
  • Critical care
  • Obstetrics
  • Peri-operative transfusion
  • Day surgery
  • Are virtual wards the answer to hospital overcrowding?
  • Trainee debate - restructuring the training curriculum
  • Meeting regional anaesthesia competencies
  • AI in Healthcare - help or hindrance?
  • Case based discussions - what would you do?
  • Education through escape rooms
  • Calling out abusive behaviour in the NHS
  • Artificial intelligence and augmented reality in regional anaesthesia
  • Journal session: the effect of patient demographics on outcome
  • Prehabilitation: Debate
  • The future of medical education - are apprenticeships the answer?