4th ORAG Meeting - Minutes
4th OXFORD REGION AIRWAY GROUP MEETING
Tuesday 17th October 2006 Milton Keynes General Hospital
Chair: Dr Benham
Present: Dr Popat, Dr Marfin, Dr Goodwin, Dr Kapila, Dr Manji, Dr Pandit, Dr Richards, Dr S Scott , Dr E Bone, Dr Chekairi, Dr Smithies, Dr I Davies, Dr I Ahmed, Dr R Menzies, Dr S Sharma, Dr Terry, Dr R Igbal, Dr Congreve, Dr Outram, Dr Swami. Dr Kaleem.
1. Introduction SB welcomed everyone to the meeting, and thanked Dr Manji for organising and hosting the scientific meeting. The group particularly appreciated the very high quality speakers – Dr Ravi Bagrath from London, and Dr I Davies and Dr Chekairi from Oxford. Dr Rob Menzies was congratulated for winning the prize for best trainee presentation at the scientific meeting. Dr Marfin (Oxford) also gave the group an update on the progress from the last meeting with regard to supraglottic devices, and their procurement.
2. ORAG Research activities Dr Marfin mentioned that 2 studies were ongoing in Oxford, and that ORAG would be a good place to publicise any other studies ongoing.
3. Oxford Regional Airway Website Dr Rangasami was not present, but Dr Chekairi was continuing to explore the possibility of publishing relevant airway articles on the website. The site can now be visited at www.orag.co.uk
4. DAS update Dr Popat informed the group that his extended term as President of DAS had now ended, but that ORAG was still well represented on the executive with Dr Chris Frerk(NGH) taking over as President, and Dr Dravid(KGH) taking over as Treasurer. Dr Imran Ahmed was also congratulated on his first prize for best poster at this years annual scientific meeting in Dublin.
5. PTC China/Airway workshops Dr Benham and Marfin updated the group that the need for faculty to run an airway day/workshop in Xiang, China, is expected fro April-June 2007. Once there was more detail, they would be asking for interested people to submit names and time slots when they will be available. It is likely that each person will be required to go for 2 weeks. The trip will be fully funded by the Kadoorie Foundation.
6. ORAG courses updates
a. Dr Benham informed the group that there would be an Oxford Difficult Airway Workshop on 1st March 2007, at St Catherines College, Oxford.
b. Dr Benham informed the group that a 3rd ‘Training the Trainers’ in Airway Management course in would follow the workshop on 2nd March 2007. All ORAG trainers are invited to come along to that.
c. Dr Bokhari’s(HGH) basic airway course for medical students and junior non anaesthetists is on November 17th 2006 in Banbury.
d. Dr Manji and Dr Scott reminded the group of the upcoming joint anaesthetic/ENT registrars day in November 15th 2006, which was fully subscribed, and had enough faculty. They were asked to ensure adequate feedback is taken at the meeting, and feedback to ORAG at the next meeting. Dr Scott and Manji are to be congratulated on taking this meeting forward in such a quick timeframe, and the group looks forward to their report.
e. Dr I Davies was planning a workshop for ODPs in Oxford to run in January 2007. There was interest from region to have a similar course for their ODPs.
f. Dr Marfin reminded the group that ORAG were still running airway workshops at AAGBI winter and possibly annual meetings, and trainees were encouraged to get involved with these. Dr Marfin and Dr Dravid have been leading these.
g. Dr Michael Goodwin announced that an Airway Workshop was planned for January 19th 2007 at NGH at 1300. He was looking for some support form the airway fellows to help with it. If anyone is able to help, please contact him or Claire Frampton on claireframpton@hotmail.com
7. Any Other Business
a. Dr Kapila raised the issue of whether ORAG would be affected by the possibility of losing some of the Northern Trusts from the Deanery, or with the influx of Southern Deanery Trusts. The feeling was that ORAG was open to all those in or near the Deanery who wished to participate, irrespective of the Deanery boundaries.
b. The meeting was closed with an agreement to meet again in Kettering Hospital on, provisionally, Friday 27th April 2007. Programme for the meeting to follow, but can people request the afternoon off well in advance.
c. It was also pointed out by Dr Popat that a new group based in Oxford had called itself the Oxford Regional Anaesthesia Group, and was using ORAG as it’s shortened version.
Dr S W Benham. 18th October 2006 stuart.benham@nda.ox.ac.uk