2016 Conference

The following are links to each of the Abstracts as presented at the ASA + COASTN 28th Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand , August 25th and 26th 2016.

The content and views expressed in each of these Abstract presentations are solely those of individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of those of the Aeromedical Society of Australasia, the College of Air and Surface Transport Nurses or their associates.

The Abstracts can be downloaded as pdfs.

2016 Program

Thursday 25th August 

ANDREW PEARCE
Clinical Director of Retrieval Coordination – MedSTAR Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
What is clinical aeromedical coordination all about? 

MARK HOLMES
Flight Nurse Educator – NSW Ambulance
Aiming higher and reaching further through collaborative aviation partnerships: NSW Air Ambulance and Virgin Australia Non Technical Skills (NTS) Course

ALANA HARPER
Emergency Medicine / HEMS Specialist – Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust and Auckland District Health Board
Improving the usability of prehospital checklists with multidisciplinary application of the Cognitive Aids in Medicine Assessment Tool (CMAT)

JUSTIN TREBLE
Clinical Nurse Consultant – CareFlight

How to get the Post-Partum Haemorrhage patient in your aircraft and to definitive care – a new option for Flight Nurses 

PHIL HOGAN
Heliport Design Group

What is the predictability of usefulness for new heliports using wind roses? 

JULIE MYERS
Lecturer – University of Otago, New Zealand
Evaluating the non-technical skills of inter-hospital air transport clinicians: A clinical simulation study

DARRELL BONETTI
Physiologist – Aviation Medicine Unit, RNZAF Auckland, New Zealand
RNZAF Fatigue Modelling and Mitigation Strategies

EMMELINE FINN
Director of Clinical Operations, CareFlight Retrieval Medicine
Fatigue Risk Management System for Medical Crew Members

JOSEPH WHEELER
Aviation Legal Counsel,  Australian Federation of Air Pilots
Safer sustainable aeromedical operations through appropriate pilot fatigue regulation

TONY VAUGHAN – ASM
Chief Operating Officer – RFDS Central Operations / ASA Committee
ASA Standards Update


Friday 26th August

TIM PICKERING
Director of Government Affairs – Air EVAC Lifeteam
Implementation of a level seven feedback simulator system for Air Evac

MICHELLE BLACK
Nurse Manager  – CareFlight Retrieval
Nurses Fly High Again in Queensland

STEFAN MAZUR

PreHospital and Retrieval Physician / Medical Retrieval Consultant, SAAS MedSTAR
REBOA – What, who, where?

SALLY HOULISTON
Flight Nurse, Nurse Consultant Workforce Development – Hawkes Bay District Health Board
Up and Away

ANDREW TAYLOR
EMS/SAR Pilot, MAC Rescue – Babcock
Flying Blind

ANN-MAREE BRADY
Clinical Nurse Consultant – Paediatric Retrieval Service – Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
High Flow Nasal Prong Oxygenation – the Children’s Health Queensland’s Retrieval Service’s  (CHQRS) experience

A/PROF PAUL FORREST

Head, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Perfusion – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital  / Clinical Associate Professor – University of Sydney
1:800 ECMO: Developing an ECMO Retrieval Service

Mick Wilson ORATION
PHIL HOGAN
Transporting Poor Prognosis Patients

JASON BENDALL
Registrar, Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – Hunter Retrieval Service, John Hunter Hospital
Improving response times to critically ill patients requiring retrieval: a before and after study

BRIAN BURNS
Emergency Physician – Northern Sydney Local Health District   –  Prehospital and Retrieval Specialist, Research Director – Greater Sydney HEMS
Research in prehospital care that changes practice

DARRELL BONETTI PhD
Physiologist – Aviation Medicine Unit, RNZAF Auckland, New Zealand
Carbohydrate Restriction and Intermittent Fasting:  Implications and Efficacy for Aeromedical Practitioners

CHRIS DENNY
Emergency Medicine Specialist – Auckland City Hospital  /  HEMS Medical Director – Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust
Resilience: Reflections on stress and performance