RACS ASC 2025

RESEARCH PAPERS

Scientific Session

Scientific Session

4:00 pm

05 May 2025

Meeting Room C4.2

Disciplines

Rural Surgery

Moderators

Calista Spiro

Australia

Devesh Kaushal

Campbelltown Hospital - Australia

Douglas Stupart

University Hospital Geelong - Australia

Session Program

4:00 pm

Investigating postcode lottery: Do regional outreach clinics improve access to elective general surgical care for Rural and Māori populations?

Sarah Cowan (Hawkes Bay)

4:08 pm

Burns Injury Characteristic and Outcomes at Lautoka Hospital, Fiji

Rahul Reddy (Ba)

4:16 pm

Complicated diverticular disease and primary anastomosis; A Retrospective Case Series

Devlin Elliott (Auckland)

4:24 pm

Cost effectiveness of a multidisciplinary perioperative protocol for high-risk emergency major abdominal surgery.

Jason Cox (VIC)

4:32 pm

Retrospective Analysis of Early Antibiotic Administration with Clindamycin or Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for Soft Tissue Infections Requiring Surgical Intervention in the Northern Territory

Kugendran Ponniah (WA)

4:40 pm

A review of emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomies in Far North Queensland

Emily Sawyer (QLD)

4:48 pm

Epidemiological patterns of subdural haematoma in the Top End

Charlie Cho (QLD)

4:56 pm

General subspeciality fellowship access across regional and rural Australia

Frank Dunley (Vic)

5:04 pm

Building a rural surgical workforce through rural training posts: evaluation of current rural training available to RACS trainees

Elysia Jongue (NSW)

5:12 pm

The unique approach for the closure of tracheostomy sites in Northern Queensland

Sheramya Vigneswaran (QLD)

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