ANZICS

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
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.

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.

ACTA Registry-Randomised Trials Colloquium
2019-02-11 08:30 - 17:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
Hear from trialists who have successfully run trials utilising clinical quality registries as well as policy makers and funders. Delegates will have the opportunity to engage with speakers and be equipped to utilise these methodologies. The goal is to leave with a clear pathway as to how registries can be engaged in making trials better, cheaper, easier, and quicker.
When: Mon 11 February 2019, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Location: SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute), North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000
Click here for more details.

Monash Paediatric BASIC Course 2018
2018-12-04 - 2018-12-05 | Monash Children’s Hospital Melbourne, 246 Clayton Road,, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Paediatric Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care is a two-day interactive course comprising lectures, workshops and skills stations.
We are excited to offer this year’s course in the new Monash Children’s Hospital with the new Monash PICU and adjacent surgical SIM centre!
The course is intended for Advanced Trainees and Consultants. It covers fundamental knowledge and skills for doctors working or training in PICUs, regional ICUs and other critical care environments that provide intensive care management and/or advanced resuscitation and pre-transport stabilisation of critically ill and injured children.
Please click here for further information.

Patient Deterioration New Zealand: Current State and Future Developments
2018-11-29 08:00 - 2018-11-30 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Holiday Inn Auckland Airport, 2 Ascot Road, Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand
Jointly hosted by the Health Quality & Safety Commission and ANZICS, this two-day conference brings together nursing and medical staff, quality professionals, educators and leaders in health care. If you are involved in providing acute care in New Zealand hospitals, this conference is for you!
To find out more visit the website here.

Short Course in Critical Infection 2018
2018-11-08 - 2018-11-09 | Westmead Hospital, Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW, 2145, Australia
SCCI2018 8-9 November
The Sydney short course in critical infection will be held in November this year at Westmead Hospital. We’ll be welcoming critical care and infection specialists in medicine, nursing and pharmacy to be part of case discussions and updates of all things relevant to severe and life-threatening infection.

Pan-Sepsis Research Symposium
2018-10-24 | The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (North), Perth, Australia
The Pan-Sepsis Research Symposium is a new symposium to be held in Perth WA, on 24th Oct 2018. The focus of this symposium is sepsis – “Pan-sepsis” incorporates every topic relating to sepsis, from basic research to diagnostics, clinical trials, therapies and treatment, and more. Neonatal sepsis, adult ICU, and veterinary species will all be represented.
This full-day symposium will bring together expert international, national, and local speakers including Prof Bob Hancock and Dr Simone Schuller. The Symposium will be a great opportunity for learning and establishing new collaborations. It will also showcase the broad range of sepsis research being undertaken, and everyone including students are warmly encouraged to be involved and present either via oral presentation or a poster.
Please see attached Flyer for more information or check out their Website

ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting
2018-10-11 08:00 - 2018-10-13 17:00 UTC | Adelaide, South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
The ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care Annual Scientific Meeting is regarded as the flagship event for the Society. The ASM is one of the largest Intensive Care Conferences in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 1000 delegates attending each meeting. This year the event returns to Adelaide, South Australia from the 11th – 13th October 2018. The meeting is multidisciplinary and has a robust Scientific Program that is suited to all Critical Care Clinicians.

The Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) course
2018-09-10 - 2018-09-11 | Mackay SIM Centre
The Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) course covers the fundamental knowledge and skills required for healthcare professionals working in Intensive Care Units and other critical care environments that provide intensive care management or advanced resuscitation and pre-transport stabilisation of critically ill and injured adult patients.
This course aims to prepare clinicians from all disciplines for the practical management of critically ill patients.
Key topics:

Assessment of the seriously ill adult patient
Mechanical ventilation: modes, strategies for optimising ventilators, troubleshooting
Diagnosis and management of: airway management and airway obstruction; acute respiratory failure
Severe trauma
Severe sepsis and septic shock
Interpretation of arterial blood gases
Sedation and analgesia
Critical Care Transport
Skill stations include:
Airway management
Vascular access
Mechanical ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit
Defibrillation and pacing

Please see attached Flyer for more information and Register Here.

The Winter Research Forum
2018-08-27 08:00 - 2018-08-28 17:00 UTC | Sydney, Australia., Australia
The Winter Research Forum is held over two days during Winter (July or August). The meeting is designed to provide a rigorous peer review forum for proposed research initiatives. It is a requirement of CTG endorsement of a study that it is presented to the CTG community for discussion at one of these meetings.

2018 Critical Care Collaborative Conference
2018-08-17 08:30 - 17:00 UTC | PULLMAN MELBOURNE ON THE PARK 192 WELLINGTON PARADE EAST MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
ACCCN & ANZICS are pleased to present the 2018 Critical Care Collaborative Conference – ICU Alphabet Soup. This one day event is an interprofessional symposium open to all critical care providers: prehospital, medical, nursing and allied health.

ANZICS Safety and Quality Conference
2018-07-30 08:00 - 2018-07-31 17:00 UTC | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The ANZICS Safety & Quality Conference focuses on multidisciplinary team activities and is suitable for critical care nurses, allied health staff and physicians. The topics presented have implications for patient monitoring and the recognition, response and treatment of deteriorating hospitalised patients. This year will see the event return to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from the 30th July to 31st July.

RMH-Critical Care Echocardiography Course (TTE)
2018-07-07 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit Education Centre (Level B5) Grattan Street Parkville, Vic 3050, Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit Education Centre (Level B5) Grattan Street Parkville, Vic, 3050, Australia

2018 Safety and Quality Conference
2018-06-19 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Sofitel Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
