Full Conference Programme
Dates : Friday 30 October 2009 - Monday 2 November 2009
Day 1 : Pre-Hospital Care Conference & Medical Disaster Response Conference
Days 2-4 : Trauma Conference
Objective 1 : To educate on the practical and latest issues relevant to pre-hospital care of the trauma patient
Objective 2 : To educate on the practical implications of managing mass casualty events/national disasters and the changes necessary from normal everyday trauma care
Objective 3 : To educate on the practical and latest issues relevant to trauma and critical care
Full Programme Content :
- Role of pre-hospital care
- Trauma resuscitation & haemorrhage control (pre-hospital)
- Pre-hospital RSI and anaesthetic considerations
- Pre-hospital transport methods
- Use of tourniquets
- Use of haemostatic agents
- Use of fluids and their relevance with permissive hypotension
- New pre-hospital care devices
- Relevance of military trauma care to civillian pre-hospital trauma practice
- Hot topic debates
- What is a medical disaster response/major incident?
- Trauma team considerations
- Surge capability - why is it important?
- Role of Damage Control Surgery (DCS) in mass casualty events
- Past experiences - how we can learn from them!
- Command and control
- Planning for mass casualty events & training exercises
- Considerations of how mass casualty events alter trauma patient management
- Military practice for mass casualty patient management
- What should I be doing?
- Emergency care
- Trauma resuscitation & haemorrhage control
- Trauma surgery (all surgical specialities involved in trauma care)
- Anaesthetic issues and peri-operative care
- Trauma radiology (clinical and interventional)
- Operative -v- non-operative trauma care
- Critical/intensive care of trauma patients
- New strategies
- The do and don'ts of trauma care
- Who does what, when, why and how to do it!
- Hot topic debates
- NEW - How to prepare for and manage the H1N1swine flu pandemic
Full programme is announced below....
Full Conference Programme :
DAY 1 – PRE-HOSPITAL CARE (FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2009)
07:00 Registration
07:30 Welcome
Matthew Reeds
07:40 The role of pre-hospital care teams in trauma – What does the Medic bring to the roadside?
Rod Mackenzie
SESSION 1 - Haemorrhage Control Pre-Hospital:
08:00 Why MARCH?
John Hagmann
08:15 Use of tourniquets
John Holcomb
08:35 Use of haemostatic agents
John Hagmann
SESSION 2 - DEBATE : Pre-Hospital & Resuscitation Fluid Use
08:55 Preserve don’t replace – Permissive Hypotension
Mark Forrest
09:15 I want Normal Saline
Timothy Hardcastle
09:35 I want Hypertonic Saline
Walter Mauritz
09:55 I want Blood
Ronald Gross
10:15 I want H.B.O.C.
Kenneth Boffard
10:25 Question & Answer Session
10:35 REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 3 - DEBATE : All Trauma Patients Should Be Scooped & Run!
11:05 For : Mark Forrest
11:20 Against : Rod Mackenzie
11:35 Question & Answer Session
SESSION 4 - Important Pre-Hospital Issues:
11:45 Anaesthetic Issues Pre-hospital : Roles and Controversies of Pre-hospital RSI – Who should be doing it and when?
Richard Dutton
12:00 Analgesia Pre-hospital : What options do we have?
Peter Oakley
12:15 Pre-hospital Transport Methods – How should we be transferring patients?
Rod Mackenzie
12:30 Why is the Diamond 5 & Platinum 10 relevant?
Matthew Reeds
12:40 Simulation Training – The Manikin’s Journey!
Mark Forrest
12:50 LUNCH
SESSION 5 - Medical Disaster Response:
13:30 What constitutes a Medical Disaster/Major Incident?
Jon Krohmer
13:45 Disaster Management: The Top 10 Things We Should Have Learned!
Eric Frykberg
14:05 Command & Control : The Essentials for an effective Major Disaster Response
Jon Krohmer
14:20 Terrorist Bombings : The Universal Model for Mass Casualty Disaster Management
Eric Frykberg
14:40 How the Military deal with Mass Casualties – The U.S. Experience
John Holcomb
14:55 Massive Blood Transfusion in Medical Disaster Response/Mass Casualty Events : How practical is it?
Pär Johansson
15:10 Triage : Trauma Team considerations
Eric Frykberg
15:30 REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 6 - Medical Disaster Response:
16:15 The necessity of Damage Control Surgery (D.C.S.) in Mass Casualty Events
John Holcomb
16:35 The Role of Government Agencies in Disaster Response – The U.S. Experience
Jon Krohmer
16:55 The Role of Government Agencies in Disaster Response – The U.K. Experience
James Ryan
17:15 The effective response to CBRN terrorism
Jon Krohmer
17:35 The Essentials of the Hospital Disaster Medical Response
Eric Frykberg
17:55 How to prepare for Medical Disaster Response/Mass Casualty Events : What should we be doing?
James Ryan
18:15 Trauma at the Front Line : The Experience of a Critical Care Nurse in Afghanistan
Stephanie Smith
18:45 Question & Answer Session
19:00 Summary & Close
Matthew Reeds
DAY 2 – TRAUMA AND CRITICAL CARE
(SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 2009)
07:00 Registration
07:30 Welcome
Matthew Reeds
SESSION 7 - Important Trauma Issues:
07:40 The role of Trauma Centres & Systems : What the U.K. can learn from the U.S. experience
David Hoyt
08:00 The Role of Radiology in Trauma Management in the 21st Century
Otto Chan
DEBATE : There is no role for the Emergency Department in Trauma
08:20 For : Matthew Reeds
08:35 Against : Rod Mackenzie
08:50 Question & Answer Session
09:00 CT Triage - New Concept of Trauma Management - A Visionary View!
Otto Chan
09:15 Why the Golden Hour affects patient outcome : Short corridor to definitive care
Richard Dutton
SESSION 8 – Damage Control Resuscitation/Haemorrhage Control
09:35 What is Damage Control Resuscitation?
David Hoyt
DEBATE : Tourniquets save lives!
09:45 For : John Holcomb
09:55 Against : Eric Frykberg
10:05 Question & Answer Session
10:10 The Role of Haemostatic Agents – Saviour or Sinner?
John Hagmann
10:40 REFRESHMENTS
11:00 Massive Transfusion Protocol For Coagulopathy: What have we learned so far?
John Holcomb
11:40 Permissive Hypotension: Blood is thicker than Salty Water!
Mark Forrest
12:00 What clotting factors should we be using? How much? How often?
Pär Johansson
12:30 LUNCH
SESSION 9 - Emergency Procedures : The Practical Tips!
13:45 The Traumatic Arrest : Thoracotomy –v- Sternotomy (The When, Who & How!)
Aung Oo
14:00 Extremity Amputation : When needs must!
Nigel Tai
14:15 Burr Holes : Gone with the Ark?
Walter Mauritz
14:30 Compartment Syndrome & Fasciotomy Made Simple!
Eric Frykberg
14:45 Extra-Peritoneal Pelvic Packing : Does it save lives?
Ronald Gross
15:00 Management of Combined Extremity Vascular & Skeletal Injuries
Eric Frykberg
15:15 Question & Answer Session
SESSION 10 – Anaesthesia
15:30 Damage Control Anaesthesia : When to stop the surgeon - what is all the fuss about?
Peter Oakley
15:45 Alternative strategies in maintaining Permissive Hypotension: The High Flow – Low Pressure Model
Richard Dutton
16:05 ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS : Oral Presentations (Exchange Auditorium)
16:25 REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 11 - Radiology
16:55 The beneficial effects of ionising radiation : Is it really harmful?
Otto Chan
17:10 When Radiology is therapeutic as well as diagnostic!
Anthony Nicholson
SESSION 12 - Surgery
17:25 Damage Control Surgery (DCS) : Why I need to know!
John Holcomb
17:45 Which cavity should be opened?
Nigel Tai
18:05 Case Discussions
18:30 Close
CIVIC RECEPTION
DAY 3 – TRAUMA AND CRITICAL CARE
(SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2009)
SESSION 13 - Surgery
08:00 Penetrating neck injury management made simple
Timothy Hardcastle
08:20 Penetrating cardiothoracic injuries – Do we need cardiopulmonary bypass?
Aung Oo
08:40 The Trauma Laparotomy – Am I missing something?
Adam Brooks
09:00 Exposing the Surgical Soul
Ronald Gross
09:20 Surgical Management of the Bleeding Patient – Is the finger mightier than the clamp?
Kenneth Boffard
09:50 The South African approach to trauma care – How does it differ?
Timothy Hardcastle
10:05 Cut/Stent/Coil/Support/Watch – What do we currently tend to do?
Kenneth Boffard
10:20 REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 14 - DEBATES:
DEBATE : (To Cut/Wrap/Block/Watch?) : Spleens following injury should be?
10:50 Placed in a bucket
Adam Brooks
11:00 Repaired
Eric Frykberg
11:10 Embolised
Anthony Nicholson
11:20 Left alone
Ronald Gross
DEBATE : (To Cut/Wrap/Block/Watch?) : Liver injuries should be?
11:30 Packed/Repaired
Kenneth Boffard
11:40 Resected
David Hoyt
11:50 Embolised
Timothy Fotheringham
12:00 Left alone
Timothy Hardcastle
DEBATE : (To Cut, Tie & Wait?/To Cut & Divert/To Cut & Join?) : Bowel Injuries - Resections should be?
12:10 Tied off with delayed repair
Adam Brooks
12:20 Formed into a stoma
Kenneth Boffard
12:30 Primarily anastomosed
Timothy Hardcastle
12:40 LUNCH
13:50 Do Trauma Teams make a difference to outcome?
Kenneth Boffard
SESSION 15 - Radiology
14:05 Going too FAST? How effective is FAST in trauma?
Anthony Nicholson
14:20 CT Scan –v- Angiography : Do we need to be invasive?
Timothy Fotheringham
14:35 What long term data do we have for the stenting of vascular injuries?
Anthony Nicholson
14:50 Does embolisation control haemorrhage in pelvic fractures?
Timothy Fotheringham
SESSION 16 – Critical Care
15:05 The Role of Steroids in Trauma – Where’s The Evidence?
Richard Dutton
15:15 ARDS : A dying disease?
David Hoyt
15:30 Ventilator strategies & weaning for severe lung injury/chest trauma
Surgeon’s Perspective - Ronald Gross
Anaesthetist’s/Intensivist’s Perspective – Walter Mauritz
15:55 Killer Infections – Is antibiotic use necessary?
Timothy Hardcastle
16:10 Use of Inotropes – Which ones & when?
Walter Mauritz
16:30 REFRESHMENTS
17:00 Is there a Role for Cardiac Output Monitoring in Critical Care?
Peter Oakley
17:15 What goals should we aim for post Damage Control Surgery?
Richard Dutton
17:30 Time to go back? - Definitive Surgery
Surgeon’s Perspective - David Hoyt
Anaesthetist’s/Intensivist’s Perspective – Peter Oakley
17:50 Question & Answer Session
18:00 What should we be doing to prepare for, and manage, a worldwide H1N1 swine flu pandemic?
Jon Krohmer
18:30 Close
GALA DINNER
DAY 4 – TRAUMA AND CRITICAL CARE
(MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2009)
SESSION 17 – Critical Care
08:00 Who decides when to return to the Operating Theatre?
Surgeon’s Perspective - Matthew Reeds
Anaesthetist’s/Intensivist’s Perspective – Mark Forrest
08:20 Crush Syndrome – Does it really exist?
Kenneth Boffard
08:40 Haemorrhage Control/Blood Product Use in Critical Care – Alternative Strategies
Pär Johansson
09:00 Monitoring Coagulopathy – Do we have accurate tests?
Pär Johansson
09:20 The Relationship Between Haemorrhage Control & Brain Injury
Richard Dutton
09:40 Neurotrauma – The place for neuroprotective cooling
Walter Mauritz
10:00 Has Damage Control Surgery gone too far?
Karim Brohi
10:20 Question & Answer Session
10:30 REFRESHMENTS
11:00 The Traumatic Insult – What new lessons are we learning?
Karim Brohi
SESSION 18 – Definitive Care
11:30 The Oxford Protocol for spinal imaging
Keith Willett
11:45 Laparoscopy in Trauma –v- Open surgery – Has it gone too far?
Ronald Gross
12:05 Applying the Ex-Fix : The Quick Fix?
Selvadurai Nayagam
12:20 LUNCH
SESSION 19 – Definitive Care
13:20 Definitive Management of Pelvic Fractures
Keith Willett
13:40 No need for Amputation! - Salvaged Limb Reconstruction
Selvadurai Nayagam
14:10 Management of Lung Injuries
Aung Oo
14:30 Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes
Abbas Rashid
14:50 Question & Answer Session
SESSION 20 – Pertinent Issues
15:00 Pre-Hospital Care Training – Implementing the curriculum
Rod Mackenzie
15:15 Live Tissue Training – Is there any benefit?
John Hagmann
15:45 Trauma Training in the U.K. : Do We Need Specialist Training?
Karim Brohi
16:00 Trauma Systems : Do we have proper quality control?
Keith Willett
16:20 Summary : What do we know now? Where do we go from here?
Matthew Reeds
17:20 Close