Event

2025 Melbourne Winter Anaesthetic Meeting

30 - 31 August 2025

8.30am to 5.30pm

Melbourne

Sofitel Mebourne on Collins st.

Join us for the 2025 Melbourne Winter Anaesthetic Meeting 30-31 August 2025.

Overview

On behalf of the Victorian regional committee of ANZCA and the Victorian committee of ASA, we warmly invite all fellows and trainees to ‘chilly’ Melbourne in winter for our Melbourne Winter Anaesthetic Meeting: 45th Annual ANZCA/ASA combined continuing medical education meeting.

Our Saturday meeting presentations will be held in the Arthur Streeton Auditorium at the Sofitel, and this year a cultural safety session will be included, along with our popular optional M&M small group table discussions in the last session. You will need to bring a case to discuss on the day for the M&M session and this will attract additional CPD points.

There will be a selection of small group discussion workshops and emergency response workshops being held over three sessions on the Sunday in the LaTrobe Ballroom and Level 35 meeting rooms, plus there will also be an off-site Veterinary Anaesthesia workshop at Werribee Zoo. The emergency response workshops will include ALS, obstetric haemorrhage and anaphylaxis.

Overall the weekend meeting will tick off a lot of your CPD boxes.

We hope to see you there.

Dr Adriana Bibbo and Dr Tabara Dione
Co-convenors, ANZCA VRC

Program

Saturday 30 August - Meeting

_{8:30 to 8:40am Welcome & introduction, Dr Adriana Bibbo & Dr Tabara Dione, co-convenors}

_{SESSION ONE}_{Chair: Dr Adriana Bibbo}
_{8:40am to 10:20am}
_{An update on perioperative management of GLP1 receptor agonists Professor Jonathan Shaw}
_{An approach to gastric ultrasound Dr Harsh Dubey}
_{Pressure field approach to haemodynamic management Dr Steve Woodford}
_{Enhancing ERAS outcomes:}_{elevating patient safety through perioperative hypothermia prevention}
_{Q and A panel
10:20 to 10:50am Morning Tea}

_{SESSION TWO}_{Chair: Dr Grace Gunasegaram}
_{10:50am to 12:30pm}
_{Back to the future:}_{How to implement point-of care nitrous oxide}_{Dr Cas Woinarski}
_{Artificial intelligence in health care Dr Jeff Urquhart}
_{ANZCA president update}_{Professor David Story}
_{Q and A panel}

_{ANZCA foundation, AMEARA/ AMERS Awards - Professor David Story & Professor Peter Lowe}
_{ASA Victoria update - Dr Grace Gunasegaram
ANZCA VRC update - Dr Dean Dimovski}

_{12:30 to 1:30pm Lunch}

_{SESSION THREE: Cultural safety}_{Chair: Dr Tabara Dione}
_{1.30 to 3pm}
_{Cultural safety and CPD Dr Debra Devonshire}
_{Obstetric weathering Dr Carmen Brown}
_{A review of the readability of perioperative patient education materials Dr Michael Berger}
_{Q and A panel}
_{3 to 3:30pm Afternoon Tea}

_{SESSION FOUR: Practice evaluation}_{Chair: Dr Michelle Horne & Dr Genna Verbeek}
_{3:30 to 5pm}
_{Small group M & M discussions}
_{5 to 5:30pm After meeting drinks and canapés}
_{Optional dinner at No35 Restaurant}

_{Sunday 31 August - Workshops}

_{Advanced Life Support (ALS - cardiac arrest) - Facilitators: Dr Amanda Baric (lead), Dr Michelle Chan, Dr Suzy Cook, Dr Jake Geertsema, Dr Michelle Horne, Dr Harry Marsh & Dr Ben Peake}
_{Anaphylaxis - Facilitators: Dr Timothy McIver (lead), Dr Kelly Jones & Dr Lucy Verco}
_{Cardiovascular evaluation before noncardiac surgery - Facilitator: Dr Earlene Silvapulle}
_{Cardiovascular patient undergoing non cardiac surgery - Facilitators: Dr Hieu Lam & Dr Frank Schneider}
_{Obstetric haemorrhage - Facilitators: Dr Jennifer Dixon (lead) & TBC}
_{Paediatric TIVA - Facilitators: Dr Mari Kawamata & Dr Chris Holmes}
_{Veterinary anaesthesia - Facilitator: Associate Professor Thierry Beths}

_{PLEASE NOTE: Veterinary anaesthesia is off site at Werribee Zoo, and all other sessions at Sofitel’s Latrobe Ballroom & Level 35 meeting rooms as followed:}

_{SESSION ONE}_{8.30-10.30am Cardiovascular evaluation before noncardiac surgery - East tower suite (Level 35)}_{9-10.30am Obstetric haemorrhage - West tower suites 1&2 (Level 35)
9-11am Veterinary anaesthesia - Werribee Zoo}

_{10:30 to 11am Morning Tea}

_{SESSION TWO}

_{11am-1pm Advanced Life Support (ALS - cardiac arrest) - Latrobe ballroom (Level 1)
11am-12.30pm Anaphylaxis - West tower suites 1&2 (Level 35)
11am-1pm Cardiovascular patient undergoing non cardiac surgery - East tower suite (Level 35)}

_{12.30/1 to 1.30pm Lunch}
_{SESSION THREEE}_{1.30-3pm Anaphylaxis - West tower suites 1&2 (Level 35)
1.30-3pm Paediatric TIVA - East tower suite (Level 35)
1.30-3pm TBC - Latrobe ballroom (Level 1)}

Cost and registration

Registration is now open. You can register online with your college ID. All other delegates including allied health members and other medical specialties will also be able to register online. Please select “Create Account” at the top of the page and enter your details. Once you are set up, search for the event and register. You will also be able to use your ID number and password to register for future meetings. If you require assistance, please contact us.

Registration includes (morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and conference proceedings). Saturday night dinner and Sunday workshops must be selected separately when registering.

Saturday meeting:
Full registration: $550
Allied health professionals/trainees: $440
Saturday night dinner: $165 (includes 3 course meal and drinks) held at Sofitel No35 Restaurant
Sunday workshops: $132 each workshop
.

Cancellation Policy - Refunds will only be provided for cancellations advised in writing prior to the registration close date. Cancellations after the close date still incur venue and catering costs and therefore can’t be refunded

All registration fees are quoted in Australian dollars and inclusive of GST. Please visit the ANZCA terms and conditions when registering for an event.

Practice Evaluation: small group M&M

An optional session at the end of the program which requires:

Specific registration (opt-in) required at meeting registration (no extra cost)
Overall meeting registration is available to all anaesthetists and trainees who are either a member of ANZCA or ASA but the Practice evaluation session is for senior trainees and anaesthetists only (i.e. no medical students, no prevocational trainees)
Attendees will be expected to come prepared to discuss a case relating to an anaesthetic incident or challenge that they would share in a small group discussion and be willing to reflect on
Attendees will be expected to participate actively during the small group discussions

For this session everyone will relocate to tables (located in the Fitzroy Ballroom and Auditorium foyer in the Sofitel) to conduct small group discussions. Each small group of 8-10 participants will be facilitated by an anaesthetist colleague, who will facilitate the group in engaging in reflective discussion in a purposeful and respectful manner.

This session will create a safe, judgement free environment where you may discuss cases that you found interesting or challenging. For example, cases may feature because you learnt something particular or because it was unusual, presented a clinical, diagnostic, management or communication challenge or because it will change your practice moving forward etc.

We expect active participation from all members of the group. It also goes without saying that discretion and confidentiality will be needed to bear in mind.

Please bring a case along that you will be willing to discuss in your small group.

Formal case presentation is not required, a brief case outline and then discussion is all that is required. We do not want perceived lack of a case to be a barrier to attending. So, if you do not feel you have a suitable case, perhaps you would like to discuss a case that occurred a bit further in the past or that you witnessed, or a colleague was involved in. It is not necessary that an adverse outcome / morbidity or mortality occurred. When reflecting on your case in the group session, some questions to consider would include, for example:

- What happened?

- Why was it important?

- How might you have influenced things for a different outcome?

- How did this change your practice?

Accommodation

Accommodation for this event is not included within the registration fee and can be booked by contacting Sofitel Melbourne on Collins Hotel Reservations on +61 3 9653 0000 Or use the direct link here to book online.

If you wish to stay at the meeting venue it is advisable to book your accommodation early as the event falls over a weekend.

Continuing professional development

Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program will automatically have their attendance auto-populated to their CPD portfolio within 14 days of the conclusion of the meeting.

ANZCA and FPM CPD Program
This event is claimable by ANZCA and FPM CPD participants within the knowledge and skills, practice evaluation or emergency responses categories.

Category 1: Practice evaluation
Category 1: Practice evaluation – Morbidity & Mortality session
Category 1: Practice evaluation – Cultural Safety activity

Category 2: Knowledge and skills activities
Category 2: Knowledge and skills – learning sessions
Category 2: Knowledge and skills – short format learning

Category 3: Emergency responses activities
Where the outline states that the workshop satisfies an Emergency Response CPD requirement, the workshop will be prospectively recognised as suitable to be claimed as an emergency response activity.

Advanced Life Support (Cardiac arrest)
Anaphalaxis
Obstetric Haemorrhage

If you're not a member of our CPD program
If you’re not participating in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program, please check with your respective college/provider regarding your CPD classifications. Post-event, you may request an electronic certificate of attendance for CPD evidence from the event coordinator.