Friday, October 23, 2015

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Hall L - Main Plenary

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Details

This session, facilitated and presented by senior clinicians working in the area of Emergency Medicine/rural retrieval/aero-medicine, will include introductory lecture presentations, followed by open forum discussions on various cases presented by the expert panel (e.g. airway (laryangeal trauma); bariatric sepsis; psych sedation; polytrauma; obstetric; paediatric) : PART 1 : 1/ Basic introduction of all panel representatives; 2/ Physics, physiology and the environment; 3/ Critical care in the pre-hospital environment; 4/ Airway tips and tricks to get you out of a tricky situation. PART 2 : 1/ Transfer of the Psychiatric patient; 2/ Busting the "Prehospital Myths"; 3/ Open panel case presentations and discussions. Presented by : Dr Bill Nimorakiotakis, Senior Retrieval Specialist RSQ / Emergency Physician from Epworth Hospital Melbourne; Dr Edi Albert, Director Wilderness Education and AProf Remote and Polar Medicine; Dr Michael Catchpole, RFDS Mt Isa; Dr John Woodall, General Manager Health Services, Central Operations, RFDS SA; Dr Tim Leeuwenburg, Rural Generalist, Educator and Senior Lecturer Flinders Uni; Dr Minh le Cong, RFDS Medical Officer, FACRRM, GEM FACK . * Please Note: (3.5 hours contact) Participation in this session by eligible docs can be counted towards a 'combination' of sessions throughout event for claiming against the Emergency Medicine component of the Procedural Grant