Final FRCA Teaching Day

Category: Training - Final FRCA Teaching Days

Date: October 10th 2013 9:30am until 4:00pm

Location: the Library, Anaesthetic Dept, Level 7, Bristol Royal Infirmary BS2 8HW

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Final FRCA Study Day (Paediatrics 2)

Anaesthetic Library, (7th Floor) Bristol Royal Infirmary

Thursday October 10th 2013

09:30-10:15

Preoperative assessment of neonates, infants and children (including premedication, the importance of identifying when upper respiratory tract infections are/are not significant)

Gail Lawes

10:15-11:00

How to recognise the critically ill child with e.g. sepsis, trauma, convulsions, diabetic emergencies and describes their timely management

William Marriage (Consultant Intensivist-BCH)

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:15

Equipment and monitoring (how to calculate tracheal tube sizes and the reasons for its importance; sizing of face masks and airways oro- and naso-pharyngeal and LMAs, the choice of breathing systems and the appropriate fresh gas flow rates)

Guy Bayley

12:15-13:00

The management of postoperative pain, and nausea and vomiting in children (including the use of common regional techniques)

Sarah Parry (Pain Nurse Specialist-BCH)

13:00-13:45 LUNCH (not provided)

13:45-14:30

Perioperative management of pyloric stenosis, exomphalos and gastroschisis

Judith Nolan

14:30-15:15

Anaesthesia for Paediatric Congenital Heart Disease

Alison Cloote

15:15-16:00

How to obtain consent for anaesthesia in children and the law as relates to children in respect of consent, restraint and research and the concept of ‘Gillick competence’

Philip Segar