Third British-Ukrainian Symposium
"21 century: From Anaesthesiology to Perioperative Medicine"
20-21 October 2011
Kyiv, Ukraine
Dear Colleagues!
We are looking forward to welcoming you on our third British Ukrainian Symposium which will take place in October 2011 in Kyiv, Ukraine. We are also very excited to present the new theme for yor consideration. As always, it is on the cutting edge of current clinical evidence based practice and delivered by an outstanding world-class faculty I am most fortunate and honoured to bring along.
Complications, associated with any surgical procedure, together with the burden of acute and chronic disease, combine to define a perioperative risk. Improvement in surgical as well as anaesthetic techniques, assessment and monitoring, which we have witnessed in the last decade, has lead our patients expect the return to a normal life in majority of cases and survival in all but most extreme situations. A way forward to the profession of anaesthesiology has to be a shift from simply anaesthetising the patients at the start and seing them out of the operating room alive to working towards the stratification of the preoperative risks, intraopeative and postoperative care with the aim of maximizing chances of survival and returning to an optimal functional life as quickly as possible.
This rethinking ouf our contribution as a speciality, in broad strokes, provides the inspiration for our third British Ukrainian Symposium which we have called ‘21 sentury: from anaesthesiology to perioperative medicine’ .
We hope you will be able to join us in 2011 and benefit from, what is promicing to be, an outstanding event.
Thank you for reading this.
With best wishes,
Dr. Roman Cregg
3rd British Ukrainian Symposium in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine will take place in Kyiv on the 20-21st of October, 2011. This event will happen 165 years after one of the most amazing inventions in the human history – the discovery of the narcosis (anaesthesia). Since the time of the first anaesthetic being administered, we can see a dynamic and and continuous progress in our understanding of anaesthesia and analgesia, which is happening all over the world.
The concept of perioperative medicine, the theme of our 2011 Symposium, is somewhat beyond our conventional scope of the usual provision and delivery of the anaesthesia service (in the Ukraine). The complexity of current surgical interventions and diverse medical conditions of patients undergoing these procedures, innevatibely requres a multidisciplinary approach. The emphasis is put on the procedure/operation itself, of course, but this has to be done within the context of the whole level and duration of care our given surgical patient requires. Described here approach is not completely novel either, so what we hope is that the next British Ukrainian Symposium will be another important step towards fully implementing current world trends.
We are also confident that your participation in the 3rd British Ukrainian Symposium will be very useful for doctors-anaesthetists as well as practitioners of allied specialities alike.
I look forward to see you at the Symposium.
With kind regards,
Head of Department of Anaesthesia
and Intensive Care
Prof. Igor P. Shlapak
Idea of conference - Dr. Roman Cregg, UK
