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• W2185039432 abstract "f you have to have a disaster, Broome, on the remote Kimberley coast of Western Australia, seems a good place to be; that is, until you take a closer look at what it would be like at the centre of the action. And this is exactly what delegates did during the inaugural conference on Tropical, Emergency and Disaster Medicine (TED-MED), held in Broome on 22–24 May 2009. The conference was attended by 81 delegates, including 28 general practitioners, eight tropical medicine specialists, six emergency medicine specialists and five disaster medicine specialists, plus representatives of government agencies, rural and remote nurse paramedics, clinical laboratory scientists and environmental health and industry participants. In this conference, we used the scenario of a tropical cyclone to move conference attendees outside their comfort zones and draw them into the reality of health crisis management in regional Australia. As it happened, Broome turned out to be an excellent location for the TED-MED conference because of a series of recent events, including the explosion of a refugee boat off the north-west coast of Australia and a tourist vehicle rollover on the Mitchell Plateau to the north-east. To add further realism to the program, there was severe wind damage caused by storms hitting Perth the day before visiting speakers flew into Broome, and the nation was on the verge of moving from the “Delay” phase to the “Contain” phase of the response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza. There were two triggers for a broad-based conference such as this. One was a renewed emphasis on regional development, particularly in WA’s north-west, where the expansion of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme, mining and petrochemical industries, and tourism are expected to drive a threefold to fourfold expansion of the regional population over the next decade. The second trigger was the Government of WA’s Royalties for Regions policy, under which some of the revenue generated by the mining and resources industry is returned to regional WA in the form of infrastructure funding, and is expected to add impetus to the population growth in the north of the state. In his opening address, WA Director General of Health Peter Flett emphasised the challenges of providing health care to such a thinly spread population in a tropical environment. He said that there was an urgent need to tackle the declining professional population as the baby boomer generation goes into retirement. David Atkinson, from the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service Council, compared his extensive experience in remote Aboriginal communities with indigenous communities in remote Canada. The extremes of hot and cold were explored further by retired remote and rural general surgeon Val Lishman AM, who spoke on his work in northern Australia and as an Australasian Antarctic Expedition doctor. Val’s moving snapshot of wilderness medicine in extreme environments was a profound reminder of the importance of resourcefulness and unquenchable optimism in the face of adversity. At the centre of the conference program was a carefully researched disaster scenario (Cyclone TED). Delegates prepared for an extended problem-solving activity through a series of lectures. Major-General Paul Alexander (Australian Defence Force [ADF] Surgeon General) gave the initial plenary session on ADF health capability, reflecting on the role Defence personnel often play in disaster response. He usefully clarified what the Defence Force can do and under what circumstances they would be tasked to assist. Highlights of subsequent parallel sessions were a vivid description by plastic surgeon Fiona Wood of the management of patients with burns who were injured in the Bali bombing, the challenges to medical evacuation from a combat zone by David Werda (former ADF paramedic during United Nations deployment to Somalia), and tag-team presentations on snakebite and emer" @default.
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• W2185039432 title "Tropical, Emergency and Disaster Medicine Conference and Tropical Medicine Summit, Broome, Western Australia, 22-24 May 2009" @default.
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