Advanced Cadaveric Trauma Surgery Course

Course content Day 1
•The Damage Control Philosophy
•Left Anterolateral Thoractomy
•Clamshell Thoracotomy
•Repair of Atrial and Ventricular Injuries
• Median Sternotomy
• Control of vessels
•Thoracic and Oesophageal Trauma
•Radiology of Trauma
•Approaches to the Hilum, Pulmonary Injuries, superior and posterior mediastinum.
•Closure and drains
•The Military Approach to Major Trauma
•Abdominal Trauma: The International Experience Further information

Course content Day 2
•Pre-peritoneal packing (pelvic trauma)
•Supracoeliac aortic control
•Splenectomy,
•Pringle manoeuvre
•Liver mobilization/packing
•Exposure of femoral, Iliac, Popliteal Vessels
•Major Vascular Lower Body Injury
•Kocherisation, Pancreatic injury
•RtoL Visceral Medial rotation/ IVC Repair
•LtoR Visceral Medial rotation; renal repair and nephrectomy

Trauma