UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA
ANAESTHESIA / ANESTHÉSIE
Winterlude '99 Symposium
Saturday, February 20, 1999 / le samedi, 20 février 1999
HÔTEL CHÂTEAU LAURIER / OTTAWA

PROGRAMME

Saturday, February 20, 1999
Château Laurier - Laurier Room
Chairman: Dr. Robert Elliott

07:30    Registration and Continental Breakfast
     - Exhibits Open (Adam Room)

08:00    Welcome and Opening Remarks

08:15    Paediatric Anaesthesia in Satellite Locations
               Leslie Hall, MD

A review of special concerns and problems with providing anaesthesia in locations outside the usual OR setting - MRI and CT scan, Emergency Room

08:45    Pain Management of Abdomino-Thoracic Surgery
               Dennis Reid, MD

A critical look at the challenge of providing optimum analgesia for thoracic procedures - from thoracic epidurals to intrapleural catheters.

09:15    Fact or Fiction: Addressing Current  Myths in Obstetric Anaesthesia
               Roanne Preston, MD

Does epidural analgesia affect progress of labour?  Does maternal fever contraindicate epidural analgesia?  Is there a connection between postpartum back pain and regional analgesia for labour?

09:45    Question Period / Panel Discussion

10:00    BREAK - Refreshments / Exhibits

10:30    Hyperbaric Medicine
               Peter Duffy, MD / Philip Hamilton, MD

An introduction to an area new to anaesthetists with a critical review of indications for its use.

11:00    KeyNote Address:

The Role of Simulation in Medical Education
Robert Byrick, MD, Professor and Chairman, Anaesthesia, Univ of Toronto

A director of the Canadian Simulation Centre at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital shares his thoughts on how simulation will transform medical education as we move into the Year 2000 era.

11:40    Question Period / Panel Discussion


12:00
    BUFFET LUNCH (Adam Room) Viewing of Exhibits
Afternoon Workshops:
Small Groups A - E

13:00    Session #1    
14:00    Session #2

15:00    Break    
15:30    Session #3    

Group F - Simulator

12:40    Bus to Heart Inst.
13:00    Session #1
14:10    Bus to Heart Inst
14:30    Bus to Chateau
14:30    Session #2

16:00
    Bus to Chateau

16:30    RECEPTION (Adam Room)