Carly Turner

Carly has over 20 years post graduate experience spanning the respiratory, surgical, medical and rehabilitation specialities in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Since 2006, Carly's passion and deep expertise has been in the field of cardiorespiratory and critical care physiotherapy. Carly draws on her specialist knowledge and leadership expertise to provide high level consultation and advice to patients, practitioners, and managers.

• Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy Network
• QLD and National Cystic Fibrosis special interest groups

• Mater Hospital is a site for the BEAT-CF clinical trial examining the medical management of exacerbations of cystic fibrosis. I have been responsible for the physiotherapy data collection.
• Site lead for an ACU honours student project proposed to commence in April 2024. It will examine the feasibility of using EIT to measure the effectiveness of a single session of airway clearance in patients diagnosed with bronchiectasis.
• Expert advisor to UQ Master of Physiotherapy Studies students in semester 1 2020, for their cardiorespiratory research project: systematic review - For patients who have received abdominal surgery, what is the effect of non-invasive ventilation on post-operative complications?
• ICEAGE (Incidence of Complications following Emergency Abdominal surgery: Get Exercising): Patient screening, assessments, and interventions for a multi-centre randomised control trial.
• Co-investigator - Early warning signs of post-operative pulmonary complications following abdominal surgery: data cleansing, statistical analysis, review of abstracts and produced posters for ANZCA and 2018 QCRPN conference. Contributing author for an abstract presented by Claire Hackett at 2017 APA Conference Sydney – abstract awarded best paper (Jill Nosworthy).
• Key role in the development, pilot trial, and evaluation of a preoperative physiotherapy service for patients undergoing elective upper abdominal and prostate surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital in 2020.

• IGNITE 2023 – Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference, Brisbane Convention Centre, 2023
• Surgery School for Physiotherapists, Princess Alexandra Hospital, 25th-26th March 2023
• Introduction to Simulation Methodology, Mater Education, 24th-25th October 2022
• The Trikafta Patient Experience – Exploring Complex CF Cases and an MDT Approach, Hilton Brisbane, November 1st, 2022
• Australasian Cystic Fibrosis Conference, 13th -14th August 2022
• NHET-Sim: Being a Simulation Educator Workshop, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast, Nov 2019
• Manage 4 Improvement Leadership Development Program: Cohort 38, 2019/20, Clinical Excellence Queensland
• Transform 2019 - Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference, Adelaide Convention Centre, 2019
• Respiratory Advances in Neuromuscular Disorders, PAH, 22-23rd June 2019, Active member of the course organising committee.

• Current Chair, QLD Chapter of Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Network
• Co-chair of the bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis session and assisted with judging of abstracts at IGNITE APA Conference 2023. Planned the cardiorespiratory social event for the conference program.
• Lead role in the review of the QCRPN Physiotherapy NIV Guideline – abdominal surgery subsection.
• State-wide Cardiorespiratory & Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Education (COPE) course review working party, 2020
• Lead role in developing a business case to support additional physiotherapy and assistant staffing for the critical care, cardiorespiratory surgical wards, and preadmission clinic to align with current evidence-based best practice.
• Working parties - Mater Hospital Telehealth working party, Statewide Pregnancy in Cystic Fibrosis working party

• Poster presentation - 2019 Princess Alexandra Hospital Symposium, Is the air test superior to medical imaging in detecting a pulmonary complication in the first two days following abdominal surgery.,
• Co-investigator - 2019 TSANZ oral abstract presented by Claire Hackett. Hackett, C., Boden, I. & Turner, C. (2019). Does collapse/consolidation on medical imaging or oxyhaemoglobin desaturation on room air accurately predict pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery? Respirology, 24 (Suppl. 1), 22-102
• Presentation - 2019 Princess Alexandra Hospital Clinical Support Services Forum, Early warning signs of post-operative pulmonary complications following abdominal surgery – translation of this research into practice to improve patient care.

Claire Hackett

Clinical Lead Cardiac Sciences and Respiratory Princess Alexandra Hospital

Metro South Hospital and Health Service

(07) 3176 2111 (pager: 226), Claire.hackett@health.qld.gov.au 

Kathleen Hall

Lecturer in Charge Physiotherapy School of Allied Health

Australian Catholic University Banyo Campus

(07) 3861 6142, kathleen.hall@acu.edu.au