27 February 2020Some highlights: President's blog | CSC 2020 l Assistants to the Anaesthetist update I NZSA Overseas Aid Sub-Committee news | Real World Anaesthesia Course | PANNZ Update meeting | Arts event for doctors | BWT Ritchie Scholarship | Free UK webinars | webAIRS | In the media l Event highlights President's blogKnowing your own stress signals is a integral part of maintaining your wellbeing, writes NZSA President Dr Kathryn Hagen in her latest blog. "Having the backbone and self-awareness to admit to vulnerability, and possibly needing help, takes strength and courage." Kathryn explores her own personal, wellbeing challenges and a new approach she would like to try in 2020 - clinical peer supervision. Read the blog here Contact Kathryn with feedback on her blog or any other issues at president@anaesthesia.nz Combined Scientific Congress 2020
Combined Scientific Congress (16-19 October 2020) Wellington - registrations open 31 March We are delighted to announce our international keynote speakers: Professor P.J. Devereaux, Director of Cardiology and Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Surgery Research Group at McMaster University, Canada; Professor Denny Levett Clinical Lead for Perioperative Medicine and the Surgical High Dependency Unit at Southampton University Hospital; and Professor Steve Shafer, former Editor-in Chief of Anesthesiology and Analgesia and Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, California. We will also have well known Australasian experts who will contribute to our informative
and challenging Scientific Program. Assistants to the Anaesthetist updateThe NZSA is a member of a stakeholder group led by TAS (Central Region's Technical Advisory Services) which is working to establish core competencies for Assistants to the Anaesthetist in New Zealand. The goals of this process are:
A meeting is planned in March to compare the Medical Sciences Council/AUT Diploma competencies with the Southern Cross RNAA competencies. AUT change to AT degree programme
Next steps:
Overseas Aid Sub-Committee newsThe NZSA OAS supports anaesthesia training and development overseas, particularly for our Pacific neighbours. There are many engagement opportunities for NZSA members, including volunteering to be a locum in the Pacific and applying for the NZSA Trainee Grant to attend the Pacific Society of Anaesthetist's Annual Refresher Course. We encourage you to visit the OAS web page to keep updated on the Committee's broad activities and the opportunities for you to become involved in our Pacific work. This page is regularly updated and well worth bookmarking. Real World Anaesthesia CourseDon't miss the Real World Anaesthesia Course (23-27 November 2020, Christchurch Hospital), which aims to prepare anaesthetists for work in low- and middle-income countries (‘the real world’) in a variety of humanitarian aid situations. This will be the 29th Australasian course, and the fourth to be held in New Zealand. See the promotional flyer for all the details. Note: Applications open at approx. 10am AEST (12pm New Zealand time) on Wednesday 1 April 2020. Please complete and submit the online form on the ASA website. The course has regularly been oversubscribed in the past, so places will be allocated on a ‘first in, first on’ basis. PANNZ Update MeetingRegister today for the PANNZ Update Meeting, 4 April 2020, Rotorua Writ in water: arts exhibition and functionAn invitation for all doctors (Friday 3 April 2020, Auckland) We've been blown away by the level of interest in exhibiting and performing to date, and now tickets are on sale via our website. If you're interested in exhibiting or performing but haven't yet gotten in touch, there's still room, but hurry, submissions close 28 February! Visit our website for more details and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any queries. Best wishes from the Organising Committee AIC Journal message for membersAttention members: Access to the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Journal is a key NZSA member benefit and we want to help ensure that you are reading this excellent publication. Access to the Journal is via the website of the Australian Society of Anaesthetist's, as the NZSA website currently has limitations in managing this access. We are in the process of rebuilding our website and once this work is completed you will be able to directly login through the NZSA site. In the meantime here's the process to access the Journal: Click here and use your AIC login details (which takes you to the ASA website). Once logged in, it will take you to a page where you need to click the ASA Sage button. You can stay logged into the website so that when you click on this in future it will take you to the journal page immediately. Thank you for your patience as we work on an easier, simplified process. We have also added an AIC banner with links on the homepage of our website. If you have misplaced your AIC Journal login or need assistance accessing the journal contact Membership Manager Lynne Wood membership@anaesthesia.nz BWT Ritchie ScholarshipApply for the BWT Ritchie Scholarship for 2021, gain valuable experience either in New Zealand or overseas, and contribute to advancing anaesthesia in New Zealand. The purpose of the scholarship: To assist NZ-based anaesthesia trainees who have passed the ANZCA final examination for fellowship and are eligible to proceed to training year 5, to gain NZ or overseas experience for the benefit of anaesthesia in New Zealand. It is also open to those who wish to undertake a further year of study outside New Zealand in the year following completion of their ANZCA fellowship (FANZCA); and to anaesthetists with FANZCA who are also training in pain medicine or intensive care medicine and who have reached a
similar stage for those fellowships. Applicants must be nominated and supported by their training departments. Free webinars from UKThe Association of Anaesthetists (UK and Ireland) is kindly offering NZSA members the opportunity to sign up for two free webinars. The first is Iron Deficiency - What you need to know as an anaesthetist looking after patients in the perioperative period. This will be held on Thursday 12 March 6pm-8:00pm UK time (7am-9am NZ time). More information and registration here. The second webinar is Monitoring the brain in adults, and will be held on Tuesday 21 April 6pm-8pm UK time (5am-7am NZ time - note that times different to first webinar due to UK daylight savings). More information and registration here. To book these webinars, you first need to register on their website which is a brief process, and free. If you encounter any difficulties with the registration process email AndrewMortimore@anaesthetists.org Note; If you register and cannot attend live you will automatically be sent a link to the recording, so there is no reason not to book if the timing of the live event does not work with your schedule. webAIRS newsA recent article in the NZSA December magazine “Euglycaemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis” is intended to raise the level of awareness of the problem with SGLT2 inhibitors and DKA with a wide range of anaesthetists throughout New Zealand and Australia. It is also strongly advised to read the references listed following the article and that all institutions develop their own customised protocols and management plans. This article was written using the valuable webAIRS data collection of over 7000 de-identified incident reports, and we encourage anaesthetists to register as a user, report an incident, and use the data for their local M&M meetings. If you missed this article you can access the magazine on the NZSA website here (note, you will need to be logged in as the magazine is in the members only section of the website). Are you contributing to quality anaesthesia? Visit the webairs website to register or email anztadc@anzca.edu.au MCNZ Chairperson re-electedThe NZSA congratulates Dr Curtis Walker (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Porou) on his re-election as chairperson of the Medical Council of New Zealand for another 12 months. Dr Walker also holds the position of Kaihautu Tuarua/Deputy Chairperson Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa – Māori Medical Practitioners Association (Te ORA) and has a long standing commitment to improving Māori health and advocating for health equity. Dr Walker works as a renal and general physician at MidCentral DHB. In the mediaRisk of cognitive decline after surgery Government slammed over obesity 'inaction' Hypotension ICU surveyThe lack of consensus regarding an universal definition of hypotension for ICU patients and the need of being proactive rather than reactive towards hypotensive episodes formed a trigger to develop an international survey to map used definitions, treatment and outcome of hypotensive episodes in the ICU among physicians and non-physicians. The aim of this survey is to form a baseline on these topics. The results of the survey are expected to improve future guidelines, patient care and guide new topics for research. This survey is endorsed by the executive committee and the cardiovascular dynamics section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. If you are an ICU based physician or non-physician, we are asking for your participation. This anonymised survey will take 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Please respond from the perspective of standard practice in your ICU. Complete the survey here Anaesthesia Continuing EducationThe ACE website is a one-stop shop for anaesthesia events. Members convening conferences, workshops or meetings, which assist CPD requirements, are encouraged to add their event to the website. Event highlightsVisit the NZSA events page for more NZ and overseas events WFSA 17th World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-9 Sept 2020 Auckland City Symposium, 28 March 2020 Gastric Ultrasound (POCUS) workshop, 27 July and 19 October 2020 Advertising and quick links |