Upcoming events

Description: The Edinburgh Anaesthesia Festival has grown to become Scotland's largest annual anaesthesia, intensive care and pain management conference. Over 3 days and comprising 26 talks and lively debates, this conference is staged to coincide with Edinburgh's world-renowned festival season. It's the perfect opportunity to bring friends and family to enjoy this wonderful city at its very best.



Speakers

EAF 2019 offers up to 3 days packed with stimulating talks from respected national and international speakers. Keynote speakers for 2019 include:
•Professor Thiery Girard (University Hospital Basel, Switzerland)
•Associate Professor Morten Hylander Møller (Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen)
•Doctor Helen Mackie (Scottish Government)
•Professor Ramani Moonesinghe (University Hospitals London)
•Professor Mike Read (Northumbria NHS Trust)
•Doctor James Peyton (Boston Childrens Hospital and Harvard University)

Description: The 2019 European Delirium Association meeting is being held jointly with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and is endorsed by the Scottish Delirium Association.

This is one of the world’s major meetings on delirium, covering the state of the art in delirium research and clinical practice. The programme covers a wide spectrum of topics, from advances in clinical care in the acute hospital and community settings, quality improvement, pathophysiology, educational methods, palliative care, and clinical trials.

Description: The Newcastle Percutaneous Tracheostomy Course is designed to provide trainees with a basic skills set required to facilitate their entry into higher surgical training. The course will employ a series of technical and non-technical human factors simulation to guide trainees through different aspects and expectations of their training.

Description
This full day course will begin with mini-didactic lectures of fundamental knowledge and panel case based discussions. The course will be focused on hands-on training with our faculty in small groups. This course is designed to provide participants with an interactive hands-on experience in percutaneous tracheostomy and advanced airway devices using simulation models and cadavers.

Who should attend:
This activity is intended for the following specialites: ENT, Critical Care, Anesthetists, Emergency Medicine, Respiratory Physicians and Nurse Practitioners.

Description: We have another great meeting organised for you, the full programme will be announced shortly though will include:

Malignancy and critical care
Regional analgesia techniques for critical care patients
Review of this year’s critical care literature
Trainee case presentations – quick fire case scenario and management in 6mins of interesting cases
Medical student essay prize – Who should be admitted to Intensive Care?
Pro/Con debate
Mobilising the intensive care patient
And much more…………….


We are running our medical student essay prize again, the title is 'Who should be admitted to Intensive Care'. The essay should be submitted to sicstrainees@gmail.com, closing date 5pm Friday 9th August 2019. 500 word limit.

There will also be a trainee case presentation prize - 6min presentations of interesting critical care cases aimed at trainees below ST5 level. Please submit a short abstract/outline of your case to sicstrainees@gmail.com by 5pm Friday 9th August for consideration.

Description: The 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Scottish Intensive Care Society is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of January 2020 at the Fairmont Hotel in St Andrews. Looking like it's going to be another tremendous meeting, speakers already confirmed include Kathryn Maitland, Niall Fergusson and Kevin Fong. More to be announced shortly.