| The organising committee would like to expressly thank the following sponsors: GE Healthcare. Sonosite. Astrazeneca. Surgical Specialties. Organon. SydMed. Mayo Healthcare. Focus Medical Technologies. Mindray. B Braun. Siemens. |
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GE Healthcare GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com. GE Healthcare is the world’s leading provider of ultrasound systems, information technologies and service solutions. Each year, healthcare providers rely on GE’s LOGIQ, Vivid and Voluson ultrasound systems to perform more than 30 million patient exams worldwide. GE applies more than 25 years of experience and a commitment to advancing ultrasound’s role in patient care. For more information, please visit our Web site at http://www.gehealthcare.com/euen/ultrasound/index.html or call 1300 GE HEALTH Back to top |
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AstraZeneca AstraZeneca is one of the world’s largest and most successful pharmaceutical companies, and currently employs over 60,000 employees worldwide. AstraZeneca excels in providing healthcare solutions across seven major therapeutic areas including cardiovascular, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, infection, oncology, pain control and anaesthesia and respiratory medicines. Our range of anaesthetic products include Diprivan, Xylocaine, Marcain, Naropin and EMLA. Back to top |
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Surgical SpecialtiesSurgical Specialties are the exclusive distributors of OnQ C-bloc
and OnQ Painbuster. OnQ C-bloc is a continuous peripheral nerve block system that slowly infuses local anaesthetic near a nerve for
effective pain relief. OnQ Painbuster provides continuous infusion of local anaesthetic directly into the surgical site for up to 4 days
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SonoSite SonoSite is the innovator and world leader in hand-carried ultrasound. The company, headquartered near Seattle, is represented by eight subsidiaries and a global distribution network in over 75 countries. SonoSite's small, lightweight devices are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high performance ultrasound to the point-of-care of the patient. SonoSite understands the anaesthetist’s need for portability and simplicity, and creates devices that are easy to use, reliable, durable, and offer excellent image quality. For more information please contact SonoSite Australasia on 1300 663 516 (Australia toll free) or 0800 888 204 (New Zealand toll free) or go to www.sonosite.com Back to top |
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Organon Organon is a multinational pharmaceutical company committed to the therapeutic areas of anaesthesia, psychiatry, reproductive and cardiovascular medicine. Development of innovative medicines for the enrichment of human life has shaped the company throughout its 80 year history and will continue to define its future. In partnership with the medical community, Organon provides innovative medicines to improve the health of people, and help people live longer healthier happier lives. Back to top |
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Sydmed Sydmed Australia have been supplying Ultrasound scanners in Australia for over 17 years. Sydmed are exclusive suppliers of Mindray Ultrasound in Australia. Mindray are the leading China based manufacturer of Portable and Mobile, Colour and B/W Ultrasound scanners of very high quality and cost effectiveness. In 2006 Mindray listed on the New York stock exchange and the company is now valued at over US$3 billion. Mindrays products are exported worldwide . www.mindray.com Back to top |
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Mayo Healthcare Mayo Healthcare Pty Ltd, established in 1970, is one of Australia's largest privately owned medical device distributors. We provide unique and premium quality Cardiovascular, Pain Management and Respiratory products for the Australian and New Zealand market. Our Vision is to provide exceptional service and first class products to the Hospital and Medical markets. We are very excited to announce Mayo Healthcare’s latest addition to our Regional Anaesthesia product range… the Xavant Stimpod – the New generation in Peripheral Nerve Stimulators! Back to top |
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Focus Medical Technologies/Terason Compact Ultrasound FMT sources innovative breakthrough technologies offering new and better solutions for specialists. Terason Compact Ultrasound Systems, manufactured in Boston, USA, are our flagship products, with a large network of specialist users across Australia and New Zealand. Anaesthetists will find it easier than ever before to perform nerve blocks, line placements or cardiographic scans. Terason uses unique and powerful technology developed through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) over 20 years. This compact and user friendly system provides excellent performance and value. Terason Compact ultrasound system offers the best image resolution in its class through its unsurpassed beamforming chip technology. Superlative user friendliness and adaptability combine to make Terason the peer endorsed system of choice. Its powerful Teravision™ Advanced Image Management software provides superlative image quality. Terason is compact, robust and lightweight. It locks into a custom designed height adjustable protective cart, making it easy and safe to manoeuvre in operating theatres. Use of mainstream computing technology gives you access to the most current and powerful processing capability. Terason provides you with, for example, huge image storage capability and easy integration of other Windows or Mac compatible software. Ease of use and expert applications support make Terason a valuable tool for all levels of experience. Its “1,2 and go” method of operation and advanced integrated ultrasound console mean that you can concentrate on the patient rather than the machine. Focus Medical Technologies, Phone 1300 550 153, Fax 1300 550 753, Email info@focusmedical.com.au, Web www.focusmedical.com.au. |
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B Braun B. Braun Australia Pty Ltd is a full subsidiary of B. Braun Melsungen AG, a family owned company established over 165 years ago and today is the largest private health care company in the world employing over 33,000 people in 50 countries. Our comprehensive range of quality Regional Anaesthesia products and services sets the standard in medical technology and establishes B. Braun as the competent partner in healthcare. B. Braun’s global philosophy “Sharing Expertise™” is both an aspiration and a promise based on extensive experience and knowledge. B. Braun promotes best practices for continuous improvement of healthcare products and services. For more information about B. Braun phone 1800 251 705, or visit B. Braun at www.bbraun.com.au. Back to top |
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Mindray Mindray was founded in 1991 in Shenzhen, China, with a mission to deliver high-quality, competitively priced medical devices. Over the last 15 years, we have become a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices in China with a rapidly growing international presence. We attained leading market share in China both by units sold and revenue for the sale of patient monitoring devices. In addition to patient monitoring devices, we also believe that we hold leading market share in China in both the diagnostic laboratory instrument and grayscale ultrasound imaging system segments. For more information go to www.mindray.com Back to top |
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Siemens Siemens is one of the largest suppliers of healthcare solutions in the world. Siemens is renowned for its innovative products, services and complete solutions, such as imaging systems for diagnosis, therapy equipment for treatment, IT solutions that optimise workflow and increase efficiency in hospitals, clinics and private practices. We combine the latest break-throughs in medical technology with state-of-the-art IT technology to create efficient solutions for the healthcare system. Our objective is to ensure a person’s long-term health. Lowering costs to improve the quality of healthcare is our contribution to every person’s well-being. For more information about Siemens, please visit our web site at www.siemens.com.au/medical. Back to top |
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For further information contact:
Cassandra Hargreaves (ASURA Conference Manager)
PO Box 600
Edgecliff
NSW 2027
Tel: +61 2 9327 4022
Fax: +61 2 9327 7666
Email: chargreaves@fed.asa.org.au
Cassandra Hargreaves (ASURA Conference Manager)
PO Box 600
Edgecliff
NSW 2027
Tel: +61 2 9327 4022
Fax: +61 2 9327 7666
Email: chargreaves@fed.asa.org.au
