UK Society for Intravenous Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting
Thursday 27th & Friday 28th November 2008

Thursday Morning

Coffee and Workshop Registration from 9.00 - in the Mezzanine Corridor on the First Floor

Workshops: 9.30 - 11.30 CLICK HERE for more detailed Workshop information

1. Advanced Remifentanil (sponsored by GSK)
2. Intermediate+ Remifentanil (sponsored by GSK)
3. Introduction to TIVA
4. Open TCI (sponsored by Fresenius-Kabi)

Thursday Afternoon

Lunch and Main Meeting Registration from 12.00 - in the Mayflower Suite

13.15 Welcome and introduction

Session 1:  TIVA - How to do it
Chair: Dr Sue Hill (Southampton)

1.	Equipment	Dr Nigel Huggins (Birmingham)
2.	Day case anaesthesia	Dr Kerri Houghton (Torquay)
3.	Paediatrics	Dr David Sapsford (Cambridge)
4.	Thoracic Anaesthesia	Dr Linda Nel (Southampton)

15.00 TEA    45 min

15.45 Session 2: How do our drugs work?
Chair: Professor John Sear (Oxford)

1.	Excitatory ion channels and intravenous anaesthetic agents	Professor Bernd Urban (Bonn)
2.	GABA and CNS receptor mechanism(s)	Professor Jerry Lambert (Dundee)
3.	Mechanisms and Uses of Alpha-2 agonists	Professor Mervyn Maze (London)

AGM - 17.15

Annual Dinner - 19.30 for 20.00

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Friday November 28th

9.00 - Session 3: TIVA in the extremes
Chair: Dr Anthony Absalom (Cambridge)

1.	Military applications	Lt Col S "Jag" Jagdish RAMC (Portsmouth)
2.	Day case craniotomy	Dr Crispin Weidmann (Southampton)
3.	Bariatric anaesthesia	Dr Peter Ravenscroft (Taunton)

10.30 COFFEE

11.15 - Session 4: Free papers - for the Cardinal Health Prize, awarded for the best free paper presentation by a Trainee Anaesthetist.
Chair: Dr William McFadzean (Swansea)

1.	First human administration of MR04A3 (1.0% JM-1232(-)), a novel isoindoline derivative benzodiazepine agonist	Ann Rigby-Jones1, Takako Ohkura2, Satoshi Shimizu2, Maurice Cross3 and J Robert Sneyd1 (1: Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK 2: Maruishi Pharmaceutical Company, Japan 3: Veeda Clinical Research, Plymouth , UK)
2.	Day case microdiscectomy: Safe and affordable proposition	Halder S, Klepsch P. Frenchay Hospital, Bristol UK
3.	Comparison of Thiopentone sodium and propofol on heart rate, blood pressure, seizure duration and recovery characteristics following modified electroconvulsive therapy	George GJ, Venkateswaran R. Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India.
4.	Reaction time monitored patient maintained propofol sedation: safety and efficacy studies.	Macpherson JA1 , O'Brien C2 , Urquhart CS3 , Allam S4 , Arnstein FE5 , Anderson KJ3 . (1: Lothian Salaried Primary Care Dental Service, 2: Glasgow Dental Hospital, 3: Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 4: Stirling Royal Infirmary, 5: St Johns Hospital, Livingston.)
5.	An Evaluation of the Predictive Performance of Three Pharmacokinetic Models for Propofol	Dr JB Glen, Glen Pharma Ltd, Knutsford, UK

12.00 - Session 5: Guest Lecture
Chair: Dr Douglas Russell (Glasgow)

Putting kinetic and dynamic modelling into everyday anaesthetic practice

Professor Michel Struys (Groningen, Netherlands)

Concluding remarks & award of the Cardinal Health Prize

13.00 - Meeting closes (lunch available by private arrangement with hotel)