WAMM 2015

Programme

Wednesday 11th November 2015

	Workshop Programme
08:30 – 12:30	Simulation Workshop 1: Pre congress simulation session 1 (held at the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland)
09:00 – 13:00	Train the Tracheostomy Trainer (held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
13:30 – 17:30	Simulation Workshop 2: Pre congress simulation session 2 (held at the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland)
14:00 – 18:00	Tracheostomy Master Class (held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)

Thursday 12th November 2015

	Scientific Programme (Auditorium)		Workshop Programme (Level 1)
08:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 10:00	Welcome Address and Opening Remarks Dr Ellen O’Sullivan, Dublin, Ireland Dr Elizabeth Behringer, Los Angeles, USA WAMM Co-chairs
10:00 – 10:45	Keynote Session 1 Chair: Dr Mansukh Popat, DAS Past President NAP4 - The aftermath Prof Tim Cook, Bath, UK
10:45 – 11:15	Tea & Coffee/Exhibition (Liffey, Level 1)
11:15 – 13:00	Plenary Session A - Pro/Con Debates Rapid Sequence Induction Outdated? Chair - Dr Ralph Vaughan, DAS Past President Pro - Dr Ellen O'Sullivan, Ireland Con - Dr Irene Osborn, New York, USA Which front of neck technique? Chair - Prof Richard Cooper, SAM Past President Surgical Airway - Dr Richard Levitan, Philadelphia, USA Needle - Dr Andy Heard, Perth, Australia		Workshop Session 1 (11:00 – 13:00): Fibreoptic Intubation / Supraglottic Airway Devices / Videolaryngoscopy Leads: Dr Ravi Bhagrath, London, UK, Dr Ashutosh Wali, Houston, USA, Dr Imran Ahmad, London, UK Liffey Meeting Room 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch (Liffey, Level 1) / Poster Judging (Level 4,5) Lunch Time Symposium by Medtronic (Liffey Hall 1, Level 1) Waging War Against the Apneic Period: Introducing the SuperNO2VA™
14:00 – 15:30	Plenary Session B - Oxygen, Oxygen, Oxygen! Chair: Prof Pierre Diemunsch, EAMS Past President Oxygenation and Apnoea - Prof. Andrew Farmery, Oxford, UK THRIVE - Dr Anil Patel, London, UK Extreme Oxygenation - Dr Elizabeth Behringer, Los Angeles, USA (Industry sponsored lecture)		Workshop Session 2 (14:00 – 16:00): Fibreoptic Intubation / Supraglottic Airway Devices / Videolaryngoscopy Leads: Dr Ravi Bhagrath, London, UK, Dr Ashutosh Wali, Houston, USA Dr Imran Ahmad, London, UK Liffey Meeting Room 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b
15:30 – 16:00	Tea & Coffee/Exhibition (Liffey, Level 1) Poster judging (Level 3,4,5)
16:00 – 16:45	Keynote Session 2 - Airway surgery - Past, present & future? Chair: Prof Paul O’Neil, Prof of ENT at RSCI Breathing Life into the Promethean Dream: advanced therapeutics and the future or airway surgery Prof Martin Birchall, London, UK Airway reconstruction - Past and present Mr Guri Sandhu, London, UK
16:45 – 18:30	Opening Ceremony - Celebrating 20 years of DAS/SAM Dr Ellen O’Sullivan, Dublin , Ireland Dr Elizabeth Behringer, Los Angeles, USA, WAMM Co-chairs History of DAS and SAM Dr Adrian Pearce, DAS Past President & Dr Allan Klock, SAM Past President Introduction of Presidents Entertainment & networking

	Business Meetings
13:00 – 14:00	DAS Annual general meeting - Launch of OAA DAS Airway Guidelines 2015 - App (Liffey hall 2, Level 1)
13:00 – 14:00	SAM Annual general meeting (Liffey meeting room 1, Level 1)
19:00 – 21:00	SAM Board of directors meeting (Saddle Room restaurant, Shelbourne Hotel)

Friday 13th November 2015

	Scientific Programme (Auditorium)		Workshop Programme (Level 1)
08:00 – 09:00	Expert Sessions What’s new in paediatric airway management? Challenges in obstetric airway management Is videolaryngoscopy as good as it looks? Training the airway trainers Liverpool approach to complex airway management (ADAM) Extubation - When and how Tracheostomy care & troubleshooting / Including decannulation Pre-operative head & neck patient assessment incl. endoscopy Supraglottic airway devices in advanced use Airway Obstruction (Industry sponsored session) ODP Session (Liffey hall 1, Level 1)		Workshop Session 3 Ultrasound Leads: Dr Michael Kristensen, Denmark, Dr Wendy Teoh, Singapore, Liffey Hall 2
08:00 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 10:00	Plenary Session C - Ovassapian memorial lectures Chair:Prof Allan Klock, SAM Past President Decision making in airway management Prof William Rosenblatt, Connecticut, USA Global & ASA Guidelines Prof Carin Hagberg, Houston, USA
10:00 – 10:45	Keynote Session 3 - Launch of new DAS guidelines Chair: Dr Ellen O’Sullivan, WAMM Co-chair, Dublin, Ireland New DAS Intubation Guidelines Dr Chris Frerk, Northampton, UK
10:45 – 11:15	Tea & Coffee/Exhibition (Liffey, Level 1) Poster judging (Level 3,4,5)
11:15 – 12:45	Plenary Session D - Airway trauma Chair: Dr John Doyle, SAM Past President Experience from the emergency department Prof John Sakles, Tuscon, USA Military airway trauma Dr Edward Otten, Cincinnati, USA Head and neck trauma - Anaesthesia lessons Dr Alistair Mulcahy, London, UK		Workshop Session 4 (11:00 – 13:00): Fibreoptic Intubation / Supraglottic Airway Devices / Videolaryngoscopy Leads: Dr Ravi Bhagrath, London, UK, Dr Ashutosh Wali, Houston, USA, Dr Imran Ahmad, London, UK Liffey Meeting Room 1 & 2 Front of Neck Access Lead: Dr Paul Baker, Auckland, New Zealand Liffey Hall 2
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch (Liffey, Level 1) / Poster Judging (Level 4,5) Lunch time industry sponsored symposium (Liffey hall 1, Level 1) "When The Clock Is Ticking" Optiflow THRIVE
13:45 – 15:30	Plenary Session E Chair: Dr Jairaj Rangasami, DAS President & Dr Ashutosh Wali, SAM President Airway education - A global perspective Dr Paul Baker, Aukland, New Zealand Dr Ramón Coloma, Santiago, Chile Dr Eric Hodgson, Durban, South Africa Prof Richard Cooper, Toronto, Canada Dr Alistair McNarry, Edinburgh, UK Dr Sheila Myatra, Mumbai, India Prof Arnd Timmerman, Berlin, Germany		Workshop Session 5 (14:00 – 16:00): Fibreoptic Intubation / Supraglottic Airway Devices / Videolaryngoscopy Leads: Dr Ravi Bhagrath, London, UK, Dr Ashutosh Wali, Houston, USA Dr Imran Ahmad, London, UK Liffey Meeting Room 2 & 3 Front of Neck Access Lead: Dr Andy Heard, Perth, Australia Liffey Hall 2
15:30 – 16:00	Tea & Coffee/Exhibition (Liffey, Level 1) Poster judging (Level 3,4,5)
16:00 – 17:00	Keynote Session 4 Chair: Prof Jaideep Pandit, Scientific Officer of DAS Man, manikin, manuscript: Research and publications in airway management Prof Steve Yentis, London, UK DAS Professor Lecture Assessing Anaesthetic Equipment - Where do we go from here? Prof Antony Wilkes, Cardiff, UK
19:30 – LATE	WAMM celebratory dinner – Guinness Storehouse

	Business Meetings
12:45 – 13:45	DAS Annual general meeting part 2 (Liffey meeting room 1, Level 1)
12:45 – 13:45	EAMS Council meeting – (Liffey meeting room 4, Level 1)

Saturday 14th November 2015

	Scientific Programme (Auditorium)		Workshop Programme (Level 1)
08:30 – 09:00	Registration
09:00 – 10:30	Plenary Session F - Top 10 Oral Abstracts Prof. Carin Hagberg, Houston, USA Dr Alistair McNarry, Edinburgh, UK Prof Arndt Timmerman, Berlin, Germany		Workshop Session 2 (09:00 - 10:00) Ultrasound Dr Michael Kristensen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Dr Wendy Teoh, Singapore Liffey Hall 2 Thoracic Lead: Dr Edmond Cohen, New York, USA Liffey Hall 1 Paediatric Airways Lead: Dr Narasimhan Jagannathan Liffey Meeting Room 1
09:30 – 10:30	Expert Sessions Dissemination of critical airway information - Patient, hospital and beyond Airway publications – A “how to” guide Airway disasters in the prehospital setting and emergency department Human factors in airway management Jet ventilation safety and use Airway management for morbidly obese patients Teaching airway management in developing countries Training the airway trainers
10:30 – 11:00	Tea & Coffee/Exhibition (Liffey, Level 1)
11:00 – 12:00	Plenary Session G - Pro/Con Debate Chair: Dr Jay Brodsky, Stanford, USA One lung ventilation - DLT or endobronchial blocker? DLT- Dr Glenn Russell, Liverpool, UK Endobronchial blocker - Dr Edmon Cohen, New York, USA
12:00 – 12:45	Keynote Session 5 Chair: Dr Chandy Verghese, SAM Past President Intubation through Supraglottic Devices: A mandatory skill in the era of Videolaryngoscopy? Prof David Ferson, Houston, Texas Second Generation Supraglottic Devices: Should they be our first choice? Prof Fredrich Karl Puhringer, Germany
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch (Liffey, Level 1) Lunch time industry sponsored symposia Adopting ADEPT and protecting the patient (Liffey hall 1, Level 1) Video laryngoscopy (VL): The past, present and future (Liffey hall 2, Level 1)
13:45 – 15:00	Plenary Session H Chair: Prof Kamil Toker, EAMS President International airway cases - Is there a global concensus Dr Michael Seltz Kristensen, Denmark Dr Paul Baker, Auckland, New Zealand Dr Wendy Teoh, Singapore Dr Elizabeth Behringer, Los Angeles, USA
15:00 – 16:15	Keynote Session 6 - Human factors & airway nightmares Chair: Dr Anil Patel, WAMM Executive Organising Committee The catch 22 of human supervisory control Prof Alan Merry, Auckland, New Zealand Life, death and mistakes Dr Kevin Fong, London, UK
16:15 – 16:30	Prize Giving & Closing Remarks Dr Ellen O’Sullivan, Dublin, Ireland Dr Elizabeth Behringer, Los Angeles, USA WAMM Co-chairs

	Business Meetings
12:45 – 13:45	EAMS Annual general meeting (Liffey meeting room 1, Level 1)

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