ANZCA Bulletin June 2012 - final.pdf - Australian and New Zealand ...

NZ Anaesthesisia AnnualScientific MeetingBy combining with a specialistinternational conference, thisyear’s NZ Anaesthesia AnnualScientific Meeting is able tooffer an exceptional line up ofabout 100 international speakerscovering a wide range ofgeneralist and specialist topics.Scientific Co-Convenor Professor AlanMerry says the combined conference hasattracted the best anaesthesia facultyyet seen in New Zealand – and one thatmeans there will be something of interestfor all anaesthetists and trainees.The usual NZ Anaesthesia ASM is beingheld in Auckland between November14-17 along with the 2012 InternationalCongress of Cardiothoracic and VascularAnesthesia (ICCVA).“Combining with ICCVA has enabledus to attract an excellent internationaland Australasian faculty,” ProfessorMerry says. “I consider it the best we haveever had for a New Zealand conference,and they will be providing a first-classgeneralist stream.” Speakers in thegeneral stream come from the US, NewZealand, Australia, Germany and Canada.Professor Merry is one of a team ofscientific program advisors who have puttogether a comprehensive program underthe theme “What becomes of the brokenhearted? Outcomes and how to changethem”. It has a broad-ranging generalstream, a specialist ICCVA stream anda third stream that straddles the two.Registrants are able to attend any sessionin any stream.The combined conference is beinghosted by ANZCA and the New ZealandSociety of Anaesthetists in associationwith the Society of CardiovascularAnesthesiology (SCA), which is US-basedbut with an international membership ofover 6000 cardiac, thoracic and vascularanaesthesiologists. Its ICCVA congress isheld in different venues around the worldevery two years. This is the first time ithas been held in Australasia.Topics in the general stream includeperioperative management of stents,transthoracic echo for non-cardiacanaesthetists, dynamic monitoringfor non-cardiac surgery, goal-directedtherapy in non-cardiac surgery, and fasttrack anaesthesia and outcome. Someof the other subjects covered includeairway management, trauma, obstetrics,paediatrics, acute and high risk patients,risks in older patients, operating roomefficiency, simulation and outcome,intubation skills and perioperativeassessment.Professor Merry says the quality ofthe faculty overall is exemplified by thekeynote speakers – Dr Richard Duttonfrom the US, Professor Scott Beattie fromCanada and the NZSA Visiting Speaker,Dr Paul Baker, from Auckland.Dr Dutton is an attendinganaesthesiologist at the Universityof Chicago and the newly-appointedExecutive Director of the AnaesthesiaQuality Institute, which runs the NationalAnesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry.Dr Dutton has been involved in myriadresearch endeavours for the past twodecades and has shared his professionalexpertise at more than 200 grandrounds and national and internationalsymposiums, specifically addressingsuch issues as haemostatic resuscitation,massive transfusion and factor VIIain civilian practice.Dr Dutton will present a Saturdaymorning plenary session on “Outcomes:how to measure them and changethem: perspectives from AQI”, as wellas speaking on “Trauma – anaesthesiaand outcomes” in one of the concurrentsessions.In his plenary session, Professor ScottBeattie from Canada will present on“What becomes of the broken hearted– angina: stents, coronary surgery andmodern medical management”. In ahuman factors concurrent session, he willspeak to “Perioperative assessment– how does it change outcome?”Dr Beattie is a professor in theDepartment of Anesthesia, University ofToronto, Faculty of Medicine and worksin the Department of Anesthesia andPain Management at the Toronto GeneralHospital, University Health Network .He is recognised internationally as anexpert in the area of cardiac anaesthesia.The NZSA Visiting Speaker, Dr PaulBaker, has 25 years’ experience as aconsultant anaesthetist at StarshipChildren’s Health in Auckland. He is alsoa senior lecturer in the Department ofAnaesthesiology, University of Auckland.His research interest and MD thesis is“Improving the safety and managementof the difficult airway”.In 1996, Dr Baker founded theAirwaySkills course, which has taughthundreds of anaesthetists, intensivistsand emergency physicians in New Zealandand Australia. He is also the developerof the Orsim bronchoscopy simulator.Dr Baker will present a plenary sessionon “Education in airway management”and a paper on the “Quality and safetyof airway equipment”.The combined NZ Anaesthesia ASM/ICCVA conference begins on WednesdayNovember 14 with various satellitesymposiums covering general and cardiactopics during the day, and the welcomereception in the evening. It opens formallyon Thursday morning, with the conferencedinner held on Friday evening.For the full program and other speakerdetails, and to register, go to www.iccva2012.com. Early bird registrationis open until September 5. Abstractsubmission for the moderated postersession, NZSA Ritchie Prize and NZSATrainee Prize is open until July 31.The NZ Anaesthetic TechniciansSociety conference is running in parallelwith the NZ Anaesthesia ASM/ICCVAconference.Susan EwartNZ Communications Manager, ANZCA37