Breakfast 1 - Essity (Platinum Sponsor)

FULLY BOOKED

Presentation Title: “Managing, Measuring and making a difference in Complex Lower Legs”

Management of complex lower legs in the community setting poses challenges for consumers, their families and the healthcare professionals caring for them.

This session demonstrates the use of a quality improvement cycle and how it engaged consumers and clinicians in the treatment pathway for long standing complex lower leg issues.

We will cite case examples, our learnings and the benefits for all involved.

Speaker: Beth Freeman-Gray

Beth is a Registered Nurse with career spanning the cardiothoracic, vascular and critical care settings. Her career has spanned across the hospital, community, business and commercial areas with twenty years focusing in the area of acute and hard to heal wound management .

Her passion lies in optimizing the patient/client journey and experience through the healthcare system and supporting the return to living their best life possible. Her work in safety and quality provided the quality improvement pathway to improve the clinical, economic, strategic and wellbeing outcomes for all stakeholders. Beth works for Pop Up Health, a community organization as the Quality and Compliance Clinical Co-ordinator.

Breakfast 2 - Medi Rent

FULLY BOOKED

Shaping the Future: Scientifically Informed Pump Choices
Using contemporary evidence to guide clinical decision-making in the use of sequential intermittent pneumatic compression (SIPC) pumps

Join Robbie Blackwell as she discusses the evidence-base behind the use of compression pumps as part of best-practice management for people living with lymphoedema and other chronic oedemas.  

Learn how patient history and clinical presentation can help guide compression pump prescriptions, as Robbie discusses the application of ICG research on guiding optimal pump settings and pump garment styles.

Based on a contemporary understanding of lymphatic pathophysiology, learn principles that are immediately transferrable to clinical practice, and can support you in making effectual compression pump recommendations for your patients.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain the application of SIPC pumps in the context of best-practice management of lymphoedema.

• Describe, in physiological terms how SIPC pumps have the capacity to optimise lymphatic flow in people with lymphatic disease.

• Outline optimal and effective SIPC pump recommendations inclusive of pump settings, and choice of pump garment for a range of patients, based on patient history and clinical presentation. 

Presenter: Robbie Blackwell

Robbie is an occupational therapist and senior lymphoedema therapist, and a team leader in the ALERT Lymphoedema Treatment Clinic, where she has worked since 2017.  Along with providing conservative treatment to patients with lymphoedema, lipoedema and other chronic oedemas, Robbie is trained as an ICG lymphography imaging technician and has coordinated the ALERT ICG Diagnostic Assessment Clinic since 2020. Robbie continues to contribute to the expanding body of research describing common patterns of morphological change observed in the lymphatic system, and the implications on conservative management of lymphoedema.  She forms part of the ALERT education team, developing and delivering accredited lymphedema training, with an appointed role as Honorary Conjoint Associate Lecturer at Macquarie University in 2020. 

Breakfast 3 - OPC Health

FULLY BOOKED

Revolutionising  Lymphoedema Management: Unleash the Potential of the LymphaTouch® Negative Pressure Device

The breakfast aims to provide a comprehensive overview of lymphoedema treatment through the utilization of the innovative LymphaTouch® Negative Pressure Device. This session will bring together healthcare professionals to explore the impact of this technology that improves the lives of both patients and therapists enhancing patient outcomes and optimizing the management of lymphatic disorders.