Concurrent Sessions Audio

• Paediatrics Updates: expanding frontiers in clinical knowledge from neonates to adolescents. A conversation about complex cases from metro, rural and paediatric perspectives. Holly Smith, Jo Rainbow and Mary McCaskill

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for CO poisoning - Nick Buckley
• Anticholinergic delirium - Andrew Dawson
• Digoxin poisoning - Betty Chan
• APAP poisoning - Angela Chiew
• Drug facilitated crime - Naren Gunja
• Illicit drug poisoning - Shaun Greene

• Integrated emergency medicine, the next frontier: beyond process improvement towards a patient-focussed future - Andrew Staib and Clair Sullivan
• Optimising EDSSU function: what matters - Amith Shetty
• Achieving Emergency Treatment Performance (ETP) using computer simulation of short stay unit occupancy – an App for managers - Michael Hession
• Digital disruption: preparing and smoothing the path to large scale digital transformation - Andrew Staib and Clair Sullivan
• Creating a great working environment, quality care, and an efficient ED: why staff wellbeing is vital - Bethany Boulton
• Q and A discussion

• Configuration of a standardised approach to patients > 65 years old presenting to ED with a fall - Ouday Wahbi
• Is Minimal Intervention as Effective as Routine Immobilisation in Adults with an Uncomplicated Closed Neck of 5th Metacarpal Fracture? The Buddy Study - Richard Pellatt
• Emergency department initiation of secondary prevention for retinal artery occlusion/amaurosis fugax following adaptation of an evidence-based treatment pathway at a specialist eye hospital - Lauren Sanders
• Use of simulation to improve performance and introduce protocol changes for “code stroke" - Lauren Sanders
• Message in a Bottle: How evidence based medicine and a program change model were used to improve asthma management in a low income Emergency Department in Papua New Guinea - Rebecca Heath
• Hand hygiene and the Hawthorne effect in the emergency department - June Yong Shin

• Homeland security and disaster resilience - from the Australian Government to Local Councils - Paul Barnes
• Australasian disasters of national significance - Kavita Varshney
• Thunderstorm asthma, a predictable medical disaster - Shane Curran
• The 2016 Victorian "Thunderstorm Asthma" event: views from the front-line - Simon Craig
• Reviews, inquiries, evaluation and monitoring - How Victoria has applied an assurance overlay to its emergency management system - Tony Pearce

• The parlous state of consumer protection from healthcare fraud - Professor John Dwyer
• Acupuncture, what's the evidence? - Sue Ieraci
• NPS Medicinewise: Choosing Wisely Update and Future Initiatives - Rachel Holbrook
• A Champion Hospital perspective on choosing wisely - Simon Judkins
• WISER Healthcare: To Prevent Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Australia - Stacy Carter
• Discussion

• Understanding the variability in the diagnostic approach to subarachnoid haemorrhage: a qualitative study - Kevin Chu
• Is shock index a valid predictor of mortality for emergency department patients? - Kuan Peng and David Teng
• Undetectable High-Sensitivity Troponin T in the Emergency Department - Angela Chiew and Katrin Mannes
• Prevalence and nature of medication-related problems presenting to and associated with ED care - Simone Taylor
• Ultrasound scan as the radiological modality for adult male patient suspected as acute appendicitis; how it affects patient quality of care? Qatar experience - Maha Ahmed
• The utility of Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in Emergency Department ; An observational study - Pourya Pouryahya

• The ED of the future - Gerry Fitzgerald
• IHPA ED costing study: findings and future steps in costing ED activity - James Downie
• Toward Revalidation in Australia - Joanna Flynn
• CPD changes - Andrew Dean
• Facilitated Panel Q and A

• Research training and problem solving for novice and early career Emergency Medicine Researchers Speaker - Chris Armstrong (Trainee) Research “I had no idea…” followed by panel discussion of issues.

• An interactive workshop that explores the difficult aspects of mentoring partnerships and challenging conversations with mentees. Through a range of challenging scenarios, workshop participants will learn to foster dialogue by developing skills through constructive conversation designed specifically to support and encourage mentees. Nicole Liesis, Melanie Rule, Paula O'Sullivan and Jules Wilcocks

• ‘The State of Play in Australasian EDs - Improving patient outcomes with POCUS’ - Mark Rewi and Mick Killeen
• Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups: - Join the POCUS (R)evolution! - Brian O’Connell
• How can we ensure our trainees are better at bedside ultrasound? - Simon Chu
• Co-directors/Faculties of Emergency Ultrasound in teaching hospitals - What do they do, and are they necessary? - Gaby Blecher
• ‘Planting the SEEDs’ - Sonography Educators in the ED - Tina Cullen & Carolyn
• ‘Setting up a local Training Program for Registrars/FACEMs - How to do to it… and how not to do it!’ - Scott Flannagan

• Barriers to providing optimal care of psychiatric patients in the emergency department - Mahesha Dombagolla
• Risk stratification of suicide in the ED - Gregory Carter
• Applying Mental Health legislation to your ED patient - Chris Ryan
• Principles of an ideal environment for mental health care - Mary Potter-Forbes
• Utility of computed tomography imaging of the brain in a poisoned population presenting to the emergency department with an altered mental state - Joash Arnold
• Sedation for Acute Agitation in Emergency Department Patients: Targeting Adverse Events (SIESTA) - Celene YL Yap

• Validation of the qSOFA tool for screening patients at risk of death or prolonged ICU stay - David Taylor
• Charlson Comorbidity Score combined with qSOFA score to predict mortality in sepsis - Stephen Macdonald
• The Effect of Prolonged Tourniquet Time on Lactate Concentrations (LaTTE Study) - Angela Chiew and Christine
• Antibiotic timing in infants with suspected sepsis or bacterial infection in an Australian tertiary paediatric emergency department - Wei Hao Lee
• Epidemiology of sepsis and the health and economic outcomes of patients that survive critical illness - Kelly Thompson
• Future directions in sepsis clinical management and research - Amith Shetty

• Violence in the Emergency Department; A two centre staff survey - Pourya Pouryahya
• Retrospective Evaluation of Repeated Supratherapeutic Ingestion (RSTI) of Paracetamol - Harry Egan
• Poisons Information Centre Follow Up Study - Therese Becker
• Intentional self-poisoning – impossible to catch in current format New Zealand national registry data? - Eeva-Katri Kumpula
• The effect of trampoline arenas on trauma at Christchurch hospital - Lloyd Roffe
• Effective triage in a resource-limited environment: Development and implementation of the Solomon Islands Triage Scale - Rob Mitchell and Lynne Wanefalea

• Feedback through the looking glass: Trainer and trainee perspectives - Victor Lee and Jessica
• Tips and traps in tele-medical education - Ioana Vlad
• Teamwork and communication processes among resuscitation teams using in situ simulation training: an observational study of fidelity - Jonathon Knott
• The ACEM Critical care airway modules - Liz Mowatt
• Teaching medical students: is what EPs and EDs offer under-recognised? - Geoff Couser
• Dr. Google in the emergency department - Anthony Cocco and Jennie Hutton

• New Fellows Survey: what you told us - Katie Moore
• A Hospital Administrator's Tale - Philip Hoyle
• FACEM Night Shifts - Not prime time - Richard Paoloni
• Staffing the ED Short Stay Unit - Garry Wilkes
• The remote ED - Julia De Boos
• FACEM transition to retirement: a new frontier? - John Morgan

• Collaboration through health research to improve outcomes for acutely ill older adults presenting to emergency - Marianne Wallis
• Assessment of the utility and acceptability of a new ‘goals of care and not for cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ documentation - Katie Walker and William Dunlop
• End of Life Decisions are made in the Shadow of the Law - Susan Hertzberg
• Exploring end of life emergencies and care for the dying elderly. Discussion Q and A - Louis Christie, Bill Lukin and Ian Rogers

• The new Selection into FACEM Training (SIFT) process - Simon Chu
• The Training Program 2 years on – The Road Forward from the College and Trainees Perspective - Peter White & Jess Forbes
• Development of the Pre-Hospital & Retrieval Medicine Diploma - Mark Elcock and Anna Kaider
• New RPL policy for credit from FACEM Training Program to the EMC/EMD qualifications - Barry Gunn
• New Resources & Courses for supervisors of ACEM trainees - Lyn Johnson
• Discussion Q and A

• Emergency department staff perceptions and experiences during the implementation of the four hour rule/national emergency access target in Australia: a social dynamic perspective - Roberto Forero
• Describing the experiences of social workers in a tertiary emergency department - Alex Markwell
• Improving acute cardiac and stroke treatment times by streamlining multi-disciplinary communication: Preliminary results for the PulsaraTM App Pilot - Kathleen Bagot
• DEM Medicine Wise - David Hughes
• Thunderstorm Asthma management during a Code Brown in a hospital with broad implementation of electronic prescribing and clinical documentation - Simone Taylor
• "Bare below the elbows" quality improvement project shows persistent improvement after a limited feedback intervention - David Herd

1. Why ECMO?
2. Introduction toECMO/Circuit/short video
3. Case presentations and Panel discussion - Cardiac arrest and the use of VA ECMO - Cardiogenic shock from poisoning and the use of VA ECMO - Respiratory failure: eg: asthma and the use of VV ECMO
4. Questions and answers
5. Conclusion

Sean Scott, Peter McCanny, Betty Chan, Angela Chiew and Natalie Kruit

• Validation of a clinical decision rule to rule out computed tomography of the brain in non-traumatic patients - Joshua Scott-King
• Can the introduction of a simple decision support tool reduce unnecessary ED chest x-rays? - Caroline Lam
• Straight Leg Elevation to Rule out Pelvic Injury - Caroline Bolt
• Potential Risk Factors for Suboptimal Pelvic Binder Placement in Major Trauma - Pamela Martin-Dines
• Analgesia in the Emergency Department: Why some patients just don’t get it - David Taylor
• The reliability of venous blood gas sodium and potassium - Pourya Pouryahya

• Mandatory training overload - Alice through the looking glass - Stephen Gourley
• The Utstein approach to defining Emergency Department parameters – a Global Collaboration - Melinda Truesdale
• Procedural errors from EMER- future challenges and opportunities - Thomas Chan
• Is it impossible to avoid diagnostic error in Aortic Dissection? Perspective from cases in Emergency Medicine Events Register - Kim Hansen
• Beginning an E-Quest - Emergency Quality, Education and Safety Teleconference for smaller EDs -Gabby Mane and Joe Marwood
• Discussion

• Pathways for Pulmonary embolism diagnosis: current evidence - Paul Buntine
• Massive PE diagnosis and Treatment - David Mountain
• Pulmonary embolism diagnosis in pregnancy - Ann Maree Kelly
• Use of the New Anticoagulants and associated problems? - Chris Ward

• Towards a 'best' measure of emergency department crowding: lessons from current Australasian practice - Peter Jones
• 2017 Access Block Point Prevalence Study - Drew Richardson
• Impact of the national emergency access target on time-based and admission-related outcomes in emergency departments in NSW, ACT and QLD - Nicola Man and Roberto
• Effect of patient flow intervention on inpatient length of stay and readmission rate - Drew Richardson
• Gaming the NZ Emergency Department target. How does it vary between hospitals, and why? - Peter Jones
• The four-hour rule/national emergency access target and its impact on 30-day mortality among admitted patients: a trend analysis of record-linkage data from WA, NSW, QLD and ACT - Hanh Ngo

• Dividing FACEM time between Public and Private: an opportunity to avoid burnout? - Georgina Hayden
• How to set up a new Private ED - Barry Chan
• Scribes: All you need to know - Katie Walker
• A FACEM in your pocket - Justin Bowra and Kylie Baker
• Explaining the new Medicare schedule proposal - Michael Ben-Meir
• Discussion

• Improving local systems in cardiac arrest response - Paul Middleton
• Thoracic park (chest ultrasound) - Pourya Pouryahya
• The Accuracy of Pelvic Binder Placement in Major Trauma - Fran Williamson
• Endotracheal intubation in the semiprone position during massive regurgitation - Espen Fevang
• Endoscopic decontamination reduces risk of life threatening poisoning - Betty Chan
• Discussion

• Sedating children – tricks to use to reduce the tears from staff or patients - Kate O’Mahony, Tom Wallis and Kristy Ross
• Clinically important traumatic brain injuries in children's' sports - a prospective PREDICT cohort study - Nitaa Eapen
• Diagnostic Accuracy Of Clinical Gestalt In Paediatric Appendicitis In Australian Emergency Departments - Wei Hao Lee
• Paediatric abdominal pain: Prevalence, patterns and clinical outcomes in Australian emergency departments - Wei Hao Lee
• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Ceftriaxone at Home versus Flucloxacillin in Hospital for Moderate/Severe Cellulitis in Children - Laila Ibrahim

• Snake envenomation - Geoff Isbister
• The blood gas interpretation of Toxic Alcohol ingestions - Zeff Koutsogiannis
• Corrosive injury - Alan Gault
• Overdose related lactic acidosis - Kylie McArdle
• Intralipid use - Andis Graudins

• Facilitators: Magnolia Cardona-Morrell and Sally McCarthy

• Emergency Telehealth Service - WA: Onwards, Upwards, Outwards - Justin Yeung
• Addressing Domestic Violence in the remote ED: a different paradigm - Julia De Boos
• Safe transfer of the remote behaviourally disturbed patient - Peter Clark
• International Emergency Medicine Update: Around the Globe; updates on EM activities from all regions - Anna Davis, Megan Cox, Jennifer Rush and Brady Tassicker

• Knowledge implementation and translation. Build this into your project to maximise funding - Doron Ben-Meir
• Consent – Issues around research without informed consent in ED - Jeremy Furyk
• Consumers in research. Ethics and funder expectations. The WA experience - David McCutcheon
• A new Emergency Medicine Clinical Trials Network – why bother. Positioning Emergency Medicine in the research funding landscape - Ed Oakley
• Panel and open forum discussion

• Cerebro vascular trauma - Ian Civil
• Emergency Room Thoracotomy - Kate Martin
• Trauma Panscans; benefit or harm? - Dinesh Varma
• Acute Trauma Coagulopathy Latest advances - Elissa Milford
• Q and A Session

• Introduction and current status - ACEM improving RRR EM - Sally McCarthy
• ACEM Rural Regional EM Workforce Project - Tim Baker
• Getting the right doctors in the right place with the right skills and keeping them there - Jessica Tidswell
• EMET: Boosting the quality of emergency care in rural and regional Queensland - Sheree Conroy
• Emergency Medicine Certificate & Diploma: from vision to reality - Derek Holroyd
• Discussion

• Lai Heng Foong, Nicole Liesis, Katina Verelis, Balwinder Sidhu and Linda Boney

• Aruna Chaminda (Sri Lanka)
• Patrick Toito’ona (Solomon Islands)
• Aung Myo Naing (Myanmar)
• Chaudhuri Sonai Giri (Nepal)
• Maw Maw Oo (Myanmar)
• Discussion

• Learning from other ED builds. Royal Adelaide Hospital ED - Tony Eliseo - Fiona Stanley Hospital ED- Ian Dey
• Insights from the planning team at Health Infrastructure - Jenny Green
• Integrating Evidence Based Practice, Design, and Technology in to Emergency Department Design - Keith Joe
• Placemaking: creating healing environments for staff and patients in the Emergency Department - Ian Forbes
• Facilitated panel discussion

• Essentials of Focused Lung Ultrasound in the ED How A, B and C profile interpretation will improve your ED assessment - Luke Phillips
• Integrating Lung US into clinical decision making - Kylie Baker
• What a respiratory physician is looking for from Emergency POCUS - Ben Kwan
• UTEC 2.0 via the Emergency Care Institute Online POCUS Learning for Emergency Clinicians - John Mackenzie
• The expanding POCUS Network - The wave is coming - Kate Jutsum with EMUGs Trainee team
• International Emergency Ultrasound What can we learn for Australasian EDs? - Scott Stirling and Justin Bowra

• Working with the WHO in international disaster responses – delivering emergency care in impossible situations - Rick Brennan
• Emergency Care Systems in conflict and disaster; resilience, access and advocacy - Natalie Thurtle
• Emergency Care and health systems strengthening - do we have an advocacy problem? - Joel Negin
• Capacity development for emergency care – what is going on? - Anne Creaton
• Panel discussion All speakers + Gerard O'Reilly and Vivek Lal (Fiji)

• Structuring Training 1. Making my training work for me - Michael Edmonds
• Structuring Training 2. EM Training: choose your own adventure - Warren Adie
• Career Insights: What I know now that I didn't know then - Tatiana Lowe
• My EM Career - Natalie Thurtle
• Parenting and EM: Getting the balance right - Jo Dalgleish
• Q and A Discussion

• Impact of the NEAT on ambulance ramping: preliminary analysis of linked administrative data from three Australian states (WA, NSW, and QLD) - Hanh Ngo
• Who Should Resuscitate the Trauma Patient? - Gary Tall
• It's Time: Credentialing in Retrieval Medicine - Sam Bendall
• Training HEMS Teams for Performance - Cliff Reid
• Pre-hospital paediatric intubation: systematic review and real life practice - Alan Garner
• Evidence and Policy in prehospital care: not always in synch - Alan Garner