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We are currently finalizing the 2009 conference programme. Below you will find the 2008 programme for your persual.
Middle East Anaesthesia Conference
28 - 29 January 2008
| Day 1: Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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Opening Remarks by Chair, Dr. Michael Felfernig, MD, MBA, Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Royal Medical Wing, Al Mafraq, UAE |
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| Session 1: |
Anaesthesia Part I |
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Chair: Dr. John Mansfield, Head of Anaesthesiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 09:00 |
New Methods in Regional Anaesthesia |
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Dr. Christian Breschan, Department of Anaesthesia, LKH Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria |
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| 09:30 |
What’s New in General Anaesthesia? |
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Dr. John Mansfield, Head of Anaesthesiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 10:00 |
“Time Out” in the Operating Room |
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Dr. Derick Pasternak, MD, MBA, Managing Director, JCI ME & India, Dubai, UAE |
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| 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session 2: |
Airway Management |
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Chair: Dr. Karl Langer, Chairman, Anaesthesia ICU Department, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE |
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| 11:00 |
Predictors of the Difficult Airway – Screening and Standards |
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Dr. Ammar Salti, Consultant Anaesthetist, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 11:30 |
The Paediatric Airway |
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Dr. Clinton Collins, Head of ICU, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 12:00 |
Percutaneous vs. Surgical Tracheostoma in ITU Patients |
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Dr. Abdulaziz Al Dawood, Deputy Chairman, Intensive Care Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, KSA |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| Session 3: |
Pain Management |
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Chair: Prof. Joseph Costandi, Honorary FCARCSI, Past President of SACP-EMA, Head of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Director, Pain Therapy, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE |
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| 14:00 |
Acute Pain Management |
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Dr. Nayzak Raoof, Department of Anaesthesiology, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE |
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| 14:30 |
General Principles of Chronic Pain Management |
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Prof. Joseph Costandi, Honorary FCARCSI, Past President of SACP-EMA, Head of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Director, Pain Therapy, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE |
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| 15:00 |
Interventional Techniques in Pain Management |
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Dr. Rasha Jabri, Senior Consultant, Anaesthesiologist & Pain Physician, Division Head, Pain Clinic, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE |
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| 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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ICU/Critical Care |
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Chair: Prof. Gerhard Schwab, Medical Director, Al Ain Hospital, UAE |
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| 16:00 |
Sedation and Its Monitoring |
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Dr. Raees Ahmed, MD, FCCP, Diplomat American Board Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care Medicine, Consultant Intensivist Surgical ICU, Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre, Dubai, UAE |
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| 16:30 |
Current Concepts in Sepsis Therapy |
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Dr. Ashraf Attia, Head of ICU, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 17:00 |
ITU Models of Ventilation |
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Dr. Carlos MH Gomez, LMS, FRCA, MD, EDICM, Consultant, Critical Care, St. Mary’s Hospital, HCA International Hospitals, London, UK |
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| 17:30 |
Day 1 Adjournment |
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| Day 2: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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| Session 5: |
Anaesthesia Part II |
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Chair: Dr. Mohamad Yaman, Medical Director, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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Which Drugs Maintain during the Perioperative Period? |
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Prof. Christian Kolbitsch, DEAA, Exec-MBA (HSG), Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University (MUI), Austria |
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| 09:30 |
Ambulatory Anaesthesia – a Contraindication for Regional Anaesthesia? |
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Prof. M. Samy Abdel Raheem, Consultant Anaesthetist & Intensivist, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session 6: |
Paediatrics Anaesthesia |
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Chair: Dr. Michael Hornung, Senior Consultant, Anesthesiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 10:30 |
Neonatal Resuscitation – What You Should Know |
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Dr. Alan Smit, Consultant Emergency Physician, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 11:00 |
Which Sedative Drug for Children |
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Dr. Marie Awwad-Maroun, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, American University, Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 11:30 |
Ultrasound Guided Venous Cannulation in Children |
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Dr. Christian Breschan, Department of Anaesthesia, LKH Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| Session 7: |
Obstetric Anaesthesia |
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Chair: Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Berer, Head of Anesthesia Department, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE |
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| 13:30 |
Complications in the Pregnant Patient |
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Dr. Tim Cooper, Chief of Anaesthesia, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE |
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| 14:00 |
Combined Spinal-Epidural vs. Epidural Analgesia in Labour |
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Dr. Sahar Siddik-Sayyed, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, American University, Beirut, Lebanon |
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| 14:30 |
Myasthenia Gravis |
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Dr. Mohamed Elarief, Consultant, Anaesthesia Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar |
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| 15:00 |
Coffee break |
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| Session 8: |
Anaesthesia and the Cardiac Risk Patient |
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Chair: Dr. Nayzak Raoof, Department of Anaesthesiology, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE |
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Reducing Cardiac Events in High Risk Patients |
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Prof. Christian Kolbitsch, DEAA, Exec-MBA (HSG), Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University (MUI), Austria |
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| 16:00 |
Perioperative Myocardial Infarction – Detection and Treatment |
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Dr. Hany A. Mowafi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, King Faisal University, Al Khobar, KSA |
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| 16:30 |
Management of Pulmonary Hypertension |
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Dr. Carlos MH Gomez, LMS, FRCA, MD, EDICM, Consultant, Critical Care, St. Mary’s Hospital, HCA International Hospitals, London, UK |
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| 17:00 |
Wrap up and close |
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INVITED SPEAKER FACULTY:
Chair: Dr. Michael Felfernig, MD, MBA, Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Royal Medical Wing, Al Mafraq, UAE
Prof. M. Samy Abdel Raheem, Consultant Anaesthetist & Intensivist, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Raees Ahmed, MD, FCCP, Diplomat American Board Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care Medicine, Consultant Intensivist Surgical ICU, Rashid Hospital Trauma Centre, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Abdulaziz Al Dawood, Deputy Chairman, Intensive Care Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, KSA
Dr. Ashraf Attia, Head of ICU, Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Marie Awwad-Maroun, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. Christian Breschan, Department of Anaesthesia, LKH Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Dr. Clinton Collins, Head of ICU, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Tim Cooper, Chief of Anaesthesia, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Prof. Joseph Costandi, Honorary FCARCSI, Past President of SACP-EMA, Head of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Director, Pain Therapy, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
Dr. Mohamed Elarief, Consultant, Anaesthesia Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Dr. Carlos MH Gomez, LMS, FRCA, MD, EDICM, Consultant, Critical Care, St. Mary’s Hospital, HCA International Hospitals, London, UK
Dr. Rasha Jabri, Senior Consultant, Anaesthesiologist & Pain Physician, Division Head, Pain Clinic, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Prof. Christian Kolbitsch, DEAA, Exec-MBA (HSG), Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University (MUI), Austria
Dr. John Mansfield, Head of Anaesthesiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Mahmoud Talaat Mostafa, Consultant Anaesthesia, IAFH, Dammam, KSA
Dr. Hany A. Mowafi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care, King Faisal University, Al Khobar, KSA
Dr. Derick Pasternak, MD, MBA, Managing Director, JCI ME & India, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Nayzak Raoof, Department of Anaesthesiology, American Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Dr. Ammar Salti, Consultant Anaesthetist, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Sahar Siddik-Sayyed, Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, American University, Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. Alan Smit, Consultant Emergency Physician, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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