The PREDICT members meeting will be held in October 2019, aligned with the PAC/APLS conference and held at the same venue.
DATE: Thursday 24/10/19 (one day only this year)
TIME: 10.00am – 5.30pm
VENUE: Pan Pacific Perth, Adelaide Terrace
Further details including funding guidelines and registration process will be available mid-May. This meeting has been forwarded as a calendar invite. Please check that it is in your diary.
PREDICT involvement in ANZ Emergency Department Airway Registry
– Expression of Interest to take part in a steering group
The PREDICT Network is developing a collaboration with the Australian and New Zealand Emergency Department Airway Registry (ANZEDAR) to capture data on paediatric intubations. The ANZEDAR is a publicly funded, existing registry that has been capturing data on primarily adult ED intubations over the last 4 years. They are interested in capturing paediatric intubation data, and using the research experience of PREDICT to move their data collection tool online, and develop research questions from the data.
The primary purpose of our involvement with ANZEDAR is to monitor patient safety, with the aim to improve safety over time. Involvement of multiple sites will allow benchmarking of care, sharing interventions to improve care, and an embedded continuous audit process over time. Descriptive and interventional studies will likely follow.
We wish to invite interested members of PREDICT to be involved in our own steering group. This group will work together to provide recommendations to the ANZEDAR re the paediatric dataset as well as contributing to governance for this project across the PREDICT network.
If you are interested in being involved in the steering group for this collaboration, please contact Dr Elliot Long at Elliot.long@rch.org.au by Friday 19th April 2019.
120 participants enrolled into the study.
No primary outcome on 8 (2 withdrew, 1 had alternative diagnosis, 5 lost to follow up at 1 month visit)
Congratulations to the authors of the following PREDICT accepted publication:
Tavender E, Middleton S, Babl F. A primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department: Part VIII. Implementation Science: an Introduction. EMA (in press). To be published June 2019.
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 Tanya Mellett from Townsville Hospital.
“I work at Townsville Hospital Emergency Department. It is the tertiary hospital for North Queensland. We see approximately 90,000 patients per year in ED.
Research interests: I have taken over as Director of Research for 2019. I oversee research and audits occurring in the department. Currently, we are part of six paediatric multi-centre trials. My interest is broad and expanding!”
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 Tristan Turner from Townsville Hospital.
“I work as an Emergency Staff Specialist at the Townsville Hospital ED and as a retrieval doctor for Lifeflight out of the Townsville base.
My research interests open to negotiation.”
Congratulations to Elliot Long for his success in obtaining a Melbourne Children’s Clinician-Scientist Fellowship (CSF).
Congratulations to the authors of the following PREDICT publications, which are now available:
George S, Humphreys S, Williams T, Gelbart B, Chavan A, Rasmussen K, Ganeshalingham A, Erickson S, Ganu SS, Singhal N, Foster K, Gannon B, Gibbons K, Schlapbach LJ, Festa M, Dalziel S, Schibler A; Paediatric Critical Care Research Group (PCCRG), Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) and the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group (ANZICS PSG). Transnasal Humidified Rapid Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange in children requiring emergent intubation (Kids THRIVE): a protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2019 Feb 20;9(2):e025997. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025997. [link].
Lee WH, O’Brien S, Skarin D, Cheek JS, Deitch J, Nataraja R, Craig S, Borland ML on behalf of PREDICT. Accuracy of clinician gestalt in diagnosing appendicitis in children presenting to the emergency department. Emerg Med Australas, 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13220. [Epub ahead of print] [link].
Borland ML, Dalziel SR, Phillips N, Lyttle MD, Bressan S, Oakley E, Hearps SJC, Kochar A, Furyk J, Cheek JA, Neutze J, Gilhotra Y, Dalton S, Babl FE; Paediatric Research in Emergency Department International Collaborative (PREDICT) Group. Delayed Presentations to Emergency Departments of Children With Head Injury: A PREDICT Study. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jan 14. pii: S0196-0644(18)31485-9. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.11.035. [Epub ahead of print] [link].
BIPED training will be held in New Zealand at the Starship Children’s Hospital on 8 & 9 April 2019. This will provide training in the setup and management of the study, based on the processes being utilised at the Canadian sites. This event is for invited PREDICT participants only.
The APLS will be periodically releasing videos of presentations made at the APLS Conference 2018. Links to the PREDICT presentations will be posted as they become available. See link below to watch Stuart Dalziel discuss some of PREDICT’s current acute care research, as well as future research in PREDICT’s research pipeline. https://vimeo.com/311349263
