2018 Program

Wednesday 26 September 2018

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

0900 – 1700 Operational Safety Forum
0900 – 1700 Pre-hospital, retrieval & disaster medicine learning place
1730 – 1900 Welcome Drinks – Sponsored by Pilatus

Thursday 27 September 2018

0800 Registration Open
OPENING SESSION
0830 – 0900 Conference Opening
Welcome to Country – Trish Hodge
0900 – 0940 Stephen Hearns
Consultant in Emergency Medicine – Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
Performance under pressure in aeromedical retrieval
0940 – 1000 Peter McDonnel
Chief Aircrew, CHC Helicopter
Creating One Standard to Reach Beyond
1000 – 1020 Ben Stanton
Retrieval Nurse Practitioner – SAAS MedSTAR
“Hang on, there’s ECMO at my ALS!” Pre-hospital ECLS – now and into the future
1020 – 1050 MORNING TEA
SESSION 1
1050 – 1110 Kaye Melmeth Oration

Maureen Roberts
Flight Nurse, NSW Air Ambulance
37 Years of Experience and Challenges. Where we have been and where we will go?

1110 – 1130 Andrew Pearce
Clinical Director, Medstar Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
Do you have an Exit Strategy?
MICRO BREAK & QUIZ QUESTION
1135 – 1155 Colin Gunn
Retrieval Medicine Consultant And Anaesthetist, Hunter Retrieval Service
Insights from the first 12 months of Australia’s biggest HEMS operation
1155 – 1215 Paul Maclure
Anaesthetic Registrar, Lyell McEwan Hospital
Patients retrieved to intensive care via a dedicated retrieval service to not have increased hospital mortality compared with propensity matched controls
1215 – 1235 Jo Scott
Neonatal Nurse Practicioner
Nurse Practitioners taking the Lead
1235-1330 LUNCH
SESSION 2
1330-1335 HOTSPOT 
Andrew Hooper
Deputy Director of Medical Services, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Western Operations
Around the West in 80 hours
1335-1340 HOTSPOT 
David Carpenter
Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations
Anatomy of an epidemic – aeromedical retrieval perspective o the 2017 Meningococcal W outbreak in remote Central Australia
1340-1345 HOTSPOT
David Szyc & Tom Nicholls
Careflight Northern Operations
Ventilated Winching: A New Perspective
1345-1355 Q&A
1355 – 1415 Tina Kendrick
Clinical Nurse Consultant – Paediatrics, NETS NSW
Going With The Flow – Raediatric Patients Referred to NETS NSW on Humidified High Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy
1415 – 1435 Stefan Becker
Head of Corporate Development, REGA
Implementation of the Swiss Low Flight Network (LFN) for Helicopters
1435-1505 PANEL DISCUSSION – The Aeromedical Industry: the next 30 years
Facilitated by: Mark Buick
Panellists:
Paul Adams – Aeromedical Innovation Australasia
Phil Hogan
Simon Brown – Tasmania Ambulance
John Corcoran | Corcoran Aviation Safety Services
1505 – 1535 AFTERNOON TEA
SESSION 3
1535-1555 Johnny Delgado
Director, Anastasia Group, LLC
International Response Challenges to Disasters – An Island Experience
1555 – 1615 Todd Mulville
Chief Aircrew Officer, Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service
Transformational Change in Aeromedical Services for Northern NSW
1615-1650 Christopher Denny
Emergency Medicine Specialist – Auckland City Hospital
HEMS Medical Director – Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine – The University of Auckland
On Selection 
1650 Day One concludes – Evening at leisure
1650 ASA Annual General Meeting

 

Friday 28 September 2018

0800 Registration Open
SESSION 4
0830 – 0835 Opening Session
0835 – 0915 Matthew O’Keeffe
Welfare Director, Australian Federation of Airline Pilots
Peer support for front line Aeromedical Staff
0915 – 0935 Jenna McGeever
Clinical Nurse Specialist, NETS NSW
Interstate paediatric ECMO retrieval
0935 – 1010 PANEL DISCUSSION – Adelaide Hospital Rebuild
Facilitated by: David Waters
Panellists:
Natalie Hincksman | SAAS MedSTAR
Graeme Field | Chief Superintendent, NSW Air Ambulance
Andrew Berry | State Director, NETS
Andrew Pearce | Director Clinical Services, SAAS MedSTAR
1010 – 1035 MORNING TEA
SESSION 5
1035 – 1105 Mick Wilson Oration

Ben Meadley
Monash University / Ambulance Victoria
Developing physicla employment standards in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services – a benchmark for the future

1105 – 1125 Andrew Hooper
Deputy Director of Medical Services, Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations
Aeromedical Transfer of Patiendts for Emergency Clot Retrieval – The Western Australian Experience 
1125 – 1150 Tom Judge
Executive Director – LifeLight of Maine/The LifeFlight Foundation
Answering Need: “Next Gen” Rural Healthcare in Maine 2020-2030
MICRO BREAK & QUIZ QUESTION
1155 – 1215 John Hollott
Retrieval Medicine Consultant and Anaesthetist, Hunter Retrieval Service
Ventilation during helicopter stretcher winching of intubated patients
1215 – 1235 Christopher Marlow
Rescue/retrieval Paramedic, SA Ambulance Service
Is this really just another day in the office? Skills Maintenance using High Fidelity Clinical Scenarios in the Helicopter Winch Training Environment 
1235 – 1330 LUNCH
SESSION 6
1330-1335 Special Award Presentation
1335 – 1415 Renee Holleran
Transport Nursing: Where we have been, where are we now and where are we going?
1415 – 1420 HOTSPOT 
Alan Garner
Retrieval Specialist, CareFlight
Experience with the Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet in traumatic arrest
1420 – 1425 HOTSPOT 
Bronwyn Turner
MedSTAR
Neonatal Hypothermia During Transport, a MedSTAR Kids Experience 
1425 – 1430 HOTSPOT
Emmeline Finn
Ambulance Victoria, MedSTAR
Pregnancy – what does it mean for aeromedical crew?
1430 – 1440 Q&A
1440 – 1500 Phil Hogan
The rise and rise of UAS technology
1500 – 1520 Cameron Brockel
Squadron Leader, Defence Force Recruiting
Royal Australian Air Force mass patient aeromedical evacuation capability 
1520 – 1540 Cameron Edgar
Zone Manager, Helicopter Operations, NSW Ambulance
The role civilian aeromedical services can play in providing clinical experience and exposure to military medics prior to deployment 
1540 – 1600 AFTERNOON TEA
CLOSING SESSION
1600 – 1620 Mark Buick
Director – Total Aerospace Solutions
Is it Approved?
1620 – 1650 Stefan Mazur
The Power of One
1650 – 1700 Closing Session
1900 – 2300 CONFERENCE DINNER
The Henry Jones Art Hotel IXL Atrium