GARC 2025

Speakers

  • Mark Tait – An innovative service model for awake upper limb surery: implementation of a streamlined block room pathway at Stobhill Hospital (A/QI).
  • Charles Herman – Abdomina aortic aneurysm repair: Sarcopenia – can we measure it, can it predict outcome? (A/QI).
  • Sean Duignan – Requirement for routine group & save sampling in lumbar decompression surgery (A/QI).
  • Alfie Llyoyd – BMI has an exponential impact on non-operative theatre time independent of mode of anaesthesia (R).
  • Kevin Dibb – Anaesthetic factors affecting early extubation after elective cardiac surgery (A/QI).
  • Sean Duignan – An audit into anaesthetic conduct for mechanical thrombectomy (A/QI).
  • Charlie Fern – Minimally invasive approaches to lung resection surgery reduce the risk of perioperative myocardial injury (R).

Posters Presented

  • Fional Auld – Airway management in C-spine injury at a tertiary paediatric trauma centre.
  • Anish Dave – Reducing errors in TIVA, a safety initiative.
  • Anup Bista – Sacrococcygeal teratoma case report.
  • Thalia Massa – Optimising erector spinae catheter insertion. Impact of a dedicated regional anaesthesia trolley on efficiency and accessibility.
  • Katharine Ganly – Nitrous oxide use amongst paediatric anaesthetists in Scotland.
  • Lewis Macleod – A year in the life of the head and neck enhanced recovery clinic.
  • Pamela Brodie – Anaesthetic management of infant endoscopic strip crainectomy. Evaluating current practice of a new surgical technique.
  • Cameron Ramsay – Retrospective audit of perioperative NSAID prescribing.
  • Calum Mcaughtrie – Assessing frailty in the elective pre-assessment clinic.
  • Zainab Alani – Investigating the validation of dynamic prediction models in the traumatic brain injury domain.

Winners

Prizes were awarded to:

  • Alfie Lloyd (Research).
  • Charlotte Fern (Research).
  • Mark Tait (Audit /QI).
  • Thalia Massa (Poster – 1st).
  • Pamela Brodie (Poster – runner-up).
  • Fiona Auld (Poster – runner-up).

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