ESPCOP 2017

In November this year, the 8th annual scientific meeting of the European Society for the Peri-operative Care of the Obese Patient, (ESPCOP 2017), will be held in the city centre of Bucharest, Romania. Bucharest was known as “The Paris of the East” and we hope you will join us and be able to see why. This meeting will run on the Friday 3rd and Saturday the 4th of November, and the main theme of this year’s meeting will be Airway Management in the Obese.

Eastern Europe has not been spared from the “globesity” endemic, and many centres for bariatric surgery and anaesthesia are active in the region. In order to give an update and overview of all the keys points in the perioperative management of the morbidly obese patient, suitable for any anaesthetist who works with morbidly obese patients – which today is all of us – We start the main meeting on Friday 3rd November ESPCOP with the fundamental course “Key Issues in the peri-operative care in the obese patient”. This series of short, sharp lectures covers all the key aspects of pre-op assessment, intra-operative anaesthesia and post-operative care of the Morbidly Obese. In addition we will be linked with a live session on opioid free anaesthesia.