Title: Enhanced Recovery in Practice Seminar
Audience: Suitable for surgeons, anaesthetists, nurse specialists, ward nurses, nutritionists, physiotherapists, pain specialists and other members of an ERP team.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course each delegate/ team should:
Understand the background of the development of enhanced recovery
Be able to describe the surgical and anaesthetic considerations for enhanced recovery after colorectal surgery
Have an increased awareness of the impact on patients (and their relatives) undergoing enhanced recovery
Understand the role of patients and carer in enhanced recovery
Be able to discuss pre and post operative care and role of the theatre team.
Understand the options available for pain control
Have a greater understanding of the nutritional aspects of enhanced recovery.
Understand the role of colorectal specialist nurse and stoma care practitioner in enhanced recovery
Be able to describe the role of the physiotherapist and stoma care practitioner
Formulate a plan to introduce, or update, an enhanced recovery programme in their own centre
Duration: 1 day
2010 Dates: 11th March; 10th June; 9th-10th September (1st International Conference - see below); 2nd December
Location: Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
PLUS, exciting new event:
1st International Conference on Enhanced Recovery - The Bristol Hotel - 9th - 10th September 2010 (Download Flyer)
Faculty: Mr Nader Francis, Consultant Surgeon; Mr Jonathan Ockrim, Consultant Surgeon; Dr Roger Kipling, Consultant Anaesthetist; Dr Jeremy Reid, Consultant Anaesthetist; Sr Louise Evans, Senior Ward Sister; Sr Win Gillard, Laparoscopic Theatre Practitioner; Sr Dawn Wintle, Pain Control Specialist Nurse; Louise Albrich, Dietician; Julie Burton, Stoma Care Practitioner & Colorectal Specialist Nurse; Clare Wiltshire, Clinical Specialist in Respiratory Physiology.
Course Content:
A typical course will provide some or all of the following:
Opportunities to attend the ward to observe colorectal enhanced recovery in action
Opportunities to meet patients who have recently followed this care pathway
Interactive discussions on common difficulties in establishing and maintaining enhanced recovery
Short seminars on:
Background and history of ERP in UK
Surgical perspective
Anaesthetic considerations
Theatre practitioner’s role
Pre and post operative care
Pain control
Role of nutrition
Stoma care
Physiotherapy
Sponsors: This course is supported by the NTP and Ethicon Endosurgery UK
For more information, or to make a booking, please contact the SWLC Administrator, Elaine Cox
Download ERP Flyer 2010