Sunday, October 25, 2015

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

City Suite 1 & 2 and City Suites 3 & 4

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Overview

6 x skills stations rotations throughout day

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Details

Done REST, ALS, ELS, EMST and all the rest of the alphabet soup of emergency medicine short courses but still face significant clinical challenges in your rural practice? Do you ever think that textbooks are mainly written by people who have never worked outside a tertiary hospital? ACRRM is pleased to offer a whole day Advanced Emergency Medicine workshop at RMA15 aimed at those of you who provide significant emergency medicine services or are pursuing AST-EM or GEM pathways. Back by popular demand, this full day Advanced Emergency Medicine workshop, led by experienced rural practitioners and Emergency specialists from the ACRRM ALS training team. We aim to assist you in : Recognising the difficult-to-manage patient; Anticipate potential complications before they arise; Recognise complications when they do occur; Manage urgent clinical problems without immediate specialists assistance or advice; Prepare patients for transfer to another facility. Topics covered will include: 1/ Advances in EMed Ultrsound; 2/ Difficult pre-hosptial EM and retrieval; 3/ Difficult acute psychiatric emergencies; 4/ Complications in unexpected birth; 5/ Difficult fractures and dislocations; 6/ Difficult Airways. Presenters : Dr Peter Arvier, Rural Generalist, GEM; Dr Bill Nimorakiotakis, Emergency Medicine Physician; Dr Michael Catchpole, RFDS; Dr Ted Chamberlain, Rural Generalist; Dr Francois Pretorius, Rural Generalist; Dr Rod Martin, Rural Generalist; Dr Ken Gilpin, Specialist Anaesthetist Rural.