The Cutting Edge: Emergency Procedures

Workshop

This cadaveric workshop for General Practitioners focuses on medical emergencies and improvising with ‘everyday’ equipment that can be substituted for medical equipment, especially in rural and remote areas. This enables the provision of a greater level of service to patients and the community living in these areas. 

Suitable for: General Practitioners and GP Registrars. Limited participant places for Nurse Practitioners. Theatre Nurses are welcome in the role of assisting the GPs (places free of charge). Limited places are available for Observers.

Dates

Available (doctor) Available (nurse) Available (observer)
Thursday, 22 May 2025 to Friday, 23 May 2025

About
 

Workshop Content

This two day hands on workshop offers:

Presentations and Cadaveric Practical Sessions:

  • Lacerated eye lid
  • Removal of inhaled foreign body
  • Surgical airway
  • Nasal packing
  • Drainage of quinsy
  • Cricothyroidotomy
  • Tracheostomy
  • Haemostasis and burns skills
  • Venous cutdown, Intraosseous needle, compartment syndrome/fasciotomy
  • Suprapubic catheter insertion
  • Pelvic binding and external fixator
  • Intercostal catheter, thoracotomy
  • Burr hole
  • Local anaesthetic infiltrations (dental)
  • Vascular shunt

Presentations, Animal Tissue & Simulation Practical Sessions:

  • Perineal repair
  • B-Lynch suture
  • Lumbar puncture

Presentations:

  • Dental reimplantation and  stabilisation
  • Stabilisation of jaw
  • Dental emergencies

Training Grants

The Australian Government is offering training grants of $2000 per day to rural and remote procedural and emergency medicine GPs to maintain their respective skills.  For further information please contact:

RACGP National Rural Faculty
1800 636 764  
rural.procedural.grants@racgp.org.au

2025 Fee

WA GP, GP Registrar: $3050
Non-WA GP, GP Registrar: $3510
WA Nurse Practitioner: $1570
Non-WA Nurse Practitioner: $1810
Observer: $175 
Theatre Nurse: Free of charge

 

COVID-19 Information for Workshop Participants

CTEC Terms & Conditions

Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.

Accreditations or CPD Approvals

This workshop is an approved activity in the RACGP CPD Program for the 2023-2025 Triennium. It is approved for 6 hours in Educational Activities and 10.5 hours in Reviewing Performance. This workshop is eligible for a 2 day Rural Procedural Grant in Emergency or Surgery.
Approved in the ACRRM CPD Program for 13 Core PDP hours in the Surgery and Procedural Skills Learning Areas.

Testimonials

"Excellent teaching and materials. "
"Excellent presenters and opportunity for practicing procedures. Great ratio of staff to participants. "
"Hands on learning is the best - getting the feel for tissue and anatomy. "
- 2024 Workshop Participants

Venue

CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No.2
Hackett Drive, Crawley
Perth, Western Australia

For more information contact

John Linehan
Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8049
E john.linehan@uwa.edu.au

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