Hall E

Opening
President ANZCA, (Prof Michael Cousins), Dean FPM (A/Prof Milton Cohen), Dean JFICM (A/Prof Jack Havill) and Convenor (Dr Margie Cowling)

Plenary Session

Ellis Gillespie Lecture: delivered by the ANZCA Foundation Visitor
"Should general anaesthesia remain the mainstay of modern anaesthesia?"

- Dr William Harrop-Griffiths

Michael Cousins Lecture: delivered by the Faculty of Pain Medicine Foundation Visitor
"Can we prevent chronic pain after sugery?" - Dr William Macrae

Morning Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

What’s new in cardiology?

Chair: Dr Pat Moran

"Interventional cardiology – what can they think of next?"
-Dr Dale Ashby

"Preoperative antithrombotic therapy – what do we stop and why?"
- Dr Tom Painter

"Pacemakers, ICDs and the anaesthetist"
- Dr Glenn Young

Disaster management

Chair: Dr George Merridew

"The role of the military in civilian disasters"
- Dr Roger Capps

"Chemical, biological and radiological warfare"
- Dr Nick Edwards

"The Aceh experience"
- Dr Ken Harrison

Anaesthetists in Management SIG

Chair: Dr Vanessa Beavis

"Second-in-charge (2IC) - reluctant IC"
- A/Prof David Scott, Dr Tracey Tay, Dr Chris Nixon

"Negotiation 101"
- Dr Patricia Goonetilleke

State of the art in Acute Pain Medicine

Chair: Dr Penny Briscoe

"Acute pain management 2nd edition: why was it needed?"
- Dr Pam Macintyre

"New evidence for drugs and techniques"
- Prof Stephan Schug

"Clinical challenges"
Dr Suellen Walker

Meeting Room 3

Medical Education SIG

Teaching in the operating theatre – principles and practice

Chair: Dr Rod Tayler

"Reduction in training hours for anaesthesia registrars: implication for trainees, departments and ANZCA"
- Dr Andrew Gardner

"Assessing trainees’ clinical competence"
- Dr Ian Banks

"Teaching in the OR"(Panel Discussion)
- Dr Kym Osborn, Dr Russell Jones and Dr Rod Tayler

Lunch Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Regional blockade and pre-existing medical conditions

Chair: A/Prof Michael Davies

"Infectious complications of regional anaesthesia"
- Dr Terese Horlocker

"Regional anaesthesia and cardiac disease"
- A/Prof David Scott

"The patient with pre-existing neurological disease"
- Dr James Sartain

Ballistics, bombs and burns

Chair: Dr Peter Tralaggan

"Ballistics" - Dr Bruce Paix

"Bombs: pathophysiology and management of blast injury"
- Mr David Read

"Burns" - Mr John Greenwood

Key elements of perioperative medicine: gradual change or paradigm shift?

Chair: Prof Guy Ludbrook

"Medical workforce solution: delegation or substitution?"
- Prof Guy Maddern

"Restructuring of perioperative medicine services is essential to improving outcome after surgery"
- A/Prof John Rigg

"Health workforce trends - who will care for us?"
- Dr Richenda Webb

Pain medicine: taking it to the streets

Chair: Dr David Jones

"FPMANZCA – quo vadis"
- A/Prof Milton Cohen

"Novel approaches to waiting lists"
- Dr Chris Hayes

"Ivory towers and real world realities"
- Dr Brian Spain

"UK update" - Dr Bill Macrae

Afternoon Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Obstructive sleep apnoea – debunking the myths

Chair: Dr Andrew Puddy

"Preoperative assessment"
- Dr Peter Robinson

"Anaesthesia" - Dr John Loadsman

"The recovery room and beyond"
- Dr Ian Banks

Anaesthesia & Critical Care in Unusual & Transport Environments SIG

Beyond the walls

Chair: Dr Blair Mumford

"Special communication: the ANZCAAustralia Disaster Response Taskforce report"
- Dr George Merridew

"Hazards, horses and helicopters: evolution of critical care retrieval services"
- Dr Fred Gilligan

"Paramedic practice & education"
- Dr Hugh Grantham

"Prehospital medical teams"
- Dr Ken Harrison

Refining anaesthesia techniques in day surgery

Chair: Dr Vaughan Laurenson

"Procedural sedation – what’s new?"
- A/Prof Kate Leslie

"Low-dose spinals for ambulatory surgery"
- Dr Stephen Watts

"Pain relief at home"
- Dr Glenda Rudkin

FPM free papers

Chair: Dr Geoff Booth

"A twelve month audit of naloxone use in a tertiary medical centre"
- Dr Jane Trinca

"Bioavailability of ketamine after oral or sublingual administration"
- Dr Chui Chong

"A biopsychosocial approach to pretreatment assessment of patients with persistent pain: Identifying factors associated with pain related disability"
- Dr Allyson Browne

"Safety and effectiveness of acute pain management"
- Dr Richard Halliwell

"Occipital nerve stimulation for the treatment of occipital neuralgia"
- Dr Charlotte Johnston

"Pain and asbestos related plaques"
- Prof Tess Cramond

Meeting Room 10

Rural SIG

Chair: Dr Daryl Catt

"Rural practice: what works and what doesn’t?"
- Dr Frank Moloney

"Training GP anaesthetists – a 10 year review from the Northern Territory"
- Dr Brian Spain

Hall A

Breakfast Session
Presented by Pfizer

"Pain management in spinal cord injured patients" - Dr Philip Siddall

Hall E

Plenary Session

Mary Burnell Lecture
"Analgesia without paraplegia: Neuraxial anaesthesia and anticoagulation" - Dr Terese Horlocker

SA Pain Medicine Visitor’s Lecture
"Changes in spinal cord pain processing: implications for management" - Dr Suellen Walker

Morning Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Controversies in high-stakes competency assessment for anaesthetists

Chair: Dr Graham Sharpe

"Issues in high stake performance assessment"
- Dr Michele Joseph,
Dr Brendan Flanagan.

Anaesthesia for zoo animals

Chair: Dr Di Khursandi

"Advancements in anaesthesia for primates"
- Dr Kevin Moriarty

"Anaesthesia for birds and reptiles"
- Dr Helen McCracken

Anaesthesia free papers 1

Chair: Dr David Elliot

"Preventing hypotension following spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section"
- Dr Allan Cyna

"Continuous interscalene block (CISB) assisted by ultrasound in outpatient shoulder surgery"
- Dr Michael Fredrickson

"Anaesthesia for shoulder surgery in the steep beach chair position: is it safe?"
- Dr Terence Little

"The effects of preemptive caudal clock on the emergence characteristics after sevoflurane anaesthesia in children"
- Dr Jocelyn Que

"The effects of 8mls 0.2% ropivacaine and 16mcg fentanyl as first dose/test dose in labour ward epidurals"
- Dr Hannah Wong

"A pilot study of rectus sheath catheters for radical retropubic prostatectomy"
- Dr Philip Cornish

My chest still hurts – why wasn’t I told?

Chair: Dr Roger Goucke

"Thoracotomies and persisting pain"
- Dr Bill Macrae

"The surgeon’s viewpoint"
- Mr Craig Jurisevic

Lunch Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Is mortality reporting nearing the end?

Chair: Dr Wally Thompson

"History of anaesthetic mortality reporting"
- Dr Dave Fenwick

"Who killed Cock Robin?"
- Prof Alan Merry

"Mortality reporting is dead: morbidity is the way forward"
- Dr Patricia Mackay

Anaesthesia and analgesia for companion animals

Chair: Dr Pam Macintyre

"Anaesthetic adventures in veterinary medicine in private practice"
- Dr Derrik McNair

"Pain management in companion animals"
- Dr Sanaa Zaki

Anaesthesia free papers 2

Chair: Dr John Russell

"Bronchial mucus transport velocity: sevoflurane vs propofol"
- Dr James Bromilow

"Epinephrine but not norepinephrine significantly accelerates pseudocholinesterase enzymatic activity invitro"
- Dr James Bromilow

"Endogenous nitric oxide reduces the efficacy of the endothelin system to maintain blood pressure during epidural anaesthesia"
- Dr Christopher Beck

"Correcting aniongap for albumin and effect on associated mortality"
- Dr Tim McIver

"Predictive performance of a simple model of anaesthetic uptake with enflurane and halothane"
- Dr Ross Kennedy

"Fresh gas flow audit revisited: Does real-time information affect behaviour?"
- Dr Ross Kennedy

Pain and EBM: finding the evidence

Chair: Prof Rob Helme

"Why research matters"
- Dr Suellen Walker

"Common statistical bloopers"
- Dr John Plummer

Afternoon Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

What’s new in regional blockade?

Chair: Dr Lindy Roberts

"Upper limb blocks"
- Dr William Harrop-Griffiths

"Lower limb blocks"
- Dr David McLeod

"Thoracic Paravertebral blocks"
- Dr Glenda Rudkin

Cardiothoracic, Vascular and Perfusion SIG

Chair: Dr Guy Christie-Taylor

"Robotic cardiac surgery in a public hospital: lessons learned"
- Mr James Edwards

"Aprotinin and ATACAS: the future role of antifibrinolytics in cardiac surgery"
- Prof Paul Myles

"New treatments for end stage cardiac failure – implications for anaesthesia"
- Dr Mark Buckland

Anaesthesia free papers 3

Chair: Dr David Storey

"Analysis of anaesthetics clinical indicators: potential for improvement"
- Dr Chris Maxwell

"Melodic medical equipment alarms: are they safe?"
- Prof Penny Sanderson

"A comparison of working hours of WA anaesthetic training scheme registrars between 1996 and 2006"
- Dr Szu-Lynn Chan

"Making sound meaningful in the operating theatre – blood pressure earcon"
- Dr Marcus Watson

"Incident reporting by ANZCA trainees"
- Dr Mark Colson

"Effect of age on physiological variables during anaesthesia"

- Dr Michael Harrison

Dealing with extremes: the angry patient

Chair: Dr Colin Goodchild

"Anger as a symptom"
- Dr Rene Pols

"Bridging the communication gap"
- Dr Bruce Rounsefell

"Managing threats and manipulation"

- Dr Matt Gaughwin

Meeting Room 11

History SIG

Chair: Dr Ian Steven

"Tuta - the not so little Aussie Battler"
- Prof Ross Holland

"Development of pulse oximetry"
- Prof John Russell

"Brian Dwyer and the St Vincent’s Pain Clinic - 1962-1989"
- Prof David Gibb

Riverbank Room

Hall A

Breakfast Session
Presented by Mundipharma

"The use of transdermal buprenorphine in pain management " - Dr Marc Russo

Breakfast Session
Presented by Novo Nordisk

"New developments in critical bleeding"

Hall E

Plenary Session

JFICM Foundation Visitor’s Lecture
"Think smart or drive blind: sensors and models in critical illness" - Dr Geoff Shaw

Australasian Visitor’s Lecture
"Dreaming under anaesthesia" - A/Prof Kate Leslie

Morning Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Welfare of Anaesthetist SIG

Fatigue

Chair: Dr Genevieve Goulding

"Shiftwork, performance, and fatigue risk factors"
- Dr Matthew Thomas

"Anaesthetic registrar shiftwork and performance study"
- Ms Renee Petrilli

What’s new in paediatric anaesthesia?

Chair: Dr Rod Westhorpe

"What’s new in anaesthesia for paediatric scoliosis surgery?"
- Dr Peter Gibson

"What’s new in paediatric regional anaesthesia and analgesia?"
- Dr David Murrell

"What’s new in paediatric day surgery?"
- Dr Philip Ragg

Obstetric Anaesthesia SIG

Chair: A/Prof Michael Paech

"Quality in obstetric anaesthesia: what is it and how do we measure it?"
- Dr Scott Simmons

"The FANZCA Obstetric module: balancing supervision, self-directed learning and women-centred care"
- Dr Kym Osborn

"The challenges of private obstetric practice in 2006"
- Dr David Elliott

Prehospital care and trauma

Chair: Dr Peter Sharley

"Cervical spine - assessment and clearance"
- Dr Nick Edwards

"Australian mass casualty triage standards"
- Dr Evan Everest

"A disaster - so what actually happens in practice?"
- Dr Nick Edwards

1200-1330

Lunch Break

1330-

Social Afternoon Optional Activities

Hall A

Breakfast Session
Presented by Pfizer

"Procedure Specific Postoperative Pain management: a new clinical tool for postoperative pain management in common surgical procedures"
- Prof Stephan Schug

Hall E

Plenary Session

Gilbert Brown Prize Session

Chair: A/Prof Kate Leslie

"The addition of a ketamine infusion to tramadol for postoperative analgesia: a double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomised trial after abdominal surgery"
- Dr Ashley Webb

"Anaesthetist gender influence on intubation technique" - Dr Mark Waddington

"Low to moderate infusion rates of remifentanil do not change the ED50 of propofol in anaesthetised patients" - Dr Lars Wang

"An audit of the safety and efficacy of alfentanil:morphine" - Dr Waleed Alkhazrajy

"Quantifying the effects of nitrous oxide on the depth of anaesthesia using theoretically based time series modelling" - Dr David Liley

"Intravenous magnesium sulfate to improve outcome after aneurismal subarachnoid haemorrhage"

- Prof Tony Gin

Morning Tea Break

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Complications of regional blockade (Part 1)

Chair: Prof Stephan Schug

"Neurologic complications of regional anaesthesia"
- Dr Terese Horlocker

"Complications of peripheral neural blockade"
- Dr William Harrop-Griffiths

"Reports on complications from neural blockade 1990 - 2005"
- Dr Pat Mackay

Professional issues and ANZCA taskforces

Chair: Prof John Gibbs

"Are anaesthetists their own worst enemy?"
A/Prof Kate Leslie

"Professionalism: defining a code of conduct"
- Dr Terry Little

"Data taskforce and human factors research"
- Dr Michele Joseph

JFICM free papers

Chair: A/Prof Jack Havill

"Percutaneous dilational tracheostomy in children (PDT): special technical considerations"
- Dr Arivind Baronia

"Tight glycaemic control with a variable insulin in nutrition protocol"
- Dr Geoff Shaw

"The effects of failed extubation on outcome in intensive care patients"
- Dr John Gowardman

"A two year prospective study of tracheostomies performed on intensive care patients"
- Dr Rohisham Zainal

"LifeVent CPAP: an assessment of a new low flow CPAP system"
- Dr Richard French

"Does routine administration of probiotics improve outcome of critically ill patients?"
- Dr CD Gomersall

ANZICS Clinical Trials Group (CTG)

Chair: Dr Mary White

"A potted history of the CTG"
- Dr Sandra Peake

"Trial establishment processes and future directions"
- Dr Arthus Flabouris

"Major trials completed by the CTG"
- Dr Marianne Chapman

1200-1330

Lunch Break

1330-1500

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Complications of regional blockade (Part 2) – case studies

Chair: Dr Richard Willis

"Panel (includes a neurologist and lawyer)"
- Dr Terese Horlocker
Mr John Homburg
Dr Chris Kneebone

Formal projects session

Chair: Dr Leona Wilson

"Anticoagulant effects of low dose subcutaneous unfractionated heparin in elective surgical patients"
- Dr Shannon Matzelle

"Comparison of 2 different doses of paracetamol for pain relief in day care dental procedures"
- Dr Jeremy Hickling

"Intrathecal pethidine does not decrease shivering during caesarean section when compared to intrathecal fentanyl"
- Dr Gabriel Snyder

"BIS guide to relaxant free intubation during gas induction: a prospective, randomised double blind clinical trial"
- Dr Rod Van Twest

"The assessment of a system for monitoring invasive blood pressure in the MRI"
- Dr Neil Wylie

"Spinal anaesthesia for ambulatory arthroscopic surgery of the knee: a comparison of prilocaine and fentanyl with low dose bupivacaine and fentanyl"
- Dr Adam Black

Simulation SIG

Simulation in FANZCA training and assessment: developing curricula and assessing core competencies

Chair: Prof Harry Owen

"Integrating simulation and skills training into the FANZCA curriculum"
- Dr Leonie Watterson

"EMAC: where to now?"
- Dr Brendan Flanagan

"Formative and summative assessment of core competencies using simulation"
- A/Prof Jennifer Weller

Haematology

Chair: Dr Geoff Shaw

"Current concepts in DIC & coagulopathy"
- Dr Simon McRea

"Sepsis, APC and going to the operating theatre"
- Dr Mark Finnis

"Newer agents: FVIIa, Anti-FXa, direct thrombin inhibitors"
- Dr Uwe Hahn

1500-1530

Afternoon Tea Break

1530-1700

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hall D

Managing risk in anaesthesia

Chair: A/Prof Tony Weeks

"Estimating anaesthesia risk: Analysis of MDAV claims data"
- Dr Terry Little

"Proper informed consent: making the impossible possible"
- Mr Michael Gorton

"Charting the course: a revised anaesthesia record"
- Dr Richard Grutzner

Anaesthesia free papers 4

Chair: Dr Rowan Thomas

"Association of postoperative complications and mortality in elderly patients"
- Dr David Storey

"Outcome in subarachnoid haemorrhage patients with fever on presentation for intracranial aneurysm surgery"
- Dr Wai Leap Ng

"Intra-operative bradycardia"
- Mr Cliff Grant

"The effect of pre-operative cognitive function and post-operative cognitive change on quality of life after coronary artery surgery"
- Ms Lis Evered

"Diagonal earlobe crease: a predictor of anaesthetic risk in Filipinos"
- Dr Anniela Yu-Soliven

"PONV in an eye and ear hospital 2004 and 2005"
- Dr Andrew Walpole

Diving and Hyperbaric SIG

New bends in the road for hyperbaric oxygen

Chair: Dr Robert Wong

"Iatrogenic cerebral arterial gas embolism - the role of HBO"
- Dr Margaret Walker

"Postcardiac surgical strokes – a role for HBO?"
- Dr Alistair Gibson

"Bleomycin and Hyperbaric oxygen therapy"
- Dr Ian Dey

"Neurological issues in breathhold diving"
- Dr Robert Wong

"Hyperbaric oxygen for osteoradionecrosis prophylaxis - treat at 2.0 or 2.4 ATA?"
- Dr David Wilkinson

Ventilation

Chair: Dr Mark Finnis

" 'ARDS Net' and the anaesthetist"
- A/Prof Andrew Bersten

"Man and machines: insights into ventilation strategies"
- Dr Geoff Shaw

"Paediatric ventilation & anaesthesia"
- Dr Michael Yung

Meeting Room 10

Anaesthesia free papers 5

Chair: Dr Richard Waldron

"Prioritising emergency cases – are anaesthetists the intermediary in inter-professional warfare within the operating theatre?"
- Dr Martin Lum

"Public knowledge and attitudes regarding CPR provisions and training"
- Dr Richard Riley

"Hypnosis for pain relief during childbirth"
- Dr Allan Cyna

"Can words affect patient experience?"
- Dr Andy Beinssen

"Yesterday, today and tomorrow – doctors’ attitudes to change and uncertainty"
- Dr Christine Jorm

"Fibreoptic training survey among Great British and Irish trainees"
- Dr Tamsin Dovell

Foyer F

Breakfast Session

Hall E

Hall B

Hall C

Hypothetical: Crossing the medico legal mindfield that is modern anaesthesia

Moderator: Dr Paul Nisselle
Senior Advisor, Risk Management
Medical Defence Association of Victoria

Panel: Mr Michael Gorton
Dr Terry Little
Dr John Arranga

Delegates may claim 2 CME and 1 QA point per hour under code 700 for this session

Acute Pain SIG

Not all patients are the same

Chair: Dr Steven Jones

"The pregnant or lactating patient"
- A/Prof Michael Paech

"Acute pain in the opioid-tolerant patient"
- Dr Lindy Roberts

"Acute pain management in patiens with renal or hepatic impairment"
- Dr Ted Murphy

Neuroanaesthesia SIG

Chair: Dr Tim Short

"Pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting in neurosurgery"
- A/Prof Kate Leslie

"Peri operative visual loss"
- Prof Guy Ludbrook

"Cerebral vasospasm: current research, future management"
- Dr Dean Cowie

Morning Tea Break

Hall E

Staying ahead of disaster: developing situational awareness as a way to avoid anaesthesia crises

Dr Stavros Prineas
Dr Richard Morris
Dr Angus Gray

"Situational awareness is the ability to gather information, assess its relevance to the task at hand and foresee the most likely outcomes"

Using live actors and role-plays, this session will offer anaesthetists ways of improving patient safety by developing better situational awareness as individual practitioners and in theatre teams.

This session will be run by ErrorMed, experts in human factors training and human error
Delegates may claim 3 QA points per hour under code 211 for this session

  Farewell Lunch