Previous Meetings & Sponsors

Thursday 14th March 2024 at Utilita Bowl, Hedge End

Speakers:

• Wessex School of Anaesthesia faculty - Deanery and trainees update

• Dr Jon Chambers - Regional and national training latest

• Dr Katie Preston - SPARC and QI update

• Dr Natasha Curran - Lessons from complex pain

• Dr Mark Edwards, Dr Simon Davies, Dr Charlie Allen - Haemodynamic monitoring and fluid therapy session

  • Sponsored by Edward Lifesciences

• Cas Fieldman, Wesleyan - Financial Planning

• Trainee Presentations

• Professor Mike Grocott - Everest to Southampton

• Professor Tim Cook OBE - NAP7

• Dr Andrew McCafferty - Unfit Live Arms

WAIT 2024 Poster.pdf

WAIT 2024 Programme.pdf

Thursday 23rd March at Kimbridge Barn, Romsey

Speakers:

• President of the RCOA - Dr Fiona Donald

• Diving medicine and cave rescues - Dr Craig Holdstock

• Lessons from the frontline - Dr Kate Prior

• Propofol misuse by anaesthetists - Dr Heidi Artis and Dr Carolyn Way

• Complex and high-profile paediatric cases - Dr Peter Wilson

• Anaesthesia and the environment - Dr Mary Slingo

• Wessex School of Anaesthesia welcome and training update

• Trainee presentations

• Evening social - drinks reception and meal at Kimbridge Barn

WAIT 2023 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2023 Presentations.pdf

Prizes:

• Winner of Trainee Oral Presentation was Dr Sarah Harrison for the project:

  Patient outcomes on an Orthopedic Enhanced Care Unit: Maximising theatre efficiency and reducing Intensive Care bed pressures whilst continuing to deliver safe, uncompromised and cost-effective care

• Winner of Trainee Poster Presentation Prize was Dr Oliver King for the project:

  A retrospective review of postoperative nausea and vomiting medication administration and prescription in children aged 3 to 16 years

Thursday 31st March 2022 at Three Choirs Vineyards

Speakers:

• Hypnosis in Anaesthesia - Paul Slater

• Trauma-induced coagulopathy - current understanding & treatment - Ross Davenport

• Operational Human Factors - James Newton

• Stabilising the collapsed infant - James Tooley

• Cardiac Anaesthesia overseas, charitable work & global health - Andy Curry

• A minor setback - An inspiration talk from an ICU survivor - Geoff Watson & Alex Lewis

Trainee presentations:

• Amy Cash - CPET: Does onward referral to cardiology impact major surgery?

• Alexander Jackson - Prevention of accidental awareness under general anaesthesia: a regional service evaluation

• Razaz Elsheikh - ARDS Audit

• Tim Browning - Audit of complications of hypertensive therapy for cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

WAIT 2022 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2022 Presentations.pdf

WAIT 2021 was online via Zoom on Wednesday 24th March 2021

Speakers: 

• Suzi Lomax - Human Factors in Healthcare

• Michael Gritsaikis - Stabilising a Sick Child & Covid in PICU

• Jeremy Nightingale - 8000 miles from home - Falklands Anaesthesia

• Justine Shotton - Walk on the Wildside - Zoo Anaesthesia

• Nick Jones - You only have one Cat (AMBU Sponsored)

Trainee Presentations

• Stephanie Kirby - Compliance to the NICE guidelines on pre-operative testing before elective surgery

• Rebecca Smart - Central venous catheter misplacement in an aberrant pulmonary vein

• Megan Joyce - Wessex Primary School - A peer teaching programme

• Alisha Allana - Improving the quality of information received by patients about obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia

Trainee Posters

• Audit

  • Frances Ng - Think Drink! Optimising paediatric pre-operative fluid fasting

  • Katie Preston - Reducing the Cost of Managing Difficult Airways

  • Siobhan Orr - Check and Challenge: Malignant Hyperthermia and Implementation of Updated Association Guidelines 

• Case Report

  • Liz Auer - Bittersweet: Lessons in the Management of DKA in Children 

  • Lucas Rehnberg - Recurrent Pneumothorax in a Critically Ill Ventilated COVID-19 Patient

  • Nicholas Stafford - The Practicalities of Managing Beta-blocker Toxicity - a District General Hospital Experience of Severe Propranolol Overdose

  • Sarah Kennie - Hypocortisolaemia Masquerading as Anaphylaxis

  • Sophia Beeby - Multi-disciplinary management of an obstetric patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

• Educational Project

  • Alex Fahmy - Gas induction - introduction to anaesthetics for novices 

  • James McEwan - Training in Awake Tracheal Intubation 

  • Pete Gretton - Don't Feel the Pain 

  • Robyn Lee and Ben Cambers - Ultrasound Guided Cannulation course

  • Samuel Bhattacharjee - Improving the Rapid Assessment and Management of Tracheostomy-related Critical Incidents within a District General Intensive Care Unit - an MDT Educational Approach 

  • Scott Murgatroyd - Simulation in Preparation for the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  • Sophia Beeby - A New Virtual Anaesthetic Teaching Programme Designed to Overcome the Challenges posed by COVID-19. 

• Quality Improvement

  • Alisha Allana - My Little Journey' Assessing the quality of information delivery to paediatric patients 

  • Bethany Parnell - QR for QI - Improving Staff Confidence when Using the Pro-turn®

  • Erica Jolly - Introduction of a Multidisciplinary Obstetric COVID-19 Team Safety Brief

  • George Moore - Implementation of the bedside 'Airway Information Form' on ICU; a quality improvement project 

• Research

  • Luke Bracegirdle - Total Oxygen Content in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care with Hypoxamic Respiratory Failure due to COVID-19 

WAIT 2021 Poster.pdf

WAIT 2021 Programme .png

WAIT 2021 Poster Presentations.pdf

Prizes:

Oral

• Winner - Megan Joyce - Wessex Primary School - A peer teaching programme

• Runner Up - Alisha Allana - Improving the quality of information received by patients about obstetric analgesia and anaesthesia

Poster

• Winner - Sophia Beeby - A New Virtual Anaesthetic Teaching Programme Designed to Overcome the Challenges posed by COVID-19. 

• Second Prize - Luke Bracegirdle - Total Oxygen Content in Patients Admitted to Intensive Care with Hypoxamic Respiratory Failure due to COVID-19

• Joint Third Prize - Peter Gretton - Don't Feel the Pain

• Joint Third Prize - Alex Fahmy - Gas induction - introduction to anaesthetics for novices

Hiatus due to Covid-19

Thursday 10th October 2019 at the Royal Southern Yacht Club, Southampton

Surviving the extreme - Antarctica, War, Space, Moutains & Medicolegal

A fantastic day taking us from the deep freeze of Antarctica to the peaks of mountain medicine, from nuclear submarines to the minefields of war, surviving chemical attacks and eventually blasting in to sub-orbital space travel (and everything in between!). With the winding Hamble River providing a stunning backdrop, delegates were offered the opportunity to hear from world experts in 'surviving the extreme', as well as Medicolegal expert Dr David Bogod speaking about the pitfalls of Obstetric Anaesthesia. Trainee presentations and updates from the deanery and trainee reps brought us back down to sea-level in what was a whirlwind of physiological mayhem. In what remains the only regional trainee-led meeting designed for Wessex anaesthetists of all grades, this is an excellent opportunity to hear about projects in and out of the hospital environment as well as meet with peers and ultimately, have a fun and enjoyable day. 

WAIT 2019 Poster.pdf

WAIT 2019 Presentations.pdf

WAIT 2019 Programme.pdf

Prizes:

Oral

• Winner - Dr David Restall
  Monitoring noise exposure on emergence from anaesthesia

  Runner Up - Dr John Melville
  Interdisciplinary communication in theatres

Poster

• Winner - Dr Katie Cooke & Dr R Green
  Smoking cessation education in pre-operative patients

  Runner Up - Dr Ian Sheldrake
  Bolus regime for rectus sheath catheters ingynaecological surgery

Wednesday 17th October 2018 at The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

SPEAKERS:

• Dr Anju Bendon, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Managing children during major incidents - Lessons from Manchester

• Dr Nicola Batrick, Consultant in Emergency Medicine. Major incident planning

• Dr Clare Morden, Specialty Registrar. Being a motorsport medic

• Dr Linda Nel, Consultant Anaesthetist. Perioperative allergy and NAP 6

• Mike Crompton, Alloc8tor a software solution for trainee on-call rotas

• Dr Nikki Cox, Specialty Registrar. A non-direct route through Anaesthetic Training

• Dr Lucas Rehnberg, Clinical Fellow. Space Medicine: Experiences from a Mars analog mission

• Dr Jac Dendle, Clinical psychologist. Resilience and wellbeing

• Dr Heidi Artis & Dr Julie Onslow. Trainee & TPD updates

• Dr Fran Riccio. SPARC update

WAIT 2018 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2018 Poster.pptx

Prizes:

Oral

• Winner - Dr Andrew Nash
  Designing and developing a pre-operative psychology intervention for hip & knee arthroplasty patients

  Runner Up - Dr Francesca Riccio
  Developing an in-situ simulation programme for collaborative neonatal resuscitation

Poster

• Winner - Dr Jessica Bailey & Andrew Loftus
  The impact of sleep deprivation on resuscitation teams

  Runner Up - Dr Hayley Smith & Aron Schapira
  Audit of written documentation of anaesthetic consent

Wednesday 11th October 2017 at the Holiday Inn, Winchester

Speakers:

• Anaesthesia in the Developing World - Dr Ollie Ross - Consultant Anaesthetist, SGH

• ECHO in ICU - Dr Nigel Chee, ICU Consultant, RBH

• Paediatric OOPT in South Africa - Ruth Young - Anaesthetic fellow, GOSH

• Dr Liam Brennan - President of RCoA, as part of the RCoA's listening events

• Leadership in Healthcare - Fiona Dalton - Chief Executive, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

• Airway Presentation - Dr James Dinsmore - Consultant Anaesthetist, QAH

• SPARC update - Dr Francesca Riccio, Anaesthetic Trainee, Wessex

• THRIVE - Mr Reza Nouraei, Consultant ENT surgeon

• Programme director and trainee rep updates - Dr Ian Taylor and Dr Rachael Ford

• Trainee presentations and posters

WAIT 2017 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2017 Booklet.pdf

Prizes:

Oral

• Winner - Dr Laura Tompsett, A Eynon, M Baxter
  Major Trauma in the Over 65's: Too Little Too Late

  Runner Up - Dr Jamie Plumb, I Delroy-Buelles, I Fecher-Jones, J Ricks, J Forrester, J Winter, A Smith, N Goddard, M Wakatsuki
  Preoperative Optimisation of Anaemia before Surgery (POAS), A Quality Improvement Initiative

Poster

• Winner - Ian Sheldrake, G Daniel
  Audit of Patient Handover in Day Case Recovery

  Runner Up - Aidan Joyce, T Clements
  An Audit of Availability of Equipment for Management of the Unanticipated Difficult Airway in a UK District General Hospital

Tuesday 11th October 2016 at Bartley Lodge Hotel, Cadnam

Speakers:

• Fighting Fear - Professor Christopher Bulstrode, CBE

• Perioperative Medicine and Anaesthesia - Professor Mike Grocott, Consultant ICM UHS

• Bronchoscopy Simulator

• Laryngology - Miss Kate Heathcote, Consultant ENT surgeon, Poole General Hospital

• Trainee Oral presentations

• Current Perioperative Medicine Research - Professor Mike Grocott, Consultant ICM UHS

• Retrieval Medicine - Dr Francois Wessels, Anaesthetics Registrar, Wessex

• SPARC update - Dr Andrew Nash, Anaesthetic Registrar, Wessex

• Palliative care in the ICU - Dr Robert Chambers, Consultant ICM UHS & Dr Carol Davis, Lead Consultant in Palliative Medicine UHS

• Training Programme Director Update - Dr Ian Taylor

• Trainee Update - Dr Elizabeth Killick

• ORSIM Bronchoscopy Simulator

WAIT 2016 Poster.pdf

Prizes:

Oral

• Lydia Richardson, Mike Y K Wee & Rachael Ford - Parturients perspectives of ward rounds in obstetrics

Poster

• Matthew Stubbs, Samuel Lillywhite & Daniel Growcott - Gasworks: A mobile application for Novice Anaesthetists

Thursday 15th October 2015 at Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium

Topics Included:

• Sugammadex

• NELA update

• Managing risk

• Working in developing countries

• Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

• Trainee update

• Trainee Oral & Poster Presentations

• Planetarium show

WAIT 2015 Programme.htm

Prizes:

Oral

• • Winner - Dr Victoria Phin - Sedation education for anaesthetists in training

  • Runner Up - Dr Ruth Young - 18-mth audit of airway alerts- sharing information improves patient safety

Poster

• • Winner - Dr Alexandra Skubala - Perioperative management of diabetes in a DGH

  • Runner Up - Audit of venous thromboprophylaxis on Neuro Intensive Care Unit

Wednesday 15th October 2014 at Marwell Zoo

Topics Included:

• Atmospheric science and the environmental impact of anaesthesia

• National Anaesthesia Project 5

• Diving & Expedition medicine

• Awake Laryngoscopy

• Cardiothoracic Transplantation

• Southcoast Perioperative Audit & Research Collaboration update

• NCEPOD Tracheostomy

• Veterinary Anaesthesia

• Trainee Oral & Poster Presentations

WAIT 2014 Programme.pdf

Friday 11th October 2013 at The Hilton, Southampton

Topics Included:

PICU

CPEX

Adrenaline in cardiac arrest

Medicolegal issues

Awareness

OOPE in Australia and Africa, and

Kevin Fong finished with an entertaining discussion on risk.

WAIT 2013 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2013 Presentations.pdf

Friday 19th October 2012 at Norton Park Spa Hotel, Winchester

Topics Included:

NCEPOD,

Pre-Hospital and Trauma medicine,

Bariatrics and Simulation,

Plus a talk from Suman Biswas from the Amateur Transplants

WAIT 2012 Programme.pdf

WAIT 2012 Poster.pdf

Friday the 21st October 2011 at The Rose Bowl, Hedge End

The day included talks from national figures on 'Matching Michigan', 'Human factors in Airway Management', 'Patient Safety', Out of Programme Experiences, 'Preparing for the Consultant Interview' and finished off with some lively debates

WAIT 2011 Programme.pdf

Friday the 15th October 2010 at the Christchurch Harbour Hotel

The programme included 'Why Anaesthetists get sued' by Dr David Bogod, 'Role of device regulation in anaesthesia and critical care safety' by Prof Peter Hutton, Professional development opportunities for trainees, 'Medical TV Script Writing' by Dr Dan Sefton and finishing off with a court room dramatisation. The background documents for the Courtroom drama can be found below.

WAIT 2010-Norfolk Chance Expert.doc

WAIT 2010-Medical Expert Report.doc

WAIT 2010 Particulars Of Claim.doc

2009 : RNLI College, Poole (more information)

2008 : Concorde Club, Eastleigh (more information)

2007 : Haven Hotel, Sandbanks, Poole (more information)

2006 : Sparsholt College, Winchester (more information)

2005 : Balmer Lawn Hotel, Brockenhurst (more information)

2004 : Haven Hotel, Sandbanks, Poole (more information)

2003 : Guildhall, Winchester

2002 : Holiday Inn, Fareham

2001 : Hamble Sailing Club

2000 : Careys Manor Hotel, Brockenhurst