2024 Australian Society of Anaesthetists’ National Scientific

8:00 am - 9:30 am - 07 September 2024

The Gathering Storm: Future directions and threats to anaesthesia

Plenary - ASA NSC 2024 - Auditorium 1/Auditorium 2

8:00 am

The Gathering Storm: Future directions and threats to anaesthesia

Daniel Sessler (Virtual)

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9:30 am - 10:15 am - 07 September 2024

Morning Tea

Break - Break - Exhibition Hall

10:15 am - 11:45 am - 07 September 2024

Airway SIG

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Auditorium 1/Auditorium 2

10:15 am

Oxygenation, time to switch

Anil Patel - Consultant Anaesthetist - The Royal National ENT & Eastman Dental Hospitals (former Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital), London

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10:37 am

Airway Management for the Physiologically Difficult Airway - New Clinical Guidelines

David Brewster

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10:59 am

Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy in Difficult Airway Management, Perspectives from a UK Head and Neck Fellowship

Rosalyn Boyd - Anaesthetics SMO - Queensland Health

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11:21 am

Prophylactic Cannula Cricothyroidotomy and the Rapid O2 - Simplifying the Complex Airway

Sivan Wexler

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10:15 am - 11:45 am - 07 September 2024

CareFlight

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Meeting Room 3 / Betbiyan 3 & Meeting Room 4 / Bundirrik 4

10:15 am

Retrieval in the Northern Territory challenges and cases

James Hooper

10:45 am

Aviation and retrieval in the NT unlike some and not like the others

Iain Percival (virtual)

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10:15 am - 11:45 am - 07 September 2024

Gilbert Troup Prize

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Waterfront Room 3

10:15 am

Assessing the Efficacy of Difficult Airway Alerts in Electronic Medical Records: A Quality Improvement Study

Wen-shen Lee - Anaesthetic Registrar - Austin Health

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10:30 am

Cutting to the core: an innovative model of shared decision-making for high-risk cancer surgery

Debra Leung - Staff Specialist Anaesthetist - Peter Maccallum Cancer Centre

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10:45 am

Massive fluid transfusion (greater than 20 litres) in adult liver transplant recipients – a single centre observational study of the victorian liver transplant unit

Hugh Slifirski - Resident - Austin Health

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11:00 am

Diagnostic accuracy and validation of novel B-APNEIC score for predicting obstructive sleep apnoea in a South Australian population: a cross-sectional study

Benjamin Khoo - Resident Medical Officer

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11:15 am

Workload and flow rates during rapid transfusion

Tobia Snook - Anaesthetist - Gold Coast University Hospital

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10:15 am - 11:45 am - 07 September 2024

Sustainability

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Waterfront Room 1 and 2

10:15 am

Environmental Impact of Volatiles in Real Life

Elmar Helmich - Specialist Anaesthetist - Whangarei Hospital, New Zealand

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10:37 am

Climate Conscious Operating Theatres: A cool idea or a lot of hot air

Emma Panigas - Anaesthetist

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10:59 am

Healthy Patients, Workforce and Environment: Coupling Climate Action and Wellbeing at the Royal Darwin Hospital

Mark de Souza - Sustainable healthcare initiatives

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11:21 am

The World on Drugs: Managing Pharmaceutical Waste

David Samson

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11:45 am - 1:15 pm - 07 September 2024

ASA Trainee Member Audit/Survey Prize

Prize - Prize - Waterfront Room 3

11:45 am

Intraoperative documentationof general anaesthesia - an audit of adherence to Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesia guidelines

Jeigh Tiu - Anaesthetic Registrar - Monash Health

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11:55 am

Oral topicalization's impact on quality of recovery in patients undergoing elective gastroscopies (gastro study)

David Cappellari - Critical Care Registrar - Eastern Health

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12:05 pm

Compliance to novel recovery spinal anaesthetic discharge protocol at austin health

Hugh Slifirski - Resident - Austin Health

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12:15 pm

Pectus excavatum procedure (nuss bar) audit

Kaitlyn Hastings - Critical Care Resident - Werribee Mercy Hospital

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12:25 pm

Preoperative cardiac investigations for elective non-cardiac surgery

Ikram Kalam - Critical Care Resident - Eastern Health, Victoria

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12:35 pm

Opioid Prescribing and Use in Patients undergoing Total Knee Replacements at SJOG Midland

Chad Abbot - Anzca Trainee

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11:45 am - 1:15 pm - 07 September 2024

LS1- Retired anaesthetists lunch

Social Function - Social Function - Bella Bar

11:45 am - 1:15 pm - 07 September 2024

Lunch

Break - Break - Exhibition Hall

1:15 pm - 3:00 pm - 07 September 2024

Opening Plenary - Welcome To Country

Plenary - ASA NSC 2024 - Auditorium 1/Auditorium 2

1:15 pm

Future directions

Anne Tonkin - Chair, Medical Board Of Australia - Medical Board of Australia, Bisola Onajin-Obembe - Consultant Anaesthesiologist - University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria, Fiona Lander - Australian lawyer and medical doctor, and an Associate Partner - McKinsey & Company, Ki Jinn Chin - Professor - Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Ramani Moonesinghe - Professor Of Perioperative Medicine, University College London And Director Of The Health Services Research Centre, Royal College Of Anaesthetists, Shalini Dhir - Director of Regional Anaesthesia - Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Suzi Nou - Past President - ASA

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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 07 September 2024

Afternoon Tea

Break - Break - Exhibition Hall

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 07 September 2024

Change Management and Leadership

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Meeting Room 3 / Betbiyan 3 & Meeting Room 4 / Bundirrik 4

3:30 pm

Change Transformation

Bisola Onajin-Obembe - Consultant Anaesthesiologist - University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria

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4:00 pm

How to Make Change Stick

Fiona Lander - Australian lawyer and medical doctor, and an Associate Partner - McKinsey & Company

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4:30 pm

Principles of Running an Anaesthetic Department

Mark Priestley - Head Of Department Of Anaesthesia - Westmead Hospital

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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 07 September 2024

Perioperative Medicine

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Auditorium 1/Auditorium 2

3:30 pm

Perioperative Medicine

Ramani Moonesinghe - Professor Of Perioperative Medicine, University College London And Director Of The Health Services Research Centre, Royal College Of Anaesthetists

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4:00 pm

An Update on SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP-Agonists

Tilenka Thynne - Endocrinologist And Clinical Pharmacologist - Flinders Medical Centre

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4:30 pm

What’s new with implantable cardiac devices

Adam Eslick - Senior Staff Specialist - Canberra Hospital

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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm - 07 September 2024

Social Media

Sessions - ASA NSC 2024 - Waterfront Room 1 and 2

3:30 pm

Dr Glaucomflecken

Will Flanary - NA - Dr Glaucomflecken

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4:00 pm

Unlocking the Opportunities of Lockdowns, the Rewards of Education Via Social Media

Lahiru Amaratunge - Anaesthetist - Western Health

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4:30 pm

Digital patient communication - Qualified voices in a noisy space

Morgan Edwards

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3:35 pm - 4:15 pm - 07 September 2024

ASA Trainee Member Audit/Survey Prize

Prize - Prize - Waterfront Room 3

3:35 pm

Post-implementation of ‘Sip Til Send’ at Grampians Health

Mayank Vasudeva - Anaesthesia Registrar - Grampians Health

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3:45 pm

Is age still the best predictor of opioid requirement for acute pain management?

Phil Harford - Registrar - CALHN

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3:55 pm

A benchmarking audit of the efficiency of post-operative intensive care for cardiac surgery patients at Australia’s first dedicated cardiac hospital and comparison to a traditional tertiary intensive care unit.

William Slifirski - Junior Doctor

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4:05 pm

Survey of barriers to the implementation of rotem guided critical bleeding protocols on randwick campus

Sukhi Hegde - Anaesthetic Fellow - Prince of Wales/Sydney of Children's Hospital

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4:15 pm - 4:45 pm - 07 September 2024

Trainee Member Group (TMG) Best Poster Prize

Prize - Prize - Waterfront Room 3

4:15 pm

New perioperative atrial fibrillation after major non-cardiac surgery: incidence and risk factors at Westmead Hospital

Joshua Chambers - SRMO - NSW Health

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4:25 pm

Does the IPACK (infiltration between popliteal artery and capsule of the knee) block with adductor canal block provide superior analgesia compared to adductor canal block with local infiltration analgesia in elective total knee arthroplasty?

Glen Abbott - Advanced Trainee - Concord Hospital

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4:35 pm

Cochrane review: oxygenation during the apnoeic phase preceding intubation in adults in prehospital, emergency department, intensive care and operating theatre environments

Christopher Thang - Registrar

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6:30 pm - 11:30 pm - 07 September 2024

Gala Dinner

Social Function - Social Function - Pee Wees at the Point

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