ACAP is now
entering its second year of hosting regular and
comprehensive education events for members. Our
regular Tuesday night Rozelle sessions have proven
to be a big hit, with many attendees commenting on
the quality and practical application of the
presentations.
We
encourage all members to take up the opportunities
provided by these regular events. They not only
expand your knowledge, introduce you to new
pre-hospital technologies and allow for peer
interaction, but also count towards your CTP!
To get updates of education
events via email send a blank message to
this address.
Austrauma 2008
This year
Emergency Surgery will be included with
Trauma and Critical Care. The
international world renown faculty is
confirmed and will be coming to
Australia from the United States, South
Africa, Israel and New Zealand. There
will also be Australian expertise with
trauma and emergency care leaders from
almost every State.
Conference highlights include disaster
management, difficult emergency surgery
decision making, advances in burns care,
damage control in and out of the
abdomen, controversial debates, trauma
care pitfalls, surgical ICU's, trauma
centre designation and verification,
teams and leadership, operative and
non-operative care principles and urban
vs rural case scenarios.
Due to last year's oversubscription and
success of the workshop sessions,
Austrauma 2008 will dedicate a separate
day exclusively for Emergency Workshops
in Burns, Prehospital Skills, Emergency
Room Airways and Ultrasound.
Check the
website regularly for the new
program, updates and details.
Nationally ACAP has also
recently launched the exciting 'eJournal
of Emergency Primary Health Care'
(JEPHC), a peer reviewed e-journal available
internationally via the internet. Check out the
JEPHC page for articles and submission information.
ACAP
Trials New Intubation Technology
The Airtraq
device
ACAP (NSW) and Charles Sturt University,
under the guidance of Professor Malcolm
Woollard, are undertaking a randomised cross
over trial comparing a conventional
laryngoscope and the AirtraqTM in
intubation. Participants for the mannequin
trial will be sourced from the upcoming ACAP
National Conference in Adelaide.
Professor Malcolm Woollard is the Director
of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Research
Unit in the Department of Academic Emergency
Medicine at the James Cook University
Hospital and Visiting Professor in
Pre-hospital Emergency Care at the
University of Teesside. He was formerly a
Lecturer-Practitioner at the University of
Wales Swansea and an Honorary Lecturer at
the University of Wales College of Medicine,
where he led the establishment of the
Pre-hospital Emergency Research Unit.
Professor Woollard commenced his career as
an ambulance officer and paramedic. ACAP
(NSW) is part sponsoring Professor Woollard
in Australia under the recent Scholarship
Grants Program expansion.
Results of the trial will be published in an
appropriate international journal and will
also be published in the Response journal.
ACAP
NSW Supports HIRT Information Poster
ACAP NSW and
NRMA Careflight came together recently to
produce an information poster for Ambulance
Officers and other emergency services
regarding the function and produces of the
Head Injury Retrieval Trial helicopter.
Copies of this poster
were distributed to all Ambulance Stations
and other facilities within the HIRT
catchment area. Alternatively you can
download copy by clicking on the image at
left or if you would like to request a hard
copy please email
darren.hoschke@nsw.acap.org.au.
ACAP
(NSW) is proud to offer services to its membership.
If you have not yet attended a workshop, looked at
the medexchange opportunities or applied for a
scholarship grant there is no better time than now!
CSU
Postgraduate Certificate in Intensive Care Paramedic
Studies
Why and what for?
Throughout Australia, there is a growing
need for paramedics with formal postgraduate
qualifications in intensive care. Charles
Sturt University has developed the
Postgraduate Certificate in Intensive Care
Paramedic Studies in consultation with
ambulance industry representatives from New
South Wales and other States and Territories
to meet this need. The course has received
the support of the Ambulance Service of New
South Wales. Graduates will be equipped with
the knowledge, skills and clinical judgement
to successfully enter the role of an
intensive care paramedic, after clinical
experience and appointment to an approved
position within the ambulance service. The
course will facilitate articulation with
other postgraduate programs offered at
Charles Sturt University, such as the Master
of Health Science program.
Who is eligible to enrol?
Applicants must hold a Bachelor of Clinical
Studies (Paramedic), an equivalent
qualification or considerable approved
industry training and experience.
For more
information.. Download the brochure
here or view the CSU website at
www.csu.edu.au.
