About this event

  • Date and time Fri 15 Sep 2023 from 8:55am to 5:05pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Coloproctology

We are excited to invite you to this meeting, where expert speakers will discuss the basic principles of abdominal wall repair and the prevention and early management of intestinal failure (IF). The meeting will bring together surgeons, physicians, radiologists, and pharmacists who will present cases on managing patients with IF due to abdominal surgery and the difficulties of abdominal wall repair.

By attending, you will:

  • Understand what is meant by IF and know ways of preventing it from occurring
  • Appreciate the key abdominal wall and intestinal anatomy in patients with IF 
  • Know how to assess and manage an enterocutaneous fistula and when to operate
  • Know the principles for the medical management of surgical IF
  • Appreciate the importance of early revascularization in mesenteric ischaemia

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We would like to thank our sponsors TELA Bio and The Insides Company for their support of this meeting.
Please note that the main scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsors.

Key speakers

Alexandre Nuzzo

Alexandre Nuzzo

Associate Professor

Speaker's biography

Alexandre Nuzzo, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and intensivist. He completed a MD in both Gastroenterology and Intensive Care Medicine, before getting a PhD in Biochemistry at Imperial College London and Paris Cité University. His clinical and research work in the Intestinal Stroke Center (Beaujon Hospital, Paris Cité University) focuses on improving knowledge and management of gastro-intestinal vascular diseases.

Agenda

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Session 1

Welcome

Dr Jeremy Nightingale, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark's Hospital

Intestinal failure; definitions, prevalence, aetiology

Mr Andrew King, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Session 2: The abdominal emergency

Chairs: Miss Neena Randhawa Consultant Colorectal surgeon, Newcastle upon TyneHospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mr David Layfield, Consultant in Intestinal Failure Surgery, Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction and General Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Emergency surgery in the “difficult abdomen”

Mr Akash Mehta, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark's Hospital

Indications for and management of the open abdomen

Mr Toby Hammond, Consultant General, Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex

Emergency management of abdominal wall hernias

Mr Sanjoy Basu, Consultant General Surgeon at East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust

Question and answer
Comfort break

Session 3: Pitfalls of elective abdominal wall reconstruction

Chairs: Mr Akash Mehta, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark's Hospital and Mr Toby Hammond, Consultant General, Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex

It’s all in the planning: the value of the abdominal wall MDT

Mr Oliver Warren, Clinical Director of Surgery and Consultant Colorectal and Hernia Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 

Know your anatomy: what all surgeons should know about the abdominal wall

Mr David Layfield, Consultant in Intestinal Failure Surgery, Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction and General Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

An abundance of choice: how to select the right mesh and where to put it

Mr Dave Messenger, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Bristol Royal Infirmary

Question and answer
Automated Chyme Reinfusion Therapy : Sponsored presentation from The Insides Company

Miss Surrinder Kaur, Clinical Educator and Stoma Care Nurse Europe, The Insides Company

Lunch break

Session 4: Acute intestinal failure: initial management of an enterocutaneous fistula and a high output stoma

Chairs: Miss Carolynne Vaizey, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark’s the National Bowel Hospital and Academic Institute, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and Dr Jeremy Nightingale, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark’s the National Bowel Hospital and Academic Institute, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Initial management of a post-operative ECF

Mr Dermot Burke, Consultant Surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Mistakes in the management of a HOS

Dr Siddhartha Oke, Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Let them eat! Dietetic aspects of managing an ECF

Dr Alison Culkin, Consultant Dietitian Intestinal Rehabilitation, St Mark's Hospital

Question and answer
Comfort break

Session 5: Definitive management of intestinal failure

Chairs: Akash Mehta Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, St Mark's Hospital and Andrew King Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Know your anatomy: the role of radiology

Dr Arun Gupta, Consultant Gastrointestinal Radiologist, St Mark's Hospital

Drug absorption in short bowel

Ms Uchu Meade, Lead Clinical Pharmacist, St Mark's Hospital 

Definitive surgical management of IF

Miss Carolynne Vaizey, Consultant Surgeon and Co-Clinical Director of St Mark's Hospital

New developments in management of IF

Dr Simon Gabe, Consultant in Gastroenterology and Intestinal Rehabilitation, St Mark's Hospital

Question and answer

Keynote lecture

Mesenteric ischemia: the importance of early revascularisation

Professor Alexandre Nuzzo, Associate Professor, Intestinal Stroke Center, Department of Gastroenterology, IBD, Intestinal Failure, Beaujon Hospital, Paris University Hospitals, Paris, France

Close

Dr Jeremy Nightingale, President, Coloproctology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark's Hospital

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Online

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Thursday 14 September 2023.  Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

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