Course overview

Transi'on Course and Cadaver Based Advanced Airway Skills Course (Includes inser-on of Intercostal Catheters) A course aimed at trainees transi/oning to Advanced Trainee, Senior Registrar or Fellow posts in Intensive Care. Moving to a senior post means more clinical responsibilities, supervising juniors and organising the ICU team. This course is designed to give you the tools for this transition. Accredited as an “Advanced Airway Skills Course” by the College of Intensive Care Medicine Australia & New Zealand (CICM). Day 1 An interactive workshop dealing with team organisation and leadership skills kicks off the course in the morning. Afternoon workshops will be on setting up, troubleshooting dialysis machines, dialysis prescriptions, practising bronchoscopy on simulators and going through the steps of performing a percutaneous tracheostomy on a mannikin. Topics covered: • Organising the team and Setting Priorities • Communication and Leadership skills • Dialysis • Bronchoscopy • Percutaneous Tracheostomy steps Day 2 On the second day, at the Gross Anatomy Labs in the University Of Queensland you will be working on human cadavers. Skilled practitioners will teach you advanced airway techniques on human cadavers providing the highest fidelity short of an actual live patient. Airway techniques include Video-Laryngoscopy, Intubation, Bronchoscopy, BAL, Bronchoscopic intubation (Aintree/ AMBU), Bronchoscopic intubation thru a LMA, Change ETT over an exchange catheter. Learn common Percutaneous Dilation Tracheostomy techniques safely and effectively on human cadavers. Learn the use of a bronchoscope to minimise complications during a Percutaneous Tracheostomy. Perform cricothyroidotomy on a cadaver. Be prepared if you have to do it on a patient! Practice safe insertion of intercostal catheters on human cadavers by incision and blunt dissection to drain pleural effusions. The fidelity of learning these skills on human cadavers is as close as one can get to real patients without the risk of complications. By the end of the course we hope you will be better equipped to perform the duties required of your post. Course fee: $4025 incl GST Course dates for 2025: 8th, 9th August 2025 Number of registrants is limited to 10 for this course. Places will be allocated on a first come –first served basis.