Multimodal monitoring to guide TIVA:more windows more light? Luc Barvais MD, PhD1 and Sean Coeckelenbergh, MD2 Saturday 20 January 8:30-9:00 1. Erasme University Hospital, Brussels 2. Paul Brousse Hospital, Paris Improving TIVA by personalizing monitoring TCI titration is very important in the daily clinical anaesthesia practice to…
Patient-Maintained Sedation Smart pharmacologic concepts beyond the OR Gavin NC Kenny Friday 19 January 11:00-11:30 Conscious sedation allows patients to undergo procedures which they would otherwise be unable to tolerate. The sedation must not contribute any morbidity or mortality to the procedure and ideally should be safe when…
Dr. Hugo E.M. Vereecke (°04/07/1972) became a medical doctor at the Ghent University, Belgium (1997) and consultant anesthesiologist (2002) at the University Hospital Ghent, Belgium. After finalizing his PhD Thesis (2007) on improving anesthetic drug titration using neuro-physiological monitoring, he proceeded an academic career at the University…
Why are we still talking about volatile anaesthesia? Why do anaesthetists feel comfortable with sticking to old practice and don’t feel the need to progress? And why does the medical literature offer so little to support this change? I remember when I was teaching a trainee during the end…
Alain Borgeat was clinically working as Head of the Anesthesiology Department, Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland with the main focus on Regional Anesthesia and Perioperative Pain Medicine. Since his retirement he works as Senior Research Consultant at the Balgrist Campus, University of Zurich. He was chairman and initiator of the…
Dr Nick Sutcliffe is a UK trained senior clinician with more than 30 years of experience in the fields of Medicine and Anaesthesia. His clinical interests include Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) and Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (TIVA). He is a recognised specialist in TIVA and regularly gives lectures and workshops, both…
Not surprisingly, Luc Barvais from the Erasme University in Bruxelles was the initiator of the development of a local Target Controlled Infusion (TCI) system. He made a major contribution to the teaching of TCI with the very frequently cited and downloaded publication. We encourage you to take notice from this…
Until my retirement, just before the Covid pandemic, I was clinically working as a cardio-thoracic anaesthesiologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre with a special interest in paediatric anaesthesia for children with congenital heart disease(CHD). The interest in anaesthesia for CHD was certainly fuelled by the many CHD missions…