2020 Annual scientific Meeting Presentations
Due to Covid-19 the Annual Conference was postponed in 2020 and an online clinical meeting was held in it’s place. Below are the presentations from that meeting. Please note, the presentations listed below are available for members only. Please contact the TAPNA Secretariat if you are a member and need the password for access.
Online Webinar, 17th June 2020
- Mushroom season in Victoria 2020 (Shaun Green, The Austin, Vic)
- Massive GHB overdose resulting in severe metabolic acidosis requiring continuous venovenous haemofiltration (Anselm Wong, Vic PIC, Vic)
- Cannabis in back pain (Anselm Wong, Vic PIC,Vic)
- Seizures in a child with confirmed lamotrigine overdose despite leviteracetam loading (Richard McNulty, Westmead Toxicology Service, NSW)
- Food induced methaemoglobinaemia - A case series and review of the literature (Richard McNulty, Westmead Toxicology Service, NSW)
- PIC Tale : A Christmas miracle (Anna Goggin, Qld PIC, Qld)
- Opioid use within the EDNA database – Preliminary Results (Benjamin Lasscock, Royal Perth Hospital, WA)
- Introduction of Capsaicin cream to facilitate management of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in the emergency department (Mel Harrison, Calvary Mater Newcastle, NSW)
- Toxicovigilance for suicide prevention following internet promotion of Sodium Nitrite (Jared Brown, NSW Ministry of health, NSW)
- Case series of acetyl-fentanyl overdose in opioid naïve patients in Sydney (Varan Perananthan, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW)
- Hydroxymoron; Toxicological aspects of COVID-19 therapies (Naren Gunja, Western Sydney Health, NSW
Online Webinar, 21st October 2020
- Ivabradine overdose (Paris Ramrakha, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW)
- Cocaine cluster (Therese Becker, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW)
- Mushroom poisoning (Roger Tong, Monash Health, Vic)
- EDNA: The challenges of a vision (Andrew Kozman, Royal Perth Hospital, WA)
- X marks the spot: Mapping antidotes in NSW with iTRACC (Jon Newman, NSW Health Service - Agency for
Clinical Innovation & Andrew McKeon, NSW PIC)
- The psychotic octopus (Darren Roberts, St Vincent's hospital, NSW)
- Paediatric iron poisoning (Kath Isoardi, Qld PIC & Princess Alexandra Hospital, Qld)
- D-dimer in snakebite (Geoff Isbister, University of Newcastle, NSW)
- IF the sea is red you could be dead (Dawson Macleod, Austin Health, Vic &
Jennifer O’Connor, Department of Health and Human Services, Vic)
- Managing EG Poisoning with an Antidon’t (Geoff Isbister, University of Newcastle, NSW & Zeff Koutsogiannis, VIC PIC & Austin Health, Vic)
2020 Regional Meeting Presentations
Please note, the presentations listed below are available for members
only. Please contact the TAPNA Secretariat if you are a member and need the
password for access.
Listed below are the presentations from
the 2020 Regional Meetings. The presentations listed below are
available as recordings of the powerpoint & presentation unless
otherwise specified.
Brisbane, 13th March 2020
- Digital Healthcare (Andrew Staib, PA Hospital, Qld)
- Anticholinergic Saga (Emma Maguire, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW)
- Iatrogenesis Imperfecta (Zeff Koutsogiannis, The Austin, Vic)
- Death in Custody from Caffeine Hit (Natalie MacCormick, Forensic and Scientific Services, Qld)
- Prescription, Recreational and Illicit Substance Evaluation (PRISE) Project (Thanjira Jiranantakan (via video), NSW PIC, NSW)
- Virtual Toxicology Unit (Iain McNeill, PA Hospital, Qld)
- CRRT for Lithium Poisoning (Frank Reimann, Calvary Mater Newcastle, NSW)
- Opioid Antidotes (Betty Chan, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW)
- Dendrocnide Envenomation (Ruth Young, Cairns Base Hospital, Qld)
- Stop Putting Poison in Coke Bottles (Keith Harris, PA Hospital, Qld)