On the DevelopingEM 2022 workshop days Alfred Emergency Education also brings you the Global Emergency Care Conference.

Come for GECC and stay for #DevEM2022!!

This year Alfred Emergency Education brings you their first interstate, and first hybrid conference. They will be welcoming in-person speakers and delegates to the fascinating, tropical city of Darwin, and providing a fully immersive online experience. Capacity Building in Global Emergency Care Workshop Monday 26 September 2022 This small group, interactive workshop utilises real-world scenarios to help you to develop the skills you need to successfully engage in emergency care projects around the world. Global Emergency Care Symposium Tuesday 27 September 2022 Emergency care systems often come under strain during disasters, and the recovery phase provides an opportunity to reflect on lessons learned. This year’s Global Emergency Care Symposium will consider how disasters can lead to strengthened capacity for both routine emergency care and surge events.

Emergency clinicians and global health practitioners from around the world are encouraged to participate in the discussion – join to connect and collaborate with fellow members of the Global Emergency Care community. For more information, please visit the website.

Hi DevelopingEMers

We know you’re coming to the best international EM conference of the year but are you fully prepped???

Here’s the essential steps:

• Register online
• Make sure your travel documents are all sorted
• Buy your travel insurance
• Complete your travel arrangements
• Join the Whatsapp Social Group
• Memorise the Hashtag and get Tweeting
• Count down the next 120 sleeps until you’re in amazing Darwin!!

Registration

If you haven’t yet registered, please register now to confirm your attendance. 

1. Choose your registration type- Live vs Virtual
2. Add in your preferred sessions (the Full Conference option includes all social events)
3. Add in any optional workshops
4. Add guests for the social functions
5. Check out and make your payment by credit card

We are very grateful for every registration dollar so thank you for your contribution!

Get those travel documents sorted

For Australasians its worth keeping up to date with travel requirements to enter the Northern Territory and even though restrictions have eased its worthwhile travelling with a current passport.

For International delegates entry requirements have freed up significantly but there are some COVID related changes you need to pre-plan.

You need

• A Valid Passport
• A Visa – check here if you need one
• An Australian Electronic Travel Authority (ETA)
• Proof of COVID vaccination (unvaccinated travellers may be required to quarantine at their own expense)
• A Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD) completed prior to boarding

The COVID entry requirements may change in the future so keep an eye on Australian and State and Territory entry requirements HERE.

Dont forget your Travel Insurance

Never travel without it and these days ensure it covers COVID 19.

Accommodation and tours

Tourism Top End has partnered with DevelopingEM to give you discounted rates on accommodation and post conferences tourism.

Check our blog article for ideas HERE.

Join the Conference Whatsapp Social Group

Once again Joachim Unger from Berlin is taking care of your social arrangements.

Joachim is our most loyal international delegate and he’s been to every one of our international events.

He’s also a consultant anaesthetist who works in emergency medicine, intensive care and anaesthesiology.

As if thats not enough he is also the medical director of the Berlin Fire Brigade and the director of Global EMS.

Coming from Berlin he also is an expert on having fun- you are in good hands.

Use the following QR Code or link to connect to the Jo’s group and help you get together in Darwin.

Memorise the conference Hashtag #DevEM2022 and get to tweeting!!

Count down the next 120 sleeps and we will see you in Darwin!!!

Darwin is the gateway to the Top End of Australia which is one of the most fascinating travel destinations in the world.

DevelopingEM is working closely with Tourism Top End to help our delegates enjoy their time at the conference and to maximise pre and post conference opportunities to see and experience all the Northern Territory has to offer.

Click on the following link to take you to our linked Tourism Top End portal for special deals for our delegates on accommodation and tours around Darwin and the Top End.

Whilst there’s plenty to see in Darwin itself the breadth of adventure tourism from this base is enormous.

Our own personal recommendations would be trips to

• Litchfield National Park
• Kakadu National Park
• Nitmiluk National Park

as well as experiences in the Kimberley’s in nearby Western Australia, and the unique heart of the continent in Central Australia.

Come for DevelopingEM 2022 but experience this absolutely unique part of the world.

April Kam and her team from Canada return to DevelopingEM to discuss paediatric emergency care during the plenary sessions for #DevEM2022. This year they are partnered with an amazing team from Royal Darwin led by Sarah Watson.

April is an Associate Professor in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at McMaster Children’s Hospital, McMaster University. She has led our Paediatric track over the last four conference and together with Sarah Watson from Royal Darwin they are hosting a diverse group to discuss the latest and greatest in evidence based emergency paediatric care.

Sarah Watson Co-Leads the session and presents quick ways to make your ED more Paediatric.

There will also be discussions on

• Neonatal Fever
• Doing no harm in First Nations PEM
• Controversies in Paediatric Respiratory Illness Management

This is sure to be an amazing session.

Register Now to join us at #DevEM2022.

DevelopingEM has secured the rights to screen DJÄKAMIRR, a film describing a unique birthing on country program during the First Nations Healthcare tracks of DevelopingEM 2022.

Filmed in remote Arnhem Land, DJÄKAMIRR follows Ḻäwurrpa and Sarah on a unique journey through ancestral time, country and culture.

As mutual trust develops between the two women, they hope to empower Yolŋu and reclaim 60,000 years of birthing culture from the stronghold of Western medicine.

This is their story of working with community to pilot the training of djäkamirr- the caretakers of pregnancy and birth.

This year our thematic afternoon tracks are devoted to discussions related to the challenges and opportunities of the provision of healthcare for First Nations peoples.

Each of the three afternoon tracks is managed by a First Nations Cultural team supported by a logistics team.

An enthusiastic First Nations cultural team from Yuin Country, our home base on the South Coast of New South Wales in Australia, Sharon Bloxsome, Paul McLeod and Ryan Dashwood will be managing track three – find out more about them below.

As we hear from individuals like Sharon, Paul and Ryan, relating their stories and passions, we know that the thematic half of the conference will be illuminating and thought-provoking, just like our previous sessions in Cuba, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Fiji and Colombia.

Come and join us in Darwin to hear from First Nations healthcare experts, on topics that are important to their communities across Australia and the world.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Yuin Nation extends from Wollongong all the way to the Victorian border and inland across the Great Dividing Range. It is some of the most beautiful country on the continent.

To get a sense of how lucky we are to live in this paradise check out the following video Walking on Country which we have had approval to link to this post.

The challenges and opportunities of the delivery of healthcare for First Nations peoples will be the subject of our thematic sessions at #DevEM2022.

Join us in Darwin for DevelopingEM 2022 

REGISTER TO ATTEND

Focussing on First Nations Healthcare

DevelopingEM’s program has been established as 50% clinically focussed practical education and 50% thematic, where presenters relay their experiences in developing healthcare for their local communities.

We’re pleased to be returning to Australia in 2022, and the challenges and opportunities of First Nations healthcare in our home country appeared to be the natural intersection for DevelopingEM in the Australasian context.

The inclusion of First Nations healthcare in our 2022 conference is made possible by the support of the Indigenous Health Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and local community leaders, and consensus has been reached to include the following key themes:

• Openings, Beginnings: Where We Are Now?
• Active Healthcare Projects
• The Future: Beyond Life & Death

The collaboration between the Indigenous Health Committee and DevelopingEM has attracted First Nations clinicians and academics from around Australia, Aotearoa and the Western Hemisphere to present on their chosen topics.
Each track is managed by a First Nations Cultural team supported by a logistics team.
An enthusiastic First Nations cultural team from Yuin Country – Sharon Bloxsome, Paul McLeod and Ryan Dashwood will be managing track three (find out more about them below).
As we hear from individuals like Sharon, Paul and Ryan, relaying their experience and passions, we know that the thematic half of the conference will be illuminating and thought-provoking – just like our previous sessions in Cuba, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Fiji and Colombia.

Join us in Darwin to hear from First Nations healthcare experts, on topics that are important to their communities across Australia and the world.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mark and Sanj
DevelopingEM Co-Directors

September 26 and 27, 2022

The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes.

Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching will be enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and low cadaver-to-patient ratio.

The procedures covered include:
– Surgical airway (cricothyroidotomy)
– Orbital decompression (lateral canthotomy and cantholysis)
– Pleural decompression (finger thoracostomy and pleural drainage)Vascular access (MAC line / RIC line / Intraosseous access)
– Temporary trans-venous cardiac pacing
– Pericardial decompression (including resuscitative thoracotomy)
– Retrieval limb amputation
– Escharotomy
– Resuscitative hysterotomy

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
– Retrievalists
– Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic Consultants
– Rural GPs/CMOs involved in retrievals/trauma resuscitation
– Senior Critical Care Registrars (Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic/Retrieval)

REGISTRATION FEES
AUD $5500 (excluding GST)
Registration fees include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

Come for the Procedures Course and stay for DevelopingEM 2022