May 13 – 15, 2010 – Utrecht, The Netherlands

Prior to the 11th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, a satellite course as above is organized in collaboration between ESTES Section for Disaster & Military Surgery and the Mass Casualty Incident Hospital (UMC, Utrecht, the Netherlands).

Background and aims
The medical response to major incidents is a chain of many components: Prehospital response, transport, hospital response, communication, coordination & command. The outcome of the response is dependent of the function of all these components, and also (which is important) how they function together.

Consequently, effective and realistic training and evaluation of the medical response can not be done by training of one isolated component:… (for more information click here)  

May 18 – 19, 2010 – Leuven, Belgium
(reduced fee in combination with ESTES congress)  

Content
The ATLS® course was developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) more than 25 years ago and has now been adopted in over 40 countries worldwide. It teaches a simple systematic approach to the management of trauma patients, treating the most life-threatening injury within “the first critical hour”...  

Format

• Highly interactive course combining lectures, discussions, interactive tutorials, skills teaching and simulated patient management scenarios (moulage).
• There is continual assessment throughout the course.
• Candidates must complete a pre-course MCQ  

Duration, location and language
This English spoken ATLS course contains 2 days: May 18 and 19, 2010 and will be held  at the Louvain/Leuven University Hospital, a 30 minutes drive from the congress venue.  

Key benefits
A multidisciplinary course enabling a standardised language of trauma care across the specialties. Attendance at a course also exposes… (for more information click here)