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Programme: Friday 26 May 2023
0800 Registration
Floor plan of the Connaught Rooms here
At a Glance Programme Here 
0900 Free Papers (Abstracts available to view via red numbers below) Grand Hall
Chairs: Dr Phil Arnold and Associate Professor Paul Lee-Archer
09.00 O1 Do Anaesthesia Ventilators Deliver What They Should – A Comparative Evaluation In The Neonatal Lung Model
J. Spaeth, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Germany
09.11 O2 Pre-Operative Echocardiography For Risk Stratification Of Children With Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Undergoing General Anaesthesia For Cardiac Catheterization
T. J. W. Dawes, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, UK
09.22 O3 Revew Of The Frequency And Severity Of Emergencies In The Recovery Room Of A Tertiary Paediatric Hospital With Nurse Led (Fully Awake) Extubations
E. O'Sullivan, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
09.33 O4 Super Sedation! Using Sedation Delivered By Mucosal Atomization Device (M.A.D) Reduces The Need For General Anaesthetic In Children Aged 1-8 Years For Audiology Testing
M. Jepson, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, UK
09.44 O5 Training Review In Paediatric Anaesthesia(Trip): An Exposure & Workload Distribution Survey
S. M. Chan, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
09.55 O6 Paediatric Trauma For Anaesthetists: An Interactive E-Learning Course
E. Samuel, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, UK
10.06 Roddie McNicol Prize presentation:
New blocks on the kids: core basic nerve blocks in paediatric anaesthesia
A. M. E. Pearson, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
10.21 Prize presentation by Mark Thomas, President APAGBI
10.30 Break, Exhibition and Posters Edinburgh Suite and Drawing Room
Plenary Grand Hall
11.00 Peri-op Behaviour Challenges and Outcomes
Chairs: Dr Lucy Hepburn and Dr Raju Reddy
11.00 A Practical Approach to Peri-operative Anxiety – designing a service
Dr Alex Donaldson, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
11.25 Challenging Behaviour – Co-operation in the Pre-cooperative
Dr Simon Courtman, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Plymouth Hospital
11.50 Post-op Behavioural Outcomes
Dr Paul Lee-Archer, Associate Professor, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
12.15 Panel Discussion
12.10 Lunch Exhibition and Posters Edinburgh Suite and Drawing Room
13.30 Stream 1 Grand Hall Metabolic Disease/Myopathy
Chair: Dr Vivianne Nasr and Dr Yosha Prasad
13.30 The Skeletal Muscle Ryanodine Receptor (RYR1), Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) and Related Disorders
Dr Heinz Jungbluth, Professor of Paediatric Neurology, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
13.55 Practical Approach to Undiagnosed Myopathic Child
Dr Raksa Tupprasoot, Consultant Anaesthetist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
14.20 Metabolic Disease for the Anaesthetist
Dr Hugh Lemonde, Consultant in Paediatric Metabolic Disease, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
14,45 Panel Discussion
13.30 Stream 2 Cornwall Suite Neonatal Surgery and Anaesthesia: up to date
Chair: Dr Reema Nandi and Prof Mark Twite
13.30 Surgical Frontiers
Prof. Paulo DeCoppi, Professor of Paediatric Anaesthesia, UCL Institute of Child Health
13.55 Anaesthetic Frontiers
Dr Anil Visram, Paediatric Anaesthetist, Royal London Hospital
14.20 Regional Anaesthesia for Neonatal Hernias
Dr Fiona Taverner, Deputy Director Research, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
14.45 Panel Discussion
14.55 Break Exhibition and Posters Edinburgh Suite and Drawing Room
The President’s Session:
Dr Mark Thomas and Dr Anna Miedecke
15:15 Prizes and Announcements: Pediatric Anaesthesia Poster prize presented by: Dr Andrew Davidson and Dr Phil Arnold
15.30 Debate: “A green anaesthetic: safe for the planet but is it safe for the patient?”
APAGBI: Dr Jonny Groome, Dr Peter Brooks, Dr Helen Hulme-Smith
SPANZA: Associate Professor Paul Lee-Archer, Dr Fiona Taverner, Dr Scott Ma
16.00 Conference closing remarks and Invitation to 51st Annual Acientific Meeting of APAGBI