Course Directors: George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD, and Luca M. Bigatello, MD
The 2009 Trauma and Critical Care Symposium is designed to review state-of-the-art information about the diagnosis and management of severely ill patients. The Symposium provides an ideal mix of the traditional standard-of-care principles with cutting-edge, forward-moving practices. It explores issues related to surgical technique, resuscitation, inflammation and infection, respiratory care, nutrition, prehospital care, and ethics. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other health care providers with an interest to trauma and critical illness is the target audience.
To provide a fine balance between the multiple facets of care encountered, the Symposium runs “joint” sessions in the morning and “specialty” sessions in the afternoon. In joint sessions, problems common to all specialties caring for trauma and critically ill surgical patients are explored. In the specialty sessions, the topics presented are related more specifically to anesthesiologists or surgeons. Among the highlights of the Symposium are debate sessions and expert panels that discuss real-life cases and seek audience participation. The education delivered is exciting, readily applicable, and memorable.
This Symposium provides in-depth and cutting-edge information in the field of critical care and trauma.
Participants will:
Improve clinical skills in managing critically ill surgical patients
Establish priorities in resuscitation of trauma patients
Learn the evidence that supports decisions and interventions
Receive examples based on real-life cases through expert panel and debate sessions
List important diagnostic test and therapeutic maneuvers that are considered standard of care
Consider new interventions and against-the-dogma techniques that may improve outcome
Understand relevant areas of basic science that provide the foundation for clinical decision-making
Interact directly with local and national leaders in the field of trauma and critical care
Attendance is limited.
NEW THIS YEAR — WEBCAST!
To meet with rising demand, the 2009 Trauma and Critical Care Symposium will be offered worldwide as a webcast in both live and archived formats. Whether logging in from a neighboring state or a faraway country, the Symposium's e-participants will have two choices:
Log on live and attend the Symposium as it happens. This includes the ability to ask questions and respond to audience surveys.
Log on any time up to one year after the event and attend the entire archived symposium or individual sections at their convenience.
Both formats will provide downloadable PowerPoint slides as well as tests at the end of each section to earn CME credits. For more information about registration and fees for the webcast, please visit the Harvard School of Continuing Education's website.
For more information on the symposium, please contact Rosangely Martinez.
For questions about the webcast, please contact Victoria Pascoe.
