The Procedures Course 2025
Master resuscitative procedures in a hands-on workshop developed by the National Trauma Research Institute, with Monash University.
Event date
25 February 2025
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30 October 2025
Event location
Multiple dates and venues
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes.
Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching will be enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and low cadaver-to-participant ratio.
The Procedures
- Surgical airway (cricothyroidotomy)
- Orbital decompression (lateral canthotomy and cantholysis)
- Pleural decompression (finger thoracostomy and pleural drainage)Vascular access (MAC line / RIC line / Intraosseous access)
- Temporary trans-venous cardiac pacing
- Pericardial decompression (including resuscitative thoracotomy)
- Retrieval limb amputation
- Escharotomy
- Resuscitative hysterotomy
Who should attend?
- Retrievalists
- Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic Consultants
- Rural GPs/CMOs involved in retrievals/trauma resuscitation
- Senior Critical Care Registrars (Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic/Retrieval)
course
education
emergency & trauma
trauma