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6Anaesthesia News February 2003GAT PageGAT Annual Scientific Meeting – Bristol and Bath17–19 September 2003Get carried away at Bristol!Yes, the time has arrived to book your study leavefor the next GAT ASM!The Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in September,and Bristol and Bath will be your hosts for this year. Thescientific programme will take place in the Wills Memorialbuilding, which is part of Bristol University and convenientlysituated near some great shops and bars. However, therewill be no time for that as we have a superb scientificprogramme lined up.Our first session is Medicine and the Media – ProfessorAngelini will discuss ‘How to deal with the media’, DrWillatts will tell us ‘What to do if you get into trouble’ and amember of the media will set up a mock interview. This willbe followed by a session on paediatric anaesthesia – lecturesinclude ‘Total spinals – don’t try this at home!’, by ProfessorWolf, Centralisation of paediatric services and PICUretrieval? Dr Oakley will update us on what’s new in theNHS. We have a session on Personal Development, with lecturesincluding ‘Portfolios and appraisal ‘and ‘How to give alecture’.Thursday starts with a session on Checks and Balances – isClinical Governance the answer? – the official message portrayedby Dr A Mayor and an alternative view by DrGoodman (initially entitled Clinical Governance what a loadof ********!!!). Our final session is Hot Topics and OldChestnuts, including the bleeding Jehovah’s Witness, obstetrics,airways and neuroanaesthesia.Throughout the scientific programme we shall be runningparallel workshops on paediatric nerve blocks and clinicalscenarios on the simulator. There will also be a GAT registrar’sprize and audit prize. The registrar’s prize results in apublication in Anaesthesia, so it is well worth thinking aboutany appropriate research projects that you have recentlyundertaken. Look out for further information in AnaesthesiaNews for details of closing dates and prize money!As usual, there will be plenty of time for socialising. Ourfirst event will be held at Ashton Court Mansion, a beautifulhouse steeped in nine hundred years of history and set inbeautiful gardens and undulating parkland. Pimms will beserved in the grounds, followed by an enormous party in thehouse.Contact us at gat@aagbi.orgThe formal black tie dinner will be at Bristol’s new Sciencecentre ‘At Bristol’. The drinks reception is in the Wildwalk –this depicts the story of life on Earth and includes a livingrainforest inhabited by birds and butterflies. Dinner will beserved in the Rosalind Franklin room – an amazing venuewith glass walls and open terraces on two sides, lookingnorth to the Cathedral and south across the Harbour. We willthen dance the night away with Steve Twigg’s band.So, if you think you have got the stamina, book your studyleave now.Please note the move from our traditional June date. Thischange has been made in order to facilitate a good attendanceat the AAGBI ASM, which will take place duringEuroanaesthesia in Glasgow, from 31 May to 3 June.Look forward to seeing you in Bristol in September.Claire GleesonCo-opted to GAT committee for Bath/Bristol ASM 2003
Anaesthesia News February 2003The Berkshire MedicalHeritage CentreLevel 4, Main Entrance, Royal BerkshireHospital, Reading, Berkshire RG1 5ANTelephone 0118 987 7298, Fax 0118 987 8042.With retired consultant anaesthetists Marshall Barr andTim Smith as chairman and honorary secretary, theBerkshire Medical Heritage Centre inevitably has a distinctanaesthetic bias. The Centre, founded in 1997, last yearbecame a registered charity (reg no.1084890). Its aim is topreserve and display the history of healthcare in Berkshireand South Oxfordshire. A Medical Museum has been establishedin the Old Laundry at the Royal Berkshire Hospitaland satellite exhibitions in the Maternity Department and thePostgraduate Centre.The Museum has a complete set of Walton dental anaestheticmachines Marks I–V and an iron lung (which was usedin our ICU in the 1970s). A Wilson ether vaporiser fromMarch 1847 is the earliest of many pieces of equipment fromthe 19th and early 20th century. We have a specific exhibitionon ‘Securing the Airway’ and also, in a cabinet protectedfrom the light, Archie Brain’s complete set of prototypesin his development of the laryngeal mask.The anaesthetic enthusiasms are curbed by other committeemembers providing the necessary balance. The HonCurator is a retired general surgeon, who is assisted by tworetired theatre sisters. Our steering group also has a consultantobstetrician, a clinical photographer, a businesswomanand a local historian. All help in sorting and displaying themany items which have been donated by retired consultants,GPs, nurses, dentists and pharmacists. The collection isstrong in surgical instruments, obstetrics, dentistry and quackremedies. We have a feature on Professor Harold Hopkins ofReading University who was the inventor of fibreoptics andwho did much early work on endoscopy equipment withsurgeons at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.Our Museum has strong links with Reading Museum. Wehave been granted provisional registration by Resource: TheCouncil for Museums, Archives and Libraries. Provisionalregistration is the museum equivalent of the old Primary FFA- basic achievements recognised, but still some way to go. Byimproving our facilities in the next few years we hope toachieve the ‘final’ of full registration.The Centre has also been granted custody of the archivesat the Royal Berkshire Hospital, which include most of theminutes of the important committees from the hospital’sfoundation in 1837, plus bound volumes of the annualreports. There are many other volumes recording staff andpatients – inpatient and outpatient lists, ward admissions,operating theatre registers etc. Miscellaneous deeds, documentsand photographs are stored in cardboard boxes. TheBerkshire Record Office and County Archivist have advisedon the storage of the archives. As funding permits, thisunique primary source will be computer catalogued; damagedvolumes, including anaesthetic journals from the1930s, will be conserved.The bad news is that because of a massive hospital buildingprogramme, the Museum will have to be moved, probablyin early 2003. The new site will still be in the historicnorth wing of the hospital. In the meantime, the Old LaundryMuseum is open on the first Sunday of each month from 2.30to 4.30pm. Admission is free, but donations very welcome.Tim and I would be delighted to show anaesthetic visitorssome of our treasures. If you can’t make it this year, a goodopportunity to visit Reading will be the 20th Congress of theBritish Society for the History of Medicine at the Universityof Reading from 4 to 7 September 2003*. With Reading’sstrong medical historical tradition (think Bryn Thomas andTom Boulton), it is likely that this Congress too will have ananaesthetic bias.Marshall Barr* For information, contact the Congress Organiser DermotO’Rourke, 38 Stanhope Road, Reading RG2 7HN.Email dermot@ouvip.com7
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