EAMS in COPENHAGEN 2008

The EAMS meeting was during the ESA Meeting in Copenhagen 31st May-3rd June 2008. This is the original webpage.

Council Meeting will be on Saturday 31st May at the Saa Hvidt Restaurant, Snaregade 4, 1205 Kobenhaven K, Copenhagen www.saahvidt.dk at 18.30.

These are the documents for the Council Meeting;

EAMS Council Minutes Munich 2007

Agenda EAMS Council Meeting 2008

Annual Dinner will be in the same restaurant as the Council Meeting on Saturday 31st May at 20.00. The restaurant is the Saa Hvidt Restaurant, Snaregade 4, 1205 Kobenhaven K, Copenhagen www.saahvidt.dk.

The EAMS dinner is likely to be free for EAMS members but partners will pay approximately 50 Euros. The restaurant only seats 60 people so you must book first with the Secretary Prof Flavia Petrini.

EAMS General Assembly 2008 will be held on Sunday 1st June in Room 18b Bella Congress Centre 15.30-17.00. This will follow the EAMS scientific sessions on Sunday.

These are the documents for the General Assembly;

Minutes of EAMS General Assembly 2007

Agenda EAMS GA Copenhagen 2008

President's Report 2008

EAMS Newsletter Spring 2008

Letter from Professor Simpson 9 December 2007

Scientific Meeting

The ESA website gives full details for the whole conference www.euroanesthesia.org and these are the provisonal EAMS sessions.

There are 3 airway management lectures within the Refresher Lectures with two on Saturday afternon and one on Sunday morning. The other EAMS sessions are on Sunday and Monday.

Saturday 31st May 2008

13.00-13.45 19RC1 Teaching fibreoptic intubation: make it simple
Professor Pierre Diemunsch, Strasbourg, France

14.00-14.45 19RC2 Fibreoptic intubation: modern clinical practice
Dr Adrian Pearce, London, UK

Sunday 1st June 2008

08.30-10.00 19S1 Paediatric Airway Problems

Rapid sequence induction/intubation in children: myths, facts, trends - Dr Markus Weiss (Switzerland)

Cannot ventilate through the mask or ETT - Dr Jochen Strauss (Germany)

Anaesthetic management of pulmonary foreign body - Dr Andreas Machotta (Rotterdam)

10.30-11.15 19RC3 Cricoid pressure: more ritual than effective measure
Dr Hans-Joachim Priebe, Freiburg, Germany

14.00-15.30 19S2 New techniques and devices in airway management

Supraglottic devices - Dr Carin Hagberg (USA

C-trach, Airtraq and related devices - Dr Gilles D'Honneur (France)

Video assisted techniques - Dr Peter Biro (Switzerland)

EAMS Annual General Meeting - 15.30-17.00

Monday 2nd June 2008

10.30-12.00 19S3 Critical care airway problems

Improving airway management in ICU - Dr Elizabeth Behringer (USA)

Fibreoptic techniques - Dr Flavia Petrini (Italy)

Tracheal extubation and decanulation - Dr Thomas Mort (USA)

14.00-14.45 19W1 Airway Guidelines Part 1

Overview - Dr Thomas Heidegger (Switzerland)

Southern Europe - Dr Vasilios Dimitriou (Greece)

15.00-15.45 19W2 Airway Guidelines Part 2

Northern Europe - Dr Per Nellgard (Sweden)

International guidelines - Professor Giulio Frova (Italy)