Associate Professor Warwick Teague
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DPhil Oxford, FRACS, FRCSEd
Director, Trauma Service, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia A/Prof Warwick Teague is Director of Trauma, Clinical Lead for Burns, and Academic Paediatric Surgeon at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. His paediatric surgical practice includes general, burns, trauma, upper gastrointestinal and neonatal surgery, with a particular interest in minimally invasive applications to these surgical fields.
Warwick is active in discovery science and clinical research. He is Co-group Leader of the Surgical Research Group within the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, with a research interests spanning developmental biology of the gut to trauma care and epidemiology. Within the state of Victoria, Warwick is a member of various trauma and injury prevention focused committees for the government, Kidsafe Victoria, WorkSafe Victoria and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and chairs the Victorian State Trauma Registry Monitoring (VSTORM) Steering Committee. Warwick is also an active faculty member for both the Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC, IATSIC) and Emergency Management of Severe Burns (EMSB, ANZBA) courses, and enjoys championing a nuanced approach to injury prevention, paediatric trauma and burns care. |
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Similarities and Differences in Paediatric Trauma Cause and Outcomes between Aotearoa New Zealand and Victoria, Australia: Pause and Ponder, or Cause for Concern?
Trauma is the leading cause of death and disability in Australian and New Zealand children. Prevention and management of significant childhood injury are advanced by a detailed understanding of the causes and outcomes for paediatric major trauma. Such analyses can also be used to compare trauma systems and their outcomes. Often summarised by the mantra ‘right patient, right treatment, and right level of care in the shortest time’, the state trauma system for Victoria, Australia is considered an exemplar for the efficacy and design of modern trauma systems.
This presentation will provide the first insights from a new analysis of more than 1300 children, comparing the epidemiology, management and outcomes of paediatric major trauma in Aotearoa New Zealand and Victoria, Australia. With comparable population sizes and rates of major trauma, the analysis shows similarities in the typical ages and causes of paediatric major trauma between Aotearoa New Zealand and Victoria, Australia. Strikingly however, the unadjusted likelihood of trauma death is significantly higher in New Zealand children,… and this despite no overall differences in injury severity. The presentation will explore what data and synthesis might suggest as a basis for the observed higher mortality, and identify areas on ongoing uncertainty in need of further attention.
This presentation will provide the first insights from a new analysis of more than 1300 children, comparing the epidemiology, management and outcomes of paediatric major trauma in Aotearoa New Zealand and Victoria, Australia. With comparable population sizes and rates of major trauma, the analysis shows similarities in the typical ages and causes of paediatric major trauma between Aotearoa New Zealand and Victoria, Australia. Strikingly however, the unadjusted likelihood of trauma death is significantly higher in New Zealand children,… and this despite no overall differences in injury severity. The presentation will explore what data and synthesis might suggest as a basis for the observed higher mortality, and identify areas on ongoing uncertainty in need of further attention.
