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Public consultation

Following acceptance of the draft by the contributors and the multidisciplinary committee, its
availability was advertised in a national newspaper. The public consultation period was from
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August 10 to September 10 2009. The draft was made available on a website
(www.acutepain.org.au) and Colleges of many of the contributors and multidisciplinary
consultative committee members were notified of the availability of the draft and asked to
disseminate this information to their members.
The public was invited to provide comments on the draft and 15 submissions and comments
were received from the following individuals.
Submissions
Name Affiliation
Dr Dan Carr Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston
United States
Dr Steven Fowler The Alfred
Melbourne
Victoria
Dr Michael Fredrickson Department of Anaesthesiology
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
Dr Roger Graham Department of Anaesthetics
Liverpool Hospital
New South Wales
Dr Donal Harney Mercy University Hospital
Cork
Ireland

Dr John Martin Cairns Anaesthetics Group, Cairns Private Hospital, Cairns Base Hospital,
Atherton District Memorial Hospital
Cairns
Queensland
Dr John Quintner Fremantle Hospital
Western Australia
Dr Jason Ray The Professor Tess Cramond Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Royal Brisbane
and Women's Hospital and Axxon Health, Mater Private Clinic
South Brisbane
Queensland
Dr Siva Senthuran Dept of Intensive Care Medicine
Royal Brisbane Hospital
Herston
Queensland APPENDIX B
Dr Craig Surtees Consultant Anaesthetist
Palmerston North Hospital
Southern Cross / Aorangi Hospitals
Palmerston North
New Zealand

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