2022 ASA + FNA Conference
‘Critical Care in the Air – Critical Care Anywhere’
The program overview below is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds. Please check this page regularly.
TUESDAY 30 AUGUST 2022
| 1230 | Registration Open | |
| 1330 – 1430 |
ARRIVAL LUNCH | P9-P11 Concourse | |
| OPENING SESSION | Plaza P10 & P11 |
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| 1430 – 1500 | Welcome to Country Ashley Ruska – Nunukul Yuggera Aboriginal Dance Company |
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| Official Address Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland |
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| Conference Housekeeping Greg Ward – Master of Ceremonies |
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| 1500 – 1540 | Opening Keynote Speaker
Natalie Davies-White |
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| 1540 – 1600 |
AFTERNOON TEA | P9-P11 Concourse | |
| SESSION 1 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1600 – 1620 | Charlotte Harper Paediatric Emergency Specialist | Starship Children’s Hospital Natasha Ghandi Senior Registrar | Starship Children’s Hospital Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the New Zealand National Paediatric Retrieval Service |
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| 1620 – 1640 | Mark Holmes Founding Member | Australian College of Nursing Code red for aeromedical – critical care in the DIRTY Air |
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| 1640 – 1700 | Hannah Latta Intensive Care Flight Paramedic, Researcher and Lecturer | Wellington Free Ambulance and Auckland University of Technology Integration of paramedic-led echocardiography in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) at out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: An education and simulation study. |
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| 1700 – 1900 | WELCOME DRINKS – Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas |
WEDNESDAY 31 AUGUST 2022
| 0730 | Registration | |
| SESSION 2 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 0815 – 0825 | Day Two Housekeeping Greg Ward – Master of Ceremonies |
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Royal Flying Doctor Service Sponsor Address |
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| 0825 – 0905 | Keynote Speaker
Dr Natalie May |
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| 0905 – 0925 | Cheah Phee Kheng, Mohd Hakimi Bin Abdul Kadir Sabah Women and Children Hospital, Malaysia Back from the Pandemic, Changes and Improvements in Aeromedical Practice |
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| 0925 – 0945 | Anthony de Wit Manager Air Operations | Ambulance Victoria An Innovative Approach to Safety Training in Remote and Hostile Environments for Aero-medical Personnel: 10 years on |
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| 0945 – 1005 | Philip Hogan Senior Consultant | Onyx Aeronautics Hospital heliports |
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| 1005 – 1025 | Mardi Steere Executive General Manager, Medical And Retrieval Services | Royal Flying Doctor Service (Central Operations) Aeromedical Tasking Schema – Do we need an ATS for Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine? |
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| 1025 – 1055 | MORNING TEA | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas | |
| SESSION 3 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1055 – 1120 | Mick Wilson Oration Lavinia Gilliland MICA Flight Paramedic | Air Ambulance Victoria Paul Noble Aircrew Officer | Babcock Mission Critical Services Australasia Pty Ltd Benefits of training Aircrew Officers to assist Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Flight Paramedics in Rotary Wing Aeromedical operations |
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| 1120 – 1140 | Pat Crowe Human Factors Instructor, Aircrew Officer | Toll Helicopters Lachlan Slatyer Manager, Human Factors | Toll Helicopters A Practitioners Approach to Aeromedical Human Factors Training |
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| 1140 – 1210 | Mardi Steere Executive General Manager, Medical And Retrieval Services | Royal Flying Doctor Service (Central Operations) David Waters Chief Executive Officer | Council of Ambulance Authorities Developing a Stroke Ambulance Ecosystem via Remote Support, Road, Rotary & Fixed Wing |
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| 1210 – 1230 | Alan Garner Chief Innovation Officer | CareFlight Association between three prehospital thoracic decompression techniques by physicians and complications: a retrospective, multicentre study in adults |
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| 1230 – 1250 | Paul Schlosser The University of Queensland Head-Worn Displays in the Prehospital Environment |
PRESENTATION SLIDES |
| 1250 – 1400 | LUNCH | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas
Paediatric Retrieval Nurses Meeting | Plaza P10 & P11 |
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| SESSION 4 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1400 – 1420 | Clare Pearson CEO, Little Wings Little Wings |
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| 1420 – 1440 | Angela Coward Director Of Flight Nursing | New Zealand Air Ambulance Service Ltd Critical care without limits – long haul commercial medevac |
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| HOTSPOT PRESENTATIONS | ||
| 1440 – 1445 | HOTSPOT Kristin Edwards Research Fellow | James Cook University What is the value of aeromedical patient and service linked data? |
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| 1445 – 1450 | HOTSPOT John Glasheen Lifeflight Retrieval Medicine A descriptive analysis of bariatric retrievals in Queensland, Australia |
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| 1450 – 1455 | HOTSPOT Stefan Becker Head of Corporate Development | Swiss Air-Rescue Rega Just Culture – Prerequisites, Challenges & Opportunities for a Safe Industry |
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| 1455 – 1510 | Questions & Quick Discussion for Hotspots | |
| 1510 – 1540 | AFTERNOON TEA | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas | |
| SESSION 5 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1540 – 1600 | Mark Buick Director/Principal Engineer | Total Aerospace Solutions Pty Ltd Nicola Tsang Clinical Nurse Educator | NETS NSW Inhaled Nitric Oxide in the Air |
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| 1600 – 1620 | Angela Duggan Nurse Educator | Retrieval Services Queensland Improving critical care support to rural and remote clinicians across Queensland via telehealth; a new innovative concept providing Retrieval Services Queensland (RSQ) clinicians with a safe place to practice |
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| 1620 – 1640 | Jacquie Hennessy Chief Of Clinical Operations | St John Ambulance PNG When s**t hits the (unpressurised) fan – The trials and tribulations of aeromedical retrieval in rural PNG |
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| 1640 – 1700 | Patrice Rosengrave Flight Retrieval Nurse, RN | Christchurch Public Hospital, New Zealand Aeromedical retrieval of critically ill patients following the Whakaari/white island volcanic eruption, New Zealand |
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| 1700 | Day Two concludes – Evening at leisure | |
| 1700 | ASA Annual General Meeting | Plaza P10 & P11 |
THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2022
| 0730 | Registration | |
| 0730 | FNA Annual General Meeting – Plaza P10 & P11 | |
| SESSION 6 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 0815 – 0825 | Day Three Opening & Housekeeping Greg Ward – Master of Ceremonies |
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| 0825 – 0905 | Keynote Speaker Virtual Presentation  Priya Adhikari Pilot | High-altitude Captain | Nepal |
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| 0905 – 0925 | Natalie Saunders, Rachel Climpson, Sally Edmonds Royal Flying Doctor Service A presentation on the Horizonal Falls Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) and RFDS Response |
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| 0925 – 0945 | Anuradha Perera University of Otago & University of Peradeniya Non-Technical Skills in Obstetric Aeromedical Transfers (NOAT): a non-technical skills framework for multidisciplinary teams transferring pregnant women by air |
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| 0945 – 1005 | Alexis Shub Obstetrician and Head | PIPER Outcomes of transfer for antepartum haemorrhage with placenta praevia at preterm gestations |
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| 1005 – 1025 | John Lewis Chief Flight Nurse, Service Delivery Manager | Aspen Medical Tim Parker Senior Flight Doctor | Aspen Medical It’s Getting Hot in Here, But Keep on All Your Clothes: Management of Crew Heat Stress During Aeromedical Retrieval of a Critically Hypoxic COVID- 19 Patient |
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| 1025 – 1055 | MORNING TEA | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas | |
| SESSION 7 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1055 – 1120 | Kaye Melmeth Oration David Carpenter Flight Nurse Manager | Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations Supporting quality care in the air: a flight nursing governance framework |
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| 1120 – 1130 | Special award presentation | |
| 1130 – 1150 | Paul Bell Senior Lecturer | CDU Menzies School of Medicine Higher Education for the Northern Territory delivered in the Territory |
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| 1150 – 1210 | Stefan Becker Head of Corporate Development | Swiss Air-Rescue Rega The recipe for reliable and pragmatic safety risk assessments for all operators |
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| 1210 – 1230 | Adam Pritchard Aeromedical Lead Cairns Base | Royal Flying Doctor Service Remote Crush Injury |
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| 1230 – 1250 | Nick Johnson Retrieval Physician | LifeFlight Retrieval Medicine Pre-Hospital Traumatic Limb Amputation in Queensland: a Five Year Case Review |
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| 1250 – 1350 | LUNCH | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas | |
| SESSION 8 | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1350 – 1415 | Trevor Matthews Rescue & Retrieval Paramedic | SA Ambulance Service Computers supporting experts: A system to assist in logistical decision making |
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| 1415 – 1440 | Claire Bertenshaw Retrieval Consultant | LifeFlight Australia Taking HiFlow to New Heights: Utilisation of high flow oxygen therapy during rotary wing retrievals |
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| HOTSPOT PRESENTATIONS | ||
| 1440 – 1445 | HOTSPOT Alana Harper Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine Doctor | Northern Rescue Helicopter Limited The NAECR Project: Developing a National Aeromedical Electronic Clinical Record (NAECR) for Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Medicine (PHRM) in New Zealand (NZ). |
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| 1445 – 1450 | HOTSPOT Jacqui Jones Flight Nurse Base Educator, RFDS Central Operations Zero Point Survey in Multi-Platform Retrievals |
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| 1450 – 1510 | Questions & Quick Discussion for Hotspots | |
| 1510 – 1535 | AFTERNOON TEA | Plaza P9 & P9-11 Concourse Exhibition Areas | |
| CLOSING SESSION | Plaza P10 & P11 | ||
| 1535 – 1555 | Andrew Pearce Director Clinical Services | SAAS MedSTAR Critical Care in the air anywhere on the planet: RAAF Military Critical Care Team (MCAT) training and deployment. |
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| 1555 – 1615 | Katie Boon FN/FM, Deputy Educator | RFDS Critical care of the Critical Care Provider |
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| 1615 – 1655 | Closing Keynote Speaker Samantha Bendall Director of Education, Retrieval Specialist | CareFlight Towards Wellbeing 2.0 – Better clinicians, safer patients |
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| 1655 – 1710 | Conference close (including prize draws) | |
| 1830 – Late | CONFERENCE DINNER Boulevard Room, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre 6:30pm – Pre-dinner drinks in the Boulevard Foyer 7:00pm – 11:00pm – Conference Dinner |