Nursing Seminar Adelaide

Update in Anaesthetic Emergencies, Pain Management & Pharmacology for Operating Room & PACU Nurses

9.00am – 3.45pm, Saturday 27th March 2004

The Bruce Hunt Lecture Theatre,
Level 2, Royal Perth Hospital,
197 Wellington St, Perth

VIDEO CONFERENCING AVAILABLE

REGISTRATION
Before March 19th - $145.00 • After March 19th - $170.00
(Price includes: 10% GST, morning tea, lunch, notes, and certificate of attendance)


This program is designed to increase and update the knowledge and skills of nurses who work in operating theatres, anaesthetic departments, and post anaesthetic care units. An update on acute and possibly fatal disorders which could affect patients undergoing anaesthesia as well as an overview of pain management & new anaesthetic drugs will be presented during the day.

PROGRAM

8.30-9.00am Registration
9.00-9.55am New Drugs in Anaesthetics David Elliott
10.00-10.55am Current Trends in Acute Pain Management Louise Cope
10.55–11.15am Morning Tea
11.20-12.10pm Anaesthetic Emergencies: failed Intubation, anaphylaxis, malignant hyperthermia David Elliott
12.15-13.05pm Myocardial Ischaemia – management of chest pain Rhonda Sanders
13.05-13.45 Lunch
13.50-14.45pm Respiratory Emergencies in PACU: laryngospasm, bronchospasm, apnoea
14.50-15.45pm Cardiac Arrest – current trends in cardiopulmonary resuscitation Rhonda Sanders

Seminar Presenters:
David Elliott – Staff Specialist Anaesthetist, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Louise Cope – Clinical Nurse Consultant, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Rhonda Sanders – CNC – Heart Failure, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne



Reference Code: Update Anaes/Perth/04
(Registrations closes March 25th)


For further enquiries please contact:
Critical Visions

Tel: (03) 9484 7347 or 0419265494.
Fax: (03) 94847078; Email: seminars@criticalvisions.com.au