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Anaesthetists train for disaster in Darwin Seventeen anaesthetists joined international colleagues on an AusMAT Surgical and Anaesthetic Course (AusMATSAC) held at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in Darwin in April. Three New Zealand anaesthetists attended the course, two from each Australian state and territory, and one each from Fiji and the United Arab Emirates. The course was designed to prepare civilian medical personnel to work in austere environments under extreme pressure with large numbers of patients – essentially responding to disasters. It focused on the safety and security of the medical personnel and the medical and surgical techniques likely to be required. The other participants included surgeons and theatre nurses. The faculty included ANZCA Fellows Dr Haydn Perndt, from Tasmania, and Dr Brian Spain and Dr Phil Blum from Darwin, along with Dr Anthony Redmond, Professor of International Emergency Medicine at the University of Manchester (UK), and Dr Chris Giannou, a Greek-Canadian war surgeon and former chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross. One of the New Zealand participants was Dr Bryce Curran, who spoke about his experience working in the field following the Christchurch earthquake in February (ANZCA Bulletin, March 2011). Another Christchurch anaesthetist, Dr Wayne Morriss, and Auckland North Shore anaesthetist Dr Maurice Lee also attended. Dr Morriss is running the Real World Anaesthesia Course in Christchurch in August and Dr Lee represents ANZCA at New Zealand Ministry of Health meetings about disaster response preparedness. He was in Wellington attending an emergency management conference when the quake struck and was seconded to the Ministry of Health for 10 days to provide clinical advice as it responded to the disaster in Christchurch. The Real World Anaesthesia Course is designed to provide skills for working in developing countries and in humanitarian and civil disaster situations. Previously known as the Remote Situation, Difficult Circumstance, Developing Country Anaesthesia Course, it will be held in New Zealand for the first time this year. The three-day AusMATSAC combined classroom-based lectures, including anaesthetics in an austere environment. A field simulation component included an overnight deployment. Dr Curran said the course was excellent, with a mix of lectures and field exercises designed to ensure participants were fit for deployment to a disaster zone, hostile environments or developing countries. “We were able to cope in Christchurch with local resources but we were on the cusp of something much more significant for which we would have needed this sort of medical assistance team,” he said. As well as medical issues and the practical requirements of setting up a field hospital, the course covered communications and security requirements and the psychological effects that can follow such a deployment. For information about courses offered by the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, visit www.nationaltraumacentre.nt.gov.au. Susan Ewart Communications Manager, ANZCA New Zealand Above clockwise from left: Setting up the field hospital tent; surgical simulation in the field hospital tent; checking urban search and rescue supplies. 48 ANZCA Bulletin June 2011
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