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Click here for Sandhill Scientific Clinical Training Seminar - February/March 2012



OCTOBER 2011

PRIZE DRAW - SCHOLARSHIP TO DENVER
WINNER - SISTER LUCY PARK
(GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL)   

Group Photo - Denver Scholarship 2011
G.O.S.H. girls
Winner with Mr Geoff Blyth

Impedance/pH Reflux Testing Seminar
Thistle Westminster Hotel, London, England
20-21 October 2011

Synmed wish to thank the Faculty and Delegates of the Sandhill Scientific Clinical Training Seminar, which was held at the Thistle Westminster Hotel, London, on 20-21 October 2011.  The Seminar was a great success and well attended by Clinicians throughout the U.K. and from Europe.

The objectives of the Seminar were to expand the attendee's understanding of the normal and abnormal diagnostic test. Reading and interpretation strategies utilizing lecture and review of actual tracings. Acid (pH) and impedance/pH procedures were discussed to develop an understanding of the clinical manifestations of the abnormalities of the oesophagus.

The case study process session aimed to help the attendee gain a better understanding of the care of the patient presenting with reflux type symptoms. Multiple case study examples were presented and discussed.

Faculty:
Jean Osborn, RN    (Director of Clinical Education & Training, Sandhill Scientific)
Dr. Inder Mainie (Consultant Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast)
Dr. Anthony Hobson  (Facility Director, Neurogastroenterology Diagnostic Centre – The Princess Grace Hospital, Managing Director at Alimentary Innervations Ltd., Honorary Clinical Scientist Gastrointestinal Physiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.)


Sandhill Scientific Inc./Synmed Ltd. - Scholarship to Denver, USA

The Seminar culminated in a prize draw, offering a Scholarship to the Sandhill University in Denver, Colorado (U.S.A.), to partake in a 4 day Oesophageal Training Course, with 5 night’s accommodation and flight included. 

The delighted winner was Sister Lucy Park of Great Ormond Street Hospital, who is pictured above (left) with her Colleagues from Great Ormond Street Hospital and above (right) and below (right) receiving her prize:

Group Photo - Denver Scholarship 2011

From Left to Right:

Mr. Pardeep Rai      (European Sales Manager, Sandhill Scientific)

Jean Osborn, RN     (Director of Clinical Education & Training, Sandhill Scientific)

Dr. Inder Mainie       (Consultant Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast)

Mr. Geoffrey Blyth   (Business Development Director, Synmed)

Ms. Lucy Park         (Sister, Great Ormond Street Hospital)


Sandhill University

If  you would like to benefit from the FREE 24 hour on-line Sandhill University (which includes training for oesophageal and anorectal manometry, as well as acid (pH) and impedance/pH reflux testing and a very systematic step-by-step approach from set-up through performing and analyzing the study) please click here  to take a test run through two of the on-line programs.

To register your interest in future training events, please email Eleni.Kyriacou@synmed.co.uk or contact us at 01992-782-570. 




JUNE 2011

Click here for Sandhill Scientific Clinical Training Seminar October 2011


MAY 2010

BREAKING NEWS...

RADIO FREQUENCY ABLATION APPROVED BY NICE
www.nice.org.uk/IPG244
The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) approves the use of Radio Frequency Ablation for Treatment of Barrett’s Oesophagus

Interventional Procedures (IPAC) Guidelines from NICE in the UK include Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for eradication of high grade dysplasia in patients with Barrett’s oesophagus.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 1, 2010 – BÂRRX Medical Inc. announced today that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK has published new interventional procedures guidance approving the use radiofrequency ablation for the eradication of dysplastic Barrett’s oesophagus.

NICE has said that for Barrett’s oesophagus with high-grade dysplasia;There is evidence to say that this procedure is safe and works in patients with Barrett’s oesophagus with high-grade dysplasia provided their progress is checked in the long term. This procedure can be offered routinely as a treatment option for these patients provided that doctors are sure that:

• the patient understands what is involved and agrees to the treatment, and
• the results of the procedure are monitored.

This is a major step forward for patients being able to access treatment within the NHS and ask for a referral to a treating hospital.To date there have been over 50,000 procedures of radiofrequency ablation for Barrett’s eradication performed around the world more than 200 of those within the UK.

Barrett’s oesophagus is a condition characterized by abnormal epithelium. In some patients, Barrett’s oesophagus may progress, through metaplasia and dysplasia to oesophageal adencarcinoma, cancer.

“The UK has one of the highest concentrations of Barrett’s oesophagus in the world. Until now, oesophagectomy has been the standard of care”, noted Dr. Laurence Lovat, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Gastroenterologist at the University College Medical School, London. The first to use RFA in the UK, Dr. Lovat added, “We think radiofrequency ablation will play an important role in the endoscopic management of our patients”.

Dr Paul Salmon, Trustee and former Chair of the Barrett’s Oesophagus Campaign, says, “Barrett’s represents one of the fastest growing and most deadly forms of cancer in the UK and is set to treble in the next decade. We are pleased to see NICE has identified radiofrequency ablation as an important tool in the fight.”


More info here: www.synmed.co.uk/products_HALO_radio_frequency_ablation.htm
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