SAVE THE DATE - WPOMS 2024

**SAVE THE DATE - WPOMS 2024 - GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!**

**WPOMS Conference: Thursday 17th October 2024**

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It’s that time of year again - WPOMS is back! BOOK YOUR STUDY LEAVE NOW! 

This year we are hitting up Cardiff’s SWALEC stadium after hearing glowing reviews of their lunch menu!

Another jam-packed line up including special guests ’The Chimp Paradox’ who are going to talk about addressing our patient’s preoperative anxieties and which tools we can use to prepare them for major surgery. We know this will be a fantastic session and workshop!

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Full programme and information regarding abstract submission to follow.

5 RCOA CPD points applied. Please see attached poster for details on how to book or head to https://buytickets.at/wpoms/1200453


Looking forward to catching up with everybody there,

Best wishes, WPOMs Committee

New Online PACU Education Programme Launched!

You may have heard about the new e-learning course at our EPOMS 2022 conference in November. But for those of you that haven’t….

This is a Welsh Government funded initiative in partnership with University College London. The PACU course is aimed at all healthcare professionals but in particular recovery nurses and those working in postoperative care/PACU units.

Post Anaesthetic Care Units (PACU) are expanding rapidly in Wales and this has meant a huge drive to upskill and increase education in postoperative medicine. This e-learning provides a flexible, modular approach to learning. It includes 14 modules: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Pain, Delirium/Frailty and Enhanced Care naming just a few. It also has specific specialist modules for areas such as Upper Gastrointestinal surgery, orthopaedic surgery, Urology surgery etc. So users are able to tailor the programme to what they require for their clinical practice.

The initiative was launched in January 2023 and we now have our second cohort passing through the course and over 200 delegates involved. This remains free to users within Wales for the first 3 years so if you are interested or know anyone that might be then please get in touch at pacuwales@gmail.com.

Programme Confirmed for WPOMS 2022!

A fantastic agenda has been confirmed for this years annual conference! - a much needed opportunity for POM enthusiasts to catch up, get up to date with POM news and share experiences from the past two years. Perioperative medicine has never been so topical and this years conference is looking to be a great day out!

This year we have another fantastic line up of speakers and POM workshops, including the one and only Mr Motivator himself! He will be joining Dr John Whittle from University College London to talk about prehabilitation! In addition, we are really excited to welcome the experts in Perioperative Medicine for the Older Person - Dr Jugdeep Dhesi and Dr Jude Partridge! Topics and speakers include:

  • The role of prehabilitation in Perioperative Medicine - Dr John Whittle (POM Consultant, UCLH) and Mr Motivator!

  • Setting up a prehabilitation service in Wales - Dr Rhidian Jones (Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend)

  • Perioperative medicine for older people having surgery (POPS) - Dr Jugdeep Dhesi & Dr Jude Partridge (Consultant Physicians, St Guy’s and Thomas’)

  • Introduction of a Welsh PACU education programme across - Ms Carolina Britton (Specialist Nurse, UCLH)

  • An update of the most recent perioperative evidence - Dr Tony Funnell (POW, Bridgend)

  • Education updates and how POM has been affected by the new RCOA curriculum

A brilliant venue with the chance to take part in small group, interactive workshops in the afternoon. You can choose from:

A: Introduction to CPET. Live demonstration of CPET machine followed by an introduction of interpretation of CPET results.

B: Shared Decision Making and PROMS. A workshop exploring the role of Shared Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine - Outlining what SDM is, how it applies in the perioperative period and the challenges we face as perioperative clinicians.

C: Preoperative Anaemia Services - Who? Why? When? And How? An opportunity to share pathways, challenges and solutions regarding preoperative anaemia management in Wales.

D: Perioperative medicine for the older person - setting up a POPS service. An opportunity to get advice on the challenges and share experiences involved with setting up a service and how we can improve our care of the elderly patient during surgery.

5 CPD points applied.

Head to wpoms2022.eventbrite.co.uk for tickets now - hurry they are selling fast!!

Call for Trainee Rep!

The Welsh Perioperative Medicine Society (WPOMS) is looking to appoint a Trainee Rep to join the team and represent all Welsh trainees. Perioperative Medicine has recently become a prominent component of the new RCOA curriculum and WPOMS are keen to support trainees navigate this change and provide opportunities across Wales to get involved with the great POM work.

 

If you are interested in applying for the role, then please email a short (max 300 words) paragraph outlining why you are keen to be involved and why you would be suitable. There will be many benefits of being the WPOMS trainee representative including an opportunity for leadership and management experience.

 

The deadline for applications is Friday 16th September. For further information please get in touch at welsh.poms@gmail.com

 

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the WPOMS conference on the 24th November – tickets now on sale at WWW.WPOMS2022.EVENTBRITE.CO.UK 

**WPOMS Annual Conference 2022 - Tickets now LIVE**

Sign up now for the 4th annual Welsh Perioperative Medicine Conference - a chance to meet and network with multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals.

After last years virtual anaemia extravaganza, this year we are taking things back face to face. We hope that this will provide a much needed opportunity for POM enthusiasts to catch up, get up to date with POM news and share experiences from the past two years. Perioperative medicine has never been so topical and this years conference is looking to be a great day out!

Registration from all hospitals and healthcare backgrounds are welcome!

This year we have another fantastic line up of speakers and POM workshops to book, including the one and only Mr Motivator himself! He will be joining Dr John Whittle from University Hospital Wales to talk about prehabilitation! Topics and speakers include:

  • Setting up a prehabilitation service

  • Cognitive dysfunction in the perioperative period

  • Introduction of a Welsh PACU education programme across

  • An update of the most recent perioperative evidence

  • Education updates and how POM has been affected by the new RCOA curriculum

  • Trauma in the older population

  • The 'DREAMs' vision for postoperative care

Connect with like-minded colleagues to discuss the most recent advances in this exciting area of anaesthesia and intensive care. Take the opportunity to network and share experiences and projects and services running in your centres. There will also be the opportunity to present your work as are now asking for abstracts for oral and poster presentations - abstract deadline Friday 6th October.

A brilliant venue with the chance to take part in small group, interactive workshops in the afternoon. You can choose from:

A: Introduction to CPET. Live demonstration of CPET machine followed by an introduction of interpretation of CPET results.

B: Shared Decision Making and PROMS. A workshop exploring the role of Shared Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine - Outlining what SDM is, how it applies in the perioperative period and the challenges we face as perioperative clinicians.

C: Preoperative Anaemia Services - Who? Why? When? And How? An opportunity to share pathways, challenges and solutions regarding preoperative anaemia management in Wales.

D: Introduction to Perioperative Research and PQIP. An opportunity to get advice on the challenges and share experiences involved with undertaking perioperative research/PQIP.

5 CPD points applied.

Abstracts closing date 6th October - consideration given for oral and poster presentations!

Get your tickets now at WPOMS2022.eventbrite.co.uk NOW!

International Fellowship in Perioperative Medicine at UCLH

A fantastic opportunity to join world-leading experts in perioperative medicine at a busy teaching hospital in London! Apply now for fellowships starting August 2022!

The fellowship includes a fully funded MSc in Perioperative medicine with University College London, research and quality improvement opportunities, clinical experience in a new 12 bedded PACU unit, access to complex preassessment clinics and multidisciplinary planning meetings…….and that is just the start!

As we emerge from the COVID pandemic, perioperative medicine has never been so crucial to facilitate the continuation of surgical services required to help with the backlog. Get involved with setting up preoperative services to risk stratify and streamline this process, attend cutting edge research and development meetings with the Centre for Perioperative Medicine and develop your clinical skills on the busy PACU unit.

Head to https://tinyurl.com/j9yjzt3d for more information.

WPOMS: All Things Perioperative Anaemia

W-POMS is excited to introduce ‘WPOMS: All Things Perioperative Anaemia’ - a one-day conference coming to Cardiff on Monday 19th April 2021

We have teamed up with EBPOM and TopMedTalk to bring this fantastic hybrid event - with a small number of face to face delegates and opportunities for virtual engagement online! Head to wpoms.eventbrite.co.uk to book your place NOW!

The programme features many international experts in the field, including the lead authors of the recently published PREVENTT trial. It is set to be a really interesting day, with information on setting up an IV iron service, how to manage anaemia in specific patient groups and how the results of PREVENTT will inform our management of preoperative anaemia going forward. There will also be free access to key note talks from previous EPBOM conferences and a chance to get involved in panel discussions.

WPOMS can offer 40 delegates the face-to-face experience at The Village Hotel including lunch and refreshments and the opportunity for discussion groups. For those who would rather take part online - we are lucky enough to be streaming the day via the EBPOM platform which allows you to enjoy the day from home.

We are also calling for abstracts to be submitted by 12th Feb 2021 - with all submissions being displayed as poster presentations and the top 3 submissions wit be invited for oral presentation and judged for prizes.

As POM enthusiasts - we would really love to see as many of you there as possible either in person or virtually to put Wales on the map - so get buying those tickets now as places are limited! It really is set to be a fantastic day!

Stay safe, WPOMS