SVN CONFERENCE

18th November 2009

(09.00-16.30)
Liverpool, BT Convention Centre (next to the Echo Arena and Albert Docks)

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 Agenda

08.00 Registration and Coffee

09.00 AGM

09.15 Prize Presentations 

 10.15 Advances in the management of vascular disease (Professor Johnathan Beard, Sheffield)

11.00 Coffee and Exhibition

11.30 Micro-Vascular Disease

           (Mr Mike Brooks, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton)                      

           Case Studies (Wendy Hayes, Worcester)                                          

12.30 Debate: ‘Nurses should diagnose’                          (Chair, Aisling Spain)

                  For the motion: Michael Van Orsouw (Newham NHS Trust, London)

                  Against the motion: Louise Allen (Imperial College, London)

13.00 Hot Buffet Lunch and Exhibition

14.00 TEVAR:

Surgeons Perspective (Miss Rachel Bell, Guy’s and St Thomas’s, London)

Nurses Perspective    (Hannah Farrell, Liverpool Royal Infirmary)

Patients Perspective                                                               (Chair, Louise Allen)

15.00 The Past, Present and Future of Leg Ulcers (Chair, Nicki Fenwick & Wendy Hayes)

                          Venous (Julie Day, Worcestershire Acute Trust)

                          Arterial (Helen Sanderson, Southend NHS Trust)

                          Atypical (Trudie Young, University of Wales, Bangor)

16.00 Awards and Close of Meeting

SVN Conference 2009 Main Sponsors 

·          Nurse led pinch grafting in the diabetic foot (Donna Parkin, Gloucester)

·          Advantages of Implementing an innovative and seamless Amputee Service at a London Teaching Hospital (Nicholas Evans, London)

·          Cardiovascular Risk Factor Management Team (Jackie Trant, London)

·          Lower Limb Amputation:A Modern Approach to Surgical Dressings (Chris Gipson, East Kent)

·          Telephone follow-up following carotid endarterectomy – A prospective cohort study (Gwen Lawrence,  Wirral)