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 It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the 28th
Annual Scientific Sessions of the College of Anaesthesiologist Sri Lanka-2012. This
much anticipated event of the college calendar marks the pinnacle of the
colleges’ academic activities for the year.
We have the honour and privilege to have Dr. Andy Tomlinson,
immediate past senior vice president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK
as our chief guest. Prof. Phillip Dellinger, Director of Critical Care, Cooper
University Hospital, New Jersey, USA , a world renowned authority on critical
care medicine, will grace the occasion as the guest of honour.
We are extremely fortunate to have
with us a plethora of eminent international and local medical professionals,
sharing their knowledge with us at the Scientific sessions. In keeping with our theme “Anaesthesia and Critical Care Past,
Present and the Way Forward”, we have lined up a very comprehensive program
that covers a wide range of interesting topics which include the fundamentals
of practice and the latest developments. I hope that
it would prove to be very stimulating and interesting to everyone.
Let me take this opportunity to thank my council and all
those who helped in organizing an event of this magnitude. I wish to thank the
sponsors for the support extended.This is the
time to share, dissipate and embrace new knowledge. Let this also be the time
to make new friendships and strengthen the existing ones. I am sure the
comradeship developed and knowledge gained will positively benefit us as individuals and ultimately the people that we all
serve.
I wish the 28th Annual Scientific Sessions every
success.
Dr. Kumudini Ranatunga
MBBS, MD, FRCA
President
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF GUESTAs the Immediate Past Senior Vice President of the
Royal College of Anaesthetists I am honoured and delighted to be the Chief
Guest at the 28th Annual Scientific Sessions of the College of
Anaesthesiologists of Sri Lanka. Our two Colleges have had close links for many
years – links we value greatly within the UK. We have benefited from a steady
stream of Sri Lankan anaesthetists coming to the UK as part of their post
graduate training and, in so doing, enriching the links between our two
countries. I feel privileged to have known many who have made this journey,
many of who have returned to Sri Lanka and are helping to develop your
anaesthetic services.
Every
generation faces particular challenges and that is no different for us today.
For our own specialty, this has to be the delivery of safe and effective
anaesthesia to all. Effective monitoring should be part of this goal and, to
improve safety, the use of pulse oximetry during
anaesthesia and the WHO Surgical Safety
Checklist in all patients undergoing surgery will be an important step
forward. The Lifebox Foundation has taken on
a major international initiative to combat the ‘global oximetry gap’,
which recognises the fact that across the world many patients still do not have
access to this simple, life-saving, monitoring device. They have asked me to
publicise this important project within Sri Lanka, as you are seen as an
important country to help support this aim.
The
scientific programme developed by your organising committee is diverse,
covering a wide range of topics
relevant to all anaesthetists; my congratulations to all of you who have worked
so hard to pull it all together. I look forward to updates on many aspects of
practice when I attend the various sessions.
Finally,
the social events are also important. Here we network with colleagues, making
new friendships and catch up on old ones. I look forward to this aspect of the
meeting as much the scientific and clinical sessions and, in doing so,
celebrate the continued success of your College.
Dr
Andy Tomlinson
Immediate
Past Senior Vice President, Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK
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MESSAGE FROM THE GUEST OF HONOURAnesthesia, critical care and pain management have
advanced markedly over the last 40 years. Our capabilities to relieve
suffering, repair organ dysfunction and maintain life in hopes of returning our
patients to a meaningful existence exceed all expectations in comparison to
four decades ago. These capabilities are not only important medically,
but also a politically sensitive issue because of the cost involved, the public
demand for these services and the wide variation in quality of life that results.
Regardless of the degree of
medical care we are able to offer our patients, as practitioners we owe
it to our patients to optimize the education of our physicians, nurses and
other health care practitioners to the best of our ability.
I
have long been an admirer of a great American, Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. As you partake of the opportunities offered at this congress, I would
like to share a quote from Dr. King that is very appropriate to medical
education efforts.
“The function of education is to teach
one to think intensively and to think critically…intelligence plus character –
that is the goal of true education.” 
–
Martin Luther King, Jr.
So
I challenge all of us to remember these words throughout this meeting as we
encounter new knowledge and as we have old knowledge refreshed.
Prof
Phillip Dellinger
Director, Critical Care,
Cooper University Hospital, New Jersey, USA
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