Sunday program


Sunday, 8 November | Program

Registration from 07:45am



08:00amWorkshop
Dr Senarath Werapitiya - Tips and Tricks – Choledochoscopy
08:45amSession 5 - Complexities in Running Regional Units
Chairs: Associate Professor Michael Talbot
08:45amDr Neill Kling - The Cost of Caring; From South Sudan and Afghanistan to regional surgical care in Western Australia
09:05amDr Jacinta Cover - Rural surgery basic and complexities – a Bunbury ASU perspective
09:25amDr James Aitken - Integrity is not optional. The ethics of participation in Quality Improvement Programmes.
09:45amMr Ben McFadden, HQIU General Surgery Portfolio - Department of Health WA Safety and Quality - 

Strengthening the General Surgery Data Landscape: Introducing a Statewide Dashboard and Dataset

10:05amMr Sam Coten-Frigerio, MDA National Medico-Legal - Surgical complications: A medicolegal perspective
10:25amQ&A
10:35amMorning Tea with Industry and Poster Presentations
10:55am


10:55

11:03
11:11
11:19

11:27

11:35

11:43

11:51

11:59

12:07
Session 6 - Free Papers
Chair: Dr Jacinta Cover

Dominic Yew - Safety and Equity in Scaling Minimally Invasive Surgery Worldwide in 109 Countries using Cholecystectomy as a Tracer Procedure: A prospective cohort study
Ines Clement - Traumatic Aortic Injury: A Decade of Non-Open Management at a Level 1 Trauma Centre
Davina Daudu - Circulation First = Access First: Vascular Access Escalation in Major Trauma
David Heath - Primary Inferior Vena Cava Leiomyosarcoma at the Left Renal Vein: Multimodality Imaging and Surgical Considerations
Emer Lynch - Tracing Back to Basics - Assessing Magtrace® Lymphatic Tracer as an Alternative Non-Radioactive Tracer in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer
Caoimhim McDermott - Medical Student Experience of Surgical Placements in Western Australia: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Clinical Learning Environment
Sam Rundle - Haemoglobin 23 g/l, how fast is too fast? The complex transfusion dilemma in profound acute on chronic anaemia.
Aaron Rusnak - Improving Parenteral Nutrition Practice Through Iterative Audit: A Regional Hospital Experience
Naved Samadi - Re-examining the 90-minute Stand-down Time for Kidney Donation after Circulatory Death: Australian cohort study
Davina Daudu - Contemporary Experience of Acute Limb Ischaemia at an Australian Tertiary Centre: Delays for Rural Patients
12:20pmLunch with Industry
13:15pm


13:15

13:23

13:31

13:39

13:47
13:55

14:03
Session 7 - Free Papers
Chair: Jacinta Cover

David Heath - Technical Considerations for Mammoplasty in Patients with Prior Breast Reduction Surgery: A Systematic Review
Jacinta Wittey - Boerhaave's Syndrome: A Case Series Comparison of Surgical Approaches and Outcomes
Sarah Woodland - Preventing Ovarian Cancer at the Time of Surgery: The Role of Opportunistic Salpingectomy
Terence Wong - Laparoscopic-Assisted ERCP as Salvage Therapy Following Failed Enteroscopy-Assisted ERCP for Pancreaticolithiasis in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Danielle Zak - Percutaneous Drainage for Complicated Diverticular Abscess: A Retrospective Audit
Davina Daudu - Three Phenotypes of Inferior Vena Cava and Common Iliac Vein Injuries at a Level 1 Trauma Centre: A ten-year retrospective study
Rong Hui (Miste) Chia - Concomitant Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: A Western Australian Experience
2:15pmAfternoon Tea with Industry
2:45pmSession 8 - When care is complex: Broadening the care for general surgical patients
Chair: Dr Jacinta Cover
2:45pmDr Sally Banfield - Comfort, Clarity & Confidence: Palliative Pearls for Surgeons
3:05pmAssociate Professor Michael Talbot - Management of Oesophago-gastric dysplasia 
3.25pmDr Kishore Sieunarine - When Things Go Wrong: Managing Intraoperative Vascular Injuries in General and Colorectal Surgery  
3:45pmQ&A
3:55pmWA Papers Day Award/Poster prize winners announced
4:00pmDr Senarath Werapitiya - Closing remarks and Conference conclusion

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