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Poster presentations 2015

AAGBI Group of Anaesthetists in Training Annual Scientific Meeting, Manchester, June 2015
What do we mean by rapid sequence induction? An audit of clinical practice within the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Ferguson C, Breckenridge F, Burns F.
The anaesthetist and the obese patient. Jawaheer J, Campbell J, Fletcher G. (Abstract available within the link above.)

Poster presentations 2013

Euroanaesthesia, Barcelona, June 2013

Cost Implications of Wasted Emergency Drugs: How much money did we save? Bramma YL, Gray C, Stewart L, Alcorn D
Sugammadex: A novel approach to controlling spiralling drug costs.  Bramma YL, Alcorn D.
Sugammadex: A one-year prospective audit  of its use.  Bramma YL, Alcorn D.

Scottish Airway Group Meeting, Edinburgh, March 2013.

Setting up an ‘Introduction to tracheostomy management’ course for health care professionals in the west of Scotland.  Owen KM, Tober T.  *prizewinning poster*
Sugammadex: A novel approach to controlling spiralling drug costs.  Bramma YL, Alcorn D.
Sugammadex: A one-year prospective audit  of its use.  Bramma YL, Alcorn D.
The A.P. Advance™ Videolaryngoscope: Difficulty with its Difficult Airway Blade.  Vallance V, Williamson RM.

Poster presentations 2012

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 25th Annual congress, Lisbon, October 2012

How well do physicians predict mortality at discharge from ICU?  Ley S, Sundaram R.
Evaluating the effect of intravenous contrast on renal function in critically ill patients undergoing radiological investigations: a retrospective cohort study.  Silcock DJ, Sundaram R, Koteeswaran S, Fletcher G.

Euroanaesthesia, Paris, June 2012

Effect of spinal opioids on PCA morphine requirements following major abdominal surgery. Bramma YL, Fletcher G.
Improving the cost-effectiveness of volatile anaesthesia: fresh gas flow or agent choice?   Bramma YL, Logan N, Williamson RM, James E.
The ascendency of the videolaryngoscope: findings from an audit of recent experience in airway management techniques. Chalmers CM, Almaki A, Thomson I.

Scottish Society of Anaesthetists Trainees' Meeting, May 2012

Cost Implications of Wasted Emergency Drugs  Bramma YL, Gray C, Alcorn D
Ensuring safe inflation pressures in laryngeal mask airways. McLaughlin M, Burnett C, Bramma YL, Thomson I, Goudie T.
Improving the cost-effectiveness of volatile anaesthesia: fresh gas flow or agent choice?   Bramma YL, Logan N, Williamson RM, James E.
Ensuring safe inflation pressures in laryngeal mask airways. McLaughlin M, Burnett C, Bramma YL, Thomson I, Goudie T.
What's our angle? Stuart E, Williamson RM.

Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association Annual Meeting, Liverpool, May 2012

Epidural then spinal at the same interspace: is it safe?  Livingston A, Williamson RM.   *prizewinning poster*

32nd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM), Brussels, March 2012

Out of hours discharge from ICU - Defining the "out of hours" period and its effect on mortality. Bramma YL, Allan R, Sundaram R.

Scottish Airway Group Meeting, Glasgow, March 2012

All tied up: A comparison of tube ties available in an anaesthetic department.  Owen KM, O'Connor K.

Scottish Intensive Care Society Annual Meeting, St Andrews, January 2012

Out of hours discharge from ICU - Defining the "out of hours" period and its effect on mortality. Bramma YL, Allan R, Sundaram R.

Difficult Airway Society Annual Meeting, Nottingham, November 2011

All tied up: A comparison of tube ties available in an anaesthetic department. Owen KM, O'Connor K.  *prizewinning poster*