Physiotherapy Report - Visit to Suva and Lautoka
MAY 28th - JUNE 6th 2008

TEAM
Dr Stuart Myers - Hand Surgeon
Mrs Emilie Myers - Physiotherapist
Henry Myers ( Baby)
Sr Jennie Barry - Nurse Manager
Dr David Goodie - Anaesthetist
Sr Veronique Jadoul - Paediatric Nurse
Dr John Tawfik - Orthopaedic Registrar
Mrs Violet Tawfik - Pharmacist
Fiona Anderson - Physiotherapy Student Perth
Lauren McCreary - Physiotherapy Student Perth
Allisa Cenin - Physiotherapy Student Perth

 GOALS: Physiotherapy - Hands (Emilie Myers)

  • To review the management of Hand Trauma by the Lautoka Physiotherapy Dept from the last visit
  • Teach workshop in Suva on Fijian Hand Trauma
  • To provide teaching and support for the management of difficult hand cases, as well as operative hand cases from the weeks visit
  • To oversee the local PT's assessing & treating the Hand patients under supervision
  • To provide the PT Dept with sufficient thermoplastic splinting & fibreglass plaster (Surgical Synergies donations) material to manage hand Trauma for the next 6 months
  • To provide PT dept inservices on the use of fibreglass plaster and splinting peripheral nerve injuries
  • To review the previously established PT research projects, and establish a Hand Tendon and fracture research project
  • To encourage the objective assessment of patients and improve the standard of note documentation
  • To provide ongoing email support to Lautoka Hospital PT dept for Hand and other conditions
  • To discuss with local staff their requests for further education on next visits
  • To encourage local PT staff to communicate with other Lautoka staff- registrars, plasterman - Seta
  • Discussion with PT dept re: policy and procedures of day to day management of Orthopaedic and other caseloads, how to make the system more effective and efficient for patients and staff
  • Offer support to Curtin University students during visit, and to provide them with necessary support during their self directed study placement and advice on suitable topics to teach.
Thursday May 29th
Emilie and all 3 Physiotherapy students present.

In Suva a full day workshop was run at the School of Medicine, Physiotherapy within the University of the South Pacific, Pacifika campus. Email correspondence with Maria Waloki, head of Physiotherapy School assisted with organisation of this day. 27 local physiotherapy students and Suva Hospital Physiotherapists attended the session titled: Fijian Hand Trauma.

The day included a review of interesting hand patients seen in Lautoka on previous 6 visits by EM and SM, and in the afternoon a practical session making plasters and thermoplastic splints. The idea being to teach using loca cases we had seen and assisted in the treatment of with local resources Surgical Synergies kindly donated all thermoplastic used.

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Template splints for Theatre in Lautoka made to fit most hands
Copious donations received in Lautoka store room
Part of the enormous quantity of donated thermoplastic co-ordinated by EM from the NSW Public hospital hand Therapist group

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