EAMS MEETING AT ESA in AMSTERDAM 2011

The meeting of EAMS was held during the European Society of Anaesthesiology Meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands 11-14th June 2011. The ESA website will give full details of the whole conference www.euroanesthesia.org

The airway programme has been devised by Subcommittee 19 of ESA supported by EAMS.

Saturday 11th June
Cafe In de Waag
19.30-20.30 EAMS Council Meeting
20.30- late EAMS Annual Dinner (must be pre-booked with Secretary)

Sunday 12th June
Room D203-204, ESA Conference Centre
17.40-19.00 EAMS General Assembly

The EAMS Dinner will be held on Saturday 11th June at Cafe 'In de Waag' in Central Amsterdam starting at 20.30. The dinner is free for EAMS members who have paid the 2011 membership fee but for non-members or partners the cost is 30 Euros/person.

Your place must be reserved by May 27th by contacting the Secretary Kamil Toker on secretary.eams@gmail.com.

The website of Cafe In de Waag www.indewaag.nl/en/ shows the address as Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam and provides travel directions. A map of Amsterdam is available here and Nieuwmarkt and Waag are clearly marked. The Waag is the old Weigh House dating from 1488. It is within walking distance of Centraal Station, Waterloo Square and Dam Square.

Amsterdam map

Dinner restaurant

Minutes GA Meeting Helsinki 2010

Agenda EAMS Council Meeting 2011

Agenda EAMS GA 2011

President's Report/Newsletter 2011

Members are encouraged to register for and attend the hands-on EAMS/ESA Airway Workshop on 12th June (Workshop 1, 14.00-17.30) and 13th June (Workshop 2, 09.00-12.30) which will be run by many EAMS members and experts.

Details of the Airway Workshop

Saturday 11th June 2011

15.00-15.45 19RC1 Maintenance of oxygenation throughout airway management
Professor Samir Jaber (Montpelier, France)

16.00-16.45 (2 talks) 19W1 Casualty airway management

Mass casualty problems
Professor Flavia Petrini (Pescara, Italy)

Airway Management in the patient difficult to access
Professor Volker Dorges (Kiel, Germany)

Sunday 12th June 2011

09.30-10.15 (2 talks) 19W2 Management of failed direct laryngoscopy

'See around the corner' airway devices features and problems
Professor Pierre Diemunsch (Strasbourg, France)

Which choice for which situation?
Professor Peter Biro (Zurich, Switzerland)

14.00-15.30 (3 talks) 19S1 Can't intubate - can't ventilate scenarios

How to prevent it - circumstances and risk factors
Professor Michael Kristensen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

How to manage it: non-invasive and invasive approaches
Dr John Henderson (Glasgow, Scotland)

Aftercare: patients and staff
Dr Ankie Hamaekers (Maastricht, NL)

17.00-17.45 19RC2 Airway management at the end of anaesthesia and extubation related problems
Professor Hans-Joachim Priebe (Freiburg, Germany)

Monday 13th June 2011

14.00-15.30 19S2 Safety in airway management (Joint with Subcommittee 17)

Infection concerns
Professor Steen Barnung (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Stress on the healthcare provider
Professor Sven Staender (Mannedorf, Switzerland)

Medicolegal protection
Dr David Bogod (Nottingham, UK)

16.00-17.30 19S3 Functional airway obstruction

Apparatus related
Professor Brian Harte (Galway, Ireland)

Upper airways related
Professor Bernhard Zwissler (Munich, Germany)

Lungs and thorax related
Professor Flavia Petrini (Pescara, Italy)

09.00-17.00 19W3 All-day Airway Workshop (pre-registration needed)