ANZICS

Fisher & Paykel Webinar: Nasal High Flow Use During a Pandemic: Implication for Clinical Practice
2021-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Zoom
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare will be holding a Webinar on Nasal High Flow Use During a Pandemic: Implications for Clinical Practice on Wednesday 28th April 2021 at 6pm AEST/8pm NZST.
Further information on the program can be found below:
Moderator
Dr Stephen Warrillow
Director of Intensive Care, Austin Health
Immediate Past President, ANZICS
Speakers
Associate Prof. Dr Jie Li
Associate Professor, Rush University, Chicago, USA
Topic: Risk of bio-aerosolisation with NHF therapy
Prof. Gerard Criner
Professor, Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Topic: HFN therapy for Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in COVID-19
Please follow this link to view the flyer and to register.

8th SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum
2021-04-16 08:00 - 2021-04-18 17:00 UTC
SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum (“SG-ANZICS” or “#SGANZICS”) is a joint initiative by the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SICM), Singapore, and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) to convene a Critical Care Conference. It serves to provide a platform to showcase critical care excellence and foster collaboration and mutual support of regional critical care societies, while uniting and maintaining cultural diversity.

2020 ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care ASM (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
2020-10-14 - 2020-10-16 | ICC Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The ANZICS/ACCCN Annual Scientific Meeting, which incorporates the annual Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Conference, will be held at the International Convention Centre from 14 – 16 October 2020.
The Annual Scientific Meeting will be the preeminent critical care conference in Australasia for the calendar year and will be an important platform that will allow doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners to meaningfully connect and discuss new developments and research in the field of intensive and critical care.
The theme of the meeting is “Harbouring Excellence in Intensive Care and Beyond” and will focus upon the excellence and innovation achieved in the intensive care sector throughout Australia, New Zealand and the world.
As always, the program will include keynote speakers at the forefront of Intensive Care Medicine and we anticipate they will attract great interest from both national and international delegates. The ASM provides an ideal opportunity to network, make new contacts and establish important relationships with leading intensive care professionals.
We sincerely hope you can join us in this vibrant meeting and we look forward to a memorable and mutually rewarding experience in Sydney in 2020.
Sydney, with its rich diversity, is a spectacular host city, boasting the iconic harbour bridge, cultural venues, international cuisine and surf beaches. Its stunning coastal setting and convenient international and national transport linkages provide an attractive and accessible venue for the ASM. The newly opened Sydney International Convention Centre, home to the ASM for the week, is located on the harbour foreshore, in the heart of the city.
The Local Organising Committee look forward to welcoming all delegates to Sydney.

ANZICS Sustainability Conference (Digital Event)
2020-09-15 11:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne)
The ANZICS Sustainability Conference will be held on Tuesday 15 September 2020, with a theme ‘How Green is my ICU?’. The event topics will be related to the science of sustainability, impact of ICU greenhouse gas emissions, how to audit/measure climate impact of ICU’s, how to improve ICU sustainability.
The conference will be run in a digital format, and will be a mix of didactic lectures, paper presentations and interactive panel discussions.
Partial revenue from the event will be used to develop a Toolkit to help ICUs measure and manage their carbon footprint – guidelines to audit/ measure and manage impact of ICUs equipment, consumables, footprint of climate change/ sustainability for ICU that are already built and for new/ redevelopment of ICUs and comparison with peers.

CICM Regional And Rural Critical Care Conference (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
2020-06-25 - 2020-06-26 | Alice Springs Convention Centre, 93 Barret Drive, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
CICM’s second Regional and Rural Critical Care Conference will be held in Alice Springs on the 25th – 26th June 2020.
The Theme of the conference is “Together Outback : Nowhere to go but never alone”. The program has a series of interactive sessions, workshops and free papers, providing a great opportunity for delegates to learn, mentor, contribute and network.
Health professionals, academics, medical students and those interested in critical care medicine and rural health are invited to attend.
This is a free event and is supported by the Commonwealth Department of Health’s Specialist Training Program (STP).
Important Dates
Abstract Submissions for Free Paper session opens January 2020.
Registrations open February 2020.
For more information please contact Sumithra Abeygunasekera on 03 9514 2826.

CICM 2020 ASM
2020-05-22 - 2020-05-24 | Michael Fowler Centre, 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington, 6011
ASM Program (PDF)
Past ASM Programs

Trainee Symposium & ICU Update
2020-05-21 | Harborside Function Centre, 4 Taranaki Street, Wellington, Te Aro, 6011, New Zealand
Trainee Symposium Program (PDF)
Past Trainee Symposium Programs
ICU Update Program (PDF)
Past ICU Update Programs

7th SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum
2020-04-01 08:00 - 2020-04-05 17:00 UTC

ANZICS CORE Registry Seminar - Melbourne 2020
2020-03-27 09:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Centre for Adult Education, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
In the heart of Melbourne, a short stroll from Degraves Street, one of Melbourne’s quintessential laneways, we invite you to join the ANZICS CORE Team to talk all things Registries! If you are a data manager, clinician, administrative assistant or just want to know more about how you can use CORE registry data for intensive care education, research or clinical leadership, this program is for you!
The seminar will cover:

The latest news about the CORE Registries – NEW COMET REPORTS are here!
Information and activities pertaining to the new and updated adult patient data variables
Advice on how to maintain data privacy, accuracy and quality
Comparative Benchmark Reporting – an overview of the new reports and filter options available from the CORE Portal

ANZICS New Zealand Regional Annual Meeting 2020
2020-03-04 - 2020-03-06 | Napier Conference Centre, 48 Marine Parade, Napier, Private Bag 6010, 4110, New Zealand
ANZICS20 Conference Listing

ANZICS Clinical Trials Group 22nd Annual Meeting on Clinical Trials in Intensive Care (Noosa 2020)
2020-03-03 - 2020-03-05 | Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort, 14-16 Hastings St, Noosa Heads, Queensland, 4567, Australia

ICU Research Coordinator Workshop
2020-03-02 | Sofitel Noosa Pacific Resort, 14-16 Hastings St, Noosa Heads, Queensland, 4567, Australia

ANZICS CORE Registry Seminar – South Australia
2019-11-22 09:30 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Donate Life SA, Ground Floor, Allianz Centre, 55 Currie Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
This seminar aims to provide a platform for data collectors, administrators, clinicians, data managers and researchers to come together with CORE Registry staff to discuss pertinent issues related to collection, submission and reporting of registry data. The seminars provide a rich environment to collaborate and connect the registry community. For more information and to register, please click on website link below.

ANZICS CORE Registry Seminar - South Australia
2019-11-22 09:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Melbourne)
Due to popular demand and the recent success of the Melbourne program in August, ANZICS is conducting another CORE Registry Seminar for 2019. If you’re a data manager, clinician, administrative assistant or just want to know more about how you can use CORE Registry Data for education and research purposes, this program is for you!
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
The seminar will cover:
• An overview of the CORE Registries – Latest news!
• Information and activities pertaining to the new and updated adult patient data variables.
• Advice on how to ensure privacy, accuracy and quality of data entries.
• Use of the CORE Portal Reports:
o Extracting reports,
o Use of the COMET reporting templates,
o How to analyse, interrogate and compare your site data reports.
• A Question & Answer Discussion on: Making the Registries everyone’s business!
There will be a special guest presentation on: “The use of ICU data to monitor outcomes and practice”.
Come and be a part of this important education event which aims to connect, strengthen
and expand the ICU Registry Community!
Date: Friday 22nd November 2019 (9 am to 4.30 pm)
Cost: $160
Location:
DonateLife SA
Board Room
Ground Floor, Allianz Centre
55 Currie Street
Adelaide, Sth Australia, 5000
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please inform us of any special dietary requirements at time of registration.

RMH-Critical Care Echocardiography Course (TTE) Aug-Oct 2019
2019-10-21 - 2019-10-22
This highly successful course aims to help participants achieve competence in performing and interpreting transthoracic echocardiography in the critical care setting. With about 6 weeks of preparation using the outstanding University of Melbourne Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Simulator Course, that culminates in a two-day intensive workshop on 21-22 October 2019 led by Intensivists and Anaesthetists, we hope that essential skills will be retained for longer than traditional short courses allow.

14th World Congress of Intensive Care
2019-10-14 08:00 - 2019-10-18 17:00 UTC | Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
ANZICS and ACCCN are excited to announce that the Society and College will be hosting the 14th World Congress of Intensive Care on behalf of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. The World Congress is the largest biennial gathering of official critical care societies from over 84 countries.

ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference
2019-10-14 | Crown Promenade, 8 Whiteman Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3006, Australia
This year’s ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference will be held at the Crown Promenade Melbourne on Monday 14 October 2019. This year the S&Q Conference is an affiliated event prior to the World Congress of Intensive Care which is being held in Melbourne on 15-18 October.
The Conference Organising Committee is currently developing a program to appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience. The Conference will explore aspects of the deteriorating patient. Specifically, family and patient activation, the deteriorating patient in ED, measuring efficiency of RRS, in-hospital cardiac arrests, the afferent and efferent arms of RRTs. International delegates who may choose to attend prior to the World Congress on Intensive Care will be well catered for.

Bendigo Health Regional Critical Care Conference
2019-08-29 - 2019-08-30 | Ulumbarra Theatre, Ulumbarra Theatre
Bendigo Health will host the fifth Regional Critical Care Conference. The two day conference will feature

keynote and invited speakers, free papers and a stellar conference dinner. The theme of the conference in 2019 is Critical Illness. Any Where. Any Time.

Critical care can happen anywhere anytime. The 2019 Bendigo Health Regional Critical Care Conference will expand on the many areas that critical care can occur: outside hospital, in emergency care settings, hospital wards and critical care environments.

For further information view the flyer here.

ANZICS CTG Winter Research Forum 2019
2019-08-14 15:00 - 2019-08-16 13:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Queenstown, New Zealand, New Zealand
In 2019 the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Tenth Annual Winter Research Forum will be held from the afternoon of Wednesday 14th of August until lunchtime Friday 16th August in Queenstown, New Zealand.
The primary aims of the Winter Research Forum are to provide an informal opportunity for investigators to gain early advice and feedback on research proposals, to explore issues relevant to study design and conduct in ANZ ICUs and to foster a collaborative approach to study development within the ANZICS CTG.
All members of the intensive care research community and individuals working in the public sector (i.e. in a non-commercial setting) to improve outcomes for people with critical illness are invited to attend the meeting.

CICM Regional and Rural Critical Care Conference - Darwin
2019-07-18 - 2019-07-19 | Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Australia
Come and join in the CICM Regional and Rural Critical Care Conference!
Program is packed with exceptional line up of Speakers sharing first hand experiences in their health career and topics covered will be timely and relevant to those who work in rural health care sector.
If you need more there will be workshops and Free Paper Presentation sessions. Visit the CICM Regional and Rural Critical Care Web site for more information.
Abstract Submissions open from 28th January to 22nd April 2019.
Registration open from 11th February 2019.
For more information please contact Sumithra Abeygunasekera on 03 9514 2826.

RMH-Critical Care Echocardiography Course (TTE) May-July 2019
2019-07-15 - 2019-07-16
This highly successful course aims to help participants achieve competence in performing and interpreting transthoracic echocardiography in the critical care setting. With about 6 weeks of preparation using the outstanding University of Melbourne Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Simulator Course, that culminates in a two-day intensive workshop on 15-16 July 2019 led by Intensivists and Anaesthetists, we hope that essential skills will be retained for longer than traditional short courses allow.

ANZICS Critical Care Datathon
2019-06-22 - 2019-06-23 | Science and Engineering Centre, 2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
Want to know more about Intensive Care data?
Want to explore data to answer a clinical question?
Need a project to complete your ICU Fellowship?
Work with experts in clinical research and data science?
Want to have fun and get the datathon buzz?
The ANZICS Critical Care Datathon is for you!
WHAT IS A DATATHON?
Participants will form teams of clinicians and data scientists and work on a clinical question using large critical care datasets.

CICM 2019 ASM
2019-06-06 - 2019-06-09 | Cairns, North Queensland, Cairns, QLD, Australia
With an outstanding line up of International and National Speakers, including intensivists, surgeons, radiologists, and haematologists, our 2019 Committee have worked tirelessly to bring a program to suit everyone.
With Adult and Paediatric presentations, we invite you to join us in tropical Cairns for what is expected to be another stimulating and educational event for our Fellows and Trainees.
The Trainee Symposium and the ICU Update will run the day prior to the ASM, committees are working towards inspiring and educational programs to reach all our audience.
Visit the ASM Website for more information.

4i Course, New Zealand
2019-05-04 - 2019-05-05
An interactive masterclass in anatomy and hands-on training for invasive interventions and advanced airway management.
The only course in New Zealand providing an indepth training of invasive interventions for intensive care and advanced airway management in a realistic cadaver lab environment. This two-day workshop is jointly run by the Department of Surgical Sciences – Section of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and the Department of Anatomy, University of Otago. Participants will be provided with the unique opportunity to practice invasive interventions and to train their dexterity, problem-solving and team-working skills.
Please click here to view course programme.
For more information on the course please click here.

RMH-Critical Care Echocardiography Course (TTE) March-April 2019
2019-04-29 - 2019-04-30
This highly successful course aims to help participants achieve competence in performing and interpreting transthoracic echocardiography in the critical care setting. With about 6 weeks of preparation using the outstanding University of Melbourne Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Simulator Course, that culminates in a two-day intensive workshop on 29-30 April 2019 led by Intensivists and Anaesthetists, we hope that essential skills will be retained for longer than traditional short courses allow.

6th SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum
2019-04-18 08:00 - 2019-04-22 17:00 UTC

2019 ANZICS New Zealand Regional ASM
2019-04-03 - 2019-04-05 | Spencer on Byron Hotel, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
The NZ Regional ANZICS Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 April 2019 at the Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna, Auckland.
Their meeting theme, “Past Forward your ICU !” is intended to reflect the importance of both tradition and looking into future developments which will affect the way we practice our profession :
– Technological – the advent of the hospital electronic medical record in NZ. Presenters include Professor Johanna Westbrook, Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
– Organisational – ICU physical and organisational design. Presenters from ICUs which have recently expanded
– Therapeutics – eg Cannabinoids, presenter Professor Michelle Glass
– Cultural – Improving Maori patients’ paths into and through ICU. Presenters include Professor Hine Elder, youth forensic psychiatrist and researcher of indigenous health
– Individual – Retirement, presenters include Mary Holm, New Zealand’s most widely read investment adviser
For further information, please click here.

Advanced Debriefing
2019-02-26 - 2019-03-01 | Mater Education Practice Improvement Centre Mater campus, South Brisbane
Drawing on advanced techniques from experiential learning and organisational psychology, it focuses on debriefing skills to enhance and extend instructional techniques learnt in the Simulation as a Teaching Tool course.
Key topics include:
• debriefing techniques with feedback
• providing feedback to colleagues on debriefing
• using Action Science techniques to assess the quality of debriefing.
This program will be hosted by Mater Education in Brisbane, and delivered in partnership with the world-renowned Center for Medical Simulation (based in Boston, USA) through its Institute of Medical Simulation Instructor Training Program.
For more information please click here to view the flyer.

Simulation as a Teaching Tool
2019-02-19 - 2019-02-22 | Mater Education Practice Improvement Centre Mater campus, South Brisbane
This is an intensive four day program designed to immerse healthcare leaders and instructors in an inter-professional learning environment. Participants will learn to teach clinical, behavioural and cognitive skills through simulation, drawing on expertise in the areas of aviation, healthcare, psychology, experiential learning and organisational behaviour.
Key topics include:
• teaching critical thinking and skills
• teaching teamwork and crisis resource management
• developing debriefing skills
• operating a simulation program
• creating a challenging and safe learning environment
• preparing, building, conducting and debriefing realistic simulation scenarios
• avoiding simulation pitfalls and ineffective debriefing techniques
• introducing behavioural and educational research paradigms.
This program will be hosted by Mater Education in Brisbane, and delivered in partnership with the world-renowned Center for Medical Simulation (based in Boston, USA) through its Institute of Medical Simulation Instructor Training Program.
For more information please click here to view the flyer.

South Australian ICU Fellowship Course
2019-02-13 - 2019-02-15 | Adelaide, South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The 36th South Australian Intensive Care Fellowship Exam (Tub’s) Course will be held in Adelaide from 13-15 February 2019. It is a comprehensive 3-day course aimed at CICM trainees planning to sit the Fellowship Examination in the following 12 months.
The focus is very much on interactive and practical sessions, and it includes tutorials on the written examination, vivas and hot cases, as well as mock examinations in each of these.
Formal hot case sessions are run at 4 hospitals (Royal Adelaide Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre and Lyell McEwin Hospital), ensuring that each candidate will get exposure to 2 different Units. Approximately 30 Faculty are involved each year, including several from interstate.
Please see Information Sheet attached or further information is available on their website.
Applications open September 4th.
