Association for
Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia
and Critical Care (ACTACC)
ACTACC & SCTS
JOINT STUDY DAY
London
6th November 2023
CARDIAC PROGRAMME
Beginners Ballet
08.15 – 09.00
Registration Opens, Refreshments & Trade Exhibition
08:00 – 09:00
Registration Opens, Refreshments & Trade Exhibition
08:55 – 09:00
Welcome
09.00 – 10.30
SESSION 1 ERAS
Chaired by Seema Agarwal and Narain Moorjani
10.30 – 11.00
Refreshments, Trade Exhibition & networking with ACTACC Attendees
ERAS in Cardiac Surgery
Fast track Cardiac Surgery
Melissa Evans
Christopher Palin
Virtual Ward
Benchmarking in cardiac surgery – new adult cardiac surgery registry and quality assurance programme
Bil Kirmani
Uday Trivedi
Questions
11.00 – 12.30
SESSION 2 PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOURS
Chaired by Niall O'Keeffe a and Indu Deglurkar
Abdul Badran and Rahul Mudannayake
Helen Garr
Bhuvaneswari Krishnamoorthy
What makes an intensive care / HDU safe and supportive?
Leah Hughes
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch, Trade Exhibition & networking with ACTACC Attendees
13.30 – 15.00
SESSION 3 DEVELOPING PRACTICE
Chaired by Jacqueline Church and Betsy Evans
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery – roadblocks to wider adoption in the NHS
New AHA guidelines for aortic diseases – is the UK ready to adopt it?
Ranjit Deshpande
Manoj Kuduvalli
OPCAB vs ONCAB – the Anaesthetists’ perspective
TAVI mission creep; is the steady spread into low risk cases evidence based?
Questions
Matt Bell
Reuben Jeganathan
Ranjit Deshpande
15.00 – 15.30
Refreshments & Trade Exhibition
15.30 – 17.00
SESSION 4 MDT DECISION MAKING
Chaired by Claire Boynton and Manoj Kuduvalli
Role of Anaesthetist and Intensivist in high risk MDT
Neil Brain
Vasoplegia, pharmaceutical intervention in theatre and ICU
Carlos Corredor Rosero
Mechanical support, access for all post cardiotomy
Coagulopathy, point of care vs intuition
Antonios Kourliouros
Seema Agarwal