Day 2 | Session 2 | Plenary | When town meets country - closing the geographical gap
Delivered safely: an audit of emergency obstetric helicopter transfers and outcomes in the lower South Island of New Zealand
In this combined presentation, Dave Anderson (Otago/Southland Helicopter Paramedic) will present an overview of obstetric transfers in the lower South Island of New Zealand including 24 months of Helicopter Emergency Medical Service NZ (HEMSNZ) data on obstetric transfers.
Dr Celia Devenish - Specialist Obstetric Obstetrician and Gynaecologist - Te Whatu Ora - Southern will present outcome data and intervention data on this cohort of transferred cases.
Dave Anderson
Critical Care Paramedic Intern
Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter
Dave Anderson is a Flight Paramedic with the Otago Southland Rescue Helicopter Service. Prior to this Dave was a paramedic for Hato Hone St John in Central Otago and a Registered Nurse on the emergency response (Code) team at Auckland City and Starship Hospital.
Dr Celia Devenish
Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Te Whatu Ora - Southern
Originally from the UK, Celia has been a specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist consultant for over 40 years and currently practices in Te Whatu Ora - Southern.
Celia has been heavily involved in RANZCOG governance and education for many years. She is currently the Deputy Chair of the NZ Training Accreditation Committee and the Specialist IMG Assessment Committee, Southern ITP Training Coordinator, and sits on many other College committees.
Celia is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of Otago.
Te waka wahine hauora - the woman's health bus
Helen Paterson and Alice Van Zijl set up "betty" the bus in 2019 as a response to the difficulties with people accessing care due to the large distances to secondary care in the Southern region
Dr Helen Paterson
Acting Head, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health Oranga Wāhine
Dunedin School of Medicine
Helen is a mountain biker and a skier and in her spare time she runs the Woman's Health Bus and is Acting Head for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health Oranga Wāhine in the Dunedin School of Medicine. She is also a later surgical abortion provider.
Free communications | Know Your Period: a co-designed consumer resource about abnormal uterine bleeding
How do I know if my period is abnormal? This is the question that many people wanted answered, and to answer it, the start of a collaborative co-design project. Parimala and Sara will share the development process and considerations.
Know Your Period has been co-designed with, and for, people with lived experiences of AUB. It is a first step in increasing availability of resources for people living with AUB in Aotearoa.
Dr Parimala Kanagasabai
Research Fellow, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health
University of Otago, Wellington
Pari is an early career researcher in medical education and community engagement research. Her research interest includes exploring lived experience of people with gynaecological conditions and improving their health care access.
Associate Professor Sara Filoche
Head of Department, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health
University of Otago, Wellington
Associate Professor Filoche is a health equity researcher, lecturer and Head of Department at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Sara is involved in a variety of health equity focussed research projects such as: mapping epistemic (in)justices in healthcare; understanding people’s experiences of informed choice for prenatal screening; co-designing a consumer resource about abnormal uterine bleeding; culture centred (re-)design of hospital waiting rooms; community-based colposcopy services; and building trans-inclusive perinatal mental services and medical education.