EAMS MEETING AT ESA in PARIS 2012

The next meeting of EAMS will be during the European Society of Anaesthesiology Meeting in Paris, France 9-12th June 2012. 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 and this is the provisional programme. Details of an EAMS dinner and all documents relating to meetings of the Society will be published here as they become available.

Pre-Congress Airway Workshops

There are practical airway workshops before the start of the main ESA meeting. These must be pre-booked when registering for the main ESA 2012 meeting. Information is available by clicking the link to pre-congress courses. A maximum of 64 delegates only can be accommodated with a cost of 250 euros (in addition to main registration fee). The workshops run on Friday 8th June 14.00-18.00 and Saturday 9th June 08.00-12.00.

Workshop information

Saturday 9th June 2012

15.00-15.45 19W1 Important changes in airway management
Chair: Flavia Petrini (Italy)

Obstructive sleep apnoea: recommendations in Europe and North America
Flavia Petrini (Pescara, Italy)

Airway control for prehospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Sylvain Boet (Toronto, Canada)

Sunday 10th June 2012

08.30-09.15 19RC1 The jungle of airway devices: a Linnean taxonomy (CME Topic 6)
Peter Biro (Zurich, Switzerland)

10.30-12.00 (3 talks) 19S1 Airway Management - a global perspective

Airway management around the world
Pedro Charco Mora (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

Advanced airway management with limited resources
Michael Kristensen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Education - the key issues
Ellen O'Sullivan (Dublin, Ireland)

17.00-17.45 19RC2 Airway disasters: the day after (CME Topic 7)
Ankie Hamaekers (Maastricht, Netherlands)

Monday 11th June 2012

08.30-10.00 (3 talks) 19S2 Management of the difficult paediatric airway

Unanticipated difficulties with the normal paediatric airway
Thomas Engelhardt (Aberdeen, Scotland)

The compromised paediatric airway - infection, bleeding, swelling, trauma
Andreas Machotta (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

The real difficult paediatric airway: syndromes and acquired
Markus Weiss (Zurich, Switzerland)

14.00-15.30 (3 talks) 19S3 Airway issue in thoracic surgery

The patient with a mediastinal mass
Brian Harte (Galway, Ireland)

Double lumen tubes: tips and tricks
David Duthie (Leeds, England)

Bronchial blockers: tips and tricks
Bernhard Zwissler (Munich, Germany)