Robyn Brady, Tony Hucker, Cathrin Parsch and Warwick Teague lock horns in this light-hearted, informative debate on the use of collars in spinal immobilisation: torture devices or true collars shining through?
Speaker biography:
Robyn Brady is a dual qualified Paediatric Emergency Physician from Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, with 30 years’ experience across a range of contexts from the ivory tower to rural paediatric locums
and resource poor international settings. She was part of the initial APLS instructor group in Australia and was involved in introducing APLS in New Zealand, Vietnam and Russia. Her particular interests are point-of-care ultrasound, cervical spine injury, and educational interactive modelling of diagnostic reasoning.
Tony Hucker is a Critical Care Paramedic with over three decades of experience across Australian ambulance juristictions. His current full time role is with the Queensland Ambulance Service as the Director of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, and he is a Senior Medical Educator with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Tony was awarded the Ambulance Service Medal in 2005.
Cathrin Parsch is the Chief Medical Officer of the South Australian Ambulance Service (SAAS), Retrieval Consultant for the state-wide retrieval service SAASMedSTAR and an Emergency Medicine Consultant at the Lyell McEwin Hospital. Cathrin’s specific areas of interest include paediatric emergency medicine, ultrasound and mental health.
Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. He is a member of the Victorian Government State Trauma Committee and several trauma-focused committees within the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Warwick is also active in research within Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne.
Want more? Post-talk Q&A session with the panel:
https://vimeo.com/272921985
From the 2017 APLS Paediatric Acute Care Conference in the Gold Coast.