2019 ASM – Program – 2024 ANZBA Annual Scientific Meeting

Please note this program is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds. Please check back regularly for updates.

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MONDAY 14 OCTOBER
0800 – 1600	ANZBA Board Meeting Chancellor 4
0815 – 1430	Advanced Skills Compression workshop for Senior Clinicians Facilitated by Rosemary Kendell Harbourview Room 1
1500 – 1700	Workshop – Axilla Splinting for Senior Clinicians Facilitated by Stephanie Wicks, Claire Toose & Rhi Thomas Harbourview Room 1
1600 – 1700	Nursing Executive Meeting Chancellor 4
1700 – 1800	Prevention Meeting Chancellor 4

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER
0800 – 1300	Workshop – Health Practitioners’ Toolkit for Trauma-Informed Care in Burns Facilitated by Martha Druery, Dr Alexandra De Young, Helen Jowett & Dr Shelley Wiechman Harbourview Room 1
1100 – 1345	Forum Registration
1300 – 1345	Lunch & Exhibition Mezzanine Level, Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart
Allied Health Forum Grand Ballroom 1		Nursing Forum Grand Ballroom 2		Scientific Forum Harbourview Room 1
Session Chairs: Leah Reid & Frances Latham		Session Chairs: Yvonne Echaburu & Rebecca Schrale		Session Chairs: Dr Andrew Castley & Nanda Kandamany
1345 – 1355	Welcome & App Introduction Frances Latham & Teresa Squires	1345 – 1355	Welcome & App Introduction Rebecca Schrale	1345 – 1355	Welcome & App Introduction Dr Andrew Castley
1355 – 1405	A retrospective review of the management and functional outcomes of patients who developed Heterotopic Ossification in one or bilateral upper limbs post severe burn injury at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) between 2006 and 2016 Andrea Mc Kittrick	1355 – 1410	Burns nursing across the ages Alette De Jong	1355 – 1410	Review and update on research pertaining to burn depth progression Dr James Jeng
1405 – 1415	A new age of rehabilitation: experiences of an Occupational Therapy led telehealth review clinic Debra Phillips	1410 – 1420	Lithium ion button battery causing a full-thickness cutaneous burn while trapped under an occlusive burns dressing Kelly Waddell	1410 – 1425	Skin Substitutes for Full Thickness Burns and Wounds: Potpourri or Putridity? Dr Victor Joe
1415 – 1425	Prevention Update Siobhan Connolly	1420 – 1430	Factors influencing acute paediatric burn care in Western Australia Tania McWilliams	1425 – 1435	Amniotic membrane as a scaffold: harvesting, preparation and the effects of preservation Dr Susan Jehangir
1425 – 1450	Allied Health Business	1430 – 1440	Pilot project: Thinking outside the square. Low frequency ultrasound debridement in slow healing burn wounds Sharon Rowe	1435 – 1445	Preclinical assessment of efficacy of Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells on a scaffold of amniotic membrane in wound healing using a porcine model Dr Susan Jehangir
1425 – 1450	Allied Health Business	1440 – 1450	Nursing Executive summary and Close Natalia Adanichkin	1445 – 1455	Exploring the Heterogeneity of Keloid Fibroblasts Dr Andrew Stevenson
1450 – 1505	Afternoon Tea Mezzanine Level			1455 – 1505	Protein C in burns as a marker of severity, recovery and prognosis Dr Ruilong Zhao
				1505 – 1515	Preclinical assessment of efficacy of Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cells on a scaffold of Aloe vera-Polycaprolactone in wound healing using a rat burn model. Dr Susan Jehangir
				1515 – 1525	The impact of Matrix Stiffness on Fibroblast Phenotype and Keloid Zhenjun Deng
				1525 – 1535	Platelet reactivity increased following non-severe burn injury Dr Andrew Stevenson
				1535 – 1545	Question / Discussion Panel
				1545 – 1600	Afternoon Tea Mezzanine Level

Combined Allied Health & Nursing Forum

Grand Ballroom 1

ANZBA Research Sub Committee

Chancellor 5

Session Chairs:

Rebecca Schrale & Leah Reid

Session Chairs:

Jeremy Rawlins & A/Prof Leila Cuttle

1505 – 1520

Alleviating distress at the bedside

Dr Shelley Weichman

PRESENTATION PDF

1600 – 1700

ANZBA Research Sub Committee Meeting

1520 – 1530

The science of stress reduction; cultivating trauma resilience in our patients, their families and ourselves

Martha Druery

1530 – 1540

Feasibility of implementing a screen-and-treat early intervention program for PTSD as part of routine clinical care in a paediatric burns outpatient department

Alexander De Young

1540 – 1550

Parent and caregiver preparedness for their child’s first burns outpatient clinic visit

Nicole Alexander & Ioanna Coutsouvelis

1550 – 1605

How do we care for each other whilst caring for the most severely injured children and their families?

Helen Jowett

1605 – 1620

Fixing the physical is the easy bit: establishing effective partnerships with the patient is the hard bit

Bill McGuiness

1620 – 1640

Pain Revolution

Cate Andrews

1640 – 1655

Burns Physiotherapy in Fiji

Akisi Dovibua & Jenny Ball

1655 – 1700

Close

Rebecca Schrale

1300 – 1630

Exhibitor Bump In

Federation Ballroom

1700 – 1900

Welcome Reception

Federation Ballroom

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER
0730 – 1730	ANZBA ASM Registration Mezzanine Level
0715 – 0815	Molnlycke Sponsored Breakfast Session The Differing Coping Styles of Managing Pain and their Impact on Medical Treatment Shelley Wiechman, Associate Professor, Attending Psychologist, Harbourview Medical Centre, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Grand Ballroom 1
	ASM Session Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Dr Andrew Castley & Rebecca Schrale
0830 – 0840	Welcome to ANZBA 2019 Dr Andrew Castley & Rebecca Schrale
0840 – 0845	Welcome to Country Alison Overeem
0845 – 0900	Official Opening Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, Tasmanian Governor
0900 – 0915	Platinum Sponsor Presentation – Smith & Nephew Jennifer Luke, Senior Business Unit Director, AWM
0915 – 0930	Presentation Scally Wags, Exit Left
0930 – 1000	Murray Clarke Oration The development of Plastic Surgery and Burn services in the Pacific Dr Simon Thomson
1000 – 1030	Morning Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session – Burns Care into the future Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Nanda Kandamany & Jeremy Rawlins
1030 – 1045	Future deliverables in the pipeline for burn disaster preparedness in the USA Dr James Jeng
1045 – 1105	Launch Into The Future Of Burns Care In Space Dr Alicia Tucker
1105 – 1120	Development of Robust Quality/Performance Improvement Programs Dr Victor Joe
1120 – 1130	An Update on BQIP: Driving Improved Burn Care Through Registry Data Dr Lincoln Tracy
1130 – 1140	The World Health Organization’s Global Burn Registry: Defining the problem of violence against women through acts of burning Yvonne Singer
1140 – 1150	The ISBI Women’s Safety Initiative: reducing violence against women and girls by burning Yvonne Singer
1150 – 1200	V.C.S. Project – Introducing digital solutions for clinical management and quality improvement Graeme McLeod
1200 – 1300	Lunch & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	BRANZ Meeting Chancellor 5
	ASM Session Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Craig Quarmby & Siobhan Connolly
1300 – 1315	Burns and Inequity: a Public Health Approach Associate Professor Kate MacIntyre
1315 – 1330	Burns Care in the Pacific Dr Semesa Matananciake
1330 – 1340 Impact Presentations	More than skin deep: Development of a Paediatric Burns Long Term Case Meeting Linda Quinn
	Lithium battery explosions – A statewide NSW review Dr Jason Diab
	Effectiveness of a Hydrogel Dressing as an analgesic adjunct to first aid for the treatment of acute paediatric burn injuries Maleea Holbert
	Campfire awareness across the ages: Move over media release – Make room for #SocialMedia Tamsin Mahoney PRESENTATION PDF
1340 – 1350	Venous thromboembolism in burns patients: are we underestimating the risk and under-dosing for prophylaxis Patrick Lu
1350 – 1400	Establishing disability weights and the burden of burn injuries in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands Dale Edgar
1400 – 1410	Does electrical stimulation improve healing in acute burns, as measured by bioimpedance? Dale Edwick
1410 – 1420	Study of negative pressure wound therapy as an adjunct treatment for acute burns in children (SONATA in C): a randomised controlled tri Cody Frear
1420 – 1430	Respiratory muscle strength training (RMST): an adjunctive method to facilitate swallow and pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with severe deconditioning and tissue loss Dr Nicola Clayton
1430 – 1500	Afternoon Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session – Pain & Itch Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Kelly Waddell & Dr Warwick Teague
1500 – 1515	Nonpharmacological Management of Burn Pain and Itch Associate Professor Shelley Wiechman PRESENTATION PDF
1515 – 1525	Parental presence during wound care of their child Dr Alette de Jong
1525 – 1535	Analgesia Protocols for Burns Dressings: Challenges with Implementation Dr Shelley Wall
1535 – 1545	Gabapentin fails to deliver opioid sparing in burn injured patients during their ICU stay Francois Stapelberg
1545 – 1600	Pain measurement: completing the toolbox Dr Alette de Jong
1600 – 1700	ANZBA Annual General Meeting
1800 – 1900	Government House Reception Please meet in the Hotel Grand Chancellor Lobby at 1740. Coaches will return to the Hotel Grand Chancellor and Salamanca at the conclusion of the reception.
1930 – 2230	Australian Medical Supplies Sponsored Dinner Seminar Improving quality of burn survival focussed on the burn care in the Ghent University. Henk Hoeksema Harbour View 1

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER
0730 – 1600	ANZBA ASM Registration Mezzanine Level
0715 – 0815	Smith & Nephew Sponsored Breakfast Session Technology through the ages Dr James Jeng MD, General Surgeon, Chester Pennsylvania, Prof. Roy Kimble, Director, Pegg Leditschke Children’s Burns Centre, QLD, Australia Grand Ballroom 1
	ASM Session – Disaster Management Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Yvonne Singer & Yvonne Echaburu
0830 – 0845	Austere guidelines and actionable triage tables for burn crisis standards of care Dr James Jeng
0845 – 0900	Preparing for disaster by preparing for the day to day Dr Victor Joe
0900 – 0910	Burns trauma in warfare – lessons in care and prevention Dr Wiktor Pilch
0910 – 0920	Maintaining adequate training for effective burns disaster response Dr Alexandra O’Neill
0920 – 0930	Three Years of EMSB in Indonesia: A Journey in Standardizing and Escalating Burn Care in Indonesia Dr Lisa Hasibuan PRESENTATION PDF
0930 – 0940	ANZBA Prevention Project for Pharmacists’ Continuing Professional Development Dr Lisa Martin
0940 – 0950	A Wicked Problem: The Burn Wound Swabbing Conundrum Yvonne Singer
0950 – 1000	Discussion
1000 – 1030	Morning Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session – Trauma and Communication Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Leah Reid & Alette De Jong
1030 – 1050	Therapeutic Communication Dr Shelley Wiechman PRESENTATION PDF
1050 – 1105	Equalising Health-Related Quality of Life outcomes for the’haves and have nots’ – a challenge for patient-centred burn care into the future Martha Druery
1105 – 1120	Critical Incident Debrief following a challenging major trauma admission Helen Jowett
1120 – 1135	Responsive Trauma Informed Care in Paediatric Burns Settings Alexandra De Young
1135 – 1145	Improving Burn Team Resilience Yvonne Singer
1145 – 1155	SupportingChildrenWithBurns.com: A peer-informed website for the psychosocial support of parents of burn-injured children Jennifer Heath
1155 – 1205	Discussion
1205 – 1300	Lunch & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	International Collaborative Project Meeting Chancellor 5
	ASM Session – Scar Management and Physical Therapy Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Frances Latham & Henk Hoeksema
1300 – 1315	“Scar prevention and treatment: what is really important?” Henk Hoeksema
1315 – 1325	Post-burn healing: quantifying optimal compression Rosemary Kendell
1325 – 1335	Evaluating the effectiveness of a home-based telerehabilitation model for the delivery of physiotherapy exercise programs following burn injury Anita Plaza
1335 – 1345	Exploration of patients’ views towards the implementation of an Allied Health led TeleBurns model of care Amber Jones
1345 – 1355	Evaluation of service delivery provided through a scar management triage clinic Claire Toose
1355-1405	Improving physiotherapists’ capabilities in the management of complex paediatric burn injuries in the paediatric intensive care unit through simulated learning Crystle Gambetta
1405 – 1415	Effectiveness of topical silicone gel and pressure garment therapy for burn scar prevention and management in children: a randomised controlled trial Jodie Wiseman
1415 – 1425	Pressure garment therapy in children across the ages: less is more Tamsin Mahoney PRESENTATION PDF
1425 – 1435	Discussion
1435 – 1500	Afternoon Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Anne Darton & Tracey Perrett
1500 – 1525	Debate – Scar management should be the sole responsibility of the Occupational Therapist Affirmative: Frances Latham, Occupational Therapist, Tasmania Stephanie Wicks, Physiotherapist, NSW Dale Edgar, Senior Physiotherapist, Western Australia Negative: Amber Jones, Occupational Therapist, Queensland Claire Toose, Physiotherapist, New South Wales Andrea Mc Kittrick, Occupational Therapist, Queensland
1525 – 1535 Impact Presentation	The effect of sedation and inotropic support on the achievement of verticality in burns patients admitted to ICU. A retrospective observational cohort study Lauren Bright
	Management of carbapenem resistant organisms in a major burn centre Dr Fangbo Lin
	Enzymatic debridement in the treatment of partial and full thickness burns: clinical experience in 40 patients Dr Jenna Langschymidt
	The epidemiology of accelerant related burns in the Northern Territory: a 5-year retrospective cohort study Dr Guy Stanley PRESENTATION PDF
1535 – 1545	The importance of objective & accurate burn depth assessment by LDI: many find it important but few use it Henk Hoeksema
1545 – 1555	End of range axilla splinting to prevent contracture in paedaitric burn survivors Stephanie Wicks
1555 – 1605	Movement and Mobility protocols after surgical management of burn injuries: An audit of current practice at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Phillipa Ault
1605 – 1615	Early Debridement versus Delayed Debridement in Paediatric Burns and the implications on outcomes. Dr Bronwyn Griffin
1615 – 1625	Is Biodegradable Temporising Matrix a new-age hero of dermal scaffolds and wound closure? The experience in a quaternary paediatric hospital Alicia Miers
1625 – 1635 Impact Presentation	To splint or not to splint: that is the paediatric hand burn pre-operative question? Tamsin Mahoney PRESENTATION PDF
	Comparison of different methods of compression for managing oedema following hand burn injury Dale Edwick
	The Matching Assessment using Photographs with Scars (MAPS) App: Reliability testing Rochelle Kurmis PRESENTATION PDF
	A pilot study on post-burn healing: Optimising scar outcome through the use of a silicone-based film-forming wound dressing Fiona Poelchow
1700 – 1930	ANZBA Social Afternoon Quintessential location on Hobart’s idyllic waterfront Unbelievably good Tasmanian produce Interstate rivalry Zooper Dooper fun! Join us for the inaugural ANZBA Quiz! This will not be your ordinary Quiz night, there will be some questions, some games and lots of friendly banter, but most importantly there will be some great prizes and bragging rights up for grabs. Brooke St Larder, Brooke St Pier
1930 – 2230	PolyNovo Soirée – One year on with BTM The Glasshouse, Brooke Street Pier

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER
0800 – 1600	ANZBA ASM Registration Mezzanine Level
0715 – 0815	PolyNovo Sponsored Breakfast Session “BTM Across The Ages” Professor Roy Kimble, Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane Dr Heather Cleland, Head of the Victorian Adult Burns Unit at the Alfred, Melbourne Grand Ballroom 1
	ASM Session – Extremes of Age Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Shelley Wiechman & Richard Wong She
0830 – 0840 Impact Presentations	Heart Rate as an Isolated Fitness Indicator: is it time to eradicate Age and Gender Considerations in the Burn Injury Patient Demographic Dr Danika Jurat
	Can we eliminate donor sites using dermal replacement matrices? Olivia McGifford
	Presence of adipose tissue after autologous fat transplantation in patients with adherent scars, a pilot study Dr Sandra Jongen
	The health impact and economic cost of residential fires: protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked data Dr Lara Harvey
	Synanceia First Aid: The New Burn’s Risk? Dr Danika Jurat
0840 – 0855	Characteristics and management of burns in older adults Dr Lincoln Tracy
0855 – 0910	Systematic Efforts to Better Grasp Burn Injuries in Elderly Patients Dr James Jeng
0910 – 0930	Burns through the ages: The Issue of dementia Professor Andrew Robinson PRESENTATION PDF
0930 – 0945	When TBSA is not the only size that matters: burns in neonates and young infants Associate Professor Warwick Teague
0945 – 0955	Broad immunophenotyping of paediatric burn survivors demonstrates long-term changes to immune profile Dr Andrew Stevenson
0955 – 1005	Discussion
1005 – 1030	Morning Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Dr Victor Joe & Nanda Kandamany
1030 – 1040	A scoping review of the incidences of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas in burns survivors, and the efficacy of sun protection Andrea Mc Kittrick
1040 – 1050	Utilising mouse models to investigate the link between burn injury and cancer Dr Lucy Barrett
1050 – 1100	The treatment of deep dermal burn wounds with Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) after enzymatic debridement Dr Jennifer Schiefer
1100 – 1110	Wound healing after cultured epithelial autografting in patients with massive burn injury: a cohort study Cheng Hean Lo
1110 – 1120	Does chemoprophylaxis prevent venous thromboembolism in burns patients? Findings from the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand Dr Lincoln Tracy
1120 – 1130	Exposing the secret world of paediatric burn wound exosomes Dr Tony Parker
1130 – 1140 Impact Presentations	Positive blood cultures in a burn cohort: Findings from the Burns Registry of Australia & New Zealand Yvonne Singer
	Equipping parents to cope with their child’s injuries: A systematic review Jo Butler
	School holiday “burnanza” Dr Sonia Tran
	Burn wound progression: A histological analysis of the mechanisms responsible Raymond Quan
	The efficacy of CUTICERIN® with or without a Regenerative Epithelial Suspension (RES™), on donor site pigmentation in children: The DRESSing Trial Protocol Dr Anjana Bairagi
1140 – 1200	Management options for obesity Professor Wendy Brown
1200 – 1220	“Getting Moving” – The Retrieval and Intensive Care Challenges of Obese Patients Michael Ashbolt
1215 – 1315	Lunch & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session – Palliative Care Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Dr James Jeng & Heather Cleland
1315 – 1335	Palliative Care in the Burns Setting; part of comprehensive care for unsurvivable burns Dr Michelle Gold PRESENTATION PDF
1335 – 1405	An ethical framework for redirecting burns care to palliation… how to make impossible decisions possible Associate Professor Warwick Teague & Professor Lynn Gillam
1405 – 1415	Palliative Care in the Pacific Dr Semesa Matananciake
1415 – 1425	Discussion
1425 – 1500	Afternoon Tea & Exhibition Federation Ballroom
	ASM Session Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Session Chairs	Dr Andrew Castley & Rebecca Schrale
1500 – 1510 Impact Presentations	Surgical needling for management of hypertrophic scars following burns injuries at Queensland Children’s Hospital Dr Holly Campbell
	Psychosocial Practice in the Changing Context of the Larger Burns Survivor – Maximising psychosocial recovery through reintegrating towards a new reality Jenny Edge PRESENTATION PDF
	The effect of parent, child, and clinician interactions on the development of trauma responses in families Jo Butler
1510 – 1520	Handheld Indirect Calorimetry in the Burns Unit: a feasibility study Caroline Nicholls PRESENTATION PDF
1520 – 1530	A burns nurse practitioner model at Victorian Adult Burns Service (VABS). A year on Hana Menezes
1530 – 1540	A composite cultured skin-bench to bedside Bronwyn Dearman
1540-1605	Debate – The Director of the Burns Unit should no longer be a surgeon Affirmative: Dr Victor Joe, Burns Centre Director, United States Tracey Perrett, National Burns Service Coordinator, New Zealand Craig Quarmby, Plastic Surgeon, Tasmania Negative: Prof. James Jeng, General Surgeon, United States Kelly Waddell, Nurse Practitioner, New South Wales Prof. Roy Kimble, Burns Centre Director, Queensland
1605 – 1630	Closing and Handover to ANZBA 2020
1900 – 2300

Please note this program is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds. Please check back regularly for updates.

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER

Lunch & Exhibition

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER

ANZBA ASM Registration

Government House Reception

Australian Medical Supplies Sponsored Dinner Seminar

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER

ANZBA ASM Registration

ANZBA Social Afternoon

Quintessential location on Hobart’s idyllic waterfront

Unbelievably good Tasmanian produce

Interstate rivalry

Zooper Dooper fun!

PolyNovo Soirée – One year on with BTM

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER

ANZBA ASM Registration

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