ANAESTHESIA AND CRITICAL EVENTS - PROGRAM
"Lessons, Lives and the Law"....
13:00 - 13:30 - REGISTRATION
SESSION 1:
Chair: Dr Daryl Williams - A/Prof: Director, Department of Anaesthesia & Pain Management, RMH
13:30 - 13:50 Safe Surgery Saves Lives - Mr Ian Hayes - Head of Dept of Specialist General Surgery, RMH
13:50 - 14:10 Lessons fron VCCAMM - A/Prof Larry McNicol - Director of Anaesthesia, Perioperative &
Intensive Care CSU, Austin Health; Chairman of VCCAMM
14:10 - 14:30 Anaesthesia critical events - a legal perspective - Mr Michael Gorton AM,
Partner - Russell Kennedy Solicitors: ANZCA College Solicitor
14:30 - 15:00 Discussion
15:00 - 15:45 AFTERNOON TEA - TRADE DISPLAY
SESSION 2:
Chair: Dr Liz Pemberton: Deputy Director, Department of Anaesthesia & Pain Management, RMH
15:45 - 16:05 Intraoperative Dental Injury - Dr Graham Lethbridge - Visiting Anaesthetist, RMH
16:05 - 16:25 "The ST segments were up before..........weren't they?" - Intraoperative Cardiac Events -
Dr Roni Krieser, Staff Anaesthetist, RMH
16:25 - 16:45 Critical Events in Obstetric Anaesthesia - Dr Nicholas Jansen - Visiting Anaesthetist,
Royal Melbourne and Women's Hospitals
16:45 - 17:15 DISCUSSION
17:15 - 18:00 DRINKS & FINGER FOOD - TRADE DISPLAY
SESSION 3:
Chair: Dr Karl Alexander: Anaesthetist, RMH
18:00 - 18:20 Awareness and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Prof Kate Leslie, Staff Anaesthetist, RMH
18:20 - 18:40 Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction - evoluiotn of an aetiology - A/Prof Brendan Silbert,
Staff Anaesthetist, St Vincent's Hospital
18:40 - 19:00 DISCUSSION | 
