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Programme October 93

Friday 22nd October, 1993

Cardiothoracic Trauma

 

10:25

Welcome

Mr John Parker, Section President

Morning Session: Chairman - Patrick Magee

10:30

Overview of the mechanisms of non-penetrating cardiothoracic trauma

Professor David Taylor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering Brunel University. Formerly Professor of Surgical science, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

11:00

Tracheobronchial and pulmonary trauma

Larry Kaiser, Director of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

12:00

Cardiothoracic trauma: the Northern Ireland experience

James McGuigan, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

12:30

Imaging in cardiothoracic trauma

Mark Jones, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK

13:00

LUNCH

Afternoon Session 1. Chairman - Mr Graham Venn

13:45

Penetrating injuries of the heart and great vessels

Dimitri Demetriades, Professor of Surgery, Director of Trauma Services and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA. Formerly Director of Trauma, Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, South Africa.

14:45

Blunt injuries of the heart and great vessels

Stephen Westaby, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

15:10

TEA

Afternoon Session 2. Chairman - Mr John Parker

15:30

Thoracic trauma - a paramedic's perspective

Mr David Whitmore, Deputy Paramedic Training Manager, London Ambulance Service

15:40

The ATLS approach to thoracic trauma: the trauma surgeon's viewpoint

David Skinner, Accident Service Consultant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

15:50

The ATLS approach to thoracic trauma: the thoracic surgeon's viewpoint

Barry Ross, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Norfolk and Noewich Hospital, UK.

President, Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

 

Discussion

16:15

Case presentations

17:15

Business Meeting

18:15

Reception

19:00

Dinner

 

 



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