Spring Meeting 2018
Shropshire Conference Centre,
Mytton Oak Road,
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XQ
17th May 2018
CPD Points applied for (Usually 6)
Programme
UPDATE TOPIC:
Medicine of Pregnancy
09:30 Coffee & Registration
10:00 MBRRACE
Catherine Nelson-Piercy – Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Trust
10:30 Cardiac emergencies in Pregnancy
Dr Dawn Adamson – University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
11:00 Coffee and Posters
11:30 VTE in Pregnancy
Catherine Nelson-Piercy – Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Trust
12:00 Pregnancy and renal disease
Dr Clara Day – University Hospitals Birmingham
12: 30 Research Presentations
12:30 Validating Pulmonary Embolism rule out criteria that works
Dr Muhammad Arshad, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
12:50 The Ultrasound Phenotype of Late-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis Differs from Young-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis. Are These Two Different Disease Entities?
Dr Ruchir Singh, University Hospitals Birmingham
13:10 Lunch and Posters
14:10 Research Presentations Continued
14:10 Outcomes following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion in patients with learning disability
Dr Philip Harvey, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
14:30 Acidotic hypercapnic respiratory failure in hospitalised COPD patients: impact of late presentation on outcome following non-invasive ventilation
Dr Samual Trethewey, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
14:50 Case presentations
14:50 Macrophage Activation Syndrome secondary to Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis presenting as breathless and effusions: first case report in an adult.
Jennifer Hunt, University Hospitals Birmingham
15:05 If you hear hooves think horses… but occasionally it will be a zebra.
Dr Lloyd Edwards, Russell’s Hall Hospital, Dudley
15:20 Tea & poster viewing
16:00 Case presentations Continued
16:00 Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency Pi0*saarbrucken initially presenting with pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Dr Paul Ellis, University Hospitals Birmingham
16:15 Mepolizumab therapy in an acutely deteriorating idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome patient
Dr Onn Shaun Thein, University Hospitals Birmingham
16:30 Update lecture : ‘Medicines and Murder’
Professor Robin Ferner, University of Birmingham
17:15 Finish and prizes