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Turrbal and Jagera Country
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Brisbane QLD 4000
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In North Queensland, trauma cases can happen anywhere, from isolated highways to remote coastal communities. Rural clinicians face the challenge of managing critically injured patient's hours from tertiary care, relying on limited resources to stabilise, triage, and save lives.
Rural road accidents are a leading cause of trauma in the region. Many patients require aeromedical transfers, sometimes involving multiple legs of transport. Delays caused by weather, aircraft availability, and competing priorities make prehospital assessment and stabilisation essential. Every decision can have life or death consequences.
For some patients, the journey to care may start at a small rural hospital before moving via fixed wing or helicopter to a tertiary facility. These double transfer journeys, initial stabilisation locally followed by long distance aeromedical transport, reflect the reality remote clinicians face. They must make critical decisions and stabilise patients with limited resources, often under pressure, knowing that definitive care may be hours away.
These challenges highlight the importance of practical, hands-on training for remote and rural clinicians. Such training builds the skills and confidence needed to act decisively in high pressure situations.
Workshops like the Trauma Workshop, returning to tropical Cairns in March, are specifically designed for remote and rural clinicians. Over two intensive days, participants work in small groups to practice realistic trauma scenarios. The program covers essential skills such as strategic trauma assessment, stabilisation, tailored management for high-risk groups, and training in procedural skills such as ICC insertion, lateral canthotomy, and plastering. Experienced facilitators from the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Trauma Centre provide personalised guidance and feedback, helping clinicians refine techniques that can directly improve patient outcomes in the field.
A very useful workshop and particularly helpful being tailored to rural setting and low resource setting and great teachers. — 2022 Trauma Delegate
Despite the challenges, these cases also highlight the resilience and dedication of rural clinicians and retrieval teams working to save lives across North Queensland.
Prepare for the Unexpected at the Trauma Workshop, join us on 28–29 March 2026.
