Abstracts in Alphabetical Order

“Tales of 1001 Frights” - How Do Anaesthetists Manage Difficult Airways? How Should New Apparatus Be Designed?

 

A Phase 1, Open Label, Single-Center, Dose-Escalation, Cohort Study to Determine the Safety, Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics of a Single Intravenous (IV) Injection of PF0713 in Healthy Subjects

 

A Randomized Controlled Study of L-Arginine Blood Cardioplegia Administration In Patients With Reduced Left Ventricular Function Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

 

A Series of Pregnant Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension: Lessons Learned

 

A Structured Epidural Training Program Decreased the Incidence of Inadvertent Dural Puncture in Patients Requesting for Labour Analgesia

 

Addressing the Clinician – Administrator Divide Within the New South Wales Public Health System

 

Adverse cardiac outcomes from patients taking clopidogrel at the time of non-cardiac surgery.

 

An Audit of Blunt Laryngotracheal Trauma Referred and Presenting To Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital 2003-2009

 

An Audit of Peri-Operative Investigations Used to Calculate a Peri-Operative Mortality Score

 

An Evaluation of the Clinical Value of Continuous Versus Intermittent Haemodynamic Monitoring Using the Vigileo Flotrac Compared with Bolus Thermodilution Cardiac Output.

 

An Observational Study of Skin Conductance Monitoring as a Means of Predicting Hypotension from Spinal Anaesthesia for Caesarean Delivery

 

Anaesthesia for Removal of Naltrexone Implants: a Case-Series

 

Anaesthetic Management Of Patients With Fractured Neck Of Femur On Anti-Platelet Agents: A Survey Of Current Practice.

 

Aortic Stenosis – An Analysis of Patients with Aortic Stenosis Presenting for Surgery in Nelson Hospital in The Last 10 Years and Suggestions for Pre Operative Assessment.

 

Blood Matters - Supply and Demand

 

Computer-assisted phone-based pre-operative medical assessment by non-clinicians - a comparison with outpatient medical consultation

 

Do we predict postoperative pain well? (And can we improve the prediction?)

 

Dose-Response Probability Curves for Epidural Ropivacaine for Labour Analgesia

 

Early Dietetic Intervention – Safer For Surgery, Lighter for Life

 

Evaluation of the Australian Regional Anaesthesia and Cadaveric Ultrasound Seminars (ARACUS) – An Unembalmed Cadaver Based Regional Anaesthesia Course

 

Evidence and Beta-blocker Management in High-risk Patients Presenting for Non-Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study

 

How Do Patients Assess Anaesthetists?

 

Hyperbaric Oxygen Use in Jehovah’s Witness Post Hysterectomy with Acute Severe Anaemia

 

Influence of Leg Position on The Depth and Sonographic Appearance of the Sciatic Nerve in Volunteers

 

Intubating conditions and the incidence and severity of laryngeal morbidity

 

Irreversible Electroporation” A New Challenge in “Off the Floor Anaesthesia”

 

Management of High Risk Parturients at Westmead Hospital – a Case Series

 

Measuring Success With Ultrasound Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks: A Two-Year Study Of Over 3,000 Outpatient Orthopedic Blocks In A Private Practice Setting

 

Minimally Invasive Measurement of Cardiac Output During Surgery and Critical Care: A Meta-Analysis of Accuracy and Precision.

 

Nitrous Oxide and Long-term Morbidity and Mortality in the ENIGMA Trial

 

Online and Real-Time Lung Gas Exchange Simulation

 

Oral Analgesia Post Lower Segment Caesarean Section Under General Anaesthesia

 

Patients’ knowledge of the role of the anaesthetist – how can we improve our profile?

 

Perioperative Melatonin Use

 

Peripartum Patients With Swine Flu Requiring Caesarean Section.

 

Preliminary data on the Effect of Anaesthesia and Surgery in Patients with Impaired Pre-Operative Cognition-The first 15 patients

 

Prophylactic Endovascular Placement of Internal Iliac Balloon Occlusion Catheters in Parturients with Placenta Accreta – a Case Series

 

Propofol and Remifentanil Differentially Modulate Frontal Electroencephalographic Activity

 

Propofol Impairs Desflurane Induced Preconditioning By Modulating Mitochondrial Permeability Transition

 

Rectus Sheath Catheters Following Intra-Abdominal Surgery

 

Relative Hypotension in the Beach-Chair Position: Effects on Middle Cerebral Artery Blood Velocity.

 

Renal Function and Mortality in Patients with Proximal Femoral Fractures

 

Sex Differences in Patients Perceptions of Regional Anaesthesia

 

Simulation for Education and Formative Assessment of Anaesthetic Trainees in Neuroanaesthesia

 

Surgical Patients' Attitudes and Knowledge of their Weight and Obesity-related Complications

 

Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Presentation And Perioperative Management For Spinal Surgery

 

Testing auditory alarm effectiveness with three different alarm sets

 

The Birth of Intensive Care in Newcastle, Australia

 

The Effect of Body Position on Performance of Tracheal Intubation

 

The Effect of Propofol, Midazolam and Ketamine to Blood Pressure and Heart Rate During Induction with Remifentanil

 

The Impact of Anaesthetic and Obstetric Trainees on Elective Caesarean Section Procedural Times: A Prospective Observational Study

 

The New Pyloric Stenosis

 

Update on ATACAS: a Randomized Trial of Aspirin and Tranexamic Acid in Coronary Artery Surgery

 

Use of Hyperbaric Versus Isobaric Bupivacaine For Spinal Anaesthesia For Caesarean Section

 

Use of Levobupivacaine to Reduce Cost and Wastage in Epidural Labour Analgesia

 

Written Anaesthesia Information – What Do Patients Think?