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Scientific Program

Saturday 01 May 2004

0830-1000	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium
	Welcome Dr Richard Willis (President ANZCA), Dr Neil Matthews (Dean JFICM), A/Prof Leigh Atkinson (Dean FPM) Plenary Session Chairs: Dr Richard Willis (President ANZCA), A/Prof Leigh Atkinson (Dean FPM) The Australasian Visitor's Lecture "Research in anaesthesia: changing practice and our credibility" - A/Prof Paul Myles The Michael Cousins Foundation Lecture "Diagosis and management of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome" - Prof Ralf Baron
1000-1030	Morning Tea Break
1030-1200	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Coagulation and anaesthesia Chair: Dr Mark Josephson (ASM Convenor) "Fluid therapy and coagulation" - Prof Mike James "Recombinant activated factor VII" - Dr Neville Gibbs "Anaesthetic implications of thienopyridines and GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors" - Prof Peter Kam	Neuroanaesthesia SIG Chair: Dr Wally Thompson "To clip or to coil?" - Dr Bryant Stokes "Neurointerventional radiology: current experience and future directions" - Prof Mark Khangure "Anaesthesia for neurointerventional procedures" - A/Prof Kate Leslie	Steroids: panacea or poison? Chair: A/Prof John Myburgh "Corticosteroids in head injury" - Prof Ian Roberts "Assessment of adrenocortical function in critical illness: the debate continues" - A/Prof Bala Venkatesh "Steroids in ARDS" - Dr David Linton	Pain: nerves and the mind Chair: A/Prof Milton Cohen "Neuropathic pain: mechanisms and modern treatment" - Prof Ralf Baron "Nerves and the meeting of minds" - Prof Bob Large


1200-1330	Lunch Break
1330-1500	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Risks in the operating theatre: learning from near misses Moderator: Dr Andrew Miller Panel: Dr Richard Willis Dr Di Khursandi A/Prof Paul Myles Dr Sara Bird View Slides	Regional blocks Chair: Dr Carolyn Fowler "Auditing outcome: efficacy and complications of regional blockade" - Dr Steve Watts "Assessment and management of complications of regional anaesthesia" - Dr Peter Silbert "Patient-controlled regional analgesia" - Dr Brien Hennessy	Infection screening Chair: Dr Stephen Webb "Procalcitonin: the best is here" - Prof Michael Meisner "Genetic susceptibility to infection: the meningococcal story" - Dr David Burgner	Pain at the extremes of life Chair: Dr David Jones "Pain in the elderly" - Prof Robert Helme "Pain in children" - Dr George Chalkiadis "Psychology of paediatric pain" - Mr John Gardiner
1500-1530	Afternoon Tea Break
1530-1700	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Obstetric anaesthesia SIG Chair: A/Prof Michael Paech "Is ephedrine passé?" - Prof Warwick Ngan Kee "Computer integration and pain control in labour" - Dr Alex Sia "CSE in labor: the way to go?" - Prof David Birnbach	Essential equipment Chair: Prof John Russell "Essential equipment for central venous access" - Dr Mark Thackray "Video laryngoscopes" - Dr Mark Lennon "Essential equipment for the difficult airway: non-emergency pathway" - Dr Simon Maclaurin "Some equipment for the difficult airway: emergency pathway" - Dr Leigh Coombs	Oxygen: panacea or poison? Chair: Dr Simon Towler "Poison: reactive oxygen species" - Dr Mary Pinder "Tissue hypoxia and apoptosis" - Dr Bala Venkatesh	Chronic pain free papers Chair: Dr Penny Briscoe "Intrathecal baclofen can cause neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury: a case series" - Dr Charles Brooker "Prediciting pain outcomes and patient satisfaction: a clinical evaluation" - Dr Allyson Browne "Improving routine pain management hospital-wide" - Dr Ruth Cornish "Lignocaine patch for neuropathic pain in a cancer centre" - Dr Julia Fleming "Long-term intrathecal infusions of high concentrations of bupivacaine" - Dr Roger Goucke "Referral to the pain clinic reduces hospital admissions and casualty visits" - Dr Raj Sundaraj

Sunday 02 May 2004

0830-1000	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium
	Plenary Session Chairs: Dr Neil Matthews (Dean JFICM), Prof Stephan Schug (FPM Scientific Convenor) "Prevention is the panacea: evidence and the Cochrane Collaboration" - Prof Ian Roberts "Attacking pain at its source: new perspectives on opioids" - Prof Christoph Stein
1000-1030	Morning Tea Break
1030-1200	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Sleep and anaesthesia Chair: Dr David Hillman "Obstructive sleep apnoea: implications for anaesthesia" - Dr John Loadsman "Sleep, anaesthesia and the upper airway" - Dr David Hillman "Aware, awake, asleep or anaesthetised: the EEG tells a tale" - Dr John Barnard	Medical education SIG Chair: Dr Rod Tayler "Selection of anaesthesia trainees" - Dr Lindy Roberts "Legal issues in the supervision of trainees" - Mr Michael Gorton "Assessing competence in anaesthesia trainees" - Prof Teik Oh "Educational issues for trainees with difficulties" - Dr Russell Jones	Collaborative medicine: CTG Chair: Dr Ian Roberts "The SAFE study" - A/Prof John Myburgh "Ethics and research in intensive care" - Dr David Blythe "Research directions in neurotrauma" - A/Prof John Myburgh	Metastatic bone pain Chair: Dr Leah Power "Models of bone pain in cancer" - Dr Julia Fleming "Palliative care approaches" - Prof Michael Ashby "Vertebroplasty" - Dr Paul Graziotti "Surgical approach to spinal pain due to metastatic disease: the Perth experience" - Mr Peter Woodland
1200-1330	Lunch Break
1330-1500	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Cardiothoracic, vascular and perfusion SIG Chair: Dr Roman Kluger "Anaesthesia for carotid endarterectomy" - Prof Mike James "Anaesthesia and ventricular assist devices" - Dr Chris Cokis "Cardiac risk prediction" - Dr William Weightman	Welfare of anaesthetists SIG Chair: Dr Genevieve Goulding "Doctors don't get sick" - Dr Jean Foster "Forewarned is forearmed: protection of assets and divorce" - Mr Milos Supljeglav "Looking after yourself in your relationship" - Dr Martin Chapman	Intensive care free papers Chair: Dr Geoff Dobb "Pathophysiology of slow gastric emptying in ICU" - Dr Marianne Chapman "A simple model for teaching thoracocentesis" - Dr Tom Grattan-Smith "Quantitative acid-base physiology" - Dr Peter Lloyd "Management and outcomes in patients with dialysis-dependent renal failure undergoing cardiac surgery" - Dr Charles Mashonganyika "Effect of nutrition in sepsis on IGF-I and SOCS proteins" - Dr Michael O'Leary "Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy in critically ill patients: outcomes and completions over 10 years" - Dr Marc Ziegenfuss	Opioids in chronic pain of non-malignant origin Sponsor: Mundipharma Moderator: Dr Stephan Schug Geoff Gourlay Stephan Schug - presentation 1 Stephan Schug - presentation 2 Christoph Stein Panel: Prof Ralf Baron Dr Roger Goucke A/Prof Geoff Gourlay Prof Bob Large Prof Christoph Stein
1500-1530	Afternoon Tea Break
1530-1700	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton 1	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B
	Gender, genes, anaesthesia and pain Chair: Dr Lindy Roberts "Gender and recovery from anaesthesia" - A/Prof Paul Myles "Gender and pain" - Dr Jenni Morgan "The increasing relevance of medical genetics to anaesthetic practice" - Prof David Ravine	Pharmacology and education Chair: Dr Steuart Henderson "Using patient simulators to teach pharmacology and pathophysiology" - Dr Brian Robinson "Is it time for new approaches to volatile anaesthetics? Challenging the way we think, teach and use volatile pharmacology" - Dr Ross Kennedy "Target-controlled IV anaesthesia" - Prof Guy Ludbrook	Panaceas of lung protection Chair: Dr Vernon van Heerden "Nitric oxide and infectious diseases" - Dr David Burgner "NONOates: the new NO delivery system" - Dr Vernon van Heerden "Preventative ventilatory strategies for ARDs or Adaptive Lung Ventilation" - Prof David Linton	Basic science aspects of pain Chair: Prof Robert Helme "Endomorphins: novel opioid peptides in the periopheral and central nervous system" - Prof Christoph Stein "Opioids and NMDA receptors: neuro-excitation and abnormal pain behaviours" - A/Prof Maree Smith "Nociceptin, antinociception, tolerance and dependence" - Mark Connor

Monday 03 May 2004

0830-1000	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium
	Plenary Session Chair: Dr Richard Willis (President ANZCA) The Ellis Gillespie Lecture "Magnesium: the once and future ion" - Prof Mike James The Mary Burnell Lecture "State of the art in obstetric anaesthesia: what's new for 2004?" - Prof David Birnbach
1000-1030	Morning Tea Break
1030-1200	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton Ballroom B	Duxton 1
	State of the art: cardiology and anaesthesia Chair: Dr Andrew Gardner "A new murmur in the parturient: assessment and management" - Dr Warwick Ngan Kee "State of the art management of myocardial infarction" - Dr Paul Stobie "State of the art pacemakers" - Ms Karen Eldridge	Acute pain SIG Chair: Dr Grant Turner "Optimising patient-controlled epidural analgesia" - Dr Richard Halliwell "Toward a national database in acute pain management" - Prof Colin Goodchild "Neuropathic pain in the postoperative period" - Dr Chris Hayes	Formal project prize session Chair: Dr Leona Wilson "Volatile anaesthetic delivery systems for intensive care" - Dr Tillman Boesel "The use of high fidelity human patient simulation and the introduction of new anaesthesia delivery systems" - Dr Paul Dalley "The burden of snake bite in Port Moresby General Hospital, Papua New Guinea, 1992 - 2001" - Dr Forbes McGain "The incidence and severity of aortic stenosis in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery: a pilot study" - Dr Lisa Mohanlal "A survey of early management of severe head injury" - Dr Subita Nobre "Comparison of radiant and forced-air warming devices during spinal anaesthesia" - Dr Peggy Yip	History of anaesthesia and resusitation SIG Chair: Dr Ian McGlew "Telectronics: an Australian medical electronics story" - Prof Ross Holland "Dr Norman James, first Director of Anaesthesia in Victoria" - Dr Patricia Mackay "The Bonnievale disaster" - Dr Ian McGlew "Reflections on the past and visions for the future: interviews with retired WA anaesthetists" - Dr Andrew Lovegrove
1200-1330	Lunch Break
1330	Social Afternoon Optional Activities

Tuesday 04 May 2004

0830-1000	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium
	Plenary Session: The Gilbert Brown Prize Chair: Prof Michael Cousins AM (Chair Research Committee ANZCA) "Factors predicting length of hospital stay after major vascular surgery" - Dr Mark Colson "Paediatric crisis management: is there a role for simulation-based training?" - Dr Simon Erickson "Circadian variation in unexpected postoperative death" - Dr Kim Gray "Spinal cord stimulation: seven-year retrospective audit" - Dr Charlotte Johnstone "Cerebral autoregulation and isoflurane: effect of hyperventilation" - Dr Tim McCulloch "Are quality outcomes possible in a new low-volume paediatric liver transplant service?" - Dr Yatin Youn
1000-1030	Morning Tea Break
1030-1200	Duxton Ballroom A		Perth Concert Hall Auditorium		Duxton 1
	The role of anaesthetists in operating theatre management (slides only for all presentations in this session) Chair: Dr Vanessa Beavis (580 KB) Official launch of the Special Interest Group of 'Anaesthetists in Management'. Panel discussion with audience participation. Panel: Prof David Birnbach Dr Patricia Goonetilleke Dr Martin Lum (1.2 MB) Dr Michael Veltman (1.3 MB)		Immunology and anaesthesia Chair: Dr Simon Maclaurin "New devils and anaphylaxis" - Dr Peter Platt "Immune consequences of leucocytes in blood products and the role of leucodepletion" - Dr Wendy Erber "Implications of HIV for anaesthesia" - Dr James Tomlinson		Rural SIG Chair: Dr Mike Miller "Challenges for rural intensive care in Australia" - Dr Tony Sutherland "Challenges of ICU in rural New Zealand" - Dr Ross Freebairn
1200-1330	Lunch Break
1330-1500	Duxton Ballroom B	Duxton Ballroom A	Duxton 1	Duxton 2
	Acute pain free papers Chair: Prof Thomas Bruessel "Epidural space pressure monitoring: a means of reducing the likelihood of paraplegia?" - Dr Paul Burt "Intrathecal midazolam in labour pain: eSAIL interim data" - Dr Michael Duncan "Lessons learnt from four epidural space infections" - Dr Andrew Jeffreys "Combined spinal epidural anesthesia: a modified technique" - Dr Kavita Sharma "Is dexmedetomidine an analgesic at non-sedative doses?" - Dr Adam Tucker "Improvement of postoperative pain scores using an epidural protocol" - Dr David Wilkinson	Anaesthesia free papers 1 Chair: A/Prof Kate Leslie "Profolol: 8000 cases for gastroenterology" - Dr Jim Coleman "Intraoperative patient temperature management: providing a framework for improved assessment of warming strategies" - Dr Richard French "A pilot study of the relationship between calculated brain sevoflurane levels and bispectral index values of 60 or 70" - Dr Ross Kennedy "Is propofol really an 'inhalational' anaesthetic?" - Dr Ross Kerridge "A new method for monitoring sedative and anaesthetic effect" Dr David Liley "Elimination pharmacokinetics of isoflurane, sevoflurane and desflurane" - Dr William Weightman	Anaesthesia free papers 2 Chair: Dr Neville Gibbs "Emergency surgical airway access simulation using a sheep model" - Dr Scott Aaronson "Difficult tracheal intubation in obese patients" - Dr Alisher Agzamov "How to triage clinical performance" - Dr Jan Davies "25 year anaesthetic mortality trends in Western Australia" - Dr Neville Gibbs "Help is just a phone call away" - Dr Stewart Montano "Review of Victorian public hospitals' anaesthetic claims" - Dr Larry McNicol	Anaesthesia free papers 3 Chair: Dr Jennifer Fabling "Salvage use of recombinant factor VIIa in cardiac surgery" - Dr Larry McNicol "Prevention of failure to fast preoperatively" - Dr Robin Limb "An on-line audit tool: experiences from a public teaching hospital" - Prof Guy Ludbrook "Plasma homocysteine levels predict mild cognitive impairment in patients for coronary artery surgery" - Dr Brendan Silbert "The number of paediatric anaesthetics in Western Australia 2001 - 2002" - Dr Craig Sims "Simulation assessment: is it acceptable to trainees?" - Dr Jenifer Weller
1500-1530	Afternoon Tea Break
1530-1700	Perth Concert Hall Auditorium		Duxton Ballroom A		Duxton Ballroom B
	QA obstetric session Chair: Dr Tim Pavy "Teaching on the run: challenges and opportunities in resident education in obstetric anesthesiology" - Prof David Birnbach "Maternal mortality: lessons across international boundaries" - Prof Mike James "Decreasing surgical site infections following caesarean section" - Dr Steven Katz		Research session Chair: Prof Teik Oh "Problems with evidence-based medicine" - Prof Tony Gin "The importance of evidence-based medicine" - A/Prof Paul Myles "International multicentre research: traps for young players" - A/Prof Kate Leslie		Chronic pain update for the anaesthetist Chair: Dr Jim Bradley (President ASA) "Recent advances in the management of chronic pain" - Dr Roger Goucke "Treating acute pain: preventing chronic pain?" - Prof Stephan Schug "Management of acute pain the opioid-tolerant patient" - Dr Julia Fleming

Wednesday 05 May 2004

0830-1000	Duxton Ballroom		Duxton 1
	Paediatric anaesthesia Chair: Dr George Chalkiadis "Local anaesthetics" - Dr Robert Eyres "Old friends revisted: halothane" -Dr Andrew Davidson "The use of cuffed endotracheal tubes in paediatric anaesthesia" - Dr Ronald Pang "New age anaesthesia machines: implications for paediatric anaesthesia" - Dr Dave Sainsbury "Fasting guidelines for children" - Dr Philip Ragg		Future directions in anaesthesia Chair: A/Prof Tony Weeks "Recertification" - Prof Teik Oh "Challenges in the New Zealand setting" - Dr Leona Wilson "Workforce issues: a South Australian model" - Prof Guy Ludbrook "What should we be auditing?" - A/Prof Paul Myles
1000-1030	Morning Tea Break
1030-1200	Duxton Ballroom
	Plenary Session: State of the art: anaesthesia and endocrinology Chair: Dr Richard Willis (President ANZCA) "Diabetes: the importance of glycaemic control in determining outcome" - Prof Michael Veltman "Anaesthesia and obesity" - Dr Jennifer Carden The Gilbert Troup Lecture "Phaeochromocytoma" - Prof Mike James Close Dr Richard Willis (President ANZCA)
1200-1330	Lunch Break