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