Symposium for clinical and biomedical engineers

This educational meeting, now in its sixth year, is respected for increasing levels of clinical knowledge among clinical and biomedical engineers. The meeting remains free to delegates and aims to provide an insight into the medical and physiological issues encountered in the workplace, which are not traditionally covered in everyday training.

The event is once again sponsored by an educational grant from Welch Allyn and has been submitted to the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) for accreditation.

This year the symposium will provide updates on current issues and include presentations on:

• Will the Time Bomb Explode? Preparing the UK for a Flu Pandemic. Sarah Rodenhurst, emergency planning manager, Director of Services Office, Charing Cross Hospital, London.

• Clinical Blood Pressure Measurement: Digital or Aneroid? Dr Klaus Forstner, Forschungsinstitut fuer, Klinische Medizintechnik, Asperg, Germany.

• Standardisation and Interpretations of the ECG. Mel Haworth, chief cardiac physiologist, Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham.

• Issues and Challenges in Patient Transportation. Mark Whitbread, clinical practice manager, The London Ambulance Service, London

• The Nuts and Bolts of Target Controlled Infusions. Dr Ellis Simon, consultant anaesthetist, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

• My Day Starts Before I Am Ready For It – Sleep Disordered Breathing; Clinical Applications of CPAP and Bi-Level Ventilation. Alan Moore, principal clinical physiologist, Birmingham Treatment Centre, Birmingham.

For further information go to: www.ebme.co.uk