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With a Hammer everything looks like a Nail How to use Tivatrainer Frank Engbers Friday 19 January 9:00-9:30 Initially, pharmacokinetic models were developed in pharmacological research to elucidate and forecast the temporal profile of drug concentrations upon administration to the body. The utilization of these models in Target Controlled Infusion pumps involves reverse engineering them […]

Dr. Hugo E.M. Vereecke (°04/07/1972) became a medical doctor at the Ghent University, Belgium (1997) and consultant anesthesiologist (2002) at the University Hospital Ghent, Belgium. After finalizing his PhD Thesis (2007) on improving anesthetic drug titration using neuro-physiological monitoring, he proceeded an academic career at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) (2010-current), the Netherlands, where

Why are we still talking about volatile anaesthesia? Why do anaesthetists feel comfortable with sticking to old practice and don’t feel the need to progress? And why does the medical literature offer so little to support this change?I remember when I was teaching a trainee during the end of last year. He was fairly advanced

Alain Borgeat was clinically working as Head of the Anesthesiology Department, Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland with the main focus on Regional Anesthesia and Perioperative Pain Medicine. Since his retirement he works as Senior Research Consultant at the Balgrist Campus, University of Zurich. He was chairman and initiator of the annual EUROSIVA Winter Symposium in

Dr Nick Sutcliffe is a UK trained senior clinician with more than 30 years of experience in the fields of Medicine and Anaesthesia. His clinical interests include Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) and Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (TIVA). He is a recognised specialist in TIVA and regularly gives lectures and workshops, both nationally and internationally. He is

Not surprisingly, Luc Barvais from the Erasme University in Bruxelles was the initiator of the development of a local Target Controlled Infusion (TCI) system.  He made a major contribution to the teaching of TCI with the very frequently cited and downloaded publication. We encourage you to take notice from this downloadable publication. Tips-and-Tricks-Acta-2013 From TCI

Until my retirement, just before the Covid pandemic, I was clinically working as a cardio-thoracic anaesthesiologist at the Leiden University Medical Centre with a special interest in paediatric anaesthesia for children with congenital heart disease(CHD). The interest in anaesthesia for CHD was certainly fuelled by the many CHD missions to Surinam. Another clinical highlight and

The incentive of these pharmacokinetic DiY blogs was to give colleagues that have an interest in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics a relative simple tool  to use published pk/pd models and make simulations that can be used to deepen the understanding of the tools like TCI that we use in daily practice to perform anaesthesia. We have

In part 1 I have explained how a relative simple spreadsheet can produce the concentration of an intravenous drug dose with given pharmacokinetic parameters that describe a 2 or 3 compartment model. In part 2, target controlled infusion(TCI)  for blood control has been introduced together with a method to use two pharmcokinetic models in one