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 — 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)
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