Hawke's Bay

The BASIC course is designed to teach the practical management of critically ill patients. It consists of lectures, skill stations and interactive tutorials covering many aspects of the care of critically ill patients, with an emphasis on supportive management, particularly mechanical ventilation.

2025 BASIC course dates are:

• 19 - 21 February
• 26 - 28 March
• 30 April - 2 May
• 27 - 29 August 
• 24 - 26 September
• 8 - 10 October

All courses start at 5pm on the first day and finish at 5pm on the final day.

The course is suited to practitioners from all disciplines who provide care to the intensive care patients, but has particular application to those practitioners from smaller units. Staff who would benefit from the course include:

• House officers, senior house officers and registrars in intensive care, anaesthesia, general medicine, surgery and emergency medicine
• Senior intensive care nursing staff (and nurses from other acute care areas) who provide care for critically ill patients, and wish to develop advanced nursing practice
• Senior medical officers without vocational registration in intensive care medicine, who maintain a service commitment to and an interest in intensive care
• ICU and anaesthetic  are: technicians

Numbers of participants is strictly limited for this course. There is a waitlist due to high demand.

Topics include:

• Assessment of the seriously ill patient
• Mechanical ventilation: modes, strategies for optimising ventilators, troubleshooting
• Diagnosis and management of: airway management and airway obstruction; acute respiratory failure
• Severe trauma
• Severe sepsis and septic shock
• Interpretation of arterial blood gases
• Sedation and analgesia

Skill stations include:

• Airway management
• Vascular access
• Mechanical ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit 
• Trauma Defibrillation and pacing

Registration:

Download and complete the registration form (DOCX 23KB) [DOCX, 23 KB] and email to Sandra.Bee@hbdhb.govt.nz. Sandra Bee, Course Co-ordinator, will contact you to offer a place on the course when a place becomes available.

For further course information contact:

Dr Ross Freebairn, Course Director 
Phone: 027 4476 887
Email: ross.freebairn@xtra.co.nz

This course, an addition to the BEYOND BASIC series, is designed to give the Intensive Care or Anaesthetics trainee a structured approach to management of the upper airway.

Commonly reported airway events in ICU include difficult and failed intubation and tracheostomy related problems. Themes associated with airway disasters include failure to identify high-risk airways and failure of advanced airway skills and rescue techniques.

The course includes pre-course reading (course manual provided), pre-course MCQs, e-learning and classroom lectures but the main focus will be the skill stations to develop hands on expertise in rescue techniques and decision making in a crisis situation.

CICM approved: Meets the Advanced Airway requirements of the CICM curriculum (2014)

ANZCA approved course - Participants in the ANZCA CPD Program may claim this CICO course as an emergency response activity in their CPD portfolio (ER-15-CICO-004)

Who should attend?

The course is intended for Intensive care Medicine or Anaesthetics trainees with prior anaesthetic experience. It assumes basic upper airway skills. It would also be useful for trainees in Anaesthesia, Medicine and Emergency Medicine. Numbers are strictly limited.

Prior BASIC course completion is essential.

The course will cover:

• Direct and indirect laryngoscopy (video laryngoscopy)

• Laryngeal mask airways

• Double lumen tube intubation

• Bronchoscopy and fibre-optic intubation

• Tracheostomy and cricothyrotomy

• Intubation planning, airway assessment

• Endotracheal tube exchange

• Acute upper airway obstruction

Faculty:

• Dr Ross Freebairn FANZCA, FRCP, FCICM (Hawke’s Bay, NZ)

• Dr David Brewster FANZCA, FCICM (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

• Dr John Copland FANZCA (Frankston, Victoria, Australia)

• Dr Tony Diprose FANZCA (Hawke’s Bay, NZ)

• Dr Allanah Scott FANZCA, (Hawke’s Bay, NZ)

The Beyond Basic - advanced airway management course is run on an as needed basis.

The venue is Skills Lab, Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Omahu Road, Hastings.

Contact Sandra Bee sandra.bee@hbdhb.govt.nz
In your email include your name, mailing address; phone, and any dietary requirements.

A 2 day course suitable for senior trainees in Intensive Care Medicine, Anaesthesia or other acute disciplines; as a refresher for Intensive Care or Respiratory Physicians, Consultant Anaesthetists, and experienced intensive care nurses.

Venue:
Hawke’s Bay (Hawke’s Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, Education Centre, Peter Lloyd Auditorium). 

Numbers are strictly limited.

Course includes pre-course reading, lectures, skill stations, learning assessment. Candidates should have attended a BASIC course prior to the Beyond BASIC course. Participants must have read the textbook and have completed an online MCQ test prior to attending the course.  

Topics include:

• Applied respiratory physiology, Acute respiratory failure, Heart-lung interactions
• Advanced airway management, Humidification, Basics of mechanical ventilation
• Assist control modes: volume control, pressure control, pressure regulated volume control
• SIMV and assist modes including pressure support, volume support and neurally adjusted ventilatory assist
• Other modes: adaptive support ventilation, bilevel airway pressure
• Ventilator settings
• Sedation and paralysis
• Troubleshooting
• Non-invasive ventilation
• Weaning
• Respiratory monitoring including waveform analysis
• ARDS, Unilateral lung disease, Obstructive airways disease

Contact Sandra.Bee@hawkesbaydhb.govt.nz

Check back later for future dates.

Dr Oliver Smales was a well liked and well respected paediatrician and citizen of Hawke’s Bay who made a significant difference to the lives, health and wellbeing of many babies, children, youth and families during his lifetime. He was a loyal and supportive colleague to many health professionals, with a strong commitment to professional education and workforce development. Oliver died 2 September 2004.

In 2004-2005 Rotary International celebrated its centennial year and, in memory of Oliver, the Rotary Club of Taradale, held a fundraising dinner and auction on 11 November 2004. The rowing Olympians Georgina and Caroline Swindell, were keynote speakers at this special event and the (then) Hawke’s Bay District Health Board matched the funds raised.

The YouTube clip (external link) and Taradale Rotary Newsletter (external link) profile how the fundraising idea started, the formal event and comments from individuals in the establishment of the Trust. 

At the fundraising auction an Olympic t-shirt signed by Georgina and Caroline Swindell was auctioned, subsequently presented to Dr Libby Smales, who in turn asked for the gift to be displayed in Hawke’s Bay Special Care Baby Unit.

The Oliver Smales Memorial Trust's vision and priorities are outlined in the:

• Oliver Smales Memorial Trust Strategy 2022-2025 (PDF 882KB) [PDF, 882 KB]
• Oliver Smales Memorial Trust - Excellence in Practice: A Return on Investment (PDF 1.5MB) [PDF, 1.5 MB]

A major aim of the Trustees of the Oliver Smales Memorial Trust (OSMT) is that all recipients of funds will promote the teaching and learning principles that were so important to Oliver.

The Trustees of the OSMT accept applications to fund education and workforce development from registered nurses and allied health professionals who work with babies/pēpi, children/tamariki and youth/rangatahi in the Hawke’s Bay region. This includes professionals who provide clinical care in the community and Hawke’s Bay rural sectors. Refer application and reporting template links.    

All completed applications must be with the OSMT Secretariate at least two weeks before the Trust’s quarterly meetings.

Applications and reporting templates:

• Application for grant form (DOCX 123KB) [DOC, 123 KB]
• Report (DOCX 47KB) [DOCX, 47 KB]
• Project proposal or programme application form (DOCX 119KB) [DOC, 119 KB]

Contact:
Email the OSMT Trust Secretary at osmt@hbdhb.govt.nz with applications or queries.

Clinical training and accreditation is available for the following specialities:

• PGY1
• Diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Diploma in Paediatrics
• Surgery SET 1, 2 & 3
• Advanced Orthopaedics
• Basic Adult Medicine and Paediatrics
• Advanced Trainees in Medicine and Paediatrics (runs eligible for approved training)
• Anaesthetics 
   - pre Part I 
   - post Part I
• Provisional Fellow Obstetrics Gynaecology pre MRNZCOG
• Basic Intensive Care Medicine
• Basic Emergency Medicine
• Advance Intensive Care Medicine
• Advanced Emergency Medicine

Education sessions are advertised weekly including grand rounds and clinical radiological meetings with each speciality. House officer teaching sessions are also run weekly. RMOs are encouraged to participate in these sessions. Many of our consultants/registrars conduct education sessions and on occasions visiting speakers are scheduled.