OPTIONAL DISCUSSION GROUPS

The below optional discussion groups will be run on Friday and Saturday during the lunchtime break. You have the option of joining one discussion group per day at a cost of $20 each. Numbers are very limited per group so get in quick to secure your spot!

FRIDAY GROUPS

Squeaks, Squawks and Silence - avoiding bronchospasm
Britta Von Ungern Sternberg, Perth Children’s Hospital, WA

The aim of the discussion group is to interactively work through clinical cases around perioperative bronchospasm. If you have any special cases or questions, please email them through to me. Please watch the introductory video so that we all have the same foundations.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday the 30th of October!

Justin Skowno, Children’s Hospital Westmead, NSW

Your lunch-time break needs a little something, and the researchers from around NZ and Oz will provide it. Hear about HAMSTERs, CHEWYs, TREXs and many more curious multicentre beasts. Question the gurus, encourage the newbies and catch up with the cutting edge of SPANZA research, wherever you are.

Introduction to EPIC…Effective Peri-procedural Communication
Rob Laing, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA & Nicole Anderson, Queensland Children’s Hospital, QLD

EPIC provides a range of techniques and tips to help manage anxiety for children coming to anaesthesia, surgery and medical procedures Join us to find out more about EPIC, hear about the resources we are developing for the SPANZA EPIC website and for courses in the post-Covid future! This session is aimed at those unfamiliar with the language and imaginative techniques taught in the EPIC courses.  A case presentation and some specific real life examples will help you to help children have a positive hospital experience. 

SATURDAY GROUPS

Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia - Tips and tricks for a triumphant technique
Trung Du, Queensland Children’s Hospital, QLD

Feeling like you’ve got the basics of ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia? Well, here is a grab-bag of shimmering clinical pearls to pick and choose from to further finesse and develop your technique. Got a tip you want to share, found a new way of thinking about an old block, or just want to talk through an issue you’ve run into? Join us online for the panel discussion

High flow for children - should you? how should you? shouldn't you?
Susan Humphreys, Queensland Children’s Hospital, QLD

The recent integration of High-Flow Nasal Oxygenation (HFNO)into paediatric anaesthesia practice has demonstrated its ability to potentially change current airway management of children with normal and abnormal airways. It has been shown to be of benefit in both apnoeic and spontaneously breathing children. The ability to heat and humidify fresh gas, allows nasal delivery of flow rates ranging from 2L-70L/min which provides a positive distending pressure within the airway leading to a splinting effect. The weight-related flow rates also match peak inspiratory effort thus enabling a known fraction of inspired oxygen to be delivered. These advantages are currently being investigated in children with known abnormal airways requiring elective tubeless airway surgery to compare the incidence of hypoxemic events requiring rescue oxygenation between HFNO and low-flow   oxygenation devices in a multi-centre randomised controlled trial. (HAMSTER trial).  Its use as an apnoeic oxygenation technique during emergency intubation in both Emergency Department and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, (KIDS THRIVE), is another multi-centre RCT which aims to determine if high-flow nasal apnoeic oxygenation can reduce the incidence of hypoxemia and other adverse events associated with this procedure in children.

EPIC Discussion - Considering opportunities for Perioperative Anxiety Management Referral at your local institution
Alex Donaldson, Queensland Children’s Hospital QLD, Anna Englin, Monash Children's Hospital, VIC and Natasha Epari, Perth Children's Hospital, WA

This discussion group will be focusing on the opportunities for Anaesthetists to set up perioperative and procedural anxiety services at there local institutions.

For those with an interest in perioperative and procedural anxiety and who would like to consider how to develop a system to support patients at their local hospital.

Discussions will include three viewpoints - 
1. A newly established service. - with simple approaches and multidisciplinary communication .
2. An established service moving towards hospital wide cultural change for procedural support for painful procedures.
3. The role of Anaesthetists in establishing the use of formal hypnosis in practice.