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Provisional Program

This program is an overview and will be updated as planning proceeds. The session and function times may change in the final program. Please check this page regularly.

  Monday 4 October 2010  
1530 - 1700

Education Committee

 
  Tuesday 5 October 2010  
0900 Registration  
0900 - 1300

ANZBA Board Meeting

MR 1
1000 - 1700

Aboriginal Health Worker Seminar
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TBA
1000 - 1700

Allied Health Forum
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MR 2
1245 - 1700

Nursing Forum
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MR 3/4
1330 - 1700

HOUSE Meeting

MR 1
     
1730 - 1930 Welcome Reception  
     
  Wednesday 6 October 2010  
  Registration  
 

Session 1

 
0830 - 0840 Welcome - Dr David Read and Alison Mustapha, Co-convenors  
0840 - 0900 Opening Address - Dr Len Notaras AM, Executive Director, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC)  
0900 - 0924 Plenary Address: Dr Kumar Kishmore – Abusive contact burns  
0926 - 0950 Invited Speaker: A/Prof Phillip Carson FRACS
Delivering Specialist Services Across Barriers of Distance and Culture
 
0952 - 1002 Treatment before transfer: Pre-Hospital Education and Assessment into Thermal Injury
Miss Hannah Dobson*, Miss Heather Cleland, Mr Jason Wasiak
 
1004 -1014 The effect of correct first aid treatment on the vasculature and cells within a burn
Dr Leila Cuttle *, Ms Margit Kempf, Ms Pei-Yun Liu, Dr Gael Phillips, Dr Xue-Qing Wang
 
1014 - 1024 How should burns patient be resuscitated? A systematic review investigating fluid composition and endpoints of
resuscitation
Dr Jennifer Paratz *, Ms Elizabeth Paratz, Dr Stephen O'Donoghue, A/Prof Michael Muller, A/ProfRobert Boots
 
1026 - 1036 Pre-hospital lessons learned from the ashmore reef refugee boat explosion: Australia’s most remote major medical response
Dr Ian Norton
1036 - 1105 Morning Tea  
 

Session 2

 
1105 - 1123 Murray Clarke Oration: Sheila Kavanagh  
1123 - 1147 Invited Speaker: Richard Trudgen  
1147 - 1207 The Bi-National Burns Registry (Bi-NBR); One year on
Natalie Picton *, Dina Watterson *
 
1207 - 1217 Towards the Integration of Statewide Clinical and Educational Burn Telehealth Services in Western Australia
Ms Tania McWilliams*, Ms Joy Fong, Prof Suzanne Rea, Prof Fiona Wood, Mr Paul Byrne
 
1219 - 1229 The Burns SA Action Plan: Strategic directions in burns care for South Australia 2010 – 2012
Ms Linda Quinn *, Mr Phil Calvert, Mr Kurt Towers, Ms Sheila Kavanagh
 
1231 - 1241 Psychosocial Impact of Burn Injuries on Young Children and their Families
Ms Alexandra De Young *, Prof Roy Kimble, Prof Justin Kenardy, Dr Vanessa Cobham, Dr Samantha
Keogh
 
1243 - 1253 Psychosocial Functioning: How do Australian paediatric burn survivors compare to healthy norms?
Miss Jessica James-Chadwick *, Dr Peter Newcombe, Prof Graham Martin, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1255 - 1340 Lunch and Exhibition  
 

Session 3

 
1345 - 1409 Plenary Address: Gretchen Carrougher –  Pain Assessment: Current Practices for Adults and Children  
1410 - 1434 Plenary Address: Prof Wei Guo – Acinetobacter baumanii molecular epidemiology and analysis of drug resistance in burn intensive care unit  
1435 - 1445 In Situ Diagnostic Methods for Catheter Related Bloodstream Infection in Burns patients: A Pilot Study
Dr John Gowardman *, Dr Jennifer Paratz, Professor Claire Rickard, Ms Paula Jeffries, Mr Paul
Jarrett
 
1447 - 1457 Blood Stream Infections in Burns patients- A ten year retrospective study at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Dr Bhavik Patel *, Dr Jenny Paratz, Dr Jason Roberts, Dr Michael Muller, Dr Michael Rudd
 
1459 - 1509 Technology solutions for minimising child pain and distress: A Multicentre Randomised Control Trial
Miss Kate Miller *, Prof Sylvia Rodger, Miss Belinda Kipping, Dr Richard Wong She, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1510 - 1520 Affordable Off-the-Shelf Virtual Reality and Teen Pain Management: A Multi-Site Randomised Control Trial
Miss Belinda Kipping *, Miss Kate Sunny Miller, Prof Sylvia Rodger, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1512 - 1532 A multidisciplinary tiered approach to treatment of burn itch
Dr Alka Garg
 
1532 - 1600 Afternoon Tea  
 

Session 4

 
1602 - 1612 The Development of Burns Resources in The Alfred ICU
Anna Dykes *, Sophie Thompson
 
1614 - 1624 Intensive Care nurses caring for Burn patients- what do they really think?
Mr Bernard Clarke *, Ms Bronwyn McRae, Mr Matthew Tinker
 
1626 - 1636 Resilience in burns nurses: a descriptive phenomenological inquiry
Ms Rachel Kornhaber *
 
1638 - 1648 Current Practice in Australia and New Zealand for Paediatric Burns
Dr Leo Kim *, Dr Hugh Martin, A/Prof Andrew Holland
 
1650 - 1705   Evaluation of Efficacy of Tumescence Technique on Transfusion Requirements
Dr Mahyar Amjadi *, A/Prof John Greenwood, Dr Ian Mackie
 
1702 - 1714 ANZBA Prevention Committee  
1716 - 1728 Julian Burton Burns Trust Presentation  
     
1740 - 1900 ANZBA AGM  
     
  Thursday 7 October 2010  
0700 Smith + Nephew Breakfast  
0730 Registration  
     
0830 - 0839 Open   
 

Session 5

 
0840 - 0904 Plenary Address: Reginald Richards – Evolution of Physical Burn Rehabilitation  
0906 - 0916 Local and systemic activity of activin A and follistatin following acute burns injury
Melissa Hinrichs *, Catriona McLean, Heather Cleland, Jason Wasiak, David J Phillips
 
0918 – 0928 The Expression Of alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin During Wound Healing And In Scars On Partial Thickness Burns
Dr Xue-Qing Wang *, Dr Olena Kravchuk, Dr Leila Cuttle, Margit Kempf, Prof Roy Kimble
 
0930 – 0940 The role of Ephrin A2 in normal skin development and repair after injury
Dr Mark Fear, Dr Jenny Rodgers, Dr Andrew Stevenson, Prof Suzanne Rea *, Prof Fiona Wood
 
0942 – 0952 The effect of ageing on the skin transcriptome
Dr Mark Fear, Dr Daniel Haustead, Prof Suzanne Rea *, Prof Fiona Wood, Dr Hilary Wallace
 
0952 – 1002 Development of porous polycaprolactone/collagen scaffolds for skin tissue engineering
Dr Yiwei Wang *, Ms Diana Martinez tobon, Dr Zhe Li, Professor Peter Maitz
 
1004 – 1014 Assessment and Impact of Skin Changes After Burn Injury in Indigenous Patients
Dr Sheri Newman *, Susan Clee, Alison Mustapha
 
1015 - 1045 Morning Tea  
 

Session 6

 
1045 – 1109 Plenary Address: Dr Kumar Kishmore – Electrical Burn Injuries  
1109 – 1133 To be advised  
1135 – 1145 Cytotoxicity testing of wound dressings, ointments, creams and gels- a method using Cell Culture Inserts on a monolayer
Ms Margit Kempf *
 
1147 – 1157 Stringy Bark Honey in Burn Wound Management- A comprehensive investigation of skin cell viability, antibacterial activity and topical application clinical trial
Mrs Miranda Pye *, Dr Zhe Li, Miss Kate Nieuwendyk, Dr Shona Blair, Professor Peter Maitz, Ms
Penny Guiterrez, Ms Christine Parker, Ms Sue Taggart
 
1159 – 1209 Assessing pain to determine appropriate and effective pain management during wound care procedures
Miss Kate Miller *, Miss Belinda Kipping *, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1211 - 1221 Likelihood of Hypertrophic Scar Development Based on the Site of Injury in Paediatric Population
Dr Mahyar Amjadi *, Mr Bernard Carney, Mr Anthony Sparnon
 
1221- 1231 Self-Inflicted Burn Injury: An Analysis of Incidence in an Adult Burns Unit
Dr Mahyar Amjadi *, A/Prof John Greenwood, Ms Andrea Parker
 
1231 - 1315

Lunch and Exhibition

Bi-NBR Reference Committee Meeting
 
 

Oral Poster Presentations

 
  Investigation of the relationship between transfer time and clinical outcomes in burns patients
J Soraru *, V Verissimo, C Heath, W Edgar, Prof F Wood
 
  Epidemiological trends in burn admissions at the RDH over the last 10 yrs – a public health concern?
Dr Joshua Grundy *, Alison Mustapha, Dr David Read
 
  Clinical relavance of Laser Doppler Imaging in adult burns
Dr S R Jayalath, Dr Aruna Wijewardana *, Mr Peter Campbell, Dr John Vandervord
 
  Stay Safe Newsletter - How to get the Message across. Presentation by VBPP about how to get the message of burns prevention acroos to the Community
Mr Andrew Smith *, Ms Yvonne Singer *
 
  Statistic Evaluation of Operating Times at the Burns Unit Theatre Concord Hospital
Ms Christine Overend *
 
  "Reclaiming" One's Body Intergrity Throughh Camouflage - Is There A Place For Tattooing?
Mrs Sandra Spalding *, Mr Paul Stragapede
 
  Breaking down barriers to Occupational Performance using SKYPE ©
Miss Andrea McKittrick *
 
  BurnAid - A Tea Tree Oil-containing First-aid Hydrogel: Cytotoxicity and possible Anti-Inflammatory Effects
Dr Amy Lee *, Dr Yiwei Wang, Professor Peter Maitz, Dr Zhe Li
 
  Placement of a peri-operative, post-pyloric enteral feeding tube in the major burn injured patient using a bedside technique
Ms Rochelle Kurmis *, Stuart Harper, Dr John Greenwood
 
  Effect of Rurality on Specified Health Outcomes of Burn Patients Presenting to The Townsville Hospital
Dr Nina-Marie King *, Dr Vincent Ho, Dr Ian Tassan
 
  Tissue Expansion in Ear Reconstruction following Traumatic Burns
Dr Sarah Tolerton *, Dr Justine O'Hara, Dr Nicholas Lotz, Dr John Vandervord
 
  Fighting fuel and flame: effectiveness of a burn prevention campaign
Dr Joel Dulhunty *, Dr Michael Muller, Dr Jennifer Paratz, Dr John Harrison, Dr Catherine Hurn
 
  National First Aid Initiative
Mrs Carolyn Hynes *, Ms Siobhan Connolly *, Mr Kurt Towers, Ms Deb Bates, Prof Fiona Wood
 
  Improving confidence and interest in burns care in non-specialist health professionals
Ms Andrea Parker *, Prof John Greenwood
 
  Classifying % TBSA: A Comparison of Coding Procedures
Ms Dina Watterson *, Ms Heather Cleland, Ms Natalie Picton, Mr Andrew Hannaford, Dr Belinda
Gabbe
 
  MoorLDLS-B1 trial against MoorLDI2-B1 for burn wound depth assessment
Ms Diane Ward *, Dr Queenie Chan, Dr Eric La Hei, Dr John Harvey, Prof Andrew Holland
 
  Critical illness polyneuropathy in patients with major thermal burns
Queenie Chan*, K Ng, J Vandervord
 
     
     
1505 – 1535 Afternoon Tea  
1535 – 2000 Activity Afternoon  
     
  Friday 8 October 2010  
0630 Molnlycke Breakfast
“A significantly less painful alternative in burn care” – the results of an open parallel randomised comparative multi centre investigation in the  US. Dr Paul Silverstein
Breakfast Flyer
MR2
     
0730 Registration  
     
0830 – 0839 Open   
 

Session 8

 
0840 – 0904 Plenary Address: Dr Kumar Kishmore – Chemical Burn Injuries  
0906 – 0916 Fireworks related burns in the Northern Territory of Australia: A 10 year retrospective Review
Dr Edward Yeboah *, Dr David Read, Alison Mustapha, Justin Glover
 
0918 – 0928 Mass Casualties and Burns at the Royal Darwin Hospital
Dr Modher Al-Shawi *, Mr. David Read, Mrs. Alison Mustapha
 
0930 – 0940 Metamphetamine laboratory burn injuries – Why the explosion?
Mr Jeremy Rawlins *, Prof Fiona Wood, Assoc Prof Suzanne Rea
 
0942 – 0952 Management of complex chemical burns following a mass casualty chemical plant incident
Mr Jeremy Rawlins *, Prof Suzanne Rea, Prof Fiona Wood
 
0952 – 1002 Paediatric Scald Injury in Western Australia: Past, Present and Future
Ms Lisa Martin, Prof Suzanne Rea, Mr Jeremy Rawlins, Ms Tania McWilliams,  Prof Fiona Wood
 
1004 – 1014 Prevention of Burns in the Elderly – Developing a framework for an Education Package
Ms Alwena Willis *, Prof Fiona Wood, Ms Sandra Carr
 
1015 - 1045 Morning Tea  
 

Session 9

 
1045 – 1109 Plenary Address: Gretchen Carrougher - Community Re-Entry Issues  
  To be advised  
1122 – 1132 Going the Distance: The Challenges Associated with Treatment and Follow Up of Patients in the Top End
Miss Susan Clee *
 
1134 – 1144 Crossing Cultures and Continents - Sharing an Australian-Sri Lankan Burns Experience
Ms Akane Katsu *, Mr Chinthaka Kannangara
 
1146 – 1156 Black Saturday 18 Months on: Social Work Responses at the Victorian Adult Burns Service – Alfred Hospital
Ms Leah Du Plooy *, Ms Belinda Martin, Ms Stephine Watts, Ms Kellie Muir, A/P Louise Harms
 
1158- 1208 Physical and quality of life outcomes of patients with isolated hand burns - a prospective study
Ms Nicola Williams *, Ms Kathy Stiller, Mr Phil Calvert, Ms Margot Masters, Mr John Greenwood
 
1208 - 1300

Lunch and Exhibition

Bi-NBR Steering Committee Meeting
 
 

Session 10

 
1300 – 1324 Plenary Address: Reginald Richards – Global Considerations for Improvement in Burns Rehabilitation Outcomes  
1326 – 1336 To investigate the correlation between time to skin grafting and hypertrophic scarring following deep dermal burns in a porcine model
Dr Queenie Chan *, Dr Monique Bertinetti, Dr John Harvey, A/Prof Andrew Holland
 
1338 – 1348 To be advised  
1350 – 1400 A camouflage approach to burn scarring: An International Multi-centred Randomised Control Trial
Miss Jessica James-Chadwick *, Dr Peter Newcombe, Prof Graham Martin, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1402 – 1412 Ultrasound Assessed Thickness Of Burn Scars In Association With Laser Doppler Determined Depth Of Burns In Paediatric Patients
Dr Xue-Qing Wang *, Julie Mill, Dr Olena Kravchuk, Prof Roy Kimble
 
1414 – 1424 Impact of Surgery and Pressure Garment Therapy on Sensory and Muscle Function of Burns Patients
Miss Ashley, Jen Min Tan *, Miss Charis, Hui Hui Lum *, Mr Joel, Yong En Lim *
 
1426 – 1436    
1438 - 1445 ANZBA 2011 Conference Promotion  
1445 - 1535 Afternoon tea & Exhibition  
1535 - 1559 Plenary Address: Prof Wei Guo – Repair of electrical burns on hands with flaps  
1601 - 1611 Orofacial Contracture Management: Consensus and Variation in Practice
Mrs Gulsen Ellul *, Ms Nicola Clayton
 
1613 - 1623 Domestic bathroom scalds in the elderly
Mr James Scott *, Ms Susan Taggart
 
1625 - 1635 Development of an Extemporaneous Formulation of Oxandrolone and Stability Evaluation of it
Dr Alka Garg *, Dr Richard Wong She, Dr Sanjay Garg
 
1637 - 1647 Benefit of Skin Grafting and Topical Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for management of difficult-to-treat Lower Limb Wounds
Dr Sepehr Seyed Lajevardi *, Dr Aruna Wijewardena, Dr John Vandervord
 
1649 - 1659 A clinical trial to investigate Biobrane wound dressings with /without ReCell in paediatric scald injuries
Ms  Lisa Martin, Prof  Suzanne Rea,  Mr Jeremy Rawlins, Ms Tania McWilliams,  Prof Fiona Wood
 
1701 - 1711 The functional and cosmetic outcome of full thickness versus split skin grafts in paediatric palmar surface burns
Dr Queenie Chan *, Dr John Harvey, A/Prof Andrew Holland
 
1711 - 1730 Conference close  
     
1900 - Midnight ASM Dinner
Including Award presentations
 
     
     
 

Static Posters

 
  Effects of Significant Burn Injury in Paediatric Burn Victims on Family Integrity
Dr Mahyar Amjadi *, Mr Bernard Carney, Mr Anthony Sparnon
 
  Intial Assessment and Management of Adult and Paediatric Burns
Miss Joy Fong *, Mrs. Tania MCWilliams, Prof Fiona Wood
 
  Burns in Last Decade in Northern Territory
Dr Lakshmeeshkumar Shetty *, Ms Alison Mustapha, Mr Ajay John
 
  Bridging the gap between children and adults in the interior decor of a children’s burn ward
Mrs Joanne Myers *, Mrs Sue Collier
 
  Length of Stay of Elderly Patients in an Acute Burns Unit
Dr Nicholas Solanki *, Mr Ian Mackie, Ms Sheila Kavanagh, A/Prof John Greenwood
 
  Cool for 20 - the reinvigoration of prevention in Tasmania!
Mrs Carolyn Hynes
 
  Retrospective audit of burn wound assessment documentation
Miss Brenda Chapman *, Mrs Tania McWilliams, Prof Fiona Wood
 
  The delayed presentation of bilateral lower limb burns: Complications for physiotherapy and mobilisation: A complex case.
Ms Rachel Edmondson *, Ms Julie Bricknell, Dr Roland Jiang
 
  To review the supplementation required for wound healing for acute Paediatric Burns Patients
Miss Rajeshni Naidu *, Dr Alka Garg
 
  Conservative Management for Deep Dermal and Full Thickness Burns to Palms and Soles
Dr S R Jayalath *, Dr Aruna Wijewardena, Mr Peter Campbell, Dr John Vandervord
 
  Addressing Rural and Remote Physiotherapists’ Burns Rehabilitation Education
Ms Brooke Hoskin, Ms Anita Plaza
 
  The Facial Scald Journey – Bridging the Gap
Ms Kathy Bicknell *
 
  Predicting energy requirements in adult burn patients - can we do better?
Ms Sharon Forbes *, Dr Lynda Ross, Prof Micheal Muller, Prof Jeffrey Lipman, Dr Jenny Paratz
 
  Does a burn injury represent a tetanus prone wound? - Results from a national study
Mr Jeremy Rawlins *, Mrs Sharon Rowe, Prof Fiona Wood
 
  Donor site healing - are we meeting our target?
Miss Madeleine Jacques *
 
  Being Human: Experiences of burn injury beyond individual race, colour or creed
Ms Simone West *
 
  Public Education Campaign Regarding Feet Burn in Diabetic Patients
Dr Mahyar Amjadi *, Dr Nicholas Solanki, A/Prof John Greenwood
 
  Using an Acuity Tool to Improve Nursing Standards of Practice
Vina Singh, Anne Goddard
 
  Aetiology of Paediatric Burns: New Concerns?
Miss Natasha Forster *, Ms Linda Quinn, Mr Tony Sparnon
 
  Paediatric scalp burn assessment - Implications and considerations for nursing practice.
Madeline Jacques*
 
  Preliminary assessment of cytokine expression in cultured media from dermal fibroblasts, TGFβ1 treated fibroblasts, and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts
Pei-Yun Ashley Liu *, Roy Kimble, James R McMillan
 
  Intractable Bleeding from Facial Fractures following a Welding Explosion
Dr Adrian Sjarif *, Dr Kelly Thornbury
 
  Deep dermal partial thickness thermal contact burns in mice; an acute histological study to determine optimal burn temperature and duration
James R McMillan, Margit Kempf, Ashley Y Liu, Roy M Kimble
 
  Paediatric major burns
Dr Torey Lawrence *, John Harvey, A Holland
 
  Paediatric Burn Face Care
Ms Alex Manna

 
  Demonstration of the use of ICT framework in detailing complex functional deficits post burn injury: A case study
Miss Tiffany Grisbook*, Miss Sarah Stearne, Dr Siobhan Reid, Prof Fiona Wood, Dr Catherine Elliott
 
  Use of Laser Doppler in Assessment of Vascularity of Integra Dermal Substitute
Mahyar Amjadi, Anthony Sparnon, Bernard Carney
 
  The Role of Continuous Quality Improvement in Discharge
Mr Kurt Towers, Mrs Natalia Adanichkin *
 
  An approach to identifying and preventing Heterotropic Ossification in at -risk burns patients
Dr Robert George *, D r Rowan Gillies, Dr Natalie Purcell, Dr Aruna Wijewardena, Dr John Vandervord