This course is a two day hands on practical cadaveric workshop for Consultant Paediatric Surgeons, Children`s Orthopaedic Trauma consultants, adult surgeons with a major interest in paediatrics who may be required to perform surgery on patients suffering traumatic injuries.
Topics include:
- Exsanguinating hemorrhage
- Traumatic cardiac arrest
- Penetrating trauma
- Damage control surgery
- Be able to practice the operative principles of access & repair
- Clamshell thoracotomy
- Management of pericardial tamponade and penetrating cardiac injuries
- Management of zone 1 to 3 neck injuries especially with regard to vascular injuries
- Trauma laparotomy and abdominal packing
- Medial visceral rotation
- Management of liver injury
- Laparostomy
- Damage control approach to vascular injuries
- Paediatric Major Trauma Case Scenarios
- Human Factors Lecture: decision making under pressure
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