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Victorian Stroke Clinical Network

Acute Stroke Care forum

Tuesday 31 August 2010 – Sofitel Hotel Melbourne


A day of presentations and workshops where you help decide the questions and
clinical content

Program:
10.00am Registration

10.15am Welcome and introduction Chris Bladin (Clinical Lead VSCN)


Pre-hospital acute stroke care, what are the key issues? Ian Mosley (Monash University)
Paramedic issues in acute stroke care, rural vs. metro Kevin Masci (Ambulance Victoria)
Streamlining the Emergency Department care of patients with acute Michael Bryant (Western Health)
stroke: ‘time is brain’
Development of a stroke unit in a rural environment Pat Groot (VSCN Stroke Facilitator)
11.30am Break
11.45am Nursing management of acute stroke Louise Weir (stroke nurse practitioner: Royal
Melbourne Hospital)
Can tPA be delivered safely and reliably in rural/regional hospitals? Alistair Wright (regional stroke physician: Latrobe
Regional Hospital)
Implementing acute stroke care: lessons in change management Martin Jude (regional stroke neurologist: Wagga
Wagga Hospital NSW)
12.30pm Lunch
1.15pm Workshops in acute stroke: Speaker grouping and structure to be advised
• Development of acute stroke units • Alistair Wright, Martin Jude
• Streamlining ED management of tPA • Helen Dewey (Stroke Neurologist, Austin Health)
• tPA evidence • Chris Bladin
• How to read a CT in acute stroke - ASPECTS and beyond • Peter Hand (Stroke neurologist, Melbourne Health)
• Early mobilisation post stroke - the AVERT experience • Julie Bernhardt (National Stroke Research Institute)
• Nursing care for acute stroke (including tPA) • Louise Weir
• NIHSS - nursing delivery • Pat Groot (VSCN Facilitator, Barwon South West)
• Education for acute stroke workforce • Adele Mollo (VSCN Facilitator, Western Health)
2.40pm Break
3.00pm What are the NHMRC NSF Guidelines for acute stroke care, is there Kelvin Hill (NSF Stroke Guidelines)
anything new?
What are the legal implications of giving, or not giving, tPA in acute Chris Bladin, Heather Wellington (Phillips-Fox hospital
ischaemic stroke? lawyers)
Some personal reflections on my acute stroke care Stroke Consumer (to be advised)
4.00pm Panel discussion and wrap up: Facilitator Sonia Denisenko (VSCN Chris Bladin, Heather Wellington, Alistair Wright, Martin
Program Manager) Jude, Kevin Masci, Ian Mosely, Pat Groot, Louise Weir,
Stroke Consumer (to be advised)
4.30 PM Close

Department of Health

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