Programme This is a draft programme and will be updated regularly.  Please bookmark this page. Download version here Thursday 26th April 2012 8.00 - 6.30 pm       Registration opens 9.00 - 5.00 pm       CINZ Workshops (not part of conference and are an extra charge,                                please see the registration tab for further details). 5.00 - 6.00 pm       Industry Liaison Group Meeting 5.00 - 6.30 pm       Welcome Reception                                        Friday 27th April 2012  08:30am 09:00am Opening Ceremony – Powhiri Richard and Aickin and  another speaker yet to be confirmed Critical Thinking and Healthcare Safety - Pat Croskerry Most of us do enough thinking to get by but we sometimes fall short of our potential. There are increasing concerns that secondary and post secondary educational curricular place insufficient emphasis on critical thinking.  This translates into medical graduates who are deficient in these skills and the strong likelihood of an impact on the safety and quality of healthcare.  Critical thinkers are among the most highly calibrated decision makers. This session overviews the characteristics of critical thinking and its importance in clinical medicine. Incremental improvements to maximize survival from cardiac arrest - Mary Fran Hazinski 10.30 - 11.00          Morning Tea Science and evaluation supporting recent guideline changes and new papers published since 2010 - Gabrielle Nuthall Aus – ROC - Judith Finn Update on ILCOR - Ian Jacobs 12.30 - 13.30         Lunch Early Warning Scores The History and Evaluation of Paediatric Early Warning Scores - Gabrielle Nuthall Why paper systems don’t work - Rob Frengly Cognitive Debiasing: - Pat Croskerry  Much of our ‘thinking’ time is spent in the intuitive mode of reasoning which is known to be vulnerable to error.  The intuitive system is especially vulnerable to cognitive and affective bias and therefore it is important that we understand strategies for effective debiasing.  This session reviews the theoretical basis of debiasing and the many practical strategies to achieve it End of Life Issues    CPR and the paitients best interests; ethic’s, law and Policy - Ron Patterson Differentiating Not for CPR from DNR - Mary Seddon A North American and Paediatric Perspective on Advances Life Directives - Mary Fran Hazinski 17.00 Saturday 28th April 2012  09.00 Pitfalls in translating the evidence into clinical practice - Mary Fran Hazinski. Clinical decision making: - Pat Croskerry Arguably, how we make decisions is the most important part of clinical performance, and of healthcare.  This session is an overview of how we make decisions in the clinical setting – based mostly on the Dual Process Model of reasoning 10.30 - 11.00         Morning Tea Earthquake 1 - In the Emergency Department - Mike Adargh Earthquake 2 - At Ground Zero - Jeff Brown Initial response at scene - Tony Smith 12.30 - 13.30           Lunch Free Papers 7 papers (1½ hrs) 15.00 - 15.30          Afternoon Tea 0xygen Toxicity - Lindsay Mildenhall Pro – Con Debate Intubation equipment is essential on Resucitation Speaker to be announced Closing Remarks and closing Powhiri 17.00 - 17.15