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Intensive Care Medicine CME

Published module: Developments in sedation management in critical care: a focus on analgesia-based sedation
Self-directed learning activity: available for download in early August 2011
Online WebEx presentation: Tuesday 23 August 2011, 7pm for 7.30pm AEST
Interactive forum: from 5 September to 18 September 2011

This Asklepios CME course is for intensivists and intensive care nurses and has been designed and developed by a steering committee of Australian experts in intensive care medicine.

Steering committee and forum moderators

·         Chair: Assoc Prof Yahya Shehabi Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW

·         Prof Doug Elliott University of Technology, Sydney NSW

·         Ms Leonie Weisbrodt Nepean Hospital, Kingswood NSW

·         Dr Jason McClure The Alfred Hospital, Prahran VIC

·         Assoc Prof Michael Reade Austin Hospital, Heidelberg VIC

·         Dr Ian Seppelt Nepean Hospital, Kingswood NSW

Online WebEx presentation

·         Dr Carl Waldmann Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading UK

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Anaesthesia CME

Published module: Anaesthesia: advances in neuromuscular blockade reversal
Self-directed learning activity: available for download in early 2010
Interactive forum: from 15 March to 28 March 2010

This Asklepios CME course is for anaesthetists, GP anaesthetists, and anaesthetic nurses and has been designed and developed by a steering committee of Australian experts in anaesthesia and medical education, with input from local and international topic experts.

Steering committee

·         Dr Ian Cox Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia

·         Clinical Assoc Prof Ross MacPherson Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

·         Assoc Prof Kersi Taraporewalla Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Topic experts

·         Prof Rajinder K Mirakhur The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland

·         Dr Hans de Boer Martini General Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Anaesthesia CME

Published module: Anaesthesia: complications and consequences of residual paralysis
Self-directed learning activity: available now for download
Interactive forum: from 2 February to 15 February 2009

This Asklepios CME course is a three-stage learning activity designed for anaesthetists, anaesthetic nurses and GP anaesthetists to update their knowledge of anaesthesia. The CME activity has been designed and developed by a steering committee of Australian experts in anaesthesia and medical education with input from local and international topic experts.

Steering committee

·         Dr Ian Cox Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia

·         Clinical Assoc Prof Ross MacPherson Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

·         Dr Andrew Schneider Dandenong Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Topic experts

·         Prof Rajinder K Mirakhur The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland

·         Prof Freidrich Pühringer Klinikum am Steinenberg, Reutlingen, Germany

·         Dr Neil Warwick Westmead Hospitals, Sydney, Australia

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GP Anaesthesia CME

Published activity: Burns, cuts, jabs and skin lesions: topical and local anaesthesia for general practice
Self-directed learning activity available in September for download

The Burns, cuts, jabs and skin lesions: topical and local anaesthesia for general practice is a self-directed learning guide designed for GPs and practice nurses to update their knowledge and skills in the use of local anaesthetics in community practice. This CME activity has been accredited by the RACGP and ACRRM for Anaesthesia points.

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Advanced Haemostasis CME

Published module 1: Principles and concepts of transfusion medicine
Self-directed learning activity available now for download
Capital city workshops from 7 August to 27 September 2007
Interactive forum from 27 August to 9 September 2007

The Advanced Haemostasis CME course is a three-stage learning activity designed for clinicians to update their knowledge of transfusion medicine. This CME activity has been designed and developed by a steering committee of Australian experts in transfusion medicine and medical education with input from the following specialised category experts: Professor James Isbister of the University of Sydney, Dr Neville Gibbs of Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Dr Tony Joseph of Royal North Shore Hospital, Dr Michael Parr of Liverpool Hospital, and Dr Zsolt Balogh of John Hunter Hospital.

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