Congress Centre Kursaal Interlaken

• Remifentanil for labor analgesia, where are we now? / M.Wilson, Sheffield (UK)

• RemiPCA SAFE Network: 10 years of quality control data  / A. A. Melber, Rothrist (CH)

• Is epidural analgesia a protective factor for postpartum depression? / D-X Wang, Beijing (CN)

• Update on anesthesia for operative delivery / N. Hayes, Dublin (IRL)

Program

• Maintenance of labor epidural (T. Girard / Basel)
• Epidural fever, a problem? (P. Vuilleumieur / Bern)
• Abnormal placentation (A. Papadia / Bern)
• Tranexamic acid in obstetrics (G. Savoldelli / Genève)
• Pregnancy and orphan disease (B. Conti Rossini / Locarno)

Program

• Post-dural puncture headache (M. Paech / Perth AUS)
• Management of preeclampsia (R. Dyer / Cape Town ZA)
• Chronic pain following caesarean section (B. Rehberg / Geneva)
• Recent publications in obstetric anaesthesia: my selection (M. Paech)
• Can drugs improve safety of obstetric anesthesia ? (Sintetica Symp)
• Extending EA for emergency CS (M. Baeriswyl / Lausanne)
• Spinal hypotension during cesarean section (R. Dyer / Cape  Town ZA)

Program

• Preeclampsia- what you do need to know? (T. Girard / Basel); Part 1, Part 2
• Unsatisfactory labour epidural, what to do for C/S? (U. Misra / Sunderland UK)
• Is consent during labour acceptable? (T. Gruberski / Basel)
• OAA/DAS Guidelines for difficult airway (M. Mushambi / Leicester UK)
• My top five publications in 2015/2016 (U. Misra / Sunderland UK)

Program

• How many platelets do we need ? (C. Kern / Lausanne)
• Peripartum management of LMWH and ASS (M. Blondon / Geneva)
• Coagulopathy in PPH (D. Bolliger / Geneva)

• Ultrasound for neuraxial blockade (R. Isaacs / Southampton)
• The role of lung ultrasound and TTE in obstetric anesthesia (L. Muller / Nîmes); Part 1,  Part 2
• Obstetric ultrasound (T. Fischer / St.Gallen)

Program

• Failed neuraxial anaesthesia - what now? (M.Berriswyl / Lausanne)
• Neurologic complications - whom to blame? (B. Rehberg-Klug / Geneva)
• Accidental dural puncture - what next? (G. Savoldelli / Geneva)
• Remifentanil-PCA - new warnings? (A. Melber / Muensingen)
• Closed claims - what can we learn? (S. Staender / Maenndorf)
• What's new in obstetric anaesthesia? (B. Buddeberg / London)

Program

• Prompt Training: integrating simulation drills into an effective multidisciplinary training program for OB emergencies (D. Siassakos); Part 1, Part 2
• See One, Do One, Teach One: Not in the New Competency Based (World / V. Naik)
• Interprofessional education a "buzzword" or a real imperative? (R. Greif)
• Decoding OB Crisis Chaos: Simulation to improve quality and safety (V. Naik)

• The parturient with endocrine disease (B. Müller)
• The parturient with cardiac disease  (D. Tobler)
• Infection & Sepsis-the new threat to OB (N. Lucas)
• What's now in obstetric anesthesia? (Th. Girard)

• How can we evaluate clotting? (M.Ganter)
• Uterotonics for anesthesiologists (N. Roten)
• Interventional radiology (S. Terraz)
• New management trends in PPH (R. Dyer)
• Swiss PPH algorithm (T. Girard)

Programm & Meeting Timetable

• What' new in obstetric anaesthesia? (G. Savoldelli, Geneva)
• Neuraxial labour analgesia (Th. Girard, Basel)
• Top-up for cesarean section (M. Baeriswyl & C. Kern, Lausanne)
• Opioids in delivery room (A. Melber, Bern)
• The midwife's point of view (S. Brailey UK)
• An excursion to Uganda (D. Hofstetter, Winterthur)

Satelite Meeting Program 2012

• Preeclampsia (Olav Lapaire)

Meeting Program & Timetable

• GA for Cesarean Section (Thierry Girard)
• Difficult Intubation in CS (Peter Biro)
• Whats new in OA ? (Luca Brendebach)

• Sex based differencies in anaesthetic effects (Dan Benhamou / Paris)
• Management of hypotension during SA for CS (Frédéric Mercier / Paris)
• Antimicrobial prophylaxis for CS (Emmanuel Boselli / Lyon)
• Obsteric anaesthesia, best papers 2011 (Dan Benhamou / Paris)
• Case Report I (Pascal Vuilleumier / Bern)
• Case report II (Moritz Schürch / Aarau)

• Intro (Peter Knessl)
• Intrapartum monitoring (Roland Zimmermann)
• Non-obstetrical surgery during pregnancy (Peter Biro)
• Polytrauma in pregnancy (Marius Keel)
• What's new in obstetric anaesthesia (Thierry Girard)
• Case report 1 (Laurent Thierrin)
• Case report 2 (Ursula Payern)

• Obesity and pregnancy: what are the risks? (Olivier Irion Geneva)
• Anesthetic management of morbidly obese patients in obstetrics Part I (Roshan Fernando, London)
• Anesthetic management of morbidly obese patients in obstetrics Part II (Roshan Fernando, London)
• How to reduce failure of regional anesthesia for caesarean section? (Stephen Mike Kinsella, Bristol)
• Pharmacogenetic influences in obstetric anesthesia (Ruth Landau, Seattle)
• Neuraxial blocks and anticoagulation in obstetrics: interactive presentation of a case report and review of the current recommendations (Georges Savoldelli, Geneva)
• Anesthetic management of a parturient with a known antiphospolipid syndrome (Pascal Vuilleumier, Bern)

Program

• PRO / CON Debate: Remifentanil PCA should be considered as a first line alternative for analgesia during labor
  PRO: (Dr. David Hill, Belfast)
  CON: (Dr. Marc Van de Velde, Leuven)
  
  Remifentanil PCA in labor: Data presentation (Dr Andrea Melber, Bern)
   
• Thematic Session: Tokolytic / Uterotonic Drugs
  Anesthesia and tocolytic / uterotonic therapy in obstetrics (Prof. Markus Schneider, Basel)
  Carbetocin: indications, efficacy and safety  (Prof Irene Hoesli, Basel)
• Case reports
  Case 1: (Dr Anne Marielle Stauffer, Chur)
  Case 2: (Dr Laurent Thierrin)

Program

• I: PRO / CON DEBATE: Maternal oxygenation is mandatory during regional anaesthesia for cesarean section
  PRO: Prof. Dan Benhamou / Paris
  CON: Prof. Warwick Ngan Kee / Hong Kong
• II: Oxygen during neonatal resucitation: to give or not to give? (Dr. Eric Giannoni, Lausanne)
• III: Postnatal fluid management in newborns during transition (Dr. Mathias Nelle, Bern)
• IV: Case reports:
  Case 1. Peri-mortem CS (Sten Petersen)
  Case 2. Eclampsia with PRES (Claudia Schrag & Annik Vuffray)

• The Use Of Simulation In Obstetric Anesthesia (Georges Savoldelli, Genève)
• Obstetric Analgesia And Anaesthesia In Switzerland In 2007 : A National Survey (Joerg Uehlin, Laurent Thierrin, Lausanne)

Program

• General Anaesthesia for CS
  GA for CS SAOA L Thierrin
  Post CS analgesia A Mignon ASAO
  Neuropathic pain after cesarean section  F Roelants ASAO
   
• Informed Consent
  Informed consent M Schneider ASAO
  Informed Consent SAOA C KERN
  Informed Choice S Brailey ASAO
  Informed consent P Hohlfeld ASAO
   
• Case Reports
  Amniotic fluid emboli L Thierrin SAOA
  Conjoined twins P Biro ASAO
   
• Discussion
  Protocol SAOA march 2008

• Pro CSE
• Contra CSE
• Minimum LA Concentration for Labor Analgesia

Varia

• Eli Alon
  Pain in pregnancy
   
• Marcel Vercauteren
  Cardiac problems in obstetrics
  litigation in obstetrics