Association for
Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia
and Critical Care (ACTACC)
ACTACC & SCTS
JOINT STUDY DAY
London
6th November 2023
THORACIC 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 | CHANGING LANDSCAPE TO CANCER TREATMENT
Chaired by Mark Steven and Ralitsa Baranowski
10.30 – 11.00
Refreshments, Trade Exhibition & networking with SCTS Attendees
11.00 – 12.30
SESSION 2 | THORACIC SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
Chaired by Sajith Kumar and Aman Coonar
Frailty in Thoracic surgical patients
Dr Jugdeep Dhesi
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy;an oncology perspective for lung cancer management
Professor Samreen Ahmed
Surgical implications of neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Tim Batchelor
Outcomes / GIRFT update
Questions
Doug West
Starting, maintaining and growing a Thoracic Robotic Programme: The Glasgow Experience
Jennifer Whiteley
11.30 - 12.00
10.30 – 11.00
12.30 – 13.30
Workforce; Training, recruitment and retention
The Dream Team Debate
'This house believed it is optimal to deliver thoracic care in a stand-alone thoracic unit rather than a combined cardiothoracic unit'
Questions
Simon Gardner
Mark Jones
For:
Mat Molyneux and Jackub Kadlec
Against:
Jonathan Kendall and David Healy
11.30 - 12.00
10.30 – 11.00
12.30 – 13.30
Tim Batchelor
11.30 - 12.00
10.30 – 11.00
12.30 – 13.30
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch, Trade Exhibition & networking with SCTS Attendees
13.30 – 15.00
SESSION 3 | PERI-OPERATIVE BONDING
Chaired by Jonathan Kendall and Mathew Thomas
Shared management of complex airways
Maninder Kalkat and Sajith Kumar
Heading 1
LVRS; 1 year on from Commissioning
RATS 10 Tips for performing lobectomy
Sri Rathinam and Sameer Hanna-Jumma
Heading 1
Sasha Stamenkovic
and Selina Ho
15.00 – 15.30
Refreshments & Trade Exhibition
15.30 – 17.00
SESSION 4 | PAIN MANAGEMENT
Chaired by Matthew Molyneux and Jennifer Whiteley
Surgical Stabilisation of Rib Fractures for non-flail chest; Yes or No?
John Edwards
Regional analgesia; current evidence and update
Cheng Ong
Cryotherapy; one centres experience
Questions