We are super excited to announce the 2024 Western Anaesthesia Symposium, for the first time in the North West in the Beautiful Town and County of Sligo.

The Conference is in the family friendly Sligo Park Hotel – so pack up the family and head to Sligo in the Spring.

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43rd Western Anaesthesia Symposium

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

(this programme may be amended at any time prior to the conference)

Friday April 12th 2024

08.00 – 13.30 Fusic Echo Course (ticketed event)

Peter Moran & James Day

09.00 – 13.30 Airway Course (ticketed event)

Ciara Hanley & Brian Harte

13:30-14:30 POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Chair: Colm Keane

14.30 – 15.00 Session 1 Clinical Fellowships session

Chair: David Cosgrave

Ger Kavanagh – Regional Anaesthesia (15 mins)

Eva Corcoran – Obstetric Anaesthesai (15 mins)

Aine McCarthy – Airway/Sim (15 mins)

Eoin Cashman – Tutor/Education (15 mins)

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30 – 16.30 Session 2 Anaesthesiology Review (best papers)

Chair: Sinead Bredin

Practice Update: Best clinical papers in Anaesthesia

1. Sinead Farrell

2. Sinead Bredin

3. Colm Keane

17.00 – 18.00 Session 3

Anaesthesiology Review: Paediatrics

Chair: Mark Ross

1. Paediatric transfer/ cases Suzanne Cronly (30 mins)
2. Paeds cases Mike Callaghan (15 mins)
3. Paeds cases Mark Ross (15 mins)

18.00 – 19.00 Session 4: Medico-legal issues

Tom Quick, Neurosurgeon “Can you fix a nerve?” (30 mins)

Seamus Breen, Barrister “Medicine and the law- a practical perspective”(30 mins)

19.15 – 20.00 Session 5 Plenary Lecture – Brian Kinirons (45 mins)

20.30 BUFFET DINNER (Included in Registration)

Saturday April 13th 2024

8.00 – 09.00 Session 1 Case Reports – O’Beirne-Costello Medal

Chair: Michael Scully (call for abstracts)

9.15 – 10.45 Session 2: NELA: National Laparotomy Audit Group (QI methodology)

Chair: Anne Dolan

1. Margaret Coakley Anaesthesia (30 mins)

2. Mia Humphreys Geriatrician (30 mins)

3. Sarah Churchill NELA Audit lead (30 mins)

10.45 – 11.10

Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.40 Session 3: University of Galway Academic Session

Chair: John Laffey

1. Peter Doran Chair of Clinical Trials Group, University of Galway (45 mins)

2. Craig Lyons Science in Anaesthesia (45 mins)

12.45– 13.30 Session 4 Plenary Lecture

Chair: Peter Moran

James Day Oxford (45 mins)

Lunch (Included in Registration)

14.30 – 16.30 Session 5: Obstetric & Critical Care Anaesthesiology

Dave Cosgrave

Ciara Hanley

Pat Neligan

Rachel Jooste