OPTIONAL SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS
Practical hypnosis and communication
Facilitator: Allan Cyna
Cost: $150
Children live in a hypnotic state of play and make-believe most of the time. This workshop aims to demonstrate how this aspect of their lives can be utilised by the paediatric anaesthetist to:
1. Smooth out a gas induction,
2. Facilitate IV cannulation in an awake child
3. Reduce the need for pharmacological premedication and
4. Promote patient comfort and safety both preoperatively and postoperatively.
Many paediatric anaesthetists use hypnotic techniques and subconscious communications often without fully appreciating fully what they do to achieve the patient’s cooperation or the language structures underlying this learnable and teachable skill.
This workshop aims to demonstrate how paediatric anaesthetists can discover how children can anaesthetise body parts without pharmacological anaesthesia and how to learn and teach self-hypnosis to older children and adolescents.
The workshop will include hot topics in placebo and nocebo research, Awake suggestions suitable for clinical paediatric practice, brief hypnosis techniques for managing pain, needle phobia and as the sole anaesthetic or as an anaesthetic adjunct for minor surgery.
By the end of this workshop participants will appreciate how to:
- Avoid inadvertent negative suggestions and their adverse consequences.
- Experience and teach “believed in imagination”, “the steeple technique” - a rapid 3-minute self-hypnosis.
Advanced techniques will also be demonstrated including how to use the Switch wire imagery technique for rapid hypnotic anaesthesia in the under 10s.
Management of the bleeding child
Facilitators: Bernhard Ziegler & Susan Goobie
Cost: $100
Our invited world renown experts in the management of blood loss during major paediatric surgeries, Susan Goobie and Bernhard Ziegler will be involved in this workshop. Case based scenarios will be used to explore the assessment and management of major blood loss in children. The clinical use and interpretation of point care testing (ROTEM) will be an important part of the workshop. This workshop runs just after the lecture session on paediatric transfusion topics to allow more detailed exploration of blood loss in children beyond that presented in the lectures. As well as being an excellent opportunity to discuss this topic with engaging experts, please note that participants in the ANZCA CPD program, may claim this major haemorrhage course as an emergency response activity in their CPD portfolio. Recognition code: ER-MH-012
Management of the difficult paediatric airway
Facilitators: Paul Baker, Yasmin Endlich, Greg Houghton, Paul Stricker, Todd Maddock, Fiona Taverner & Kris Usher
Cost: $150
This is a mainly hands-on workshop, teaching the management of predicted and un-predicted difficult airways in paediatric patients. International and national experts will share their experiences, teach how to use advanced airway equipment including flexible and rigid fiberscopes in a variety of different scenarios, assess the airway with the ultrasound and much more. An opportunity not to be missed by advanced and novice paediatric anaesthetists.
Anaesthesia in children with neuromuscular disorders and malignant hyperthermia
Facilitator: Catherine Olweny
Coordinator: Andrew Wallace
Cost: $60
This interactive workshop will consider the anaesthetic implications in the management of children with neuromuscular disorders through some interesting and challenging case based discussions. It will explore how to approach the preoperative assessment and the subsequent anaesthetic management of these children for a range of surgical procedures. It will also review the perioperative management of malignant hyperthermia susceptible patients undergoing diagnostic procedures.
Paediatric life support
Facilitator: Cath Powell
Cost: $150
This hands-on multi-station workshop will explore cardiac arrest in children using simulation. The facilitators are paediatric anaesthetists with an interest in simulation, teaching and managing critical situations in anaesthesia. There will be pre-reading and some homework is required to get the most out of this workshop. ANZCA CPD Emergency Response Code:ER-15-CA-022.
Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia for paediatric anaesthetists
Facilitator: Faith Crichton, Greg Houghton, Vasanth Rao, Kaushik Saha, Andrew Wallace & Nicole Wylie
Coordinator: Yasmin Endlich
Cost: $150
This workshop is designed for paediatric anaesthetists to understand the anatomic basics of ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and its application in children. The workshop will provide tips and tricks useful from novice to advanced ultrasound users. International and national experts in the field will share their knowledge, tips and tricks to perform up-to-date ultrasound guided blocks for paediatric patients. The use of real time ultrasound assessment of the spine, trunk and core blocks inclusive to new block techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Lots of hands on practice!
The theatre of magic
Facilitator: Andrew Ormandy
Coordinator: Rowan Ousley
Cost: $80
The power of magic is captivating and enchanting for children of all ages and quite often what appears complex is in fact very simple……it is all in the performance!
Humour, distraction, sleight of hand and misdirection are skills that allow magicians to perform illusions and tricks that baffle, amaze and entertain their audiences. This workshop has been specifically designed for paediatric anaesthetists to introduce magic as a ‘calming tool’ for patients preparing for theatre. Join Adelaide’s funniest clown magician ‘Bumbles the Clown’ for an entertaining hands-on magic master class that will introduce simple techniques and tricks that can be applied in an operating environment. Learn how to make a bright light jump from hand to hand, how to do the ‘paddle move’, make a silk disappear and have a laugh with the break-away wand along with other tips.
A ‘magic kit’ will be available for purchase for participants in the workshop to put learnings into practice ready for their first performance.
Warning: once you enter the world of a magician it will become addictive!
Cardiac kids for non-cardiac surgery PBL
Facilitator: Richard Ing
Coordinator: Cormac Fahy
Cost: $60
Richard Ing will lead this small group discussion in a problem based format. Richard is a very experienced and enthusiastic presenter with a major interest in Paediatric cardiac problems.
Case 1 - “A Fast and furious heart rhythm during routine nuclear medicine scan” - a child with previous AVSD repair having an unexpected tachyarrhythmia during a routine nuclear scan. Problems (and solutions) with a tachyarrhythmia and it’s management.
Case 2 - “Brochoscopy, Cath Lab, Laparotomy: Commonly Encountered Anesthetic Challenges in the Patient with the Fontan Circulation and Single Ventricle Anatomy” - problems (and solutions) encountered during a bronchoscopy, a cardiac catheterization and a laparotomy.
Persuasive presentation
Facilitator: Sharon Ferrier
Coordinator: Laura Burgoyne
Cost: $150
Public speaking is more than just being able to stand up and speak – we also need to be persuasive and influential.
In this interactive workshop you will learn:
• Managing your nerves and presenting with confidence
• Defining your presentation objectives
• Researching your audience
• Developing your topic
• Structuring your presentation so it is easy to follow
• The 5 steps for a persuasive presentation
• Posture & Gestures to highlight your message
• Using your voice to maintain interest and add credibility
• How to use notes effectively
• Thinking on your feet
• How to present effectively with PowerPoint
Neonatal anaesthesia PBL
Facilitator: Andrew Weatherall
Coordinator: Scott Ma
Cost: $60
Why on earth should I use NIRS for my next scary case? What use is another number in a theatre teeming with them? How can one know what to do with a low cerebral oximetry value when everything else looks fine? When does one see major declines in cerebral oxygenation in neonates undergoing surgery? Come along and be vigorously challenged to think about how you give an anaesthetic under the watchful eye of a cerebral oximeter.
ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP
"Meet the maker" wine masterclass
Cost: $60
Come face to face with the person who works passionately to make the wines you will be tasting. In this 1.5 hour masterclass, a winemaker will guide you through the origins, aromas and flavours of their wines in a fun and informal tasting session. Follow this with shared cheese and charcuterie platters at the National Wine Centre WINED bar.
OPEN FORUMS
All delegates welcome to attend the open forums.
Pain forum
Thursday 27 October
1430 - 1600
Three speakers will take us from recent discoveries in the neuroscience of pain to a difficult analgesic problem on a paediatric surgical ward. The session will culminate in a case based discussion involving our expert panel and members of the audience. Speakers include Mark Alcock, Fiona Taverner and Tasha Stanton.
Cardiac forum
Thursday 27 October
1630 - 1800
This forum is open to all delegates. Presenters will include Richard Ing, cardiac paediatric anaesthetist from Children's Hospital Colorado. Audience involvement is encouraged with ample time for questions and discussion. Please click here to view the agenda.
Airway forum
Saturday 29 October
1400 - 1530
This open forum will explore interesting and controversial paediatric airway issues with case presentations, mini-debates and a short presentation. Audience involvement is encouraged and there will be ample time for questions and discussion. The faculty includes Paul Stricker, Bernhard Ziegler and Paul Baker as well as local airway experts.
Research forum
Saturday 29 October
1600 - 1730
This forum includes: Paediatric Systematic Reviews - Trials and Tribulations (David Costi, Allan Cyna) So you’re thinking about undertaking a systematic review…… Based on our own experiences we’ll look at the good, the bad and the ugly including the important question of whether to Cochrane or not to Cochrane?; Editor-in-Chief’s favourite papers of 2016 published in Pediatric Anesthesia (Andrew Davidson); An opportunity to discuss current and future projects including collaborative research projects.
Practical hypnosis and communication
Facilitator: Allan Cyna
Cost: $150
Children live in a hypnotic state of play and make-believe most of the time. This workshop aims to demonstrate how this aspect of their lives can be utilised by the paediatric anaesthetist to:
1. Smooth out a gas induction,
2. Facilitate IV cannulation in an awake child
3. Reduce the need for pharmacological premedication and
4. Promote patient comfort and safety both preoperatively and postoperatively.
Many paediatric anaesthetists use hypnotic techniques and subconscious communications often without fully appreciating fully what they do to achieve the patient’s cooperation or the language structures underlying this learnable and teachable skill.
This workshop aims to demonstrate how paediatric anaesthetists can discover how children can anaesthetise body parts without pharmacological anaesthesia and how to learn and teach self-hypnosis to older children and adolescents.
The workshop will include hot topics in placebo and nocebo research, Awake suggestions suitable for clinical paediatric practice, brief hypnosis techniques for managing pain, needle phobia and as the sole anaesthetic or as an anaesthetic adjunct for minor surgery.
By the end of this workshop participants will appreciate how to:
- Avoid inadvertent negative suggestions and their adverse consequences.
- Experience and teach “believed in imagination”, “the steeple technique” - a rapid 3-minute self-hypnosis.
Advanced techniques will also be demonstrated including how to use the Switch wire imagery technique for rapid hypnotic anaesthesia in the under 10s.
Management of the bleeding child
Facilitators: Bernhard Ziegler & Susan Goobie
Cost: $100
Our invited world renown experts in the management of blood loss during major paediatric surgeries, Susan Goobie and Bernhard Ziegler will be involved in this workshop. Case based scenarios will be used to explore the assessment and management of major blood loss in children. The clinical use and interpretation of point care testing (ROTEM) will be an important part of the workshop. This workshop runs just after the lecture session on paediatric transfusion topics to allow more detailed exploration of blood loss in children beyond that presented in the lectures. As well as being an excellent opportunity to discuss this topic with engaging experts, please note that participants in the ANZCA CPD program, may claim this major haemorrhage course as an emergency response activity in their CPD portfolio. Recognition code: ER-MH-012
Management of the difficult paediatric airway
Facilitators: Paul Baker, Yasmin Endlich, Greg Houghton, Paul Stricker, Todd Maddock, Fiona Taverner & Kris Usher
Cost: $150
This is a mainly hands-on workshop, teaching the management of predicted and un-predicted difficult airways in paediatric patients. International and national experts will share their experiences, teach how to use advanced airway equipment including flexible and rigid fiberscopes in a variety of different scenarios, assess the airway with the ultrasound and much more. An opportunity not to be missed by advanced and novice paediatric anaesthetists.
Anaesthesia in children with neuromuscular disorders and malignant hyperthermia
Facilitator: Catherine Olweny
Coordinator: Andrew Wallace
Cost: $60
This interactive workshop will consider the anaesthetic implications in the management of children with neuromuscular disorders through some interesting and challenging case based discussions. It will explore how to approach the preoperative assessment and the subsequent anaesthetic management of these children for a range of surgical procedures. It will also review the perioperative management of malignant hyperthermia susceptible patients undergoing diagnostic procedures.
Paediatric life support
Facilitator: Cath Powell
Cost: $150
This hands-on multi-station workshop will explore cardiac arrest in children using simulation. The facilitators are paediatric anaesthetists with an interest in simulation, teaching and managing critical situations in anaesthesia. There will be pre-reading and some homework is required to get the most out of this workshop. ANZCA CPD Emergency Response Code:ER-15-CA-022.
Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia for paediatric anaesthetists
Facilitator: Faith Crichton, Greg Houghton, Vasanth Rao, Kaushik Saha, Andrew Wallace & Nicole Wylie
Coordinator: Yasmin Endlich
Cost: $150
This workshop is designed for paediatric anaesthetists to understand the anatomic basics of ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and its application in children. The workshop will provide tips and tricks useful from novice to advanced ultrasound users. International and national experts in the field will share their knowledge, tips and tricks to perform up-to-date ultrasound guided blocks for paediatric patients. The use of real time ultrasound assessment of the spine, trunk and core blocks inclusive to new block techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Lots of hands on practice!
The theatre of magic
Facilitator: Andrew Ormandy
Coordinator: Rowan Ousley
Cost: $80
The power of magic is captivating and enchanting for children of all ages and quite often what appears complex is in fact very simple……it is all in the performance!
Humour, distraction, sleight of hand and misdirection are skills that allow magicians to perform illusions and tricks that baffle, amaze and entertain their audiences. This workshop has been specifically designed for paediatric anaesthetists to introduce magic as a ‘calming tool’ for patients preparing for theatre. Join Adelaide’s funniest clown magician ‘Bumbles the Clown’ for an entertaining hands-on magic master class that will introduce simple techniques and tricks that can be applied in an operating environment. Learn how to make a bright light jump from hand to hand, how to do the ‘paddle move’, make a silk disappear and have a laugh with the break-away wand along with other tips.
A ‘magic kit’ will be available for purchase for participants in the workshop to put learnings into practice ready for their first performance.
Warning: once you enter the world of a magician it will become addictive!
Cardiac kids for non-cardiac surgery PBL
Facilitator: Richard Ing
Coordinator: Cormac Fahy
Cost: $60
Richard Ing will lead this small group discussion in a problem based format. Richard is a very experienced and enthusiastic presenter with a major interest in Paediatric cardiac problems.
Case 1 - “A Fast and furious heart rhythm during routine nuclear medicine scan” - a child with previous AVSD repair having an unexpected tachyarrhythmia during a routine nuclear scan. Problems (and solutions) with a tachyarrhythmia and it’s management.
Case 2 - “Brochoscopy, Cath Lab, Laparotomy: Commonly Encountered Anesthetic Challenges in the Patient with the Fontan Circulation and Single Ventricle Anatomy” - problems (and solutions) encountered during a bronchoscopy, a cardiac catheterization and a laparotomy.
Persuasive presentation
Facilitator: Sharon Ferrier
Coordinator: Laura Burgoyne
Cost: $150
Public speaking is more than just being able to stand up and speak – we also need to be persuasive and influential.
In this interactive workshop you will learn:
• Managing your nerves and presenting with confidence
• Defining your presentation objectives
• Researching your audience
• Developing your topic
• Structuring your presentation so it is easy to follow
• The 5 steps for a persuasive presentation
• Posture & Gestures to highlight your message
• Using your voice to maintain interest and add credibility
• How to use notes effectively
• Thinking on your feet
• How to present effectively with PowerPoint
Neonatal anaesthesia PBL
Facilitator: Andrew Weatherall
Coordinator: Scott Ma
Cost: $60
Why on earth should I use NIRS for my next scary case? What use is another number in a theatre teeming with them? How can one know what to do with a low cerebral oximetry value when everything else looks fine? When does one see major declines in cerebral oxygenation in neonates undergoing surgery? Come along and be vigorously challenged to think about how you give an anaesthetic under the watchful eye of a cerebral oximeter.
ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP
"Meet the maker" wine masterclass
Cost: $60
Come face to face with the person who works passionately to make the wines you will be tasting. In this 1.5 hour masterclass, a winemaker will guide you through the origins, aromas and flavours of their wines in a fun and informal tasting session. Follow this with shared cheese and charcuterie platters at the National Wine Centre WINED bar.
OPEN FORUMS
All delegates welcome to attend the open forums.
Pain forum
Thursday 27 October
1430 - 1600
Three speakers will take us from recent discoveries in the neuroscience of pain to a difficult analgesic problem on a paediatric surgical ward. The session will culminate in a case based discussion involving our expert panel and members of the audience. Speakers include Mark Alcock, Fiona Taverner and Tasha Stanton.
Cardiac forum
Thursday 27 October
1630 - 1800
This forum is open to all delegates. Presenters will include Richard Ing, cardiac paediatric anaesthetist from Children's Hospital Colorado. Audience involvement is encouraged with ample time for questions and discussion. Please click here to view the agenda.
Airway forum
Saturday 29 October
1400 - 1530
This open forum will explore interesting and controversial paediatric airway issues with case presentations, mini-debates and a short presentation. Audience involvement is encouraged and there will be ample time for questions and discussion. The faculty includes Paul Stricker, Bernhard Ziegler and Paul Baker as well as local airway experts.
Research forum
Saturday 29 October
1600 - 1730
This forum includes: Paediatric Systematic Reviews - Trials and Tribulations (David Costi, Allan Cyna) So you’re thinking about undertaking a systematic review…… Based on our own experiences we’ll look at the good, the bad and the ugly including the important question of whether to Cochrane or not to Cochrane?; Editor-in-Chief’s favourite papers of 2016 published in Pediatric Anesthesia (Andrew Davidson); An opportunity to discuss current and future projects including collaborative research projects.
