Scientific Programme

Thursday 28^th September 2023

(9.00-10.00                 Meetings of ISPAR Working Groups)

10.00 – 10.30              Registration & Coffee

10.30 – 12.30              Scientific Session 1. UK DAN Topics – Chair Jimmy Gooi

10.30 – 11.15              (UKDAN) Business meeting

11.15 – 11.45               Covid-19 vaccine reactions (Priya Sellaturay)

11.45 – 12.15               Adverse reactions to biologics and immunotherapy (Ricardo Madrigal)

12.15 – 12.30               UK Perioperative Network. A coordinated strategy for improving patient care (Louise Savic)

12.30 – 13.30              Lunch

13.30 – 14.45              Scientific Session 2. Joint UKDAN/ISPAR topics – 

Chair Phil Hopkins

13.30                           Advantages and pitfalls of in vitro testing in POH (Didier Ebo)

13.50                           MAT testing (Jessy Elst)

14.10                           IgG mechanisms (Pierre Bruhns)

14.30                           Discussion

14.45 – 15.30              Scientific Session 3. Controversies in Drug Provocation Testing 

                                    Chair: Louise Savic

14.45                           IV vs oral challenge in general drug allergy (Linda Nel)

15.00                           Pro/Con – the need for full-dose DPT in perioperative hypersensitivity investigation (Phil Hopkins/Lene Heise Garvey)

15.30 – 16.00              Tea & coffee

16.00 – 17.00              Annual General Meeting 2023 of ISPAR

1.     Apologies

2.     Minutes of AGM 2022

3.     Management Board Report

4.     Reports from Working Groups

5.     Membership fees

6.     Future meetings

Friday 29^th September 2023

9.00– 10.45                 Scientific Session 4. 

                                    Chair: Lene Heise Garvey

9.00                             Recent international epidemiological updates (10 minutes x4: USA Alexei Gonzalez-Estrada, Japan Tomonori Takazawa, NZ/Australia Peter Cooke, Spain Jose Julio, Brazil Anita Spindola)

10.00                           Panel Discussion

10.15                           Update on the pholcodine story and the ALPHO study (Michel Mertes)

10.45 – 11.15              Coffee

11.15 – 11.45              Scientific Session 5: Parallel session 

11.15 Room A            What the allergist needs to know about anaesthetics. (Sarah Green)

11.15 Room B             What the anaesthetist needs to know about allergy. (Sarah Johnston)

11.45 – 12.40              Scientific Session 6: 

                                    Chair: Michel Mertes

11.45                           Update on the pathophysiology of anaphylaxis (Charles Tacquard)

12.10                           Free paper: Characterization of NMBA-specific antibodies from human NMBA-allergics (Alice Dejoux)

12.25                           Free paper: Paediatric perioperative hypersensitivity: the performance of the current consensus formula  and the effect of uneventful anaesthesia on serum tryptase (Nils Vlaeminck)

12.40 – 14.00              Lunch

14.00 – 15.10              Scientific Session 7

                                    Chair: Didier Ebo

14.00                           Standardisation of skin testing (Lene Heise Garvey)

14.25                           Free Paper: Perioperative anaphylaxis caused by blood products: a three-year single-center, prospective study (Yasuhiro Amano)

14.40                           Free Paper: Interprofessional collaboration: an example of allergists and anesthesiologists simultaneous training in a bootcamp on perioperative allergies (Cristina Petrișor)

14.55                           Challenging case : Coroner’s Regulation 28: Report to prevent future deaths – a roadmap to identification, investigation and prevention of future anaphylaxis deaths. (Guy Jackson)

15.10 – 15.30–            Tea & coffee

15.30 – 16.15             Scientific Session 7

                                    Chair: Peter Cooke

15.30                           Challenging case: A Challenging Case of Allergy to Multiple Neuromuscular Blocking Agents (Anna Littlejohns)

15.45                           Penicillin allergy delabelling in the perioperative setting (Louise Savic)

16.15                           Close of Meeting