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Critical Care Summit 2023
About The Event
Critical Care Summit 2023 - Early Bird tickets now on sale
Date: 25 & 26 May 2023
Location: Twin Towns Conference and Function Centre, Tweed Heads, New South Wales and Live Streamed
Conference Theme: Contemporary care through collaboration
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Critical Care Summit 2023
A brand-new event on the conference calendar, Critical Care Summit 2023 will be an Australasian conference aimed at providing a targeted education and engagement for critical care practitioners including paramedics, nurses and emergency and retrieval physicians.
Critical Care Summit 2023 will create an environment which is inclusive of all clinicians who are involved in complex patient care. This event aims to provide education for critical care clinicians and those wanting to learn more about critical care practice; improve and foster the relationship between the professions of paramedicine, nursing and medicine; and provide a pathway for aspiring critical care clinicians to become involved.
Through two days of case-based learning, attendees will experience multi-faceted and interactive presentations centred around complex patient care. We aim to foster learning, collaboration and sharing of knowledge in a supportive and engaging environment.
Click here to view the conference program.
Keynote presenter: Dr Sanj Fernando
Sanj Fernando is an Emergency Physician working at Liverpool in Sydney. He has worked in aeromedical retrieval and pre-hospital care for over 20yrs. He is currently a NSW state retrieval consultant. He is also one of the two Co- Directors of Developing EM which is a not for profit organization that seeks to support acute care and critical care services across the globe. In 2016 he commenced a collaboration with the Suwasiriya (the Sri Lankan ambulance service) to build a service from the ground up. It now services the whole country with a population of 21 million people. He has worked to further acute medical training in Cambodia, Myanmar, PNG, The Solomon islands, Fiji, Cuba, Brazil Nepal and elsewhere. He is currently setting up a global EMS group to share training, experiences, case discussions and protocols amongst developing EMS systems around the world.
Early Bird Tickets available until 31 March 2023
Further information
Whats included in your ticket
Face to Face attendee inclusions:
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea (two full days)
- Drinks and light canapes during debate (16:45 – 18:30, 25 May)
- One months' exclusive access to all conference session recordings
- Opportunities to socialise and network with peers and presenters.
- Conference attendee bag
Online attendee inclusions:
- One months' exclusive access to all conference session recordings
Accomodation: The Sebel Twin Towns and Mantra Twin Towns is offering all Critical Care Summit delegates 10% off* the Daily Accommodation Rate. For more information - Click here
Sponsors: Interested in sponsoring this event? Please email georgia.coetzee@paramedics.org
Speakers
Dr Sanj Fernando
Sanj Fernando is an Emergency Physician working at Liverpool in Sydney. He has worked in aeromedical retrieval and pre-hospital care for over 20yrs. He is currently a NSW state retrieval consultant. He is also one of the two Co- Directors of Developing EM which is a not for profit organization that seeks to support acute care and critical care services across the globe. In 2016 he commenced a collaboration with the Suwasiriya (the Sri Lankan ambulance service) to build a service from the ground up. It now services the whole country with a population of 21 million people. He has worked to further acute medical training in Cambodia, Myanmar, PNG, The Solomon islands, Fiji, Cuba, Brazil Nepal and elsewhere. He is currently setting up a global EMS group to share training, experiences, case discussions and protocols amongst developing EMS systems around the world.
Victoria Matheson
Victoria is a Consultant Emergency Specialist and Paediatrician based on the Gold Coast. She is currently seconded for a 6 month term working with the High Acuity Response Unit working out of Brisbane. She enjoys the challenge of Trauma and is loving the opportunity to hone her skills in the pre-hospital environment.
Tash Adams
Natasha Adams is a Senior Critical Care Paramedic with the Queensland Ambulance Service, working with the Brisbane High Acuity Response Unit. Her clinical interests include progressive trauma and medical care, clinical education and leadership development.
Matt Humar
Matt is an Intensive Care (MICA) Paramedic with Ambulance Victoria, where he has been a paramedic since 2009. Within Ambulance Victoria, Matt also currently works as a Patient Review Specialist. Since 2010, Matt has been a teaching associate with Monash University's undergraduate and postgraduate Paramedic degrees; and is a founding board member, and current secretary, of the Safe Airway Society. Matt is passionate about airway management and patient safety, and improving paramedic education, training, and practice in these areas.
Libby Hanrahan
Libby has worked in the prehospital world for NSW Ambulance for over 20 years. The last 10 years have been in the role of Critical Care Helicopter Paramedic. Even after 10 years she finds the role to be ever evolving with new learnings, challenges and of course amazing comradery with the crew she works alongside. She feels privileged to work alongside the most incredible Paramedics, pilots, air crewmen and doctors. ‘Everyone has worked their off to be in rescue and retrieval medicine – so when the work is on we are at our most fulfilled. I justifies all the hours of training.’
Dr Sam Bendall
Dr. Sam Bendall is an Emergency Physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, a Retrieval Specialist with CareFlight and NSW Ambulance and a State Retrieval Consultant with NSW Ambulance. She is the National Director of Education for CareFlight, and is passionate about improving human factors knowledge and skills to grow performance and safety, including using simulation to improve critical decision making. She is also one of the Deputy Directors of the Sydney Local Health District MDOK program focusing on leadership and performance at an individual, team and organisational level to improve clinician wellbeing
Hannah Latta
Hannah is a Critical Care Flight Paramedic working in Wellington and a postgraduate university lecturer at AUT University, New Zealand. Hannah has extensive experience in the ambulance and emergency care sector and is passionate about learning and continuing education to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care. Hannah is currently completing her doctoral studies and is investigating how ultrasound can be integrated into the resuscitation of patients who are in cardiac arrest. Her research aims to identify very ‘low flow’ states associated with pseudo-pulseless electrical activity. Hannah is a mum to Sam and enjoys adventures exploring the outdoors in her spare time.
Sam Burton
Sam Burton is an intensive care paramedic from regional Victoria with over a decade of in-hospital and prehospital experience. This perspective has led to Sam identifying ways to better improve patient care in a range of clinical applications. Sam has a strong focus on point of care ultrasound (POCUS) and has recently published research in this field. Sam has an ongoing commitment to the dissemination and sharing of knowledge from both his clinical and research practice. Sam has been involved in the development and delivery of numerous training programs to paramedics throughout Victoria and will bring a broad perspective to the stage.
Dr Emma West
Emma is an Emergency Physician with over 15 years experience working at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is interested in training junior doctors achieve their potential in the field of emergency medicine. Emma has a passion for helping trainees who struggle to pass exams and spends time working with them to support them through the stressful time. Emma also loves training doctors to be confident and capable trauma team leaders. She attempts to demonstrate kindness and good communication as the core attributes to successful team leadership.
Dr Cliff Connell
With more than 30 years nursing experience, Dr Cliff Connell has spent the last 24 years as an emergency Nurse, emergency Clinical Nurse Educator, Clinical Nurse Consultant university lecturer and researcher. A Fellow of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, he is the Deputy Director of Graduate Research and Senior Lecturer in Emergency Nursing at Monash Nursing and Midwifery (MNM), a Monash Health Emergency research fellow and a Monash University, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Research Fellow. Cliff’s work is translational research which aims to improve the safety and quality of care provision and outcomes for emergency department (ED) patients. In his program of research, he leads several projects related to current physiological assessment practice in the ED, its association with patient and system outcomes and improving these outcomes using computational support for clinical decision support systems. Cliff is a member of the First2Act research development team, a core project researcher of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAMTM) and producer and presenter of the This Emergency Life Podcast
Associate Professor/Dr Gayle Christie
UK trained Consultant with dual accreditation in Emergency and Pre-hospital Medicine with over 15 years experience working with HEMS, rapid road response, motorsport and secondary aeromedical retrieval services. Dr Gayle Christie began working with SJAWA in 2021 as the Deputy Medical Director and Clinical Lead for the Critical Care Paramedics and in September 2022 took up the role as Medical Director for the ambulance service. Gayle has a real passion for education and training as well as developing and expanding the scope of paramedic practice
Tony Reynolds
Tony has worked in Paramedicine for 16 years, 6 years in the HEMS Environment as a joint Rescue Crewman and Single operator Critcal Care Paramedic upon the RAC Rescue Helicopters operating out of the South West of Western Australia. Tony has previous background in remote area first aid in devoloping countries with expedition groups. He holds a Bachelor Of Education and Bachelor of Paramedicine with one of his favoured PD course being The Richard Levitan airway course held in Baltimore and Breath Hold course with apnea australia. If he has any spare time its usually spent amongst Left Hand Surf in WA.
Assoc Prof David Anderson
David is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria, an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital and an adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. He has trained and worked as a paramedic in Auckland and as a doctor in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. In addition to his intensive care fellowship he has spent time training in anaesthesia, prehospital and retrieval medicine and palliative medicine. He has a diploma in palliative medicine and is completing a masters in bioethics. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma, EMCO and bioethics. He has an embarrassingly large collection of Lego.
Dr Dan Bodnar
Dan is a Brisbane based Emergency Physician and Deputy Medical Director of the QAS. His work life is shared between the QAS, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital and Queensland Children’s Hospital. In his down-time he enjoys being a human crash test dummy for his 4 daughters who practice their latest JuJitsu submissions on him and being taken for a walk by his two Rhodesian Ridgeback at the crack of dawn.
Dr Jason Bendall
Dr Jason Bendall is a specialist anaesthetist, specialist paramedic and specialist prehospital & retrieval medicine physician. Jason works clinically as an anaesthetist at one of Australia’s busiest trauma hospitals with subspecialty interest in orthopaedic trauma. Jason is NSW Ambulances Director of Medical Service and is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health
Program Schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:30 | Welcome |
| 08:45 |
Conference Open
Marty Nichols |
| 09:00 |
Opening Keynote Presentation
Sanj Fernando |
| 09:40 | Morning Tea |
| 10:00 |
Session 1 - Paediatric Masterclass: The A’s, B’s and C’s
Victoria Matheson, Tash Adams, Matt Humar & Libby Hanrahan |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 |
Session 2 - The Art of Low Fidelity Simulation
Dr Sam Bendall, Hannah Latta, Sam Burton & Dr Emma West |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:20 |
Session 3 – Podcast recording (This Emergency Life – A Podcast)
Dr Cliff Connell. Interviewees TBA |
| 16:30 | Day 1 Close |
| 16:45 | Drinks and Debate - Critical Care Controversies |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:25 | Day 2 Welcome |
| 08:30 |
Session 1 - On the cutting edge: From the far east to the far west
Assoc Prof/Dr Gayle Christie, Hannah Latta & James Vine |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea |
| 11:00 |
Session 2 - Choose your own Adventure: adapting to challenges in Critical Care
Tash Adams, Sam Burton & Libby Hanrahan |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Session 3 - Rapid Fire
All remaining presenters |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:15 |
Keynote Discussion - Ethical Critical Care
David Anderson & Assoc Prof/Dr Gayle Christie, |
| 16:10 | Conference Close |
Thanks to all our sponsors for this event
Sponsor
Charles Sturt University
Charles Sturt is a leading provider of postgraduate online paramedic education. We offered Australia’s first paramedicine degree and our paramedics have been making a difference since 1994.
As Australia’s most experienced online university we know what it takes to manage study, work and family. Study full time or part-time and 100% online. If you’re a paramedic looking to transition into more diverse and challenging roles, choose to study the critical care or extended care specialisations from our new Master of Paramedicine (with specialisations), or start small with a graduate certificate and build to your masters.
Contact Details
Phone: 1800 275 278 (free call within Australia)
Online: study.csu.edu.au/contact-us
Monash University - Department of Paramedicine
The Department of Paramedicine is one of the leading Paramedic Departments in the world. Paramedicine was first established at Monash University in 1999 at the Peninsula Campus, Frankston and today continues to provide excellence in education, research and engagement. Our Department is recognised for producing paramedic graduates of high quality; having a strong focus on research excellence and engaging in our paramedicine community both local and internationally.
Contact Details
Address: Department of Paramedicine, Monash University, Building H, Level, Peninsula Campus, 47-49 Moorooduc Hwy, Frankston VIC 3199, Australia
Phone: 1800 666 274
Edith Cowan University
Established in 1991, Edith Cowan University (ECU) took the opportunity to reshape the way higher education is delivered in a distinctive and inspiring campus environment. ECU courses are developed in consultation with industry, and teaching staff have extensive industry experience and networks. It's why ECU students can expect work integrated learning placement opportunities, fieldwork, practicums and networking events as part of their studies. This approach has been rewarded with five-star ratings for undergraduate teaching quality over the past 16 years, along with consistently high ratings for overall education experience, skills development, student support and learning resources, as reported in the Good Universities Guide.
Contact Details
David Ford, Course Coordinator, Postgraduate Critical Care Paramedicine
Email: d.ford@ecu.edu.au Phone: +61 8 6304 3438
Alecka Miles, Course Coordinator, Postgraduate Community Paramedicine
Email: a.miles@ecu.edu.au Phone: +61 8 6304 2445
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Contact Details
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Contact Details
Phone: 1800 605 555
Email: info.aus@zoll.com
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