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The London Trauma Conference 2026

Tuesday 8th - Friday 11th December 2026


Pre-hospital Critical Care - Wednesday 9th December

– delivered in collaboration with the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

The day will be of interest to a broad range of clinicians and practitioners who know the basics but want high-level knowledge and interaction with experts who are at the cutting edge of current practice and research.

Keynote Speaker SJTREM LECTURE: Professor Richard Lyon (Edinburgh, UK)

Title: Blue lights to bytes: The evolution of pre-hospital innovation

 

View the  Programme below:

 


09.00 - 09.10  Introduction

09.10 - 09.30 – Pre Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia: is it effective and cost effective? - Dr Julian Thompson (Bristol, UK) / Dr Amy Nelson (London, UK)

  • Q1: Why is the evidence base so limited?
  • Q2: Can machine learning and novel research methodology help?
  • Q3: What are the implications?

 

09.30 - 09.50 HEMs Triage - Professor Stephen Thomas (Boston, USA)

  • Q1: What happens now?
  • Q2: What are the pitfalls?
  • Q3: Could technology help us improve?

 

09.50 - 10.10 – AI in the PH setting - Dr Pål Morberg (Norway)

  • Q1: What can AI do for us now?
  • Q2: What are the challenges?
  • Q3: What might the near future hold?

 

10.10 - 10.30 Pre-hospital ECMO - Professor Alice Hutin (Paris, France)

  • Q1: What is being done around the world?
  • Q2: What is the current evidence for it?
  • Q3: My thoughts on the next 10 years

 

10.30 - 11.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SJTREM LECTURE - Blue lights to bytes: The evolution of pre-hospital innovation - Professor Richard Lyon (Edinburgh, UK)


11.00 - 11.25 Coffee Break


11.25 - 11.45 – Emergency Obstetrics in pre-hospital care - Dr Tracey-Louise Appleyard (Bristol, UK)

  • Q1: What might you have to do before you get to hospital?
  • Q2: PROMPT plus – what is it?
  • Q3: How will we implement it?

 

11.45 - 12.05 Cardiac Arrest: pushing the limits to improve outcomes - Dr Natalie Kruit (Sydney, Australia)

  • Q1: What interventions make a difference?
  • Q2: How can we deliver them?
  • Q3: What has our approach taught us?

 

12.05 - 12.30 Morning Always Comes – Resilience in pre-hospital teams - Christoffer Ericsson (Helsinki, Finland)

  • Q1: What do we mean by resilience?
  • Q2: Is resilience something we have, or something we build?
  • Q3: How can we shape resilience in pre-hospital practice?

12.30 - 12.55 The story doesn’t end in resus - Ellie Overgaard-Brown (London, UK)

  • Q1: What happened to my patient?
  • Q2: How can they be supported?
  • Q3: How can they us better at pre-hospital care?

12.55 - 14.00 Lunch Break


14.00 - 14.25 – Depth, presence and leadership through moments of crisis ('DEEP Briefing') - A/ Professor Matt Hooper (Adelaide, Australia)

  • Q1: How do we recognise futility and make better decisions at the edge of life?
  • Q2: Can we stabilise the moment when we can’t change the outcome?
  • Q3: Our collective burden of grief — accumulate or integrate?

 

14.25 - 14.50 The Crans Montana Fire - Dr Richard Steffen (Switzerland)

  • Q1: What happened?
  • Q2: How did we respond?
  • Q3: What were the lessons for the pre-hospital and wider EMS?

 

14.50 - 15.30 Major Incident Panel– making the important decisions - A/Prof Zaff Qasim (Pennsylvaia, US), Assistant Commissioner Patrick Goldbourne (London, UK),Professor Karim Brohi (London UK)

 


15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break


16.00 - 16.20 Pre-hospital Vascular Access - Dr Ben Singer (London, UK)

  • Q1: When do we need CVCs and Arterial lines?
  • Q2: What are the challenges of arterial access for ECMO and REBOA?
  • Q3: Should UVCs be a standard skill?

 

16.20 - 16.40 – Diagnosing from a distance: the use of tele-ultrasound in remote locations - Victoria Vestvag (Stavanger, Norway)

  • Q1: Who might benefit?
  • Q2: Which scans are useful?
  • Q3: How does it work?

 

16.40 - 17.10 The management of bleeding in remote locations - Professor Brian Burns (Sydney, Australia)

  • Q1: What are the options?
  • Q2: How do we alter techniques?
  • Q3: How can we turn non-survivors into unexpected survivors?

 


Pre-hospital Critical Care Speakers 2026

Dr Julian Thompson (Bristol, UK)
Dr Amy Nelson (London, UK)
Professor Stephen Thomas (Boston, USA)
Dr Pål Morberg (Norway)
Professor Alice Hutin (Paris, France)
Professor Richard Lyon (Edinburgh, UK)
Dr Tracey-Louise Appleyard (Bristol, UK)
Dr Natalie Kruit (Sydney, Australia)
Christoffer Ericsson (Helsinki, Finland)
Ellie Overgaard-Brown (London, UK)
A/ Professor Matt Hooper (Adelaide, Australia)
Dr Richard Steffen (Switzerland)
A/Prof Zaff Qasim (Pennsylvaia, US)
Assistant Commissioner Patrick Goldbourne (London, UK)
Professor Karim Brohi (London, UK)
Dr Ben Singer (London, UK)
Victoria Vestvag (Stavanger, Norway)
Professor Brian Burns (Sydney, Australia)

CPD points for the 2026 Conference are currently under application.
Previously the London Trauma Conference has been approved for 24 CPD points by Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

(6 points per conference day).

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Tuesday 8th – Friday 11th December 2026