This two-day cadaveric workshop will teach you how to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures. It is a collaboration between The Alfred Trauma Unit, Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University and UZ Leuven.
📅 2023 dates:
September 30 & October 1: Cambridge, UK
October 5 & 6: Leuven, Belgium
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes.
The procedures covered include:
– Surgical airway (cricothyroidotomy)
– Orbital decompression (lateral canthotomy and cantholysis)
– Pleural decompression (finger thoracostomy and pleural drainage)Vascular access (MAC line / RIC line / Intraosseous access)
– Temporary trans-venous cardiac pacing
– Pericardial decompression (including resuscitative thoracotomy)
– Retrieval limb amputation
– Escharotomy
– Resuscitative hysterotomy
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
– Retrievalists
– Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic Consultants
– Rural GPs/CMOs involved in retrievals/trauma resuscitation
– Senior Critical Care Registrars (Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic/Retrieval)
REGISTRATION FEE
EUR 2500
Registration fee includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
2023 DATES
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Saturday 30 September & Sunday 1 October 2023
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge
Leuven, Belgium
Thursday 5 & Friday 6 October 2023
Skills Center Anatomy (Vesalius Institute)
KU Leuven
Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven
PROGRAM
| Day 1 | |
| 0730 – 0745 | Registration / Coffee |
| 0745 – 0815 | Course introduction |
| 0815 – 0900 | Lateral Canthotomy and Cantholysis |
| Coffee available | |
| 0900 – 1000 | Burr Hole Craniotomy |
| 1000 – 1030 | Morning Tea (provided) |
| 1030 – 1130 | Emergency Surgical Airway (Cricothyroidotomy) |
| Coffee available | |
| 1130 – 1230 | Resuscitative Vascular Access (MAC line / RIC line / Interosseous access) |
| 1230 – 1330 | Lunch (provided) |
| 1330 – 1430 | Temporary Transvenous Cardiac Pacing |
| 1430 – 1500 | Afternoon Tea (provided) |
| 1500 – 1630 | Thoracostomy and Chest Tube Insertion(Surgical skills: hand ties/vertical mattress suture) |
| 1630 – 1700 | Day 1 summary and questions |
| Day 2 | |
| 0730 – 0800 | Registration / Coffee |
| 0800 – 1000 | Resuscitative Thoracotomy 1 (pericardial decompression & cardiac access) |
| Resuscitative Thoracotomy 2 (haemorrhage control) (Surgical skills: tissue staples) | |
| 1000 – 1030 | Morning Tea (provided) |
| 1030 – 1115 | Escharotomy |
| Coffee available | |
| 1115 – 1200 | Pre-Hospital Limb Amputation (Surgical skills: haemostatic sutures) |
| 1200 – 1300 | Lunch (provided) |
| 1300 – 1430 | Resuscitative Hysterotomy(Surgical skills: continuous locking sutures) |
| 1430 – 1500 | Participant Practical Revision (optional) |
| 1500 – 1530 | Day 2 summary, questions and feedback |
CORE FACULTY
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A/Prof Mathew has been successfully involved in Trauma systems development across Asia in countries like India, Sri Lanka, China and Saudi Arabia. He was the Australian lead of the successfully completed Australia- India Trauma System Collaboration which involved systems development, registry development and technology development. He is done work as a consultant in trauma systems development. |
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Dr Chris Groombridge is a director of emergency medicine training and a Trauma Physician working at The Alfred Hospital, in Melbourne. Chris has a particular interest in the prehospital management of trauma and has worked as a retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS, CareFlight NSW, and Adult Retrieval Victoria, and internationally with London’s Air Ambulance and Essex & Hertfordshire Air Ambulance in the UK. |
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Dr Amit Mani is an Emergency Physician and Director of Emergency Medicine Training at the Alfred Hospital. Dr Maini obtained his MBBS at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London 2002, and his Fellowship to the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine in 2011. In 2014, Dr Maini became the program director for Emergency Medicine trainees at the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre. |
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Dr Mike Noonan has been working at The Alfred since 2014, having previously trained and worked in QLD, NSW and the United Kingdom. He completed a fellowship with the Alfred Trauma Service over this period. Mike has a strong interest in Medical Education, having competed a post-graduate qualification in Medical Education from the University of Dundee (UK) and being involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education through honorary roles with Bond and Griffith Universities (Gold Coast). |
For more information about this program, please contact the Program Coordinator.
James Cameron
Alfred Health
Telephone: +61 452424605
Email: james.cameron@alfred.org.au
