SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS

Persuasion/Influence workshop

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 - 1530 then 1600 – 1800 (2 part workshop)

Cost: $200

Facilitator/s: Andrew Ottaway & Brian Henderson

Please join us for a half-day (four hour) workshop, led by Dr. Andrew Ottaway and Brian D. Henderson--course coaches for Professor Gary Orren's renowned course on persuasion from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, that will teach you how to be more effective influencers in your work and personal lives. Messrs. Ottaway and Henderson will introduce Prof. Orren's framework for approaching influence opportunities, which includes a number of the foundational and key principles of persuasion. You will receive a high-level summary of these principles, and then participate in role play and feedback exercises to help you wrestle with the persuasive challenges in your day to day activities. You will leave the workshop with the ability to recognise the importance of being more persuasive both personally and professionally, and with a practical toolkit to immediately implement and improve your persuasiveness using the framework and principles from the workshop.  

US Guided Regional Anaesthesia

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 - 1530 (Upper limbs and Trunk blocks) and 1600 – 1800 (Lower limbs, Caudal & Penile blocks)

Cost: $150

Facilitator/s: Trung Du

Come join us and polish up your ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia skills. Aimed at the beginner to intermediate skill level user, this workshop will focus on the basics of optimising your view and ergonomic set up to help you improve the speed of delivery and reliability of your regional blocks. Commonly used blocks of the upper and lower limbs and trunk, as well as neuroaxial techniques will be addressed. Our aim is to maximise your hands-on scanning time of the volunteer(ed) children, with guided teaching provided in small groups by our expert facilitators. 

Vascular access

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 – 1530

Cost: $150

Facilitator/s: Tricia Kleidon & Brett Chaseling

This 2-hour workshop will be delivered by local vascular access specialists with an emphasis on the acquisition of practical skill in difficult vascular access and PIVC insertion for use in the clinical environment.  Specific focus will be on inserting PIVC in the DIVA patient for optimal dwell and functionality. Designed in conjunction with clinicians, this course is specifically aimed at candidates that have little or no prior ultrasound experience. Hands on time is the focus with a 1:4 ratio.

Tools and Tricks from the World of Paediatric Hypnotherapy

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 – 1530

Cost: $100

Facilitators: Allan Cyna, Catherine Olweny & Anna Englin

You don’t have to be a qualified Hypnotherapist to achieve some truly amazing feats of communication. In this practical workshop you will be given some simple and easy tools for dealing with anxious children and parents. Guided imagery, yes sets, double binds and more, you will be surprised at the power and effectiveness of these basic techniques.

Mentorship & Clinical supervision 

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 – 1530 then 1600 – 1800 (2 part workshops)

Cost: $200

Facilitator: Paul Bailey

This workshop will address the needs of senior paediatric anaesthetists who take on the complex and emotionally demanding role of guiding and supervising trainees. At the heart of this training contract, there is a paradox: trainees seek supervision in order to hone their talent for the benefit of others. Yet, they soon become aware that by allowing a supervisor to shine a light on their own blind spots, their areas of vulnerability and of their not knowing, in the very doing of this, they come so close to shaming themselves or being shamed. Supervising requires skill and a particular sort of person to do this well, especially so since we live in a wider culture in which there is such a close link between shining and shaming. How can we reassure supervisees, as Leonard Cohen sang, to ‘forget your perfect offering; there is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in’.

In this workshop, we will be actively using the practice of clinical supervision, including the process of supervision of supervision, to assist you to engage more effectively in the professional supervision and/or mentoring you offer to those in training.

Pain PBLD

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 – 1530

Cost: $60

Facilitator: Mark Alcock

The pain PBLD will talk through a series of complex acute pain cases that will generate discussion on topics such as age and developmentally appropriate acute pain assessment, opioid selection for post-operative pain management, the use of clonidine, antiepileptics, antidepressants and lignocaine infusions on the acute pain round, and the use of ketamine in young children.    

Paeds CICO

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1330 – 1530 (plus travel time)

Venue: QCH Sim Centre

Cost: $150

Facilitator/s: Mike Ranger

This workshop is aimed at consultants and trainees (Fellows) who regularly anaesthetise children and who wish to update and refresh skills in managing children with a difficult airway. The workshop aims to discuss and put into practice the management of the anticipated and unanticipated Difficult Paediatric Airway. Different age groups with varying airway challenges will be used to demonstrate and achieve this. 

Vascular access master class

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1600 – 1800

Cost: $150

Facilitator/s: Tricia Kleidon & Brett Chaseling

This interactive workshop has an advanced vascular access practitioner in mind.  It is designed to challenge current vascular access techniques and infusion therapy practices to consider innovative alternatives that will better suit the long-term requirements of the patient after they leave the operating room theatre.  

If you’re interested in

• Optimising exit sites for standard PICC and CVCs through simple tunnelling techniques

• Use of ECG guidance as an alternative to CXR

• Consideration of alternative devices PIVC v midline, midline V PICC, PICC v tunnelled non-cuffed CVC

• Optimising post insertion care and maintenance to prolong function and reduce complications

This workshop is for you.

EPIC Master Class - Hypnotic Techniques for Managing Paediatric Pain

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1600 - 1800

Cost: $100

Facilitator/s: Jody Thomas

Presented by our invited Overseas Speaker – Dr Jody Thomas. Jody is a Clinical Psychologist in Denver Colorado, a faculty member of the National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute and on the faculty of Stanford Medical School. Jody has extensive experience and expertise in managing paediatric pain.  She is involved in the integration of hypnosis with pain management and has a number of projects designed to educate and empower individuals in regard to pain. 

This masterclass is intended for those with some experience of pediatric hypnotherapy either through formal training or having experienced previous workshops with Allan Cyna. Hypnotherapeutic approaches to paediatric pain management will be taught with an emphasis on experiential learning.

Dr. Jody Thomas is a licensed clinical psychologist, and specialist in pediatric medical illness, trauma, and pain who lectures internationally on these topics. A well-known expert in pediatric pain, she is also a founder and the former Clinical Director of the Packard Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center at Stanford. She is a former Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and currently serves as Adjunct Faculty providing supervision and teaching for faculty and trainees in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry. As an active consultant for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, she directs projects for the institution on the integration and innovation of pain management and hypnosis. Her current projects include developing video based interventions to empower children and families around issues of pain management (“You Are The Boss of Your Brain”: https://youtu.be/UbK9FFoAcvs). Recently, she has also partnered with Dr. Leora Kuttner to found and serve as Executive Director of the Meg Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to closing the gap between research and clinical practice regarding pain prevention and management in children through empowerment and education. She currently practices in Denver, Colorado.

LBO* like a pro. Sharing the airway in ENT PBLD

Date: 17/10/2019

Time/s: 1600 – 1800

Cost: $60

Facilitator/s: Tony Sousalis

To breathe or not to breathe? To gas or not to gas? This PBLD will take you through the journey of managing the shared airway in common and more complex paediatric airway scenarios.  Exploring applied anatomy, preop assessment, non-technical skills, specialised ENT equipment and techniques required to anaesthetise and maintain oxygenation and ventilation. This will include a framework of evidence and tips from the experts… helping to equip us in the challenges of sharing the paediatric airway.

*LBO - Laryngo Broncho Oesophagoscopy

MEPA FC (Managing Emergencies in Paediatric Anaesthesia for Consultants)

Date: 19/10/2019

Time/s: 0800 - 1230

Cost: $400

Facilitator/s: Dan Boyd

The MEPA FC course provides a comprehensive update in paediatric anaesthesia and resuscitation of the sick child for those who undertake an occasional paediatric list, provide out of hours care or may be involved in the care of the sick child.  Participants in the ANZCA CPD program may claim this Major Haemorrhage/Anaphylaxis course as an emergency response activity in their CPD portfolio.

High flow tips

Date: 19/10/2019

Time: 0830 - 1000

Cost: $80

Facilitator/s: Susan Humphreys

Tips for High/Flow use with case-based discussions

Caudal/Neuraxial Master class

Date: 19/10/2019

Time: 0830 - 1000

Cost: $150

Facilitators: David Sandeman & Stuart Blain

This workshop will cover neuraxial blocks in paediatric anaesthesia.  The workshop will have 2 work stations each of about 40-minute duration.  One station will consider in detail caudal blocks, traditional landmark techniques and use of ultrasound whilst the other station will look at epidural and paraaxial ultrasound techniques

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