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ANZCA CPD EMERGENCY RESPONSE SESSIONS - FULLY BOOKED

(please contact the Conference Secretariat if you wish to be placed on the waiting list in case a space becomes available)

Facilitator/s: Faculty of the Hunter New England Simulation Centre

Friday 0800-1100 and 1130-1430

Two simulation sessions will be provided concurrently with 4 sessions in total being offered.  Each session will last 3 hours and will use a combination of skills stations and immersive simulation techniques.  Sessions will be held in the new Hunter New England Simulation Centre on Level 1 at the Royal Newcastle Centre.  Participants will be able to fulfil the requirements of one or both of the following ANZCA CPD Category 3 Emergency Responses - Can't Intubate, Can't Oxygenate, or 'CICO', and Advanced Life Support in the peri-operative setting. 

A fee of $110.00 per person will cover additional costs associated with the simulation sessions. Minimum and maximum numbers apply per session. 

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING

Saturday from 1300.

Three 45 minute problem based workshops will be offered on Saturday afternoon at the conference venue. Each will be repeated twice, numbers are limited per session.

MASSIVE HAEMORRHAGE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TRAUMA - FULLY BOOKED

Facilitator: Kerry Gunn

The treatment of massive haemorrhage is evolving rapidly, with better understanding of the coagulopathy of shock and blood loss, and the requirements of a delivery systems and team communication to deliver the right blood product at the right time to improve patient outcome. Old anaesthetic chestnuts of restoring euvolaemia early in trauma management and maintaining blood pressure have been shown to limit good outcome. Slow treatment of coagulopathy increases blood loss, and increases mortality.

This PBLD will investigate important aspects of the management of the shocked coagulopathic patient requiring surgery with a focus on introducing clinical pathway to improve outcome.

Its design will fulfil the ANZCA requirements to satisfy the Emergency Response section of the ANZCA CPD program.

GENERAL VS REGIONAL FOR THE PROBLEMATIC PLACENTA

Facilitator: Tom Walker

Traditional teaching has always been to give a general anaesthetic when faced with a placenta praevia or accreta. But what is really safer, or really better. This discussion will aim to tease out some of the intricacies around coming up with the best plan next time you are faced with such a case.

PIECE BY PIECE GUIDE TO THE AISYS MACHINE - 1300 SESSION ALMOST FULL

Facilitator: Steve Threlfo

The session will explain in detail how the major subsystems of the GE Anaesthetic Machine are connected and operate.  This will be a window on electronic control systems applied to carrier gas mixing, volatile agent evaporation and patient ventilation, all of which build on principles applied in earlier generation Boyles design equipment.

Hopefully the participants will have an appreciation that modern software design and electronic control is creating a generation of anaesthetic machines which match the quote by M.K. Gandhi, “Simplicity is the essence of universality”.

THORACIC ANAESTHESIA FOR THE OCCASIONAL THORACIC ANAESTHESTIST - Extra spaces now available

Facilitator: Michael Law

This problem based learning discussion is designed for the anaesthetist who is exposed to thoracic anaesthesia only occasionally. The focus will be on simple and clear ways to approach the common difficulties encountered during selecting and placing a double-lumen tube, and while performing one-lung ventilation. Additionally some specific tips and tricks not commonly described will be shared.

The format will be a presentation of 2 separate cases, of increasing complexity, which might commonly be encountered by a non-thoracic anaesthetist on an emergency list or after hours. Interactive discussion will be welcome.

PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA FOR THE OCCASIONAL CHILDREN'S ANAETHESTIST - 1530 session FULLY BOOKED

Facilitator: Michael Dobbie

For many anaesthetists, anaesthetising children is a stress inducing experience, especially when it occurs only on an occasional basis. This PBL will look at range of common and not so common problems relating to children that the general anaesthetist may find "pop up" on a routine or emergency list. We will explore issues related to the patient and the type of surgery and discuss which patients should be referred to a specialist paediatric center or anaesthetist. These discussions will be triggered by several cases of varying complexity.

ACUTE PAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE OPIATE DEPENDENT OR CHRONIC PAIN PATIENT

Facilitators: Richard Burstal and Andrew Powell

Areas to be covered include

• issues related to use of high dose opioids
• strategies for managing patients on opioid maintenance therapy
• use of adjunctive and alternative strategies
• what to do next

REGIONAL ANAESTHESIA ULTRASOUND WORKSHOPS

Saturday from 1330-1630

Facilitator: Mark Davies

An ultrasound for regional anaesthesia workshop will be held at The Royal Newcastle Centre level 2 on Saturday afternoon. Each workshop will comprise 3 workstations, each station will last 45 minutes afternoon tea will be provided. There will be six participants per workstation and the workshop will occupy the whole afternoon, maximum 18 participants per afternoon.

A fee of $88.00 per person will cover additional costs associated with the workshop.