Clinical Senior Lecturer 
Emergency Physician
Rural Hospital Medicine Specialist
MD FACEM FDRHMNZ PGCertCPU
Email sampsa.kiuru@otago.ac.nz
Dr Sampsa Kiuru works as a Clinical Senior Lecturer based at the Rural Health Academic Centre, Ashburton Hospital.
Current interests include incorporation of simulation based education into rural medical education, building a national rural hospital research network as well as research into procedural sedation practices in rural hospitals.
Dr Kiuru also works part-time at Dunstan Hospital and teaches the 'GENA 723 Trauma and Emergencies in Rural Settings' paper for the University of Otago's rural postgraduate programme.
Publications
Nixon, G., Blattner, K., Muirhead, J., Kiuru, S., & Kerse, N. (2019). Point-of-care ultrasound for FAST and AAA in rural New Zealand: Quality and impact on patient care. Rural & Remote Health, 19(3), 5027. doi: 10.22605/RRH5027
Gutenstein, M., Kiuru, S., & Withington, S. (2019). Development of a rural inter-professional simulation course: An initiative to improve trauma and emergency team management in New Zealand rural hospitals. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11(1), 16-23. doi: 10.1071/HC18071
Gutenstein, M., & Kiuru, S. (2019). Building collaborative research networks across rural and provincial Aotearoa. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1493), 12-14. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Kiuru, S., Wilson, S., & Withington, S. (2019). From secondary specialist to rural genereal hospital: A 10 year transition of the medical model of care at Ashburn Hospital: 2008-2017. Proceedings of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference. Retrieved from http://www.nationalruralhealthconference.org.nz/nrhc19
Milne, M., Nixon, G., Kiuru, S., Kerse, N., & Wood, G. (2019, April). Developing the capacity of ethical rural researchers. Panel discussion at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference, Blenheim, New Zealand.
Journal - Research Article
Nixon, G., Blattner, K., Muirhead, J., Kiuru, S., & Kerse, N. (2019). Point-of-care ultrasound for FAST and AAA in rural New Zealand: Quality and impact on patient care. Rural & Remote Health, 19(3), 5027. doi: 10.22605/RRH5027
Gutenstein, M., Kiuru, S., & Withington, S. (2019). Development of a rural inter-professional simulation course: An initiative to improve trauma and emergency team management in New Zealand rural hospitals. Journal of Primary Health Care, 11(1), 16-23. doi: 10.1071/HC18071
Madsen, M., Kiuru, S., Castrèn, M., & Kurland, L. (2015). The level of evidence for emergency department performance indicators: A systematic review. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 22(5), 298-305. doi: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000000279
Kiuru, S. (2006). Ultrasound in New Zealand emergency departments. ASUM Ultrasound Bulletin, 9(2), 21-24.
Journal - Research Other
Gutenstein, M., & Kiuru, S. (2019). Building collaborative research networks across rural and provincial Aotearoa. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1493), 12-14. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Gutenstein, M., & Kiuru, S. (2018). The Matthew effect in New Zealand rural hospital trauma and emergency care: Why rural simulation-based education matters. New Zealand Medical Journal, 1476(131), 81-84. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Schroeder, E. D., Jacquet, G., Becker, T. K., Foran, M., Goldberg, E., Aschkenasy, M., … on behalf of the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group, including Kiuru, S. (2012). Global emergency medicine: A review of the literature from 2011. Academic Emergency Medicine, 19(10), 1196-1203. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01447.x
Aschkenasy, M., Arnold, K., Foran, M., Lippert, S., Schroeder, E. D., Bertsch, K., … on behalf of the International Emergency Medicine Literature Review Group, including Kiuru, S. (2011). International emergency medicine: A review of the literature from 2010. Academic Emergency Medicine, 18(8), 872-879. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01129.x
Barillari, A., & Kiuru, S. (2010). Detection of spontaneous pneumothorax with chest ultrasound in the emergency department. Internal & Emergency Medicine, 5(3), 253-255. doi: 10.1007/s11739-010-0347-z
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Kiuru, S. (2012). Emergency medicine development in Finland. IEMSIG Newsletter, 8(2), 13.
Kiuru, S., & Vaula, E. (2008). Emergency medicine in Finland. IEMSIG Newsletter, 4(2), 2-3.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Kiuru, S., Wilson, S., & Withington, S. (2019). From secondary specialist to rural genereal hospital: A 10 year transition of the medical model of care at Ashburn Hospital: 2008-2017. Proceedings of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference. Retrieved from http://www.nationalruralhealthconference.org.nz/nrhc19
Kiuru, S., Withington, S., Reid, T., & Gutenstein, M. (2018). New Rural Interprofessional Simulation Course (RiSC). Proceedings of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference. Retrieved from http://www.nationalruralhealthconference.org.nz/nrhc18
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Milne, M., Nixon, G., Kiuru, S., Kerse, N., & Wood, G. (2019, April). Developing the capacity of ethical rural researchers. Panel discussion at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference, Blenheim, New Zealand.
Kiuru, S. (2019, April). Survey of procedural sedation capacity in rural hospitals of New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network (NZRGPN) National Rural Health Conference, Blenheim, New Zealand.
