WORKSHOP 1

NEEDELING HANDS – ON TARGETING, NEEDELING WITH US GUIDANCE

Thursday, 20th of March 2025

08.30 – 10.30, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Radu Tăbăcaru, Lucian Băilă, Virgil Poltorac, Cristian Oancea

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Participants will have the opportunity to develop/improve the ability to handle the needle with ultrasound guidance by practicing on biological models made of meat with tendons inserted for realism. Instructors will offer essential information about US settings, clinical tips and advice for safe and effective practice of ultrasound guided regional anesthesia.

Maximum number of participants: 24 participants (6 delegates/workstation).

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 2

TRUNK RA (SCANNING ON VOLUNTEERS)

Thursday, 20th of March 2025

11.00 – 13.00, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Radu Tăbăcaru, Claudiu Neamtu, Marius Novac, Carla Balaj

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Participants will have the opportunity to practice on volunteer identification of injection points for most popular blocks used for anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia of trunk and ultrasound use in neuraxial procedures. WS will include, without being limited to: paravertebral, PECS I&II, TAP – classical and subcostal, Quadratus lumboris, erector spinae, spinal anaesthesia, ilioinguinal, iliohypogastic, and rectus sheath. Trainers will be happy to share their expertise, to answer questions and to provide clinical tips.

Maximum number of participants: 24 delegates (6 delegates/workstation).

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 3

HANDS ON WORKSHOP – LIMBS RA ULTRASOUND (SCANNING ON VOLUNTEERS)

Thursday, 20th of March 2025

TIME: 14.00 – 16.00, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Liliana Mirea, Ana-Maria Dumitriu, Daniela Ologoiu, Carla Balaj

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Participants will have the opportunity to practice on volunteer identification of injection points for most popular blocks used for anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia of limbs. WS will include, without being limited to: interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, axillary for brachial plexus, femoral in inguinal region and adductor canal, sciatic in popliteal region. Trainers will be happy to share their expertise, to answer questions and to provide clinical tips.

Maximum number of participants: 24 delegates (6 delegates/workstation).

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 4

HANDS ON WORKSHOP – ULTRASOUND FOR PAIN PROCEDURES (SCANNING ON VOLUNTEERS)

Thursday, 20th of March 2025

16.30 – 18.30, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Michal But, Ovidiu Palea, Lucian Băilă, Emanuel Narcis Husu

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Participants will have the opportunity to practice on volunteers ultrasound identification of injection points used for invasive management of chronic pain. Workstations will include, without being limited to: trunk blocks, sympathetic blocks, fluoroscopic vs ultrasound guidance (fluoroscopic will not be demonstrated, only explained), cervical superficial, suprascapular, axillar, facet thoracic, facet lumbar. Trainers will be available to share their experience, and the will be happy to answer questions and to offer clinical advices.

Maximum number of participants: 24 delegates (6 delegates/workstation).

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 5

FLUOROSCOPY WORKSHOP (Lumbo-Sacral Sympathetic)

Thursday, 20th of March 2025

14.00 – 18.00, Regina Maria Private Hospital, 29 Calea Dorobanților St., Cluj-Napoca

TRAINERS: Stelian Mociu, Ionuț Branea

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The participants will have the opportunity to practice the lumbo-sacral sympathetic blocks with fluoroscopic guidance with the help of simulated model imitating real fluoro image.

Maximum number of participants: 8 delegates.

Price: 40 EUR

WORKSHOP 6

REGIONAL ANESTHESIA FOR COMBAT TRAUMA, CASE ORIENTED INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP (Arm, leg, abdomen, thoracic)

Friday 21st of March 2025

08.00-10.00, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Andrii Strokan, Andrii Khomenko, Ruslan Sedletskyi, Maksym Barsa

Maximum number of participants: 28 delegates (7 delegates/workstation).

Price: 10 EUR

WORKSHOP 7

PERIOPERATIVE POCUS MILITARY TRAUMA (Eye, Stomach, Trachea)

Friday, 21st of March 2025

10.30-12.00, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Dmytro Dmytriiev, Maksym Barsa

Maximum number of participants: 8 delegates.

Price: 10 EUR

WORKSHOP 8

POCUS (SCANNING ON VOLUNTEERS)

Friday, 21st of March 2025

14.00 – 16.00, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Rosemary Hogg, Denisa Anastase, Cosmin Bălan, Yean Lim

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Lear point-of care ultrasonography with world level experts in the field. You think US use is limited only to regional anesthesia? Think again! Are you afraid of full stomach for GA or difficult airway? – Now you can learn how to check yourself easily and avoid the panic.

Maximum number of participants: 24 delegates.

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 9

TIPS AND TRICKS: US-GUIDE CATHETER APPROACHES FOR PAIN TREATMENT (Performing PNB in Biological Model)

Friday, 21st of March 2025

16.30 – 18.30, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Volodymyr Martsiniv, Andrii Khomenko, Andrii Strokan

Maximum number of participants: 8 delegates.

Price: 10 EUR

WORKSHOP 10

POSITIVE COMMUNICATION DURING INVASIVE PROCEDURES

Friday, 21st of March 2025

10.30 – 12.30, Diplomat Hall

TRAINER: Barbara Breebaart

Maximum number of participants: 20 delegates.

Price: The Workshop is free of charge. Pre-registration is mandatory!

WORKSHOP 11

ULTRASOUND GUIDED INJECTIONS IN ANKLE AND FOOT

Friday , 21st of March 2025

14.00 – 14.45, Diplomat Hall

TRAINER: Cosmin Panțu

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Learn how to diagnose and treat one of the most unpleasant and less understood pain – ankle and foot pain with a highly experienced trainer in the field.

Maximum number of participants: 20 delegates.

Price: 10 EUR

WORKSHOP 12

CLINICAL WORKSHOP

Friday , 21st of March 2025

08.00 – 13.00, Orthopedics Clinic, 47 – 49, General Traian Moșoiu St., Cluj-Napoca 400394

TRAINERS: Adela Onuțu, Adrian Grunfeld

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Immerse yourself in the Orthopaedic Clinic for a half of day to observe regional anaesthesia activity. Content may vary depending on the scheduled surgeries and may include the blocks routinely being practiced in clinic: upper limb (interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, and axillary), lower limb (femoral, adductor canal, saphenous, sciatic, and ankle). The trainers will not be charged with supplementary work in clinic, so they will be available for the participants the whole time, to demonstrate and answer questions. In the less likely situation that the scheduled surgeries do not require ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia, the demonstrations will be performed with recorded images.

Maximum number of participants: 10 delegates.

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 13

FLUOROSCOPY WORKSHOP – BASIC NEEDLING, INTERLAMINAR EPIDURAL, CAUDAL, SI JOINT

Friday, 21st of March 2025

14.00 – 18.00, Regina Maria Private Hospital, 29 Calea Dorobanților St., Cluj-Napoca

TRAINERS: Adrian Grunfeld, Ovidiu Palea

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The participants will have the opportunity to practice the basic needling skills with fluoroscopic guidance with the help of simulated model imitating real fluoro image.

Maximum number of participants: 8 delegates.

Price: 40 EUR

WORKSHOP 14

SIMULATION WORKSHOP 1

Saturday, 22nd of March 2025

09.00-10.30, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Clara Lobo, Roman Zuercher, Lara Ribeiro, Hana Harazim, Mihai Botea, Iustin Loghin

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Learn in a highly interactive session with simulation-based PBLD based on various tricky situations and take the opportunity to exchange ideas with an international faculty with many years of experience in regional anesthesia.

Maximum number of participants: 16 delegates.

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 15

SIMULATION WORKSHOP 2

Saturday, 22nd of March 2025

11.00-12.30, Foyer Hall

TRAINERS: Clara Lobo, Roman Zuercher, Lara Ribeiro, Hana Harazim, Mihai Botea, Iustin Loghin

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Learn in a highly interactive session with simulation-based PBLD based on various tricky situations and take the opportunity to exchange ideas with an international faculty with many years of experience in regional anaesthesia.

Maximum number of participants: 16 delegates.

Price: 20 EUR

WORKSHOP 16

NEURAXIAL WORKSHOP

Saturday, 22nd of March 2025

10.00-12.00, Diplomat Hall

TRAINER: Ophelia Grimaud

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Practice neuraxial procedures on simulator with a highly skilled world class level instructor.

Maximum number of participants: 20 delegates.

Price: 10 EUR

WORKSHOP 17

FLUOROSCOPY WORKSHOP (Spine procedures, facet joints, transforaminal)

Saturday, 22nd of March 2025

10.00 – 14.00, Regina Maria Private Hospital, 29 Calea Dorobanților St., Cluj-Napoca

TRAINERS: Narcis Husu, Ionuț Branea

WORSHOP DESCRIPTION: The participants will have the opportunity to practice the spinal procedures with fluoroscopic guidance with the help of simulated model imitating real fluoro image.

Maximum number of participants: 8 delegates.

Price: 40 EUR