SASWR AUTUMN SCIENTIFIC MEETING – 12TH – 13TH NOVEMBER 2026

MSHED BRISTOL

THURSDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

08:30 – 09:10 – Registration

08:30 – 09:00 – SASWR AGM

09:00 – 09:10 – Introduction

09:10 – 09:15 – Welcome – President

09:15 – 11:15  Session I: Trauma

Chair:

 

Drowning

Dr Paddy Morgan, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol Foundation NHS Trust - Southmead

 

The Severn Major Trauma Network

Dr Nirosha De Zoysa, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Southmead

 

Pre-Hospital Training

Dr Olivia Cheetham, ST7 Resident

Severn Deanery

 

Retrieve: An Update

Dr Scott Grier, Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Southmead

 

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee, Trade and Poster Exhibition

 

11:45 – 13:00 Session II: Frailty and Neuroscience

Chair:

 

ICENI – Chronic Subdural Database

Dr Dan Stubbs, Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist and Assistant Research Professor

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & University of Cambridge

 

Peri-operative Frailty Management

Dr Frances Rickard, Consultant Geriatrician

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Southmead

 

Middle Meningeal Artery Embolisation

Dr Anthony Cox, Consultant Neuroradiologist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Southmead

 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Trade & Poster Exhibition

 

14:00 – 14:30 Session III: Big Data

Chair:

 

‘Big Data’

Dr Allison Janda, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

University of Michigan Heath, USA

 

 

14:30 – 15:30 Session IV Resident Session

Chair:

 

SASWR Intersurgical Resident Prize Presentation

Oral Presentations

 

15:30 -16:00 Coffee, Trade and Poster Exhibition

 

16:00 – 16:10 – SASWR Intersurgical Resident Prize Award

Dr Rachael Craven

 

16:10– 17:10 Session V: The Sir Humphry Davy Lecture

Introduced by the President Dr Rachael Craven

 

Title TBC

Prof David Lockey

Consultant Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesia and Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Southmead & London Air Ambulance Service

 

17:10 Closing Remarks

 

19:15 President’s Reception

Avon Gorge Hotel

 

20:00 The Society Dinner

Avon Gorge Hotel

Music by  ‘The B Side’

 

 

FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

 

08:15 – 08:45 – Registration, Coffee, Trade and Poster Exhibition

 

08:45 – 09:30 - Session VI: Specialist Services

Chair:

 

Peri-operative management of phaeochromocytoma

Prof Jas Soar, Consultant Intensive Care Medicine & Anaesthesia

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - Southmead

 

Endovascular Aortic Surgery

Mr Marcus Brooks, Consultant Vascular Surgery

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Southmead

 

09:30 – 10:45 – Session VII: Obstetrics

Chair:

 

Chiari Guideline

Dr Helen Johnston, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Southmead

 

Title TBC

Sonah Paton

Black Mothers Matter – Co-founder & Managing Director

 

10:45 – 11:15 – Coffee, Trade and Poster Exhibition

 

 

11:15 – 13:00 - Session VIII: Rapid Sequence Induction

Chair:

 

Pro – Con Debate: The TCI TIVA Rapid Sequence Induction

Dr Chris Thompson, Consultant Anaesthetist

Dr Tim Howes, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Southmead

 

Legal implications

Dr Ime Eka, ST6 Resident

Severn Deanery

 

SECURE: Service Evaluation of Cross Specialty UK Rapid Sequence Intubation Events

Dr Jonathan Barnes, Consultant Cardiac Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – City & Weston

 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Trade and Poster Exhibition

 

14:00 – 15:15 – Session IX: Perioperative Medicine

 

AI in Pre-operative Assessent

Dr Matt Aldridge, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Southmead

 

TIVA Outcomes

Dr Allison Janda, Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia

University of Michigan Health, USA

 

Peri-operative allergy

Dr Amy Dodd, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

 

15:15 – 16:00 – Session X: Health Matters

 

Men’s health

Dr Anthony Carey, Consultant Anaesthetist

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

 

Women’s health

Miss Tracy Appleyard OBE, Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust – Southmead

 

16:00 – 16:05 – Presentation of SASWR Poster Prize

 

16:05 – 16:10 – Meeting Close Dr Rachael Craven, President SASWR