SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

HIGHLIGHTS

Belgian top speakers:
Albin Lambotte and Robert Danis, two Belgian Pioneers of Modern Fracture Care
Prof. Dr. Paul Broos, Belgium (UZ Leuven)

Building Bridges: The Possibilities of Sports
Dr. Michel Baron D'Hooghe, Belgium (FIFA)

MAIN TOPICS

Disaster & Military Surgery

  • Trauma and emergency surgery in austere environments. Experiences and need of training
  • Blast injuries - recent concensus
  • Triage methods in mass casualty situations
  • Hospital response to major incidents

Education

  • Education in trauma
  • Health economics of trauma care

Emergency Surgery

  • Telemedicine in trauma and emergency surgery
  • Monitoring of surgical intensive care patients
  • Laparoscopy in abdominal emergencies
  • Peripheral vascular lesions
  • Intestinal obstruction
  • Perforated colon
  • Fluid resuscitation on scene and during transport

Skeletal Trauma & Sports Injuries

  • Trauma and sports
  • Influencing bone healing
  • Research in biomaterials
  • Prehospital ventilatory support in the severely injured
  • Metaphyseal lesions of the lower extremity
  • Combination injuries of pelvis and acetabulum
  • Prostethic replacement after shoulder and elbow trauma
  • Peripheral vascular lesions

Visceral Trauma

  • Perforating injuries of thoracic and abdominal lesions
  • Laparoscopy in abdominal emergencies
  • Fluid resuscitation on scene and during transport

SESSION TYPES

  • Instructional lecture course
  • Keynote lectures
  • Free paper sessions
  • E-poster sessions
  • Satellite symposia
  • Industrial workshops