The following optional workshops will be offered on Friday and Saturday. You can book these during the online registration process.

FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 1320 - 1450 and repeated at 1510 - 1640 

ANZCA CPD - Anaphylaxis

Cost: $150
Facilitators: Dan Lazzari and Petra Van der Linden Ross
Meets ANZCA CPD credit requirement

This 90 minute workshop will meet ANZCA emergency response CPD requirements and will be facilitated by experienced paediatric anaesthetists. Participants will receive pre reading to help them make the most of the workshop. The workshop will include both case based discussions and simulation.

Vascular Access

Cost: $150 
Facilitators: Tricia Kleidon, Brett Chaseling & Edith Waugh

Best practice has led to the development of specialised central venous access teams in hospitals.  This workshop aims to address a number of systemic central line issues in hospitals as well as approaches to insertion and maintenance of central lines with a heavy focus on PICC’s. This workshop will focus on ultrasound basics, choosing the right venous access, insertion techniques & PICC/midline varieties, reducing emotional stress around PICCs for patients, infection prevention & tip navigation with ECG. 

The emerging role of nasal high flow oxygen in paediatric anaesthesia - PBLD

Facilitator: Derek Rosen
Cost: $40

This session covers the history of the use of nasal high flow in paediatrics and its introduction into paediatric anaesthesia practice.  Subsequent interactive case-based discussion will be followed by the opportunity for you to familiarise yourself with nasal high flow equipment and practise setting it up.

SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 1625 - 1755

ANZCA CPD - ALS for paediatrics

Cost: $150 
Facilitators: Suzi Nou, Resy van Beek, Simone Langford, and Sean Davies 
Meets ANZCA CPD credit requirement

This 90 minute workshop will meet ANZCA emergency response CPD requirements, and be facilitated by experienced APLS providers. Participants will receive pre reading to prime their ability to make the most of the session. Following a brief refresher of core concepts and algorithms, participants will then rotate through a variety of simulations relevant to paediatric anaesthetic practice. Each station will present the opportunity to play a variety of roles and reinforce knowledge and skills learnt previously.

Lung Isolation

Cost: $100 
Facilitators: Siva Subramaniam and Daniel Durack

Thoracoscopic work in children is an increasing trend in paediatric surgery. As a result so is the request for lung isolation! What can we do? This workshop will explore options available and specifically explore tips and tricks on placing bronchial blocker in young children. We will have a hands-on demo to place a bronchial blocker via conventional as well as unconventional methods.

Dynamic Pharmacokinetics - An introduction to modelling pharmacokinetic data: NONMEM and propofol

Cost: $150
Facilitators: Ignacio Cortinez and Brian Anderson
Requirements: Participants will need to bring their own WINDOWS Laptop  - no MAC computers please.

This workshop is an introduction to population modelling of pharmacokinetic data:

What is a PK model? What is the theory? How does it work? What computer program can you use? How do you look at other factors (weight, age, sex, other drugs) that impact on PK? Can you pool data from other studies? What do you do with missing data? How do you know your answer is correct? What do diagnostic plots and numbers mean?

We will use propofol data and demonstrate analysis using the NONMEM program.

Population modelling using mixed effects models provide a means to study variability in drug responses among individuals representative of those in whom the drug will be used clinically. These models have advantages for paediatric studies because they can be used to analyse sparse data, sampling times are not crucial and can be fitted around clinical procedures and individuals with missing data may still be included. The introduction of explanatory covariates explains the predictable part of the between-individual variability. Simulation using parameter estimates and their variability can be used to investigate large numbers of children, many more than is possible using real children for a fraction of the cost; an advantage for clinical trial development. Paediatric population modelling has expanded greatly in the past decade and is now a routine procedure during drug development and investigation. Children have benefited and will continue to benefit from this approach. 

Participants will be required to bring their own laptops. We will provide data sticks with the NONMEM program, but these require a windows operating system. Data sticks will not work with MAC. We anticipate that each pair will share a laptop.

Going on your first overseas aid trip: What do I need to know? PBLD

Cost: $40
Facilitator: Phil Blum

This session aims to give practical advice about overseas aid options, further training and touch on tips that can make your humanitarian aid mission a success.  Small group discussion will explore the short surgical visit, the longer trip and provide opportunities for you to play with some of the portable anaesthetic equipment you may use.

“That was good, but…”: The gentle art of giving feedback to trainees - PBLD

Cost: $40
Facilitator: Peter Howe

This interactive session will explore past experiences of participants where feedback to a trainee did not go well.  Peter Howe has been Supervisor of Training at RCH Melbourne for almost 2 decades, and has dozens of examples of where his feedback to trainees didn’t go as planned.  He would prefer that you bring (or better still, email him in advance at Peter.Howe@rch.org.au) with your examples of feedback given or received that ended awkwardly.  The group will then practice and apply Jenny Rudolph’s system from Boston Institute of Medical Simulation to see how to make things work more successfully next time.