AUSMAT Surgical Team Course

This four-day course provides training for disaster surgery and anaesthetics in the field. Developed to expose participants to a range of essential techniques and survival skills to manage successfully when deployed as part of an Australian Medical Assistance Team (AUSMAT).

This course is a combination of classroom-style lectures and field simulation that includes an overnight field deployment.

Course content includes:

• Humanitarian systems/international frameworks
• Ethical conduct of appropriate disaster surgery
• Humanitarian systems/international frameworks
• Health standards/health clusters/sphere principles
• Disaster surgery/anaesthesia techniques
• Limb salvage orthopaedics
• Disaster general and neurosurgery techniques
• Anaesthetics in the austere environment
• The practical establishment of a field hospital Safety and security awareness
• Hostile negotiation
• Trip planning
• Command and control principles
• Equipment management/familiarisation

This course is for senior surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre nurses nominated by each state/territory.

Course location: Darwin

Upcoming course dates: TBA

Participant numbers: min 20 | max 30

Notes: registrations are restricted. Participants are selected by their state/territory disaster unit.