May, 13 - 15, 2010, Brussels, Belgium

European Trauma Course
The European Trauma Course (ETC) is a project of the European Trauma Working Group (ETWG). It is a two and a half day simulation based, hands-on course for doctors. The course is mainly practical and the candidates will be led in small groups through scenarios of increasing difficulty.    

What’s new?      

• The ETC provides training for individuals and teams.
• Lecture time is kept to a minimum and emphasis is placed on hands-on scenario training
• The ETC meets the requirement of adult education.
• It implements model-based simulators.  

European Trauma Working Group
The ETC has been developed by the European Trauma Working Group. This is a group of internationally recognised experts coming from all specialties involved in trauma care. The Working Group was founded under the umbrella of the European Resuscitation Council. The following organizations are represented in the Working Group:

ESTES (European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery)
EuSEM (European Society of Emergency Medicine)
ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)
ITC (International Trauma Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society)
ERC (European Resuscitation Council)    

Aims
After successful completion of the course the candidates will be able to manage a trauma scenario as team leader. They will also be able to understand their role in a trauma team.

Course material
The ETC course manual will be sent to the candidates 4 weeks before the course commences on CD-ROM.

Candidates
Doctors from all specialties and training grades involved in the care of major trauma up to a maximum number of 24 are welcome.

Assessment
In order to complete the course successfully every candidate has to undergo a final assessment on the last day of the course.

Certificates
Will be issued to the successful candidates at the end of the course. 

Dates and Venue
13th-15th May 2010  
Royal Military School  
Avenue de la Renaissance 30  
1000 Bruxelles  
Belgium  

Fees
950 euros per participant (includes catering during the course hours and a course dinner on day 1)    

Registration
Due to the course structure, mainly teaching in small groups (4:2) is the number of candidates limited to 24. Registration is successful following money transfer and confirmation by email. 

For registration please download the application form here and send it to the ESTES Administrative Office (contact details to be found below).

Cancellation policy
Cancellations received before April 15th 2010, full refund minus 50 Euro Cancellations received after April 15th 2010 will not be entitled to a refund.

Background information
Injury is the leading of cause of death and disability in the young. The European Section of the WHO has only recently pointed out that modern trauma care may decrease the mortality rate of injury by 30%. This depends on a well performing chain of survival commencing from the site of the accident to the place of definitive treatment.

The initial management of trauma patients in the Emergency Department is a crucial link in this chain depending on a well functioning team and excellent cooperation between the specialties involved. Initial management is no longer a fixed sequence of interventions, following the classical A, B, C, D’s strictly, but a variable set of procedures carried out simultaneously and adapted to the severity of the patient’s condition. It is a number of processes running in parallel and clearly these processes need to be well organised to manage trauma effectively.

Teaching and training are necessary to understand the processes and their organisation, which in turn is indispensable to enable each team member to fill in his role within the trauma team. The growing appreciation that good trauma care makes a difference in survival and the increasing complexity of the care process have generated a demand for a new type of education.