SYMPOSIUM: Emergency Medicine Research Symposium (half-day)

1300-1310: Professor Lou Landau. Welcoming address.

1310-1345: Dr Simon Brown. Keynote address: Preventing anaphylaxis to venom of the jack jumper ant (Myrmecia pilosula).

1345-1400: John Brereton. Prehospital airway management in Perth.

1400-1415: Dr Paul Bailey. Functional analysis of the venom of three Australian jellyfish.

1415-1430: Dr Peter Sprivulis. Establishing ECHO.

1430-1445: Nick Gibson. Epidemiology of asthma in the prehospital setting.

1445-1500: Dr Paul Quigley. Drink-spiking Investigation Project.

1530-1545: Dr Tom Hitchcock. Magic bullets of new health systems: information, communication and behavioural change.

1545-1600: David Ford. Prehospital use of intranasal fentanyl.

1600-1615: Dr Rod Ellis. Comparison of routes of injection for the treatment of envenomation by red-back spider bite trial.

1615-1630: Dr Yusuf Nagree. Low acuity patients do not cause or contribute to ambulance diversion in metropolitan Perth.

1630-1645: Dr Mark Little. Prehospital care and jellyfish envenomation.

1645-1700: Dr Daniel Fatovich. A pilot trial of thrombolysis in cardiac arrest (the TICA trial).