Course fee:
£425 per candidate before 1st April 2025 £475 per candidate after this date.
Course overview:
- Small group work teaching (5 delegates per instructor)
- Live scanning on volunteers with cadaveric workshop
- Hands-on learning of needle techniques and catheters on phantoms
- Tips and tricks with international experts in ultrasound regional anaesthesia
- Spaces limited to 60 delegates
Organising faculty:
- Dr Ahmed Abdelaziz, FRCA, Course Director, American Hospital, Dubai (Course Director)
- Dr Ranj Khaffaf, FRCA, Prince Charles Hospital, UK (Course Co-Director)
Dr Amr Abdelaal, FRCA, Addenbrooke Hospital, UK - Dr Moataz Abdelrahman, FRCA, Manchester University Hospitals, UK
- Dr Graham Barker, FRCA, Oxford University Hospital, UK
- Dr Alistair Bond, BSc, MSc, PhD, Deputy Director, Human Anatomy Resource Centre, UK
- Dr Sherif Elsayed, FRCA, Addenbrooke Hospital, UK
- Dr Hywel Evans, FRCA, Prince Charles Hospital, Wales, UK
Dr Ashwani Gupta, FRCA, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, UK - Dr Gabriella Iohom, FFARCSI, Cork University Hospital, Ireland
- Dr Omar Itani, MD, FIPM, Clemenceau Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanone
- Professor Brian Kinirons, MB, FFARCSI, FJFICMI, FCPSP (Hon.), Galway University Hospitals, Ireland
Dr Mina Saad, FRCA, Prince Charles Hospital, Wales, UK - Dr Vel Velayutham, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, UK
Accreditation:
The workshop has been accredited by the Royal College of Anaesthetists for 12 CPD credits, and ESRA recognised as an EDRA approved workshop with total 13 points (9 hands-on ultrasound and 4 hands-on cadaveric). The points are required for EDRA part 2 applications (check ESRA website for details and recognised workshops).


Programme and stations:
Day 1 – Thursday 26th June 2025
08:30 ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION
09:00 Station 1 Supraclavicular
09:30 Station 2 Axillary plexus
10:00 Station 3 Infraclavicular
10:30 Station 4 Erector spine & Paravertebral
11:00 Station 5 Neuroaxial and Caudal
11:30 LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS
12:30 Station 6 Phantom Needling & catheter technique
13:00 Station 7 Rectus sheath, TAP, QL
13:30 Station 8 FATE (Focused Assessment Transthoracic ECHO)
14:00 AFTERNOON REFRESHEMENTS
14:30 Station 9 Interscalene
15:00 Station 10 Cervical Plexus & Flexor Tendon Sheath
15:30 Station 11 Forearm blocks
16:00 CLOSE OF DAY 1
Day 2 – Friday 27th June 2025
08:45 ARRIVAL
09:00 Station 1 Ankle
09:30 Station 2 Saphenous & Obturator & Adductor Canal
10:00 Station 3 Femoral, LFCN & Fascia iliaca
10:30 Station 4 Popliteal
11:00 Station 5 Basic Lung & Upper Airway
11:30 LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS
12:30 Station 6 PECS & Serratus
13:00 Station 7 PENG/HIP & iPAK
13:30 Station 8 Free scanning
14:00 AFTERNOON REFRESHEMENTS
14:30 Station 9 Clavipectoral Fascial Block
15:00 Station 10 Axillary N & Suprascapular N
15:30 Station 11 Sciatic
16:00 CLOSE OF COURSE
Bookings and enquiries:
Please book early to avoid disappointment – online applications only. All previous courses have sold out early with extensive waiting lists.
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