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 PerspectiveWalter 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 PerspectiveDavid Hoyt
                                        Anaesthetist’s/Intensivist’s PerspectivePeter 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 PerspectiveMatthew Reeds
                                        Anaesthetist’s/Intensivist’s PerspectiveMark 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