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Thursday 25 September 2008

  Room 1 Room 2    Room 3

09:00-13:00

Registration

13:00-13:30

Opening Ceremony

13:30-15:30

QUALITY IN PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA (PE)

Setting up a critical incident recording system

T. Schouten (NL)

Human error in paediatric anaesthesia

R. Marcus  (UK)

The value of peer review in paediatric anaesthesia

P. Crean (UK)

 

14:00-15:00

 

LECTURES

The normal and injured paediatric airway

J. Holzki (DE)

Videoscopic documented airway abnormality

M. Laschat (DE)

 

15:00-16:00

Coffee break 

Official  opening of the industrial exhibition

   

16:00-17:30

DEVELOPMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY (PE)*

Development of pain and nociception

R. Howard (UK)

The neuromuscular junction in infancy

G. Meakin (UK)

 Effects of general anaesthesia on ventilation

of infants and children

E. Motoyama (USA)

 

ANAESTHESIA FOR PAEDIATRIC THORACIC PROCEDURES (RC)**

Anaesthesia for bronchoscopy

A. Zampouri (Gr)

One-lung ventilation

O. Ross (UK)

Anaesthesia for thoracoscopy

A. Baxter (UK)

 

WORKSHOP

The difficult  paediatric airway

-DCI-videolaryngscope for children

-"Dorges"-spatula

-The BONFILS and  Brambrink (small BONFILS)

-Fibreoptic intubation

 

17:30-19:00

Visit of exhibition

   

        19:00

Welcome Reception

   
  *(PE) Postgraduate Education **(PC) Refresher Course  
       
       
  Friday 26 September 2008
  Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
08:00-09:00

Industrial forum

 

 

09:00-10:30

PAIN MANAGEMENT (PE)

Barriers to effective management of pain in children

G. Chalkiadis (AUS)

Pain assessment and management of the child

with cerebral palsy

F. Reinoso Barbero (SP)

Palliative care in children

A. Messeri  (IT)

 

FREE PAPERS

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

 

11:00-12:30

PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION (RC)

The child with a muscle disease

A. Tsiotou (GR)

Preop assessment of the child scheduled for adenotonsillectomy  

W. Habre (CH)

The obese child

Chr. Kyrou (GR)

FREE PAPERS

 

 

WORKSHOP

The difficult  paediatric airway

-DCI-videolaryngscope for children

-"Dorges"-spatula

-The BONFILS and  Brambrink (small BONFILS)

-Fibreoptic intubation

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch     
12:30-14:00

 

 

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM sponsored by Kimberly Clark

"Cuffed tracheal tubes in children-why we need a change".

Gerber Troesch - Andreas Christian (CH)

 

 

14:00-15:30

CURRENT ISSUES IN PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA (PE)

New guidelines on perioperative fluid therapy

M. Cunliffe (UK)

Vaccination and anaesthesia

W. Habre (CH)

Infection and the anaesthesiologist: are we a     threat?

A. Malissiova (GR)

 

Intensive care (PE)

Cardiac failure in children: new treatments

G. Kirvassilis (GR)

Sedation in the PICU: midazolam, propofol, dexmedetomidine?

S. Playfor (UK)

 

Two free papers competing for the best free paper prize

 
15:30-16:00

Coffee break

 

 

16:00-17:00

USE OF ULTRASOUND IN PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA

US-guided neural blockade

S. Kettner (A)

US-Guided central venous access

P. Arnold  (UK)

WORKSHOP

Haemodynamic assessment

1.Arterial line tracing analysis

2.Estimation of cardiac output in paediatric patiens

T. Koussi(GR)

3.Evaluation of information from central line monitoring

4.Perioperative use of transoesophageal echocardiography in paediatric patiens

G. Kirvassilis (GR)

 
17:45

Tour to Cape Sounio

 

 

21:00

Congress Dinner

 

 

       
       
 

 

 

 

  Saturday 27 September 2008
  Room 1 Room 2 Room 3
08:00-09:00

Industrial forum:

 

 

09:00-10:30

EMERGENCY MEDICINE (PE)

Cervical spine injury in children

A. Anagnostidou (GR)

 Traffic lights for emergency operations

O. Meretoja (FIN)

 

Two free papers competing for the best free paper prize

WORKSHOP

Ultrasound in paediatric anaesthesia

S. Kettner (A) and

P. Arnold (UK)

 

 

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 

 

11:00-12:30

REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA (PE)

Regional anaesthesia: does it really affect outcome?

G. Chalkiadis (AUS)

Complications of epidural anaesthesia and analgesia

A. Moriarty (UK)

 

Two free papers competing for the best free paper prize

 

FREE PAPERS

 

12:30

Historical vignette 

E. Kalliardou (GR)

 

 

 

13:00

Closing ceremony

 

 

       
       

 

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