​Day 1 - 20 November 2023


Time

Agenda/ Learning Outcomes

Speaker

8.30am to 10.30am

Registration and Faculty Meeting & Breakfast

10.30am to 10.45am

Welcome, Introduction of Faculty AH, SR + All faculty

10.45am to 11.15am

All groups

Lecture: Course Overview and Surgical Decision-making
AL, SB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to recognize the key principles of the following:

Trauma management decisions, Probabilities of injury, Interaction between anatomy & physiology and Trauma techniques based on evidence, experience and on acceptable outcomes

11.15am to 11.45am

All groups

Lecture: Damage Control Resuscitation
AH, SR

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Review the pathophysiology of severe injury.
  • Distinguish between normal values and endpoints of resuscitation in a stable versus non-stable patient

11.45am to 12.15pm

Lunch Break

12.15pm to 12.45pm

All groups

Lecture: Trauma Laparotomy & TAC
GF, KN

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the purpose of a damage control trauma laparotomy.
  • Discuss negative pressure temporary abdominal closure and identify the aim for early definitive closure and appropriately timing it.

12.45pm to 1.05pm

All groups

Case Presentation: Gunshot Wound (how not to do)
SR, GS

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the cross-clamp aorta, Describe the damage control surgery, and summarize physiology stabilization in OR

1.05pm to 1.30pm

All groups

Lecture: Damage Control Surgery
RP, SB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the damage control stages and restoration of patient physiology and role of damage control surgical intervention.
  • Explain the concept and application of DCR and recognize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach and treating the physiology and not the anatomy.
  • Review the need for timely and rapid interventions to prevent coagulopathy and summarize the resuscitation goals and targets

1.30pm to 2pm

All groups

Lecture: Vascular Limb Injury
HT, TB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify clinical signs of vascular injury to limbs and recognize best strategies for management depending on signs.
  • Discuss technical approaches to vascular injury including those with fractures & considerations of when to amputate.
  • Describe the technique of arteriography in OR.

2pm to 2.30pm

All groups

Lecture: Liver Trauma
SK, SB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to

  • Discuss liver trauma management strategies.
  • Outline packing indications for traumatic liver patients and Discuss damage control using definitive packing.
  • Outline angiography& embolization interventions for traumatic liver patients.

2.30pm to 3.10pm

Prayer and coffee break

3.10pm to 3.40pm

All groups

Case Presentation: Stab to Abdomen
IA, TB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to

  • Discuss management strategies of anterior abdominal penetrating injuries in hemodynamically ‘stable’ patient.
  • Review the treatment strategies for peritoneal penetration injury.

3.40pm to 4pm

All groups

Case presentation: Torso Gunshot Wound
RP, TB

By the end of this session, participants will be able to

  • Discuss TORSO GSW management strategies and summarize the prioritization of management options for TORSO GSW.

4pm to 4.30pm

All groups

Lecture: Pelvic Trauma
SK, GS

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the stop bleeding strategies for pelvic fracture, Discuss the hemostatic resuscitation for pelvic fracture. And angioembolization or extraperitoneal packing for pelvic fracture management.

4.30pm to 4.50pm

All groups

Case presentation: Car Vs Brick Wall
SK, GS

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss thoracotomy intervention for a chest injury, the Importance of angiography with embolization. massive transfusion guidelines in multi-injured patients and management of duodenal injury.

4.50pm to 5.20pm

All groups

Lecture: Teamwork in Surgery and Anesthesia
KN, AH, GF

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the importance of teams in trauma resuscitation.
  • Define teamwork and describe its framework.
  • Summarize the components and importance of the “Big Five”.

5.20pm to 6pm

All groups

Dry Lab: fasciotomy and burr hole
HT, Abdulnasser Thabet, RP, SR

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the importance of teams in trauma resuscitation.
  • Define teamwork and describe its framework.
  • Summarize the components and importance of the “Big Five”.