The Operating Theatre Journal February 2022

DECON UK 2022 6th April 2022,
Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton
Event website: https://fitwise.eventsair.com/deconuk2022/
This event is free to healthcare professionals and only £55 for
industry attendees.
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and University Hospitals
Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust jointly brings you DECON UK 2022.
This one day conference is taking place at Molineux Stadium in
Wolverhampton on 6 April 2022 and promises to offer delegates the
latest in decontamination education and expertise, with informative
sessions and a range of exhibiting companies.
Who should attend?
DECON UK 2022 will be of particular interest to sterile services
managers, decontamination leads, GP’s, theatre nurses, infection
control and endoscopy staff.
Programme Highlights
We aim to provide a high quality of educational content to our
delegates, this will cover:
• Protein residue removal from surgical instruments and endoscopes
• What can go wrong in decontamination services
• What happens when a healthcare trust fails to deliver safe water
• Endoscopy waters and reprocessing
• Decontamination – the chemistries
• Role of the authorising engineer
• Biofilms and how to remove them
In addition to the educational component of the day, this event will
also highlight the products and services of commercial companies
within this sector and how they can aid in the everyday, working
lives of our delegates.
Register now at https://fitwise.eventsair.com/deconuk2022/
The Old Operating Theatre
Museum & Herb Garret
Spare Parts, A Surprising History of Transplants:
In Conversation with Paul Craddock
7th April 2022 18:00-19:00 £5
Join us on Thursday, 7 April 2022, from 6 to 7
pm for an incredible virtual in conversation event
with Dr. Paul Craddock, author of “Spare Parts:
A Surprising History of Transplants.” So how did
an architect help pioneer blood transfusion in
the 1660s? Why did eighteenth-century dentists
buy the live teeth of poor children? And what role
did a sausage skin and an enamel bath play in
making kidney transplants a reality? We think of
transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders
of the modern world. But transplant surgery is
as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more
surprising than we might expect.
Paul Craddock’s book takes us on a journey – from sixteenth-century
skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants – uncovering stories
of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places.
Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts
explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries
between human, animal and machine, and continues to do so today.
About the author:Paul Craddock is Honorary Senior Research
Associate in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences at UCL
Medical School in London. His PhD explored how transplants have for
centuries invited reflection on human identity, a subject on which he
has also lectured internationally. Spare Parts, which won a Special
Commendation from the Royal Society of Literature, is his first book.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions via the ‘chat’ function at
the end of the conversation.
Ticketholders will receive a link to join the talk 15 minutes before the
start of the event. If for whatever reason ticketholders can’t make the
live event, they will have access to the recording of the event for three
days after they receive the link.
*All income from ticket sales go to support the upkeep of the museum
and the collection.
Book here: https://bit.ly/35KwKJd
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