The Procedures Course 2026 - June - Brisbane

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)

2026 Dates

• Tuesday 17 & Wednesday 18 February, Melbourne
• Sunday 8 & Monday 9 March, Hawaii
  • In conjunction with the UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine Conference
• Thursday 12 & Friday 13 March, Sydney
• Thursday 9 & Friday 10 April, Melbourne
• Thursday 18 & Friday 19 June, Brisbane
• Thursday 23 & Friday 24 July, Sydney
• Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 September, Auckland, NZ
• Tuesday 27 & Wednesday 28 October, Melbourne