ASA 2011

Environmental sustainability and Australian anaesthesia - Environmental advocacy and anaesthesia

Environmental sustainability and Australian anaesthesia - How sustainable is your work?

Environmental sustainability and Australian anaesthesia - PVC - the problematic plastic?

ASA National Scientific Congress Opening Session 09:00 - 10:15

Plenary Session 1 - Is Australia ready for the ultra-obese patient? 11:00 - 11:45

Plenary Session 1 - Fraud and misconduct in medical research 11:45 - 12:30

Cardiac refresher - Myocardial ischaemia and the new tests

Cardiac refresher - TTE for perioperative cardiac testing

Cardiac refresher - TTE for perioperative cardiac testingNew Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines

Sponsored Speaker Session - Pfizer 04:00 - 05:30

Moderated Poster Session 1 04:00 - 05:30

W02: Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia - upper limb 02:00 - 03:30

W06: Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia - lower limb 04:00 - 05:30

Breakfast 07:45 - 08:30

Morning Tea 10:15 - 11:00

Lunch 12:30 - 02:00

Afternoon Tea

HCI Welcome Drinks 05:30 - 07:00

W03: The green home 02:00 - 03:30

W08: The green home 04:00 - 05:30

W04: Three golden rules you must follow to guarantee investing success 02:00 - 03:30

W07: Maternal resuscitation 04:00 - 05:30

W01: Neonatal resuscitation (1/2 day) 02:00 - 05:30

W05: Medico-legal risks in anaesthesia 02:00 - 03:30

W09: Basic life support 04:00 - 05:30

QA 1: Neuroanaesthesia 02:00 - 03:30

PBLD 09: Perioperative evaluation - Syndrome X 04:00 - 05:15

PBLD 04: Liver resection of metastases 02:00 - 03:15

PBLD 08: Doctors in trouble 04:00 - 05:15

PBLD 01: Rational opioid use 02:00 - 03:15

PBLD 05: Epic laparotomies and cytoreductive surgery 04:00 - 05:15

PBLD 02: Trauma in obstetrics 02:00 - 03:15

PBLD 06: Obstacles to epidural analgesia in labour 04:00 - 05:15

PBLD 03: Difficult acute pain 02:00 - 03:15

PBLD 07: Renal protection in vascular surgery 04:00 - 05:15

Simulation and Skills SIG - ‘Getting everyone on TRAC’: The unintended consequences of a simulation course to improve airway management 02:00 - 02:45

Simulation and Skills SIG - Simulating where you work and not the work you do 02:45 - 03:30

ECT update - ECT in leaps and bounds

ECT update - Strategies for optimising ECT

ECT update - Anaesthesia for ECT

Smiths/ASA Young Investigator Awards 02:00 - 03:30

Registration open 07:15 - 05:30

Gilbert Troup Prize / ASA Young Investigators Session 11:30 - 01:00

Obstetric SIG - Epidural analgesia and consent

Obstetric SIG - Communication

Obstetric SIG - Airway devices in obstetrics

Obstetric SIG - AP blocks and caesarean birth

Sponsored Speaker Session - Edwards Medical 08:00 - 08:45

Plenary Session 2: Methadone: a new face for an old friend 09:00 - 10:00

Plenary Session 2: Hunting for new hypnotics 10:00 - 11:00

Research update - POISE-2: how about aspirin and clonidine?

Research update - ENIGMA II

Research update - REASON

Ethical dilemmas 02:30 - 03:15

Moderated Poster Session 2 02:30 - 04:30

W10: Introduction to ultrasound in anaesthesia 09:00 - 10:30

W19: Introduction to ultrasound in anaesthesia 02:30 - 04:00

Breakfast 07:15 - 08:00

Morning Tea

Lunch 01:00 - 02:30

W15: Maternal haemorrhage 11:30 - 01:00

W21: Optimal use of colloids 02:30 - 04:30

PBLD 13: Obstacles to epidural analgesia in labour 11:30 - 12:45

W22: Paediatric day case analgesia 02:30 - 04:30

W14: Airway management workshop 1 11:30 - 01:00

W20: Airway management workshop 2 02:30 - 04:00

W16: Practical hypnosis for the busy anaesthetist 11:30 - 01:00

W23: Waste woes 02:30 - 04:00

W13: Waste woes 11:30 - 01:00

PBLD 17: The occasional paediatric anaesthetist 02:30 - 03:45

QA 2: Saying "no" to futile surgery. 02:30 - 04:30

W17: Writing a paper for publication 11:30 - 01:00

PBLD 10: Selection of obese patients for day-only surgery 11:30 - 12:45

PBLD 14: Thoracic anaesthesia 02:30 - 03:45

PBLD 11: Lung isolation after high-speed road trauma 11:30 - 12:45

PBLD 15: Conflicted colleague in crisis 02:30 - 03:45

PBLD 12: Epic laparotomies and cytoreductive surgery 11:30 - 12:45

PBLD 16: Renal protection in vascular surgery 02:30 - 03:45

Anaesthesia at the edges - High altitude medicine and physiology: the perils of getting high 11:30 - 12:45

Anaesthesia at the edges - Hyperbaric medicine

OR design can save lives, time & money: Theory vs reality - Contemporary thinking in operating room design

OR design can save lives, time & money: Theory vs reality - Designing an operating theatre in NSW; practical realities

OR design can save lives, time & money: Theory vs reality - Hospital design for patients, family, staff and safety - a paradigm shift

History of Anaesthesia SIG: Moments of Mystery - Mesmerism

History of Anaesthesia SIG: Moments of Mystery - An itinerant mesmerist in Australia

History of Anaesthesia SIG: Moments of Mystery - Electrical anaesthesia

Retired Anaesthetists Group Lunch 01:00 - 02:30

Family Night 07:00 - 11:00

W12: Fur, feathers and fangs: veterinary anaesthesia 101 09:00 - 01:00

W18: Fur, feathers and fangs: veterinary anaesthesia 101 02:30 - 05:30

Joint ASA / ASCIA Symposium - Review of mechanisms of anaphylaxis

Joint ASA / ASCIA Symposium - Epidemiology, risk factors and prevention of anaesthetic drug allergy

Joint ASA / ASCIA Symposium - Anaphylaxis to NMBAs - the role of environmental agents

Joint ASA / ASCIA Symposium - Allergic reactions in theatre - anywhere anytime

ASA congress gala dinner 07:00 - 11:30

ANZTADC: Safety gets the green light - Prevention and management of assessment and documentation errors

ANZTADC: Safety gets the green light - Prevention and management of respiratory errors

ANZTADC: Safety gets the green light - The development of new crisis management tools

Economics Advisory Committee Session - News from the EAC

Economics Advisory Committee Session - Medicare update

Economics Advisory Committee Session - Getting your head in the "cloud"

Sponsored Speaker Session - Dräger 08:00 - 08:45

Plenary Session 3 - Looking after our own: welfare of anaesthetists 09:00 - 09:45

Plenary Session 3 - Pioneer Lecture: In honour of Dr Bruce Clifton 09:45 - 10:30

Plenary Session 3 - Pioneer Lecture: In honour of Dr Bruce Clifton 09:45 - 10:30

Cardiac stents update - What's new in stenting?

Cardiac stents update - Perioperative management of the patient with a stent

Cardiac stents update - Cardiac stenting versus cutting: the evidence for and against

Airway update - Teleological implications in the mammalian

Airway update - Airway exchange catheters in clinical practice

Airway update - Lung separation with a difficult airway

ASA AGM 03:30 - 05:00

GASACT Fellowship Forum 03:30 - 05:00

W25: Ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia - trunk 11:00 - 12:30

Breakfast 07:15 - 08:00

Morning Tea

Lunch 12:30 - 01:30

Afternoon Tea

W27: Anaesthesia outside the OT 11:00 - 12:30

W32: iPad and the anaesthetist 01:30 - 03:00

GASACT: The future you - Consultant interview techniques

GASACT: The future you - Emerging social media and impacts on anaesthesia training

GASACT: The future you - Learn to fly, dive and be Macgyver

W31: Management of the Bleeding Patient 01:30 - 03:00

W24: Refresher on the new Australian Resuscitation Council CPR guidelines 09:00 - 10:30

W26: Airway management workshop 3 11:00 - 12:30

W30: Airway management workshop 4 01:30 - 03:00

W28: Managing malignant hyperthermia 11:00 - 12:30

W33: Managing workplace conflict: legislative provisions and health professional interactions 01:30 - 03:00

PBLD 31: Anaphylaxis and anaesthesia 09:00 - 10:30

PBLD 21: Anaesthesia for elective shoulder surgery 11:00 - 12:15

PBLD 25: Use of LMAs in controversial situations 01:30 - 02:45

QA 3: Orthopaedic dilemmas 11:00 - 12:30

QA 4: Obstetric issues 01:30 - 03:00

W34: Photographic wizardry 03:30 - 05:00

W29: Transthoracic echocardiography 11:00 - 12:30

PBLD 18: Unexpected transplant patient 11:00 - 12:15

PBLD 22: Unexpected transplant patient 01:30 - 02:45

PBLD 19: Paediatric facial trauma 11:00 - 12:15

PBLD 23: Paediatric facial trauma 01:30 - 02:45

PBLD 20: Use of LMAs in controversial situations 11:00 - 12:15

PBLD 24: Preeclampsia and placental abruption 01:30 - 02:45

Healthcare in the hothouse 11:00 - 12:30

Obstetric SIG - Prevention of DVT in obstetrics: what should we be doing?

Obstetric SIG - Obstetric haemorrhage

Obstetric SIG - Pulmonary hypertension in pregnancy

Obstetric SIG - Preeclampsia and cardiac crises

Herbal medicines: Perioperative implications of herbal medicines

Herbal medicines: Complementary medicines - alternative or just plain dangerous?

Herbal medicines: Ethical issues arising from alternative therapies

Regional Anaesthesia SIG: To boldly go... RA in the new FANZCA curriculum

Regional Anaesthesia SIG: Don't be an anaesthetic blockhead: making ultra- sound acceptable in the OT

Regional Anaesthesia SIG: Your surgeon is a blockhead: evidence for wound infiltration, infusions and additives

GASACT Lunch 12:30 - 01:30

Hospira Workshop 12:30 - 01:30

Overseas Development & Education Session - Pacific anaesthesia project

Overseas Development & Education Session - Obstetric anaesthesia - working towards millenium development goals

Overseas Development & Education Session - The birth of micronesian anaesthesia

Overseas Development & Education Session - Laos anaesthesia challenges

Overseas Development & Education Session - Global oximetry project

WOAG SIG: Life matters - Teenagers: just who is in charge here?

WOAG SIG: Life matters - Bipolar disorder: an aesthetic of mood

WOAG SIG: Life matters - Speaking up for safety and civility

Sponsored Speaker Session - Baxter 08:00 - 08:45

AIC Editor's Session - Opoids, ventilation and acute pain management

AIC Editor's Session - Acute pain management in opioid-tolerant patients: a growing challenge

AIC Editor's Session - The pain continuum: toward prevention and better management of pain

AIC Editor's Session - Back to basics: Post-Caesarean pain relief - what should we be doing?

Breaking news - 'Short-acting opioids': who are we kidding?

Breaking news - Neuraxial magnesium: strange but true

Breaking news - Lessons from an epidural catastrophe:has chlorhexidine reached its used-by date?

Hypothetical - debunking the myths and sacred cows 02:00 - 03:30

W37: Transthoracic echocardiography 2 11:30 - 01:00

Breakfast 07:15 - 08:00

Morning Tea

Lunch 01:00 - 02:30

W38: Defibrillators: a shocking tale 11:30 - 01:00

W36: ANZTADC: Using WebAIRS for incident monitoring 09:00 - 10:30

W39: Harvey cardiac simulator 11:30 - 01:00

W40: Communication for anaesthetists - in and out of the OT 11:30 - 01:00

W41: Pre-operative and intra-operative blood tests: from ABGs to Zollinger-Ellison syndrome 11:30 - 01:00

QA 5: Anaesthesia for vascular surgery 11:30 - 01:00

PBLD 26: 75 - Your patient's age, saturation AND blood pressure. Fit for surgery? 09:00 - 10:15

PBLD 28: Neurosurgery at night 11:30 - 12:45

PBLD 29: High risk patient for non-cardiac surgery 11:30 - 12:45

PBLD 30: The second victim - dealing with the aftermath of an obstetric catastrophe 11:30 - 12:45

Professional Issues Advisory Committee - DOSA: making it work 09:00 - 11:00

Haematology refresher - Review of blood clotting

Haematology refresher - New guidelines for massive transfusion

Haematology refresher - Clinical management of critical bleeding

W35: How your property portfolio can maximise income, equity and minimise tax 09:00 - 11:00

W42: Trauma management: Clinical skills and human factors in an emergency 08:00 - 04:30

W43: On-call obstetric anaesthesia simulation workshop 08:30 - 04:00