TRAUMASIM COMPREHENSIVE MOULAGE WORKSHOP

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 8:00am - 5:00pm 
VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) 
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program 
REGISTRATION FEE: $540 – registration fee includes lunch.
HOSTED BY: TraumaSim

DESCRIPTION: 
This course is for anyone who wants to take their moulage seriously. You will leave with skills in preparing for training scenarios including vehicle crashes, explosions, armed assault and recreational injuries. You will be introduced to professional moulage products and guided through your hands on moulage practice. Working in teams you will create realistic moulage taking into account the mechanism of injury for each of the scenarios above. 

This course will be delivered by the experienced team from TraumaSim. TraumaSim commenced operation in 2008 and since then has been the gold standard in moulage services, training and supplies across Australia and globally.

Course content:

• Introduction to moulage
• Methods of bruise creation
• Silicone and its uses
• Scenario specific moulage.

• Vehicle crash - injuries could include open fractures, lacerations, bruises.
• Explosion - injuries could include burns, fragmentation, open fractures.
• Armed assault - injuries could include gunshot wounds or stab wounds.
• Recreational injury - injuries could include anything consistent with a great outdoors incident. Such as snake bite, fall from height even a shark bite. 

Let your imagination run wild.

Note each person will take a turn at being the casualty in their group so bring a change of clothes that you’re happy to have destroyed.

No previous experience required.

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm 
VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program 
REGISTRATION FEE: $170 
HOSTED BY: MyMedEquip 

DESCRIPTION:

Explosive weapons and drone-delivered munitions are reshaping the pattern of battlefield injuries, with a significant rise in maxillofacial trauma and airway compromise that challenges traditional approaches to airway management. Recent data from the Russia–Ukraine war show that blast mechanisms now account for over 85% of war-related maxillofacial injuries, dramatically increasing the likelihood of distorted anatomy, heavy bleeding, and complex “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate/ventilate” (CICO) scenarios in both military and civilian tactical environments. Historical data from conflicts such as Vietnam suggested upper airway injuries were relatively uncommon (around 0.7% of evacuated casualties), but contemporary weapon systems and improvised explosive devices have shifted the burden of injury towards devastating facial and neck trauma that more frequently demands advanced and surgical airway interventions. At the same time, emerging evidence indicates that manual bag-mask ventilation is frequently performed dangerously or inadequately by prehospital providers, with ineffective seal, excessive tidal volumes, and poor rate control contributing to hypoxia and gastric insufflation in up to 90–95% of observed cases in some simulation-based studies.

This workshop uses the Vortex approach as a unifying cognitive framework to help tactical clinicians recognize and manage rapidly deteriorating airways under fire, with a focus on three domains: high-quality manual ventilation, video laryngoscopy (including SALAD for massively contaminated airways), and decisive transition to CICO and surgical airways when non-surgical options fail. Participants will explore how modern injury patterns driven by drones, IEDs, and high-energy blast mechanisms are increasing the frequency and complexity of battlefield airway problems, and will translate current combat and TECC/TCCC guidelines into practical, reproducible skills that can be deployed in austere and high-threat environments.

WORKSHOP TARGET AUDIENCE

• Military medics, combat first responders, and advanced medical assistants in deployed or high-threat environments.
• Tactical law enforcement medical officers, TEMS providers, and specialist police medics.
• Prehospital clinicians (paramedics, CCPs, retrieval physicians, EM/ICU registrars) operating with tactical teams or in blast-risk regions.
• Educators and clinical leads responsible for airway guidelines, training programs, and equipment procurement in defence, police, and tactical EMS organisations.