Emergency Paediatrics Workshop

Posted Friday 03 May 2024 | Health Workforce Queensland

Rural and remote general practitioners are commonly faced with a number of medical scenarios which requires them to be multi skilled. Rural and remote general practitioners must also learn to work with often limited support, supplies and equipment, particularly in a town without a hospital. Furthermore, paediatric care can be very challenging and unpredictable.

The aim of the workshop is to provide rural doctors with cross domain, team based learning opportunities. The workshop will use a variety of teaching methods such as interactive lectures and procedural skills stations related to Paediatrics.

Learning objectives

1. Perform intraosseous needle insertion safely and effectively.
2. Demonstrate safe and effective basic paediatric airway management – including reasonable ability to intubate if required in an emergency.
3. Demonstrate neonatal resuscitation and paediatric advanced life support using Australasian Resuscitation Council guidelines.
4. Assess and safely manage the initial presentation of the critically ill child using an ABCD approach.
5. Assess and safely manage common paediatric emergency presentations

Presenters
The lead presenter for this this workshop is Dr Kate Bassett. Kate is an emergency specialist currently working in Paediatric emergency at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.

Kate was a physiotherapist before medical school and has taken a less than conventional path through her training years. She started off at a paediatric hospital but changed to emergency medicine to fit better around her family. She has ended up doing paediatric emergency which suits her well. During her training, she has worked as a medical student tutor at both University of Queensland and Bond University. She teaches on the CRuSE course and helps with fellowship exam teaching. She also works part time for a private insurance company consulting on their clients who become unwell overseas.

Kate has an interest in integrating the spectrum of doctor education from the first year of medical school right through to Primaries, Fellowship and into Consultant training. She is also interested in supporting young doctors who have families or other commitments that make a traditional pathway challenging.

Day one: 8am-5pm

Day two: 8am-1pm

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