Program
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Monday 14 September 2026
Theme: Co-design, Implementation, and Trauma-Informed Burn Care & Research
Audience: People with lived experience of burns (adults/youth), as well as their families/carers, and clinicians or other stakeholders providing support in the community (e.g., private providers, return to work professionals, lawyers). In addition, this workshop will welcome researchers and implementation professionals involved in developing or providing information and support to people who have experienced burn injury recovery.
Intended Outputs (by end of day):
1. Practical take-home strategies for trauma-informed practice and research
2. Shared understanding of authentic co-design and implementation in burns
3. A prioritised list of post-discharge information & support processes for the Ember to Empower study
4. A map of support networks of people after initial burn care for the Ember to Empower study
| 8:30 | Registration | Boulevard B1-B2 | Registration, consent for photos/recordings & participation in Ember to Empower study | |||
| 9:00 | Welcome to Country, Housekeeping | ||||
| 9:15 | Session 1: Trauma informed care & research | Practical take-home strategies for trauma-informed practice, research and self-care for general well-being in stressful times. | Presentation by Dr Martha Druery followed by small group discussion. | ||
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||||
| 10:45 | Session 2: Co-design & implementation in burn care | What authentic engagement of consumers looks like, what works, what to avoid.
Invited presentation: Co-Design in Action: Tools, Techniques, and a Little Bit of Magic! |
Consumer led case studies & invited presentation by Professor Evonne Miller | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch | People wander to get their own lunch around Southbank | |||
| 13:00 | Session 3: Prioritising post discharge info & support | Priorities to inform next phase of Ember to Empower | Facilitated prioritisation activities & small group discussions | ||
| 14:30 | Practice skills & reflect | Mindfulness body scan or stretch (quiet/ dim lights) | |||
| 14:45 | Session 4: Group discussion | Summing up priorities | Full group discussion | ||
| 15:15 | Afternoon Tea | ||||
| 15:30 | Session 5: Planning next steps | Meeting of CAG members, investigators and planning for next steps of the Ember to Empower study – informed by priorities & the study protocol | Full group & small group discussion | ||
| 16:15 | Session 6: Support network & wrap up | Collaborative mapping activity | Facilitated activity | ||
Tuesday 15 September 2026
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Registration | ||
| 8:30 | Nursing Forum & Allied Health Forum Chairs: Andrea Mc Kittrick & Kristen Storey Room: B2-B3, Boulevard Level |
8:30 | Scientific Forum Chair: Bronwyn Griffin Room: B1, Boulevard Level |
| Welcome Andrea Mc Kittrick & Kristen Storey (10 mins) |
Welcome and Research Committee Update Bronwyn Griffin (10 mins) |
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| History of burns dressing Jason Brown (15 mins) |
Harnessing the power of adipose tissue to promote skin regeneration scientific forum Treesa Joy (10 mins) |
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| Panel Discussion: How do you decide what to use with all the consumables available on the market Jason Brown, Amanda Bettencourt, Margaret Brennan, Julie Conor, Linda Quinn, Jackie Beaumont & Stephanie Wicks (30 mins) |
The Effect of NSAIDs on Inflammation in Children with Burn Injuries: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial Donna Langley (10 mins) |
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| Fear avoidance in burn survivors Bernadette Nedelec (15 mins) |
Exploring the plasticity of spiny mouse dermal fibroblasts, as a blueprint for human skin regeneration after burn injury Andrew Stevenson (10 mins) |
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| Progressing QI Ideas Amanda Bettencourt (15 mins) |
Dynamic perturbation of the skin microbiome following non-severe burn injury Edward Raby (10 mins) |
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| Q&A | Burns in Incarcerated Adults: A 10-year Retrospective Review from an Australian Quaternary Burns Centre Andrew Robertson (10 mins) |
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| Platelet hydroGel-Human Skin Equivalent (PG-HSE): Taking a bioengineered skin graft from the lab to the clinic Heather Cleland, Carlos Arellano (30 mins) |
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| 10:00 | Morning Tea | ||
| 10:45 | Scientific Forum Chair: Bronwyn Griffin Room: B2-B3, Boulevard Level |
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| Scar Massage – should we change our techniques Bernadette Nedelec (20 mins) |
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| Beginnings of the Adaptive Platform Trial – What it is, who’s involved and why are we bothering? Dale Edgar, Edward Raby (30 mins) |
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| Questions (10 mins) | |||
| Mapping models of acute burn wound management in Australia and New Zealand Bronwyn Griffin (30 mins) |
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| Close | |||
| 12:15 | Lunch | ||
| 13:15 | Surgical Forum Chairs: Carl Lisec & Roy Kimble Room: B1, Boulevard Level |
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| Many of Australia and New Zealand’s neighbours are listed among the world’s poorest nations. The management of burns patients in these nations is often suboptimal due to a lack of training, equipment and dressings, resulting in an unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. The aim of the surgical forum is to discuss how we can assist our regional colleagues in managing patients with burn injuries. We have invited presenters with experience in overseas aid to discuss models of care which could be developed within the ANZBA community. | |||
| Introduction to session Prof Roy Kimble (10 mins) |
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| Outreach in Africa Jim Gallagher (15 mins) |
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| EMSB and the Asia-Pacific Region Francois Stapelberg (15 mins) |
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| War in Ukraine and its impact on the German health care system Dr Markus Öhlbauer (15 mins) |
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| My experience with overseas burns outreach James Jeng (15 mins) |
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| Burns outreach to Fiji Rebecca Schrale (15 mins) |
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| 14:40 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 15:00 | Surgical Forum Chairs: Carl Lisec & Roy Kimble Room: B1, Boulevard Level |
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| New Zealand in the Pacific including Tahit Paul Baker (15 mins) |
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| My experience with burns outreach in Tanzania Jeremy Rawlings (15 mins) |
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| Burns Outreach to the Solomon Islands Kristen Storey (15 mins) |
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| My experience with outreach to Kiribati and Timor Leste Joe Steele (15 mins) |
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| Burns outreach in Mexico & the ISBI view Michael Serghiou & Ariel Miranda (15 mins) |
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| My experience with burns with military deployment in disaster areas Lee Cancio (15 mins) |
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| Full Panel Discussion & close (15 mins) | |||
| 16:30 – 18:00 | ANZBA ASM Registration | ||
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Welcome Reception | Boulevard Level The Welcome Reception offers an opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues while enjoying drinks and canapes in the Exhibition.Sponsored by  |
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Wednesday 16 September 2026
| Sponsored Breakfast Session | Boulevard B1-B2 |
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| 07:00 – 08:00 | The Next Chapter in Surgeon-Led Innovation: MTX and MTX + BTM in Clinical Practice Prof Roy Kimble, Prof Carl Lisec, and Dr Brendan O’Connor BTM began with a surgeon identifying an unmet clinical need and partnering with PolyNovo to solve it. NovoSorb MTX is the next chapter in that story. In this breakfast session, Prof Roy Kimble (Queensland Children’s Hospital), Prof Carl Lisec (Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital) and Dr Brendan O’Connor (Townsville University Hospital) share their early experience with MTX; on its own and alongside BTM, across paediatric and adult cases, and reflect on what clinician–industry partnership can deliver for patients. |
| 07:30 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer |
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Session 1: Opening Plenary Chair: Andrea Mc Kittrick & Carl Lisec Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Welcome from Co-Convenors Andrea Mc Kittrick & Carl Lisec |
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| A Golden Commemoration: The Golden Jubilee Medal of the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association John Pearn (5 mins) |
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| Murray Clark Oration Professor Roy Kimble (30 mins) |
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| Growing a worldwide burns workforce Jim Gallagher (20 mins) |
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| Announcement of 2026 Poster Format 10 mins) | |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Morning Tea & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 10:40 – 12:30 | Session 2: Burn care revolution, from saving lives to improving lives Chair: Andrea Mc Kittrick, Monique Bertinetti & Brent Jensen Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Evolution of objective scar evaluations over the past 50 years Bernadette Nedelec (20 mins) |
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| Impact Presentations (12 mins) | |
| Digital health collection of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in paediatric burn scars: Nicole Alexander (2 mins) | |
| Comparative accuracy and inter-rater reliability of digital tools for burn surface area estimation: A Systematic Review: Sparsh Tiwari (2 mins) | |
| Frailty improves prognostic accuracy in elderly patients with major burns: a Western Australian cohort study: Dylan C Prunster (2 mins) | |
| The Hidden Hurt: Unmasking Vascular Rebound Pain in Children After Burn Injury: Morgan Jackson (2 mins) | |
| Under the Shade, Still at Risk: Limitations of Shade in Preventing Reflective UV: Yu Ting Tay (2 mins) | |
| A single centre experience in the management of lower extremity burns in diabetic patients 2020-2023: Tiarnan White (2 mins) | |
| Embedding patient‑reported outcome measures into routine burn scar care: A hybrid effectiveness-implementation study Zephanie Tyack (10 mins) |
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| The potential effect on quality of life in individuals with burn injury: Utilizing smartphone assisted self-management education at aftercare Siu Kwong Liu (5 mins) |
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| Measuring What Matters After Burns: Implementing the Brisbane Burn Scar Impact Profile (BBSIP) in NSW Anne Darton (5 mins) |
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| Fifty Years On: Survivor and Carer Voices Guiding the Future of Burn Care in NSW Siobhan Connolly (10 mins) |
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| Understanding return-to-employment after burn injury: Lived experience perspectives Akane Katsu (10 mins) |
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| Implementation and evaluation of an innovative stepped psychosocial model of care for medical traumatic stress in young burn injured children Alexandra De Young (10 mins) |
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| The Ember to Empower study: Co-designing a burn recovery resource for burn survivors Dale Trevor (5 mins) |
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| Burn scar management with use of UltraClear® a novel 2910mn ablative fractional laser Andrea Issler-Fisher (10 mins) |
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| Impact Presentations (8 mins) | |
| Effect of BMI on palm size: Elise C Rawlinson (2 mins) | |
| The burden of facial and neck burns: A retrospective review of Regional Burn Unit referrals: Novell Shu Chyng Teoh (2 mins) | |
| Defining lower limb compression: sub-bandage pressure delivered by different compression methods over the foot and lower limb: Dale Edwick (2 mins) | |
| Australia and New Zealand Clinical Research Priorities Workshop Bronwyn Griffin (7 mins) |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch, Posters & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 12:35 – 13:25 | Priority Setting Workshop | Boulevard Auditorium |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Session 3: Beyond the numbers – 50 years of progress in burn management Chair: Kristen Storey & Richard Wong She Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Panel Discussion: Is pain always a numbers game? What is the best experience of multiple methods Paul Gray, Jayesh Dhanani, Brent Jensen, Monique Bertinetti, Francois Stapelberg (20 mins) |
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| Inhaled Dexmedetomidine for Analgesia and Sedation in Burns (IDEAS-B): pilot-feasibility of a phase III randomised controlled crossover trial. Jayesh Dhanani (10 mins) |
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| Translating lessons learnt from implementing a universal evidence-based procedural care framework into a paediatric burns outpatient setting Megan Simons (10 mins) |
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| Pain Management in Burns – where are we now Paul Gray (10 mins) |
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| Experience of Clown Doctors in the Burns MDT Dr. Sprout (10 mins) |
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| A golden opportunity: 50 years of Virtual Reality transforming paediatric burn pain, past lessons, present evidence and future potential Belinda Kipping (5 mins) |
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| Flamazine: Good Riddance or a Sad Goodbye? Aditya Mishra (5 mins) |
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| Defining compression: How much skin interface pressure is delivered with different methods of compression in the hand and upper limb? Dale Edwick (10 mins) |
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| Feasibility and Acceptability of Wearable Technology in Patients with Burn Injury to Measure Energy Expenditure Bronwyn Segon (10 mins) |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 15:30 – 16:50 | Session 4: Contrasting burn outcomes across geographical regions Chair: Michael Serghiou & Romi Das Gupta Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Panel Discussion: Contrasting burn outcomes across geographical regions Jim Gallagher, Jeremy Rawlings, Roy Kimble, Ane Voster, Bec Schrale, Kristen Storey (30 mins) |
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| A Golden Milestone in Burn Care: Co‑Designing an Equitable Recovery Resource Siobhan Connolly (10 mins) |
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| Bridging the Gap: Addressing geographic and ethnic inequities in facial and neck burn Novell Shu Chyng Teoh (10 mins) |
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| Micronutrient Monitoring in Post-Burn Care: Findings from Australia’s First Dietetic Outpatient Burns Clinic Emma McShane (5 mins) |
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| Development of a Japanese Version of the Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation (LIBRE) Profile: Cultural Adaptation and Cognitive Testing Yukio Sato (5 mins) |
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| Psychometric properties of the Australian Life Impact Burn Recovery Evaluation Profile (Aus-LIBRE Profile) Liz Capell (10 mins) |
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| Use of a biosensor for earlier recognition of extravasation injuries in PICU: a randomised controlled trial Craig McBride (10 mins) |
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| Day 1 Wrap Up | |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | ANZBA Annual General Meeting |
Thursday 17 September 2026
| Sponsored Breakfast Session |
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| 07:00 – 08:00 | My journey with MatriDerm: Two Decades of clinical evidence and the path forward with MatriDerm pluS+ and future innovation Dr. Markus ÖhlbauerJoin Dr Markus Öhlbauer, Head of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Microsurgery/Burn Centre, BG Trauma Centre Murnau, for a breakfast session reflecting on two decades of clinical evidence with MatriDerm and introducing MatriDerm pluS+, the new bi-layer matrix enabling rapid two-stage reconstruction (7–10 days) and future innovation in modern wound management.My Early Experience to Optimised Practice: Clinical Insights to Autologous Cell Harvesting with RECELL GOTM Lisa RaeJoin Lisa Rae, MD FACS, former Director of the Temple Burn Centre and current Director of the Victorian Adult Burns Service at The Alfred Hospital, as she shares her clinical experience with autologous cell harvesting and practical insights into optimising workflows with RECELL GO. |
| 08:00 | Registration | Boulevard Foyer |
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Session 5: From innovation to standard practice in burns surgery Chair: Michael Muller & Jim Gallagher Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Novosorb® Biodegradable Temporising Matrix (BTM) in Major Burns: Clinical Outcomes and Health System Costs Varun Harish (10 mins) |
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| Split Thickness Skin Grafting for Minor Burns under Local Anaesthesia Jevin Karunia (10 mins) |
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| Time is tissue: The Impact of Delays to Initial Debridement on Outcomes in Paediatric Burn Injuries Neha Athreya (10 mins) |
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| Biodegradable temporising matrix for the management of paediatric burns and complex wounds with tissue loss Sarthak Tandon (10 mins) |
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| Negative pressure wound Therapy in acute paediatric hand and foot burns: A Randomised Control Trial Emma Lumsden (10 mins) |
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| Autologous Bioengineered Skin for the Definitive Closure of Full-Thickness Burn Injuries – Early Results from a Phase IB Clinical Trial Heather Cleland (10 mins) |
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| Functional Clinical Outcomes following Composite Dermal Graft Lucas Guimaraes Carelli (5 mins) |
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| Evolution of Burn Wound Excision and the Use of Acellular Biosynthetic Temporary Skin Substitute as an Alternative to Cadaveric Allograft Louis Ferrari (5 mins) |
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| Impact Presentations (20 mins) | |
| Debridement and Split Thickness Skin Grafting Performed under Local Anaesthesia in an Outpatient Setting: A Case Series: Jevin Karunia (2 mins) | |
| Prevalence of Multi-Resistant Organisms in Burns Patients with Prolonged Length of Stay (≥4 weeks) at the RBWH Burns Unit: Andrea Manrique Villa (2 mins) | |
| ACELLULAR FISH SKIN GRAFTS IN WOUND REEPITHELISATION AND REDUCING COSTS: Lucas Carelli (2 mins) | |
| Impact of Temperature Management Practices and Time in Hypothermia on Mortality in Patients with Severe Burns: Elisha Purcell (2 mins) | |
| Fibroblast plasticity in human dermis: implications for fibrotic commitment in wound healing: Andrew Stevenson (2 mins) | |
| Alpine Strategies for Optimizing Acute Burn Wound Therapy. From Extensive Use of NPWT up to One-Stage Defect Coverage Markus Öhlbauer (10 mins) |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning Tea & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 10:30 – 12:10 | Session 6: From bench to bedside, implementing research into burns care Chair: Roy Kimble & Heather Cleland Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Knowing is Not Enough: Implementation Science and the Impact Imperative in Burn Care Amanda Bettencourt (20 mins) |
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| VICTORY Vitamin C Trial Lee Cancio (15 mins) |
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| Implementation of Negative Pressure for Acute Pediatric Burns (INPREP): Results from a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial Maleea Holbert (10 mins) |
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| Implementation outcomes for the early treatment of paediatric hypertrophic burn scars using minimally-invasive methods: A mixed methods process evaluation Brandon Meikle (10 mins) |
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| Implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures for paediatric hypertrophic burn scars into routine clinical care Nicole Alexander (10 mins) |
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| Barriers and Enablers to Providing Evidence-Based Acute Paediatric Burn Care in Rural and Remote Queensland Kylie Fischer (10 mins) |
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| Treadmill Burns between 2014 to 2025 at a Major Burns Tertiary Centre in Queensland Intesar Nur (5 mins) |
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| A Retrospective Cohort Study Evaluating the Pattern of Burns in Different Geographical Locations of the Northern Territory Bahjat Alirani (5 mins) |
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| Reconstructive Strategy in a Complex Full Thickness Hemi-facial Contact Burn in a Polytrauma Patient Candra Maung (5 mins) |
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| 12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch, Posters & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 13:10 – 14:30 | Session 7: Burn under pressure- readiness for mass casulty events Chair: Carl Lisec, Amanda Bettencourt & Francois Stapelberg Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| Panel Discussion: Burns Mass Casualty Events – Are we ready? Keith Towsey, Amanda Bettencourt, James Jeng, Lisa Rae, Mel Pequloa (30 mins) |
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| Reflections of the Iraq and Afghan war Lee Cancio (20 mins) |
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| ISBI perspective on burn services readiness for mass casualty events Ariel Miranda (10 mins) |
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| In a World at War, is There a Deterrent Effect to Mass Casualty Medical Preparedness? James Jeng (5 mins) |
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| Disaster Planning – Brisbane 2032 Carl Lisec (15 mins) |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Boulevard Foyer |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Session 8: From resuscitation to recovery in burns ICU care Chair: Lisa Rae & Tu Ritchie Room: Boulevard Auditorium |
| The Lethal Triad in Patients with Severe Burns Elisha Purcell (10 mins) |
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| The association between early opioid use and duration of mechanical ventilation after acute burn injury: a 10‑year retrospective study Kate Speakman (10 mins) |
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| Exploring current physiotherapy practice in managing patients with burn inhalation injuries across Australian and New Zealand intensive care units Dale Edwick (5 mins) |
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| Frailty, burn severity, and acute physiology in elderly burn patients admitted to intensive care: a single-centre retrospective cohort study Dylan Prunster (10 mins) |
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| Debate: We have come along way from burns cream and hope Justine O Hara, Helen Douglas, Paul Baker, Tu Ritchie, Margaret Brennan, Rachel (25 mins) |
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| 16:30 – 18:00 | Social Activity: The Big Hustle It’s time to settle the score — think Amazing Race meets Scavenger Hunt as teams battle it out in a series of creative challenges, puzzles, and head-to-head missions. State pride is on the line, so grab your bandana and bring your A-game — only one state can take home the medals! |