Wessex Anaesthetists in Training

WAIT 2013 : Hilton Hotel Southampton (11th October 2013)

WAIT 2013 was held at Hilton Hotel Southampton, near Chilworth, on Friday 11th October 2013. It was attended by 90 anaesthetists from across the region including college tutors and the training program directors.

Lectures from leaders in the field were given on paediatric intensive care for the DGH anaesthetist, cardiopulmonary exercise testing and the high risk surgical patient, the role of adrenaline in cardiac arrest, medicolegal issues, and depth of anaesthesia and awareness. There were presentations by two trainees on out of programme experience in Australia and Africa, and Kevin Fong finished with an entertaining discussion on risk. Trainees had the opportunity to enter the poster competition and five gave oral presentations.

Trainee Presentations

Many thanks to our judges Dr Paul Spargo, Dr David Smith and Dr Kathy Torlot (who kindly stepped in at the last minute).

Thank you also to all those who presented at WAIT 2013. As the judges remarked the standard was high!

Oral presentations :-

Winner - Rob Wiltshire, A Burton, C Papadometrieu & M Hargreaves - Do you 'stop before you block'? A complete audit cycle to improve patient safety
Runner Up - Sophia Henderson, Nikki Bosley, S Davidson, N Amaradasa & Steve Wimbush - Perioperative starvation: have we made a difference?
Dale Duncombe, L Philip & G Debreceni - Intensive care sedation and delirium audit
Rebecca Egglestone, Claire Joannides & Jon Chambers - Buddy scheme in anaesthesia
Rob Wiltshire & Joe Tyrrell - Does the Ranger fluid warming device have an impact on core body temperature?

Poster presentations :-

Winner - Aparna Cockrell, Jackie Trim & Harry Akerman - Effect of Versatis a 5% lidocaine patch on traumatic rib fracture pain
Runner up - Katherine Walker - Electronic prescribing systems: unforeseen problems which may compromise patient safety
Lydia Richardson & David Quick - An audit of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation orders in a district general hospital
Lydia Richardson, O Davies, R Thomas & J Dmochowski - Seizures & extreme agitation leading to a 48-hr admission on the intensive care unit post alpha-methyl tryptamine ingestion in two young men
Claire Joannides, Susie Baker, Andy Ball & R Egglestone - Target fractured neck of femur patients
Naomi Wee, S Shuttleworth & Spike Briggs - Critical care and oral maxillofacial surgery: audit and service evaluation of the management and outcome of patients undergoing reconstructive procedures involving tissue free flaps and microvascular anastomoses
Kate Shepherd & Matt Turner - Endotracheal intubation via a supreme LMA using the cook staged extubation set
Mike Ward Jones, F Rossiter, Ian Jenkins & S Vyas - Back from the brink: survival from severe lactic acidosis - pH 6.48
Dale Duncombe, N James, A Thompson & O Cramer - Fresh frozen plasma administration in intensive care
Beena Parker, Richard Isaacs, A Diddee & Mike Wee - NEAMS - neuraxial anaesthesia midline signs
Natasha Amaradasa - Cormack and Lehane revisited
Amelia Arasaratnam, Gayatri Daniel & Margie Rose - An unusual case of biphasic stridor
Laura Tompsett, Phil Dickinson, L Morgan & A Bates - The use of high fidelity simulation 'on the road' as an aid to transport medicine training
Charles Archer, James Bromilow & T Qureshi - The 6 'P's of emergency laparotomy assessment: 'producing a pre-procedure P-Possum proforma'
Francesca Riccio, Esme Sleap, Rupert Pemsel & N Jones - Crisis checklist for anaesthetists