Your monthly digest of professional document developments.

Auckland’s Professor Simon Mitchell discussed the Thai cave rescue on Radio NZ’s Nights program.

Dr Melissa Viney has been appointed as director of professional affairs (DPA) for FPM Education.

Congratulations to the candidates who were successfully elected to the FPM Board.

The faculty welcomes Dr Kieran Davis to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Pain Medicine.

ANZCA fellow Associate Professor Kerstin Wyssusek, Director of the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, has received two 2019 Queensland Health Awards for Excellence.

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A large scale trial by Monash University has definitively found a drug commonly used during anaesthesia before surgery to prevent nausea and vomiting does not increase the risk of a surgical wound infection as once feared.

The Perioperative Medicine Steering Committee (POMSC) reports to the ANZCA Council on the development and implementation of an effective integrated perioperative care model and education offerings for Australia and New Zealand.