Topic outline

  • General

  • About this Core Topics

    Join us in Aberdeen on Friday 28 February 2020 for the latest updates in anaesthesia. It will be an interesting day full of presentations from local and regional speakers who are experts in their field. The organiser Manisha Kumar has created a fantastic programme.

    Presentations include:

    • What goes in...(heroes and villains: plasma proteins, hydroxyethyl starch, normal saline)
    • ...Must come out (renal replacement therapy update)
    • What to make of the patient questionnaire – qualitative analysis
    • The next best thing or even better – simulation training: a critical review
    • Major incidents: are we ready?
    • Prefix for outcome – pre vs re
    • TIVA 4 tots
    • Continuing learning – coroner reports and the capnogram
    • Several shades of grey – when is audit, research?
    • Another paradigm shift – acceptable acute postoperative pain

    • Programme

    • Presentations

      All presentations will be made available to you after the meeting.


    • Handouts

      Any handouts will be made available to you after the meeting.

      Please see below for any handouts.


      • Delegate evaluation survey

        You will be able to evaluate this meeting online using Survey Monkey.

        This link will expire after 10 days after the meeting (Monday 9 March 2020). We would be grateful if you could complete this survey, as your feedback will help us ensure we can continue to improve these meetings in the future.


      • Receipts and certificates

        Your CPD certificate and receipt will be available to download post meeting from your log in, on the Association of Anaesthetists website:

         

        1)     Log in

        a)     Log in, using your new Association log in details

        b)     Towards the top right hand side of the home page, you should see an orange box with your name in it, if you click this box it will take you to your account

        2)     Receipt

        a)     Click ‘My payments’ found on the left hand side of the screen

        b)     Click ‘Manage my invoices’

        c)     Scroll down the page, you should come to ‘Receipts’, under which all the receipts for the Association meetings you have attended are stored in reverse chronological order (most recent at the top).

        d)     Find your chosen meeting and click ‘Print’ (orange button).

        e)     To print your receipt, right click and select ‘print’

        f)      To save as a PDF, click the blue floppy disk save symbol and select PDF, this will download your receipt as a PDF.

        3)     CPD certificate

        a)     All your certificates for the last 5 years are stored under ‘My CPD’ in chronological order (oldest at the top)

        b)     Scroll down until you find the meeting in question and click ‘View Certificate’ (orange box)

        c)     To print your CPD certificate, right click and select ‘print’

        d)     To save as a PDF, click the blue floppy disk save symbol and select PDF, this will download your CPD certificate as a PDF

         

        If you do not know, your username or password go to log in as normal on the Association of Anaesthetists website and then click ‘Forgotten Password/Username?’ in the blue box. You can then opt to send a Password or Username reminder.


        • Learn@

          If you are a member of the Association of Anaesthetists, please remember that you will be able to reflect live on the programme using Learn@:

           

          1.     Log in, using your new Association log in details

          2.     From the search page click the name of the meeting

          3.     Access the reflective forms that you require

           

          Association members can now access Learn@ as an App. Download videos of Association lectures to watch and reflect offline. Access the new Learn@ App here.

           

          If you have any trouble accessing Learn@ or require any additional information, please email learn@anaesthetists.org.