Facilitator: Richard Leslie

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Rash Behaviour

• Paediatric & neonatal dermatology

Facilitator: Elise & Tara

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Women’s Business

• Gynae topics for ED brains

Facilitator: Steph

0900-0945: Cases & things we have learned last week

0945- 1000: Coffee break 

1000-1100: ADEPT Study- Presenter: Dr Stephen MacDonald & Team

1100-1200: Sepsis and Vasopressor updates- Presenter: Dr Stephen MacDonald & Team

Facilitator: Elise

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 11:45pm - Paediatric Trauma

• Patterns of injury, head and neck trauma

11:45am - 1pm - Simulation

• Sim, debrief & Lunch

Facilitator: Steph

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Resuscitese

Facilitator: Elise & Jolmer

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Life in The Fast Lane - Fast Track medicine

• Dental

• Quinsy

• Wounds

Facilitator: Richard Leslie

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• Please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Feeling Territorial

• Stroke Syndromes

• Thrombolysis

• Mechanical Thrombectomy - literature update (Soultana)

Facilitator: Mechi & Tara

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Paediatrics

• Paediatric Life Support

• Non-Accidental Injury (NAI)

• Presentation from the AHC Paediatric Team

• Literature review:

  • Preoxygenation for Paediatric Procedural Sedation

  • Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Children

Articles above:

• Joyce Li, Baruch Krauss, Michael C. Monuteaux, Sarah Cavallaro, Eric Fleegler, Preprocedural Oxygenation and Procedural Oxygenation During Pediatric Procedural Sedation: Patterns of Use and Association With Interventions, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 84, Issue 5, 2024, Pages 473-485, ISSN 0196-0644. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064424002233

• Olejnik L, Lima JP, Sadeghirad B, Busse JW, Florez ID, Ali S, Bunker J, Jomaa D, Bleik A, Eltorki M. Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Children: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Feb 3:e245920. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.5920. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39899301; PMCID: PMC11791775. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39899301/

Facilitator: Russell

9am - 10am - Case discussions

• please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Orthopaedics

• Paediatric Hip conditions

• The Shoulder

• Trauma

• Trauma Simulation

Facilitator: Cindy

• Hands on plastering skills session

Facilitator: Elise

9am - 10am - Case discussions - please bring along interesting cases from the week to discuss

10am - 1pm - Sepsis

• Approach to Sepsis

• Antibiotics

• Fluid Resuscitation

• Vasopressors

WELCOME

Facilitator - Elise

Introduction to Albany

ACS outside the city

Killer ECGs

Treasure hunt

For auditing purposes - TBC% paediatrics

Bloody hot

Facilitator - Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Emergency Management of Severe Burns

1030 - Coffee

1045 - Massive transfusion protocols

1130 - Simulation: paediatric burns | haemorrhagic shock

1215 - Journal club: CRASH2 (volunteer please - 10min) | MATTERs (volunteer please - 10 min)

Paperchase
Origins of the Parkland formula
Viscoelastic testing vs conventional coagulation testing

For auditing purposes - 20% paediatrics

The hard stuff - sexual assault, NAI

Facilitator - Steph

0830- 0930 Case discussions

0930 COFFEE

0935- 1035 Sexual Assault in the ED - The EEK - Mrs Bethany Albonico

Please bring your pre-prepared questions to this session!!!

1035- 1100 Domestic Violence- Essentials we need to know and do (Volunteer please)

1100- 1130 Blunt neck injury including non-fatal strangulation (Volunteer please)

1130-1200 Forensic Emergencies- “Need to Know stuff” (Volunteer please)

• Injury description

• Evidence collection

1200 LUNCH

1215- 1300 NAI- a Paeds and ED perspective (Paeds Team +/- ED Team)

For auditing purposes - 25% paediatrics

Positive about gram negatives

Facilitator - Tom

0830 - Case discussions

0930 - FEAST trial video and discussion

1030 - Coffee

1045 - Critical Care Olympics: sepsis edition

For auditing purposes - 30% paediatrics

Crying infant, BRUE, HEADACHE

Facilitator - Elise

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Core content

For auditing purposes - 100% paediatrics

SWEET AND SALTY

Facilitator: Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | Radiology

0930 - Too sweet: DKA, EKA, AKA, PSK, JPS

1030 - coffee

1045 - Salt of the earth: fluid prescriptions, lazy man’s hyponatraemia

1130 - DKA resus simulation

1200 - Metabolic mayhem registrar talks: assessment and management in 15min or less

• Addison’s

• myxoedema

• thyroid storm

1245 - Registrar rapid review snap-shot: Fluid induced harm in the hospital (15min)

Paper chase:

Calcium, magnesium, phosphate metabolism PART 1

Calcium, magnesium, phosphate metabolism PART 2

Fluid induced harm in the hospital - start considering sodium

Thyrotoxic hypokalaemia paralysis

For audit purposes - 50% paediatrics

Rotational deformity

Facilitator - Richard

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Vertigo: BPPV / AVS / STROKE

For auditing purposes - TBC% paediatrics

Breathe easy

Facilitator - Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Ventilator circuit setup

0945 - Basic ventilator concepts and setup workshop

1030 - Coffee

1045 - Breath Easy: ventilation dogmas that need to die

1145 - Ventilator setups for different clinical scenario

1200 - Emergency action checklist scenarios

• unexplained hypotension

• unexplained hypoxia

• unexplained high CO2

• high airway pressure

Paper Chase:

Mechanical ventilation in obese ICU patients - from intubation to extubation

For auditing purposes - 15% paediatrics

Older Wiser Stronger

Facilitator - Steph

0830- 0930: Interesting cases, great saves, and what we have learned last week

0930: COFFEE

0935-1000: Geriatric EM - “Why to have some passion” - Steph

1000- 1030: “The Weak and the Dizzy- Pearls and Pitfalls” - Volunteer please

1030- 1100: “Mechanical fall? What’s the big deal?!” - Volunteer please

1100- 1130: “Managing agitation and pain in the elderly- or how to make ‘em better”. - Volunteer please

1130- 1200: Lunch

1200- 1230: Safe to discharge? (Home Safe Team)

Guests: Home Safe Team

For auditing purposes - 0% paediatrics

Non-coronary heart aches

Facilitator - Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Pulmonary embolus and pulmonary HTN

1030 - POCUS - lower limb DVT

1130 - Myocarditis / advanced haemodynamic management

1230 - Simulation: a pregnant pause

For auditing purposes - 10% paediatrics

Anaemia, haematological malignancy

Facilitator - Elise

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Core content

For auditing purposes - TBC% paediatrics

Agitated Patients and Psychiatric Emergencies

Facilitator - Steph

Lesson Plan:

0830- 0900 Case discussions- “What we have learned last week”

Interesting Imaging/Labs/ECGs to share

0900-1015 The Agitated Patient in ED

“Pass the Problem?!”

Outline your approach to the agitated patient in the ED

1015 COFFEE

1030- 1130 Psychiatric Emergencies- Q & A session with the experts (Dr Kelly Ridley & Team)

… and anything else YOU want to know….

Please bring your pre-prepared questions to this session!!!

1130 -1215 Tricky concepts we need to know-… Not just for the exam!

  “Duty of Care”

“Doctrine of Necessity”

“DAMA- when is it ok?”

Volunteers needed for all sessions – 15 min max.

1215 LUNCH

1230 OSCE Practice session

For auditing purposes - 15% paediatrics

Fingers crossed, it’s handy

Facilitator - Richard

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - LIMB TRAUMA / HAND AND WRIST INJURIES / AMPUTATION MX/ RING BLOCKS/ FISH HOOKS

For auditing purposes - TBC% paediatrics

SMART EM

Facilitator - Self-guided

0830 - OVERDIAGNOSIS

Overdiagnosis: when good intentions meet vested interests (Iona Heath)

• Reflection:

  • If definitions of disease are broadened to incorporate people previously deemed healthy, what will be the impact on pharmaceutical efficacy for treating the disease?

The inverted U curve and emergency medicine: Overdiagnosis and the law of unintended consequences (Daniel Fatovitch)

• Reflection

  • Why is it unwise to make diagnoses in the absence of symptoms?

Overdiagnosis: How Our Compulsion for Diagnosis May Be Harming Children (Coon et al)

• Reflection:

  • When did you last admit a child to hospital that didn’t need admission? What the factors surrounding the presentation that led to admission?

1030 - PREGNANCY

South Australian Coroner - Splenic artery aneurysm inquest findings

• Reflection:

  • How would you establish this time-critical diagnosis on a night shift?

Managing Acute Headache in Pregnant and Postpartum Women (Greige, Edlow)

• Reflection

  • What are you clinical test thresholds for further working up the pregnant patient with headache?

For auditing purposes - 20% paediatrics

Come on baby light my fire

Facilitator - Elise

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - PREMATURE LABOUR/PRECIPITOUS DELIVERY/PRE-ECLAMPSIA/MATERNAL COLLAPSE

For auditing purposes - 15% paediatrics

Feeling territorial

Facilitator - Rich

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Stroke syndromes; tPA in acute ischaemic stroke

For auditing purposes - 0% paediatrics

A better way to get plastered

Facilitator - Steph

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Plaster masterclass

For auditing purposes - 30% paediatrics

Hybrid - life in the slow lane + Broken Hearts

Facilitator - Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - Haemodynamic assessment

1030 - Coffee

1045 - haemodynamic assessment practical

1130 - fast track medicine

For auditing purposes - 35% paediatrics

Upper GI badness

Facilitator - Elise

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | radiology

0930 - UGIB etc

For auditing purposes - 0% paediatrics