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CARDIAC ARREST
SYMPOSIUM
15 September 2022

CARDIAC ARREST
SYMPOSIUM

cpr being administered

sharing knowledge to ENHANCE cardiac arrest care

THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2022
THE OXFORDSHIRE HOTEL, OX9 2PU

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Confident delivering advanced life support, but keen to deliver the best cardiac arrest care for your patients? Looking to improve cardiac arrest care at a personal, team or institutional level? Then this is the conference for you.

Aimed at the level of critical care paramedics and doctors and senior nurses in Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Critical Care this free virtual conference will be of interest to all those involved in cardiac arrest management.

Highlights will include talks from internationally renowned speakers on topics such as:

  • Defibrillation
  • Haemodynamic guided CPR
  • Teamwork and non-technical skills
  • ECMO CPR
  • When to stop resuscitation
  • Post-ROSC care

For invited members of partner healthcare organisations in the Thames Valley region an afternoon of practical workshops will take place on the same day at the Oxfordshire Golf Club.

TVAA paramedics and doctors

THE DAY IN DETAIL

Please note, timings and speakers may be subject to change.

lectures (8.30am – 1.30pm)

Available for in-person participants, and virtually via livestream.

Timetable

0830-0835 Welcome James Raitt (Symposium Lead), Amanda McLean (Thames Valley Air Ambulance CEO), Paul Jefferies (SCAS representative)
0835-0840 Introduction Gavin Perkins (Professor of Critical Care Medicine Warwick University)
0840-0850 Survivor story Paul Dilley (Former patient and Thames Valley Air Ambulance Trustee)

SESSION 1 – Process

0850-0905 Defibrillation Strategies James Raitt (Thames Valley Air Ambulance Doctor)
0905-0925 Improving cardiac arrest management at a local level Darren Best and Mark Hodkinson (Thames Valley Air Ambulance Education Lead, Clinical Shift Manager)
0925-0945 Experiences from London APP’s Rory Saggers (LAS Advanced Paramedic Practitioner)
0945-1000 Question session 1 / Break

SESSION 2 – Beyond ALS

1000-1020 Haemodynamic guided CPR Paul Rees (Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and PHEM doctor)
1020-1040 ECMO CPR Iain Carroll (Consultant in Intensive Care)
1040-1100 Cardiac Arrest Centres Rupert Simpson (Cardiology Research Fellow)
1100-1105 Question session 2

SESSION 3 – We got ROSC, now what?

1105-1125 Post-ROSC management Asher Lewinsohn (Thames Valley Air Ambulance Doctor and Intensive Care Consultant)
1125-1145 What happens in the cath lab? Andrew Lucking (Consultant Interventional Cardiologist)
1145-1155 To ‘stay & play’ or ‘scoop & run’? Joe Cook and Ed Norris (Thames Valley Air Ambulance Doctors and EM consultants)
1155-1210 Question session 3 / Break

SESSION 4 – The wider view

1200- 1215 When should resuscitation stop David Whitmore (Senior Paramedic)
1215-1235 Cardiac arrest research and outcomes Gavin Perkins (Professor of Critical Care Medicine Warwick University)
1235-1255 CRM with an emphasis on flash teams Ben Watts (Retrieval Practitioner EMRS Scotland)
1255-1305 Question session 4 and close

WORKSHOPS (1.30pm onwards)

Face-to-face at the Oxfordshire Golf Club, for invited in-person ticket holders only.

  • Ultrasound in cardiac arrest
  • Vascular access including IO
  • Airway management
  • High fidelity simulations

The morning session has been approved for 4 hours of CPD by the RCSEd, the afternoon session has been approved for an additional 2 hours.