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Tuesday 12 September

0715 – 0820 Scientific Forum Registration | Lake Lobby
0820 – 1200 Scientific Forum
Room: Lake 2-4
Chairs Lincoln Tracy & Danielle Nizzero
0820 – 0830 Welcome
Free Papers
0830 – 0840 Inflammatory proteins and neutrophil extracellular traps increase in burn blister fluid after 24 hours post-burn
Leila Cuttle
0840 – 0850 Prolonged pro-inflammatory T cell phenotypes, increased monocyte and macrophage activity following paediatric burn injury
Donna Langley
0850 – 0900 The effect of burn injuries on brain transcriptomics and metabolomics
Amira Allahham
0900 – 0910 Non-severe burn injury causes sustained hyperreactivity in human and mouse platelets
Blair Johnson
0910 – 0920 Tissue explant (ex-vivo) models to reproduce burn injuries, streamlining pre-clinical treatment strategies
Wiktor Pilch
0920 – 0930 The efficacy of acetic acid in burn wounds infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a review of the literature
James Bozzi
0930 – 0940 A Novel Use of Amniotic Bilayer Dressing Co-cultured with Keratinocytes and Stem Cell as Skin Substitute in Adult Burn Patients
Nandita Putri
0940 – 0950 Is Timing Everything? Navigating the Burn Wound Healing Process with Biobrane
Gayatri Caplash
0950 – 1000 Feasibility, Acceptability and Safety study of the PICO™ Device (Negative Pressure Wound Therapy) in Acute Paediatric Burns
Emma Lumsden
1000 – 1010 Decreasing the time to re-epithelialisation by three days in acute burn care: does it matter?
Emma Lumsden
1010 – 1040 Morning Tea | Lake Lobby
1040 – 1050 Tumescent infiltration in burn surgery: A systematic review
Michael Cheung
1050 – 1100 How does BTM work? – Synthetic Graft Interactions in Full-Thickness Wounds Using Mouse Models
Nicole Garcia
1100 – 1110 Preclinical development of 3D Bioprinting for skin regeneration
Andrew Stevenson
1110 – 1120 Can wearable devices be used to non-invasively measure energy expenditure in patients with burn injury?
Bronwyn Segon
1120 –  1130 Investigating the Safety and Tolerability of a Lysyl Oxidase Inhibitor (PXS-6302) vs Placebo in the Amelioration of Established Scars
Natalie Morellini
1130 – 1140 Evaluating burn scar vascularity using optical coherence tomography and angiography: a comparative study of vascular differences between scar and healthy tissues
Qiang Wang
1140 – 1150 The relationship between transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and scar activity
Tanja Klotz
Impact Presentation
1150 – 1152 Moisturisers have an influence on skin microcirculation: a laser speckle contrast imaging assessment study
Tanja Klotz
1152 – 1200 Question/Discussion Time/Forum Close
1200 – 1300 Nursing and Allied Health Forum Registration | Grand Ballroom Lobby
1200 – 1300 Lunch | Lake Lobby
Research Committee Meeting | M1
Nursing Executive Meeting
| Lake 2-4
1300 – 1700 Nursing Forum
Room: Lake 2 – 4
1300 – 1730
Allied Health Forum
Room: Park
Chair Louise Higgins Chairs Nicole Alexander & Ioanna Coutsouvelis
1300 – 1310 Welcome 1300 – 1310 Welcome & Acknowledgment of Country
1310 – 1410 Exploring burns nursing throughout Asia Pacific
Reena Gauchan (Nepal), Mereia Seru (Fiji), Dr Tanveen Ahmed (Bangladesh).
1310 – 1410 Comprehensive Scar Management of the Head and Neck
Michael Serghiou
1410 – 1510 Moral distress in burns nursing. How to keep calm and carry on
Jenny O’Neill
1410 – 1440 Impacts of Inhalation Injury on your voice & swallow function: current assessment & treatment options
Dr Nicola Clayton
1440 – 1510 3D printed TFO’s
Andrea McKittrick
 1510 – 1530 Afternoon Tea | Lake Lobby
1530 Caring for patients with large burn injuries: what are the challenges and ethical concerns?
Interactive panel discussion
1530 – 1600 Skin Camouflage Therapy
Gulsen Pasa
1600 – 1630 Appearance concerns in people with visible difference
Roberta Honigman
1630 – 1645 Towards Zero Contractures in Fiji
Akisi Dovibua, Jenny Ball
1645 – 1700 Question Time/Forum Close
1700 Forum Close 1700 – 1730 ANZBA Allied Health Business Meeting
1700 – 1930  ANZBA ASM Registration | Grand Ballroom Lobby
1730 – 1930 Welcome Reception | Lizzie’s Lane, Ground Floor, Pullman Melbourne Albert Park 

Wednesday 13 September

Sponsored Breakfast Session 
Room: Lake 1-4
0700 – 0800 Medical Developments International Sponsored Breakfast Session

Case Presentation: Management of acute pain in burns patients with Penthrox® (methoxyflurane)

Mel Neely & Eliza Palfery

0715 ANZBA ASM Registration | Grand Ballroom Lobby
0815 – 1000 ASM Opening Session
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Monique Bertinetti & Warwick Teague
0815 – 0825 Welcome to ANZBA 2023 | Warwick Teague & Monique Bertinetti, Co-Convenors
0825 – 0835 Welcome to Country | Uncle David Tournier
0835 – 0845 Official Opening | Commissioner Gavin Freeman AFSM, Fire Rescue Victoria
0845 – 0850 Platinum Sponsor Address | Grant Monaghan, Smith + Nephew
0850 – 0930 Murray Clarke Oration
Thoughtless shortcuts: towards zero
Associate Professor Heather Cleland
0930 – 1000 Patient Experience
Maddison Bartlett
1000 – 1030 Morning Tea & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1030 – 1210 Session 2 – Towards Zero Burns
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Jessica Cooper & Danielle Nizzero
Free Papers
1030 – 1040 Welcoming Burns to the PARTY (Program)!
Gabby Pulbrook & Rebecca Schrale
1040 – 1050 Petrol burns in Australia and New Zealand – a comparison of two countries
Nicholas Savage
1050 – 1100 Petrol Burns in children – working towards prevention
Nicholas Savage
1100 – 1110 Hands off! Beware the steam vapouriser
Sarah Huang
1110 – 1120 Friction Burns and the E-scooter: an evolving trend
Dulan Gunawardena
1120 – 1130 Just Leaked! Bursting into Social Media – Hot Water Bottle Burns Animation
Rebecca Schrale
1130 – 1140 Heat pack and hot water bottle contact burns – A small but challenging injury to reduce to zero
Dale Edwick
1140 – 1150 The Dangers of Flammable Dressings – A Video Presentation
Timothy Studley
Impact Presentation
1150 – 1152 Firework related burn injuries in Australia and New Zealand: A review of epidemiology and clinical outcomes
Jason Diab
1152 – 1210 Question/Discussion Time
1210 – 1310 Lunch & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
BRANZ Meeting | Lake 1-4
1310 – 1510 Session 3 – Toward Zero Differences
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Louise Higgins & Dane Holden
Plenary Session combined with Free Papers
1310 – 1320 Interplast’s work in burns prevention and treatment across the Asia Pacific
Jess Hill, Director – International Programs
1320 – 1340 Managing burns in a low resource hospital setting: experiences from Fiji, and the first Pacific Islands Novasorb BTM trial
Dr Scott Buadromo
1340 – 1400 Challenges of Electric Burns in Bangladesh: Chaos to Structure
Dr Tanveer Ahmed
1400 – 1410 Two small islands and Novosorb® BTM: Telehealth across the Pacific
Rebecca Schrale
1410 – 1420 Factors contributing to childhood burn contractures in rural Kenya that present for corrective surgery
Jessica Medland
1420 – 1430 Burn Wound Conversion Scoring System as a Reference for Burn Referral Criteria in Indonesia
Sheila Oklia
1430 – 1440 Management and Outcomes of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Treated in Burns Centres: A Systematic Review
Nancy Wei
1440 – 1450 Footwear and orthotic prescription after burns or necrotising fasciitis affecting the lower limb: a retrospective audit
Lauren Davies
1450 – 1510 Question/Discussion Time
1510 – 1540 Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1540 – 1730 Session 4 – ASM Updates
Room: Grand 1-4
Chair Danielle Nizzero
1540 – 1555 ANZBA Research Committee Update
Leila Cuttle
1555 – 1610 BRANZ Update
Lincoln Tracy
1630 – 1730 ANZBA AGM
1830 PolyNovo Sponsored Dinner | The Park Melbourne

Towards Zero: Optimising the science and patient outcomes with NovoSorb BTM

Progressing outcomes with NovoSorb BTM: A paediatric burns centre’s experience

Swami Raote | PolyNovo CEO
A/Professor Warwick Teague
| Director of Trauma, RCH

Thursday 14 September

Sponsored Breakfast Session
Room: Lake 1-4
0700 – 0800 Smith + Nephew Sponsored Breakfast Session

Managing the Complex Burn: An interactive approach to preparing, protecting and progressing burn healing

Chairperson: Dr Jeremy Rawlins

Panel:
Rebecca Schrale | CNC, Royal Hobart Hospital
Dr Paul Baker | Plastic & Burn Surgeon: Clinical Leader for Burn Service, Middlemore Hospital
Dr Dane Holden | Deputy Director of Burns, Alfred Hospital

0730 ANZBA ASM Registration | Grand Ballroom Lobby
0815 – 0950 Session 5 – Toward Zero Discomfort
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Emma McDonald & Michael Serghiou
Plenary Session
0815 – 0835 Recalibrating zero for burn pain
Dr Francois Stapelberg
0835 – 0855 Management of burns pruritis
Associate Professor Patrick Mahar
  Free Papers
0855 – 0905 Clinical hypnosis for procedural pain and distress in children: A scoping review
Dali Geagea
0905 – 0915 Split thickness skin graft donor site morbidity – patients’ perspective
Michael Nessler
0915 – 0925 The psychological impact of paediatric burn injuries: a systematic review
Rigel Paciente
0925 – 0935 Setting families up for the future: How health professionals support children using non-invasive burn scar treatments and their caregivers
Jessica Killey
Impact Presentations
0935 – 0937 Testing the usability and effectiveness of “A Wanderer’s Tale” a virtual reality application during burn wound procedures
Andrea McKittrick
0937 – 0939 Management of Pruritus in Burns: Understanding Contributing Factors and Future Perspectives
Wiktor Pilch
0939 – 0941 ‘Take a Breath’ – an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group program for parents of paediatric burn survivors
Grace Jury & Alison Baillie
0941 – 0950 Question/Discussion Time
0950 – 1020 Morning Tea & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1020 – 1200 Session 6 – Zeroing in on Patient Outcomes
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Elizabeth Capell & Ioanna Coutsouvelis
Free Papers
1020 – 1030 Development of an evidence-based outcome measure for hand burn injuries using co-design
Andrea McKittrick
1030 – 1040 Clinical utility and validity of a new outcome measure for hand burn injuries
Andrea McKittrick
1040 – 1050 What is the impact of a minor burn injury on physical recovery in children? Towards zero functional complications
Stephanie Wicks
1050 – 1100 Becoming experts in their own treatment: How children and caregivers engage with non-invasive burn scar treatments
Jessica Killey
1100 – 1110 Centralised Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in the Victorian Burns Population
Lincoln Tracy
1110 – 1120 Nutritional Status of Older Persons following Burn Injury requiring hospitalisation
Caroline Nicholls
1120 – 1130 Improving compliance with early enteral feeding in <24 hours for patients with severe burn injuries: The ‘EAT’ Project
Karina Lay
1130 – 1140 “Little Bump” a story of hope and resilience
Emma Baker
Impact Presentations
1140 – 1142 Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Burn Patients with COVID-19 Infection Managed in the Philippine General Hospital
Mikhail Amante
1142 – 1144 Analyzing The Accuracy of Using The One Day Per Percent Burn Rule as A Prediction of Hospital Length of Stay in The Burn Unit at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta
Alisa Sharen Assyifa
1144 – 1146 The relationship between paediatric burn patient characteristics and parental psychosocial outcome measures
Dinithi Atapattu
1146 – 1148 How do burn survivors compare to US population-based norms and other injury populations in health-related quality of life?
Dagmar Amtmann
1148 – 1200 Question/Discussion Time
1200 – 1300 Lunch & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
Prevention Meeting | Lake 1-4
1300 – 1520 Session 7 – Toward Zero Complications
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Nicole Alexander & Monique Bertinetti
 1300 – 1330 Plenary Session
  Burn Rehabilitation Towards Zero
Michael Serghiou
Panel Session
1330 – 1400 Panellists:
Michael Serghiou
Dr Nicola Clayton
Claire Toose
Grace Jury
Free Papers
1400 – 1410 Enablers and barriers to participation in physical activity programs while hospitalised after burn injury: the patient perspective
Anita Plaza
1410 – 1420 Enablers and barriers to participation in physical activity programs while hospitalised after burn injury: clinician perspectives
Anita Plaza
1420 – 1430 TBSA related Mortality and Evaluation of Referral System of Burns Among Children in a National Referral Hospital in Indonesia: A 10-year Retrospective Study
Nadya Farhana & Sheila Oklia
1430 – 1440 Early Dysphagia Rehabilitation in Critical Care: A pilot study of Feasibility, Safety and Effectiveness of a Strength-based Dysphagia Treatment Protocol for patients with ICU Acquired Weakness
Nicola Clayton
1440 – 1450 Nutritional support practices and perspectives in adult patients with severe burns: A survey amongst dietitians in Australia and New Zealand Burns Centres
Collette Massy-Westropp
1450 – 1500 Burn specific venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: outcomes at fifteen-months
Sean Xu
Impact Presentations
1500 – 1502 QR codes to educational videos for splinting of acute burns patients; a multidisciplinary qualitative project
Stephanie Bui
1502 – 1504 Co-designing Implementation Strategies for the Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Acute Paediatric Burns in Australia
Maleea Holbert
1504 – 1506 Swallowing impairment in older persons following burn injury: Validation of incidence and predictive factors for dysphagia
Nicola Clayton
1506 – 1520 Question/Discussion Time
1520 – 1550 Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1550 – 1730 Session 8 – Toward Zero Scars & Contractures
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Patrick Mahar & Monique Bertinetti
Free Papers
1550 – 1600 Reflections on 5 years of experience with BTM reconstruction at the New Zealand National Burn Centre
Lindsay Damkat-Thomas
1600 – 1610 5-year experience of BTM reconstruction in paediatric burns
Mohammad Nassimizadeh
1610 – 1620 Do clinicians estimates’ of scar thickness suffice for the assessment of scars?
Maria Shilova
1620 – 1630 Ultrasound guided fractional ablative CO2 protocolised laser settings: subjective, objective and patient rated outcomes
Tanja Klotz
1630 – 1640 Carbon dioxide laser treatment of burn-related scarring: Results of the ELIPSE (Early Laser Intervention Promotes Scar Evolution) prospective randomised controlled trial
Christopher Lewis
1640 – 1650 Can cutaneous functional units be used to predict therapy requirements in paediatric palm burns? Towards zero contractures
Rhianydd Thomas
1650 – 1700 The role of dermal substitutes and facial aesthetic subunits in burn scar resurfacing
Sinem Gultekin
1700 – 1710 Neck scar contracture release and resurfacing with synthetic dermal substitute – tips and tricks for success
Elizabeth Concannon
1710 – 1720 Collective co-implementation of scar interventions that suck: Introducing vacuum massage therapy in a paediatric burns setting
Kate Miller, ECR Seed Grant Presentation
1720 – 1730 Question/Discussion Time

Friday 15 September

  Sponsored Breakfast Session
Room: Lake 1-4
0715 – 0815 Breakfast Session Sponsored by Endotherapeutics

Use of LPG Endermologie (Vacuum Therapy) to treat a range of scars

Jane Broadhurst | Lymphscar Perth

0800  ANZBA ASM Registration | Grand Ballroom Lobby
0830 – 1050 Session 9 – Ground Zero
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Hana Menezes & Melinda Pacquola
Plenary Session
0830 – 0900 Building and training an integrated Burns Team in ED
Dr Marc Schnekenburger
Free Papers
0900 – 0910 Twenty minutes of cool running water burn first aid: a systematic review and meta analysis
Bronwyn Griffin
0910 – 0920 10-year review of paediatric patients with massive burn injury at the New Zealand National Burn Centre
Paul Baker
0920 – 0930 Higher operating theatre temperature during burn surgery increases physiological heat strain, subjective workload, and fatigue of surgical staff
Zehra Palejwala
0930 – 0940 Perioperative thermoregulation practices in major burns management across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK (optiTHERMM)
Cody Frear
0940 – 0950 Review of Major Burns Management Protocols
Sinem Gultekin
0950 – 1000 Burns allied health outpatient service expansion
Liz Capell
1000 – 1010 Beyond “Deer in the Headlights” and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse–Planning NOW for Civilian Defense after Nuclear Detonation in Anglophone Medical Forums
James Jeng
1010 – 1020 Question / Discussion Time
Expert Panel – Disaster Planning
1020 – 1050 Panellists:
Associate Professor Warwick Teague 
Dr Paul Baker
Associate Professor Heather Cleland
Darren McQuade
Dr James Jeng
1050 – 1120 Morning Tea & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1120 – 1310 Session 10 – Towards Zero Inequity
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Melissa Neely & Warwick Teague
Plenary Session
1120 – 1140 Towards Zero Inequity
Associate Professor Courtney Ryder
Free Papers
1140 – 1150 Comparison of Large Language Models in Providing Medical Advice for Scald Burns: Google’s AI BARD, Bing AI, and ChatGPT
Ishith Seth
1150 – 1200 NSW Teleburns – Embracing Burns Telehealth
Miranda Pye
1200 – 1210 Assessing the Outcomes of Major Burns (≥20% TBSA) Utilising the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA+) in Queensland, Australia
Jenyu Shaw
1210 – 1220 Burn injuries in patients with spinal cord injury: a single institution experience from a combined Burns Unit and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Service
Michael Cheung
1220 – 1230 Management strategies for perioperative anaemia in the severely burn-injured Jehovah’s Witness patients who decline a blood transfusion
Mia Jung
1230 – 1240 Hearing the signs – A multi-disciplinary approach to a 10% TBSA burn in a hearing-impaired child
Sarah Huang
1240 – 1250 Burning Health Inequality
Justin Hunt
1250 – 1300 Indigenous Outcomes in Major Burns (≥20% TBSA) – Are We Failing to Provide an Equitable Health Service
Jenyu Shaw
Impact Presentations
1300 – 1302 Enhancing Burn Management Decision-making with ChatGPT: A Study on Accurate Dressing Choice Recommendations
Ishith Seth
1302 – 1310 Question / Discussion Time
1310 – 1410 Lunch & Exhibition | Grand Lobby
1410 – 1520 Session 11
Room: Grand 1-4
Chairs Monique Bertinetti & Warwick Teague
1410 – 1455 State Challenge
1455 – 1505 Announcement of Awards
1505 – 1520 ASM closing and handover to 2024
1900 ASM Dinner | Great Gatsby