6th United Arab Emirates International Conference on Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine

The President of the Conference is Dr. AbdulGhaffar AbdulGhaffour, The President of the Grand Committee is Dr. Megahed Abdul Fattah, the Vice President is Dr. Fouad Ezz Eldin and the members are Dr. Osama Zayed and Dr. Sudabeh Nasseri.

This congress will take place from the 7th to the 9th of December, 2006 at the Radisson SAS Hotel Deira Creek, Dubai and is expected to receive 400 delegates locally and internationally. Delegates will be attending from the Gulf and as well as other countries from around the world.

The main supporters of the congress are The Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences. Akzo Nobel (Organon) is the Platinum supporter of the Conference.

Among other supporters are the Ministry of Health, the Department of Health and Medical Services in Dubai, the Emirates Medical Association, Glaxo Smith Klein, Gulf and World Traders, Gulf Drug Establishment (Draeger) and Pfizer.

The 6th UAE International Conference on Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, with its extensive scientific program, will be awarding 18 Credit Hours for Continuous Medical Education which is a great benefit for the registered doctors.

16 speakers will be attending the 6th UAE International Conference on Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine Internationally. Among some of the distinguished speakers are Dr. Viby Mogenson, Professor of Anaesthesia at the Academic Department of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark and Dr. Hassan Ali who is a Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Robert Forbes, Dr. Yasser Karim & Dr. Robert Raw are Professors of Anaesthesia from the University of IOWA Hospitals and Clinics in the USA.

Dr. Jose Vazquez is a Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine USA.

Professor of Anesthesia and Clinical Vice Dean Dr. Anthony Cunningham from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland will also be attending the conference as well as Professor Chakib Ayoub who is the Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.

9 eminent local speakers will also be attending the 6th UAE International Conference on Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine on the 7th of December, 2006.

The exhaustive scientific program will be a highlight of the conference with many topics of interest to the doctors both internationally and locally.

The main topics of the congress are:
Anaesthesia:
a. Muscle Relaxants in Anaesthesia
b. Monitoring in Anaesthesia
c. Paediatric Anaesthesia
d. Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia
e. Regional Anaesthesia
f. Day Case Anaesthesia
g. The Asthmatic Patient
h. Inhalational Anaesthesia Update
i. Cardiac Anaesthesia

ICU:
a. Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation
b. Trauma Management
c. Nutritional Support
d. Sedation & its Monitoring
e. Antibiotics and Antifungal Therapy

Pain:
a. Acute Pain Management
b. Chronic Pain Syndromes
c. Cancer Pain Management

There will also be workshops on the following topics:
a. Fiber Optic Intubation
b. LMA
c. Regional Blocks