Poster and Best Free Paper Prizes 

1st Prize Best Free Paper

EFFECT OF PREOPERATIVE METHYLPREDNISOLONE ON PAIN AND RECOVERY AFTER TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY: A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL

Troels Haxholdt Lunn
Hvidovre University Hospital, Denmark

2nd Prize Best Free Paper

ROPIVACAINE PROTECTS AGAINST VENTILATOR-INDUCED PULMONARY CAPILLARY LEAK

Tobias Piegeler
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

3rd Prize Best Free Paper

NEUROSENSORY EFFECTS OF LEVOBUPIVACAÏNE 0,5% WITH EPINEPHRINE, LEVOBUPIVACAÏNE 0,5% AND ROPIVACAÏNE 0,75% IN C5 DERMATOMES AFTER ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERSCALENE BLOCK

Nathalie Bosserez
Antwerp University Hospital, The Netherlands

THE ANALGESIC EFFICACY OF THE TAP BLOCK COMPARED WITH PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION: A RANDOMIZED DOUBLE-BLIND TRIAL

Yasmine Hoydonckx
Anesthesiology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

1st Prize Best Poster

IN VITRO EXPOSURE OF HUMAN FIBROBLASTS AND HUMAN OSTEOBLASTS TO THE NSAIDS DICLOFENAC AND KETOROLAC IS CYTOTOXIC

Jose Alejandro Aguirre
Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland

2nd Prize Best Poster

HIGH-RISK PATIENTS UNDERGOING ABDOMINAL SURGERY UNDER CONTINUOUS SPINAL ANESTHESIA

Joaquim Manuel Tinoco Ferreira
Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave, Portugal

3rd Prize Best Poster

PATIENT CONTROLLED EPIDURAL ANALGESIA (PCEA) WITH CLONIDINE FOR LABOR ANALGESIA

Olivier Barket
St Luc Hospital UCL Medical School, Belgium

Matthew Freer
NHS, UK