Description
The UK does not routinely use preoperative oral antibiotics to prepare the bowel prior to elective colorectal surgery despite large US trials suggesting we should.
There is great interest in the UK in introducing this practice but there is no uniform view on how to go about this. This meeting will bring together leaders in colorectal surgery, microbiology and enhanced recovery after surgery along with two world experts on the microbiome with the aim of introducing preoperative oral antibiotics into routine UK colorectal practice.
The novel interactive format with one world expert quizzing another for the benefit of the audience in an attempt to drive home the message and explore the issues in depth with one entire afternoon dedicated to one important topic.
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agenda
12.45 pm
Registration, tea and coffee
Session 1 – Enhanced recovery after surgery: How to reduce the septic sequelae of electrive colorectal surgery
1.30 pm
Chair: Welcome and introduction
Mr Ciaran Walsh, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine
1.35 pm
Introduction to the microbiome in GI disease
Professor Fergus Shanahan
2.05 pm
Preoperative oral antibiotics in elective colorectal surgery
Mr James Kinross, Colorectal Surgeon
3.00 pm
Tea and coffee break
3.30 pm
Results of ACPGBI survey on preoperative bowel preparation
Mr Christopher Battersby
3.50 pm
Kinross in the dock led by Fergus Shanahan
4.05 pm
Views from the floor led by Fergus Shanahan and Ciaran Walsh
4.30 pm
The Cambridge approach. How to go home and do it.
Dr Simon Buczacki
5.00 pm
Close of meeting