Seminars

Heatwaves and health - from impact to harm prevention

Venue:State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette, 179 La Trobe Street, Melbourne
Seminar date: Thursday 19th August, 2010

Seminar Program and Registration

Episodes of extreme heat, also known as heatwaves, are an important public health issue because they cause death and illness and are very likely to become more frequent and more severe in the future. Heatwaves have the greatest impact on the health of those who are least able to care for themselves, including older people, particularly those who are frail, already ill and socially isolated. It is known that many heatwave-related deaths are preventable, supporting the importance of heatwave preparedness measures.

Speaker Presentations

Session 1: The impact of heatwaves on public health

• Dr Diana Egerton-Warburton - Public health impact of the Victorian heatwave, 2009
• Ms Judith McInnes - The international experience
• Prof Nigel Tapper - Management of heat stress in urban environments: recent developments in Melbourne
• Dr Margaret Loughnan - The influence of place

 Session 2: Heatwaves and the individual

• Prof Mark Hargreaves - The human response to hot weather
• A/Prof Harvey Newnham - Why does heat make people sick? 
• Ms Shin Choo - Medications and heat-related illness
• Dr Susan Hunt - Preventing harm and managing older people during extreme hot weather

Session 3: Preparing for next summer

• Ms Margaret Turner - Power outage: disaster within a disaster 
• Mr Abrie De Wet - A Local Government perspective 
• Mr Justin Dunlop - When to call an ambulance in a heatwave
• Dr John Carnie - Heatwave Plan for Victoria

Safety and Quality: getting it done without doing all

Cathy Balding's presentation:  Getting it done without doing all

Venue: The AMREP Seminar Room, The Alfred, Commercial Road, PRAHRAN
Date: Friday 30th July
Time: 2.00pm to - 4.30pm, Registration from 1.45pm

Seminar Program and Registration

Reviewing in-hospital mortality

Venue: Ella Latham Lecture Theatre,Royal Children's Hospital,Parkville Vic 3010.
Seminar date: Thursday 24th June, 2010

Seminar programme and registration

Review of in-hospital deaths is an integral part of good clinical practice. Audit provides the opportunity to learn about and improve practices and processes of care. Despite widespread recognition of its importance, there remains no ‘gold standard' approach to conducting mortality review. In this seminar we will hear a range of views about how to undertake an effective mortality review. Importantly, a range of leaders from both acute health and forensic medicine will discuss how they use information derived from these reviews to improve practice and processes of care.

Speaker presentations

Session 1: Policy, international perspective

• Mr Neville Board - Opening address
• Dr Raj Behal - How should we be reviewing hospital deaths?

Session 2: Methods for doing review

• Prof Rick Iedema - Investigating clinical incidents using ‘Root Cause Analysis': Towards In Situ Practice.
• A/Prof David Ranson - What technique does the Coroner use and can we apply it to hospital deaths?
• Ms Claudia Retegan - Reviewing surgical deaths: how can death review drive quality improvement.

Session 3: What data should we use?

• Dr Graeme Duke - The clinician's perspective on how we can use hospital mortality data in clinically useful ways.
• Dr Anna Barker - Death in low risk DRG.
• A/Prof Ian Scott - What form of in-hospital review is best?

Session 4: Hospital review and discussion

• A/Prof Caroline Brand - Process of review and action
• Ms Marg Way - Perspective of the Quality Manager.
  

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