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Bill Mapleson Courses
Developing World and Remote Locations
The Essentials for Anaesthesia and Higher Care
Tuesday 15 th March 2016
One-day, hands on practical & simulation course led by Professor Judith Hall. Faculty includes Roger Eltringham & Natalie Glover.
Course to include: - Simulated scenarios from the developing world; Pre-assessment in the developing world; Infectious diseases
and the Anaesthetist; PPE in challenging situations; Triservice and other apparatus, theory and practice; Challenges of transport;
Drugs when you can’t have everything.
Cost £300. Early bird rate £250 if booked before 23 rd February.
Personal Development Courses
Focused Intensive Care Echocardiography (FICE) - A one-day course run twice yearly on 14 th June & 11 th October 2016. Cost £150.
Cardiff Perioperative Transoesophageal Echcocardiography (TOE)
- A two-day lecture based symposium, 12 th -13 th September 2016. Cost £300.
- A three-day, hands on practical course held on several dates throughout the year. Cost £350.
Simple Statistics, Excel & SPSS - A one-day introduction / refresher run twice yearly on the 16 th March & the 21st October 2016.
Cost £100. Early bird rate £80 if paid three weeks before the course date.
Introduction to Research - A two-day course covering all research competencies. Twice yearly, 16 th -17 th June or 15 th -16 th
December 2016. Cost £180. Early bird rate £150 if paid three weeks before the course date.
Management Interview Skills - A one-day course on 25 th May 2016. Cost £100 with early bird rate £80 if paid three weeks before
the course date.
Simulation Courses
Training the Trainers - A two-day course for all those interested in Simulation Education. 26 th -27 th May 2016. Cost £290. Early
bird rate £250 if paid three weeks before the course date.
Resuscitation Update - A half-day course run twice a year on 7 th March & 18 th April 2016. Cost £75.
Neuroanaesthesia: learning through simulation - A one-day course held on May 26 th 2016. Cost £140. Early bird rate £120 if
paid three weeks before the course date.
All refreshments provided. CPD points applied for.
Click here to register: https://form.jotformeu.com/cmhabc/BMC or for more information, contact Catherine Hough. Direct Line: (029) 20743108
Email: HoughC@cardiff.ac.uk
Continuous positive
airway pressure in low
income countries
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is a form of therapy used for the treatment of a wide
variety of conditions causing respiratory distress in patients of all ages. It entails the provision of a
continuous supply of a mixture of compressed air and oxygen delivered in varying proportions, and
at flow rates and pressures according to the patient’s requirements. While it is readily achievable
in modern, well equipped hospitals, this life saving treatment is frequently unavailable in remote
hospitals in poor countries because of the expense and logistical problems involved in the provision
of medical oxygen and air. An alternative method of providing CPAP which overcomes these
disadvantages is described.
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The Diamedica Baby CPAP apparatus
The Diamedica Baby CPAP
apparatus (Fig 1) is designed
to enable CPAP to be delivered
safely and economically from
a single unit in circumstances
in which more conventional
facilities are unavailable or
unaffordable. It incorporates a
standard oxygen concentrator
which has been modified to
produce an increased output
with a variable concentration
of oxygen. The concentrator
has twin flow meters for air and
oxygen, each with a maximum
flow rate of 8.l/min -1 .
Figure 1
The oxygen/air mixture then passes over a water
humidifier and via lightweight respiratory tubing to
silicon nasal prongs or a face mask. The concentrator
has been further modified so that warm waste air from
the concentrator’s compressor is directed towards the
humidifier bottle. This increases the temperature of
the inspired gases raising the dew point of the water
thus providing enhanced humidification to the device.
Laboratory tests were carried out to determine these
effects.
Pressure is maintained throughout the respiratory cycle
by directing the gas flow to a container of water at the
distal end of the circuit via a tube with an open end at
an adjustable depth beneath the surface. The pressure
is determined using a calibrated dial which enables the
depth of the tube to be adjusted in situ. As the pressure
control is distal to the patient interface the system
provides accurate control of the pressure with minimal
pressure variation at the patient interface
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