Friday Program

FRIDAY 21st MAY 2004
8.00	Registration
9.00-10.30	Auditorium	Hall D	Kings Suite	Conference Room
9.00-10.30	ACUTE RENAL FAILURE MANAGEMENT IN THE ITU Chair: J Feehally, LeicesterGeneral Hospital Acute renal failure treated with renal replacement therapy in Scottish Intensive Care Units J Baharani, University of Aberdeen Strategies for Renal Rescue in ITU Guest Speaker: Richard Beale, Guy’s & St. Thomas’s Hospital,London Renal Replacement Therapies in ITU Guest Speaker: Andrew Davenport, The Royal Free Hospital,London ITU nurse perspective in caring for the renal patient in the ITU Guest Speaker: Sarah Mcgloin, Suffolk Hospital	NUTRITIONAL CHALLENGES IN THE RENAL PATIENT Chair: L Wells, York District Hospital Is subjective global assessment a reliable measure of nutritional status in HD patients? R Wolfenden, York Hospital Undernutrition in patients starting dialysis therapy S Perry, Hull Royal Infirmary Investigation of the effect modifying oral intake during dialysis and of other factors on the incidence of intradialytic complications L Parke, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin Long Term Nutritional Challenges Guest Speaker: George Hartley, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne	PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ANAEMIA MANAGEMENT Chair: L Bennett, Oxford Kidney Unit Assessment of the effectiveness of anaemia management in our pre-dialysis & conservative management patient groups. C Hodson, The Lister Hospital, Stevenage Should pre-dialysis treatment of anaemia be the same for patients with diabetes as for those without? S de Freitas, Kent & Canterbury Hospital Does all treatment of anaemia for patients with CKD have to be given by "renal nurses"? K Jenkins, Kent & Canterbury Hospital The effect of self-administration on haemoglobin and dose when converting from subcutaneous to IV administration of epoetin alfa C Buchan, Leicester General Hospital A multiprofesional approach to improving service delivery to Pre-Dialysis patients A Balshaw Greer, Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral	KIDNEY RESEARCH TO BENEFIT PATIENTS Professor Charles Pusey, Chairman of Trustees,; The National Kidney Research Fund and Professor of Renal Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London The ABLE Programme: A Novel Approach for Predicting and Preventing Renal Disease Ms Neerja Jain, ABLE Project Manager, The National Kidney Research Fund RENAL REGISTRY REPORT The Rough Guide to the Registry - Report 2003 David Ansell, Southmead Hospital Frogs and Princes in the Registry Hat Eric Will, St. James’s Hospital, Leeds
10.30-11.30	Coffee Break Posters & Exhibition
11.30-13.00	Auditorium STATE OF THE ART LECTURES Chair: D O’Donoghue, Hope Hospital, Salford Keeping Calcium in skeleton and away from the arteries – how should we prevent soft tissue calcification in Chronic Kidney Disease? Guest Speaker: John Cunningham, The Middlesex Hospital Continuous Erythropoesis Receptor Activator for the treatment of Renal Anaemiafont> Guest Speaker: Iain Macdougall, King’s College Hospital, London Integrated Dialysis Therapies Guest Speaker: Simon Davies, North Staffordshire Hospital
14.00-15.00	Lunch Exhibition and Posters
13.00-13.45	STAFF AND ASSOCIATE SPECIALISTS FORUM (NCCGs) BUSINESS MEETING
14.00-15.00	RESEARCH CLINIC THE RENAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES GROUP BUSINESS MEETING
15.00-16.30	Auditorium	Hall D	Kings Suite	Conference Room
	CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE PRE-DIALYSIS Chair: F Coldstream, Guys & StThomas Hospital, London A national survey of shared care schemes for managing CKD C Jones, Southampton General Hospital Impact of social deprivation on outcomes in end stage renal disease A Trehan, Manchester Royal Infirmary Audit of patient outcome following referral to a pre-dialysis counselling team J Bate, New Cross Hospital,Wolverhampton Physical function in CRF K Pugh-Clarke, Univ Hospital ofNorth Staffordshire Epidemiology of CKD Guest Speaker: Paul Stevens, Kent & Canterbury Hospital	NEPHROTOXICITY AND DRUG AWARENESS Chair: C Wilde, Leicester General Hospital Use of Alteplase to extend catheter patency - a successful change in practice L Martin, York Hospital Implementing independent & supplementary nurse prescribing within the HD unit - a prescribing partnership M Gerrish, University Hospital of Leicester The impact of a clinic based pharmacist on prescribing practice in a transplant outpatient department A Prowse, Churchill Hospital,Oxford Nephrotoxic drugs Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Lamerton, Hope Hospital,Salford	HAEMODIALYSIS WORKSHOP Chair: R Lewis, Wessex Regional Renal Unit Multidisciplinary vascular access surveillance in the Netherlands: from local initiative to national standard W van der Mark, University Medical Center Utrecht Survival, function and infection in a series of 447 tunnelled dialysis catheters J Stratton, The Lister Hospital, Stevenage Quantifying vascular refill using combined Continuous Segmental Bioimpedance and Relative Blood Volume monitoring M Suresh, The Lister Hospital, Stevenage Dialyser Urea Clearance: Not exactly what it says on the tin E Rourke, The Lister Hospital, Stevenage Follow-up of patients with CRF after Hepatitis B Immunisation L Ridley, York Hospital Medical Devices and Blood Borne Viruses Guest Speaker: Gareth Murcutt, Royal Free Hospital	RESEARCH FORUM Chair: K Farrington, The Lister Hospital, Stevenage 1st Round Grant Presentations "Is serial bioelectric impedance monitoring of extracellular fluid volume of clinical value in patients with hyper-tension and renal failure?" Colin Jones1, Louise Wells1, Elizabeth Lindley York District Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust2 "Exercise training in haemodialysis patients" Sara Martin Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh "Effect of sodium profiling during haemodiafiltration" Paula McLaren The Lister Hospital, Stevenage "Prospective Study of cardiovascular risk factors in CRF" J N Townend Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
16.30-17.30	Exhibition & Posters Hall Q Coffee