Best Free Communications

1st Prize

Tobias Piegeler
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich Switzerland  

ROPIVACAINE INHIBITS THE ACTIVATION OF SRC AND ICAM-1 AND THE PRODUCTION OF MCP-1 IN H838 LUNG CANCER CELLS  

2nd Prize

Michelle Walters
Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

AN UPDATE ON THE USE OF PROLONGED SPINAL CATHETERS TO PREVENT POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE AFTER ACCIDENTAL DURAL PUNCTURE

3rd Prize

Karin Schoenmakers
Anesthesiology, Sint Maartenskliniek, Ubbergen (Nijmegen), The Netherlands

PHARMACOKINETICS OF HIGH DOSE ROPIVACAINE WITH AND WITHOUT EPINEPHRINE FOR COMBINED SCIATIC/FEMORAL NERVE BLOCK

 

Best Poster Presentations

1st Prize

Philipp Lirk
Department of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands 

AT SUPRA-CLINICAL CONCENTRATIONS, LIDOCAINE DOSE-DEPENDENTLY DEMETHYLATES DNA IN ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-NEGATIVE, BUT NOT ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-POSITIVE, BREAST CANCER CELL LINES IN VITRO

2nd Prize

Atsushi Nakajima
Section of Anesthesiology and Clinical Physiology, Department of Oral Restitution,
Division of Oral Health Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

THE EFFICACY OF IONTOPHORESIS USING THE BIPOLAR SQUARE WAVE WITH DUTY CYCLE

Tilmann Werner, Germany
Department of Anesthesiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany  

HAEMATOMA RELATED NERVE INJURY IN REGIONAL ANESTHESIA   

3rd Prize

Silvia Stirparo
Anesthesiology, Citta di Roma Hospital, Roma, Italy

POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA AFTER CESAREAN SECTION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PROGRAMMED INTERMITTENT EPIDURAL BOLUS (PIEB) VERSUS CONTINUOUS EPIDURAL INFUSION (CEI)

Michael Andreae
Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, USA 

BAYESIAN METHODS IMPROVE EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: CANNABIS FOR PAINFUL HIV-RELATED DISTAL SENSORY POLYNEUROPATHY (HIV-DSPN)