Author: Marian Chandler

Our “Getting to Know You” segment ensures PREDICT members are aware of new members, their interests and areas of expertise and where they are located.  This month we introduce A/Prof Paul Middleton from SWERI and Liverpool Hospital.

Paul is an emergency physician and epidemiologist, working as Deputy Director at Liverpool Hospital ED, as a Visiting Medical Officer at the Northern Beaches Hospital, and as Director of the South Western Emergency Research Institute (SWERI). Paul is also Chair of the ACEM Emergency Department Epidemiology Network (EDEN).

Congratulations to the following authors:

Pfeiffer H, Cowley LE, Kemp AM, Dalziel SR, Smith A, Cheek JA, Borland ML, O’Brien S, Bonisch M, Neutze J, Oakley E1, Crowe LM, Hearps S, Lyttle MD, Bressan S, Babl FE. Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma.  Emerg Med J. 2020 Jan 13. pii: emermed-2019-208893. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2019-208893. E-pub ahead of print. [link].

Craig S, Babl FE, Dalziel S, Gray C, Powell C, et al. on behalf of Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN). Acute severe paediatric asthma: study protocol for the development of a core outcome set, a Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN) study. Trials 2020 Jan 13. 21:72.  doi:10.1186/s13063-019-3785-6 [Epub ahead of print]. [link]

Babl FE, Pfeiffer H, Kelly P, Dalziel SR, Oakley E, Borland ML, Kochar A, Dalton S, Cheek JA, Gilhotra Y, Furyk J, Lyttle MD, Bressan S, Donath S, Hearps S, Smith A, Crowe L, on behalf of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT). Paediatric abusive head trauma in the emergency department: A multicentre prospective cohort study. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019 Dec 10. doi: 10.1111/jpc.14700. [link].

Eapen N, Borland ML, Phillips N, Kochar A, Dalton S, Cheek JA, Gilhotra Y, Neutze J, Lyttle MD, Donath S, Crowe L, Dalziel SR, Oakley E, Williams A, Hearps S, Bressan S, Babl FE. Neonatal head injuries: A prospective Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative cohort study.  J Paediatr Child Health. 2019 Dec 23.  doi:10.1111/jpc.14736. [Epub ahead of print] [link].

Solan T, Stephens DJ, Williams A, Babl FE, Long E. Epidemiology and effects of fluid bolus administration in the paediatric emergency department. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Dec 23. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13437. [Epub ahead of print] [link].

Franklin D, Shellshear D, Babl FE, Schlapbach LJ, Oakley E, Borland ML, Hoeppner T, George S, Craig S, Neutze J, Williams A, Acworth J, McCay H, Wallace A, Mattes J, Gangathimn V, Wildman M, Fraser JF, Moloney S, Gavranich J, Waugh J, Hobbins S, Fahy R, Grew S, Gannon B, Gibbons K, Dalziel S, Schibler A; PARIS and PREDICT. Multicentre, randomised trial to investigate early nasal high-flow therapy in paediatric acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial-a Paediatric Acute respiratory Intervention Study (PARIS 2). BMJ Open. 2019 Dec 18;9(12):e030516. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030516. [link].

Babl FE, Cheek J, Dalziel K, Bressan S, Dalziel SR; Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT). In reply. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Dec;74(6):821-823. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.06.006. [link].

Phillips N, Dalziel SR, Borland ML, Dalton S, Lyttle MD, Bressan S, Oakley E, Hearps SJ, Kochar A, Furyk J, Cheek JA, Gilhotra Y, Neutze J, Babl FE; Paediatric Research in Emergency Department International Collaborative (PREDICT) group.  Imaging and admission practices in paediatric head injury across emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand: A PREDICT study. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Nov 26. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13396. [Epub ahead of print] [link].

 

Congratulations to Franz Babl, Ed Oakley, Stuart Dalziel, Meredith Borland and Elliot Long from the PREDICT group who have been funded for more than $3 million by the Medical Research Futures Fund to participate in the international PROMPT BOLUS study on Sepsis.

The study is an open label randomised trial comparing balanced versus normal saline fluid treatment in children with sepsis.

Australian and New Zealand sites in PREDICT will work with the US and Canada (pending funding from NIH and CIHR) to undertake this trial of 8,800 children and provide the evidence necessary to change clinical practice worldwide and in turn save thousands of children’s lives.

The trial was one of three to share in $5 million to allow Australian researchers and patients to take part in international clinical trials of new, lifesaving treatments.

We will be looking for investigators and sites to participate (13 sites funded with RA cover at all sites for 4.5 years) and look forward to sharing further news soon. For questions contact franz.babl@rch.org.au.

 

Our “Getting to Know You” segment ensures PREDICT members are aware of new members, their interests and areas of expertise and where they are located.  This month we introduce Dr Peter Snelling from Gold Coast University Hospital.

“I am a dual qualified general paediatrician and emergency physician working at the Gold Coast University Hospital Emergency Department.  My main research interest is point-of-care ultrasound, especially as it applies within paediatric emergency medicine.”

 

Our “Getting to Know You” segment ensures PREDICT members are aware of new members, their interests and areas of expertise and where they are located.  This month we introduce Nicola Arnold from Werribee Mercy Hospital.

“I am the clinical nurse educator in the emergency department at Werribee Mercy Hospital. The hospital has recently opened a paediatric department, which means that the ED now sees and admits, higher acuity paediatric patients. The hospital sees approximately 25–30 paediatric cases a day, and this number will only keep growing. My areas of interest involve the integrated use of paediatric education to nursing and medical staff – through in-situ simulations and more structured simulations, in order to boost confidence and knowledge base amongst staff.

I look forward to disseminating up to date, relevant research to my staff in order to improve our practice in the department.”

Our “Getting to Know You” segment ensures PREDICT members are aware of new members, their interests and areas of expertise and where they are located.  This month we introduce Doris Tham from Sunshine Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

“I am a Paediatric Emergency Physician, from FRACP background, currently working at Sunshine hospital (mix adult/ paed ED) and The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne in Victoria. With my PREDICT liaison role at Sunshine hospital, I am looking forward to take on more active role in research. I also have strong interest in improving clinician-parents communication, parent education and quality of discharge advise.”

2019 has been a big year for PREDICT with significant growth in our network.  It also marks the final year of the current NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) collaboration and the beginning of the next NHMRC CRE which will promote more excellent research for the 2020-2024 period.

Please join us in reflecting on these and other outstanding achievements:

• PREDICT now has 122 members – in the past year we welcomed 34 new members.
• PREDICT has commenced working actively with consumers in our research and the Perth Children’s Hospital ED team have their own designated ED consumer group.
• 55 hospitals across Australia and New Zealand have been actively involved in PREDICT research!
• Data collection was completed for the APHIRST-Gap, CSE registry pilot and the Asthma Retrospective studies!
• The international PERN pneumonia and the PERC BIPED (Dexamethasone and Adrenalin for bronchiolitis) studies have commenced.
• The PREDICT Executive reviewed and endorsed 10 new projects which are now in various stages of development.
• The successful completion of 3 PhDs (Elliot Long, Jeremy Furyk and Donna Franklin) and continued mentoring of another 5 PhD scholars.
• 7 successful grant applications with combined funds of over $8,500,000.
• Twenty papers were published in various Journals including the Lancet, Medical Journal Australia, BMJ and others!
• The annual PREDICT members meeting was held in Perth and attended by 44 members.
• The PREDICT prize was awarded at the ACEM meeting to Emma Fauteux-Lamarre, an Advanced PEM Trainee at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne for her study called “A Double-Blind, Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Ondansetron to reduce vomiting in children receiving Intranasal Fentanyl and N2O for procedural sedation”
• The Acute Head Injury Guidelines are drafted – final consultations will be completed early next year!

 

Thank you to all members and collaborators for your contributions and support.

Our “Getting to Know You” segment ensures PREDICT members are aware of new members, their interests and areas of expertise and where they are located.  This month we introduce Abdullah Almutairi from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and MCRI.

“I am a paediatric senior registrar having my sub-speciality training at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and an honorary member of Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. I’m interested in paediatric acute care clinical research and to learn how international collaborative networks work on a national scale. I’m privileged to work in a place which has a supportive emergency department and one of the largest research institutes in the southern hemisphere.”

 

 

 

Congratulations to the following authors:

Franklin D, Babl F, Gibbons K, Pham T, Hasan N, Schlapbach L, Oakley E, Craig S, Furyk J, Neutze J, Moloney S, Gavranich J, Shirkhedkar P, Kapoor V, Grew S, Fraser J, Dalziel S, Schibler A, and PARIS and PREDICT. Nasal High Flow in Room Air for Hypoxemic Bronchiolitis Infants. Front. Pediatr., 25 October 2019, 7(426), https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2019.00426.

 

The European Emergency Medicine Congress (EUSEM) was recently held in Prague and was attended by a number of PREDICT members who also presented our research. This unique annual event is the major educational activity organised in Europe for emergency medicine. It is a melting pot for research and educational projects on an international level and promotes international collaboration in the field of Emergency Medicine, facilitating practice and knowledge transfer. The meeting creates the seeds for networking creation and cooperation between national associations for Emergency Medicine.

Natalie Phillips captures the crowd’s attention with her Paediatric Cervical Spine Injury poster presentation.

A great presentation was given by Libby Haskell “Improving the management of infants with bronchiolitis: a cluster randomised controlled trial of tailored knowledge translation in paediatric acute care”.