A new Hands-on Airway Workshops will be available to a limited number of delegates (36 per session). These are being organised by the Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) and not by industry. Preregistration will be essential.
For the first time, there will be a Regional Anaesthesia Phantom Workshop for up to 24 delegates led by the international expert Peter Marhofer, with an added contribution from Andrew Rosenberg of New York. Similarly, Professor Meistelman has organised two practical clinical pharmacology workshops on Optimising Drug Administration, and he has also produced a symposium on the new selective relaxant binding agent, sugammadex.
The popular TEE workshops will continue as before. But for the first time this year, the pros and cons of TOE in anaesthesia and intensive care will be discussed in a symposium led by Stefan De Hert.
The symposium on Challenging Airway Problems in Children will doubtless provoke much interest as will Perioperative Behaviour of the Child, with a strong Antipodean influence from its chairman, Andrew Davidson.
A joint symposium between the Intensive Care subcommittee (number 12) and the newly named Evidence Based Practice and Quality Improvement subcommittee (number 1) will consider Quality Improvement in Intensive Care
