QASM workshops and seminars
Future events
Save the date: Friday 27th October 2023
Seminar: Surgical challenges and the vulnerable patient – exploring support for these scenarios
Venue: Translational Research Institute (TRI), 37 Kent Street, Woolloongabba QLD 4102
Check back for more information in the coming weeks.
Past events
Human factors and safety in surgical patients
Presentations from:
- Dr Sally Langley, RACS President
- Dr Chiara Santomauro, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Griffith University
- Dr Juanita Muller, Vascular Surgeon
- Dr Terence Chua, General Surgeon
Afternoon masterclass: 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Non-technical skills in the management of complex surgical environments
Presentations from:
- Dr Nathan Brunott, General Surgeon
- Dr William Butcher, Vascular Surgeon
- Dr David Sainsbury, Anaesthetist
- Dr Chiara Santomauro, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Griffith University
Webinar One Dr Emilia Dauway, Timefulness: expanding time from a surgeon's perspective - Watch here (MP4 436.84MB)
Webinar Two Dr Leong Tan, Cervical collars in older patients - Watch here (MP4 100.02MB)
Webinar Three Dr Peter Coverdale, Clinical decision making - Watch here
Webinar Four Dr Juanita Muller, Preparing vascular patients for NO surgery - Watch here
Webinar Five Dr Adam Parr, Transfer of patients with cervical fractures - Watch here
The Queensland Audit of Surgical Mortality (QASM) annual seminar 2021 Surgery timing is everything.
Thursday 18 November 2021
Seminar: Clinical Decision Making - How can we do better?
Thursday 26 November 2020
View the seminar presentations playlist.
QASM Symposium - Steps to improving safety, quality and patient outcomes
Webinar series 12 June 2020 - 24 July 2020
Please click on the link below to access the final presentation in the QASM 7-week webinar series: Steps to improving safety, quality and patient outcomes.
What is required to make Trauma Care safe in a private facility?
Professor Michael Schuetz, Director, Jamieson Trauma Institute; Chair of Trauma, QUT; Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RBWH
Learning from the Data: Quality and Safety in Surgery at Greenslopes Private Hospital
Dr Alison Smith, Senior Medical Officer, Greenslopes Private Hospital
Dr Brian McGowan, Director of Surgery, Logan Hospital, Currently seconded to Healthcare Improvement Unit (HIU), Clinical Excellence Queensland
Quality assurance in cardiac surgery
Dr Bruce Garlick, Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital
Preventing post-surgical infection, preventing post-surgical mortality
Michael Wishart, Infection Control Coordinator, CICP-E, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside
An example of a hospital’s approach to improving safety and quality
Dr Michael Gillman, Executive Director Medical Services, St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital
Making Safety and Quality the top priority in Decision Making – does the surgeon need assistance?
Dr Bernadette Eather, National Manager of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Ramsay Health Care
QASM Seminar, Friday 18 October 2019, Distance, Delays and Deterioration - improving surgical care in regional Queensland, The Townsville Hospital.
Seminar program (PDF 125.98KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 2 November 2018, Infections in surgical patients, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, South Brisbane.
Seminar program (PDF 871.15KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org (PDF 871.15KB)
QASM Seminar, Friday 10 November 2017, "Captain of the ship? A surgeon's role in safety and quality" Gold Coast University Hospital.
Seminar program (PDF 291.51KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 18 November 2016, "The elderly surgical patient - evidence based practice"
Seminar program (PDF 397.56KB)- please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 13 November 2015, "Surgery and the obese patient"
Seminar program (PDF 73.54KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 7 November 2014, "Situational awareness and the surgeon"
Seminar program (PDF 245.91KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 15 November 2013, "QASM adverse event - systems or surgeons?"
Seminar program (PDF 73.54KB) - please send email request for required presentations to qasm@surgeons.org
QASM Seminar, Friday 9 November 2012, "Complex decision making in modern practices"
QASM Seminar, Friday 11 November 2011, "Queensland surgical dilemmas: distance, delays and deteriorating patients"