Join the Trauma Emergency Medicine Network for this essential webinar on preparing for one of the most high-stakes incidents we can face – mass casualty events.
Explore the challenges in maintaining mass casualty readiness, including the system and health structure barriers leading to underpreparedness. Hear about the importance of system integration, planning and multidisciplinary and multiagency training – and how better preparation strengthens our response and saves lives when every second counts.
Professor Michael Muller, a senior staff acute care and burns surgeon, will discuss the development of the Australian major burns plan, the impact of disjointed health services in providing burns care and what it takes to overwhelm the system. Michael will also focus on the introduction of the Stop the Bleed training program into the Australian context, noting the importance of first responders’ ability to intervene in mass casualty events to save lives by providing haemorrhage control.
Dr Nicole Sng is an emergency physician and Medical Director of TACT (Teamwork and Collaborative Training), with experience developing and delivering system testing through multidisciplinary and multiagency simulation. Nicole will cover the importance and impact of iterative exercises to improve familiarity across the organisation and identify system challenges and opportunities to strengthen trauma networks.
You can't predict a mass casualty event, but you can better prepare for one – register now.
This activity will meet one ACEM CPD hours.
Speakers
- A/Professor Frances Williamson, Deputy Director Trauma Service, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland
- Professor Michael Muller, Senior Staff Acute Care and Burns Surgeon, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland
- Dr Nicole Sng, Emergency Physician and Medical Director TACT, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland