09.00 - 09.05 – Introduction
 

09.05 - 09.30 – Road Traffic Incidents Investigation - Dr Rod Mackenzie (Cambridge, UK)

• Q1: How are they investigated?
• Q2: How can injuries be related to mechanism?
• Q3: What are the challenges?

09.30 - 09.50 – Lessons from Formula 1 - Dr László Hetzman (Budapest, Hungary)

• Q1: Formula one - the development of trackside resuscitation
• Q2: What is in place to improve survival?
• Q3: Does it work?

09.50 - 10.10 – Motorbikes and major trauma - Dr Tim Moll (Sheffield, UK)

• Q1: How dangerous are they?
• Q2: Injury patterns and initial management
• Q3: Technical advances in injury prevention

10.10 - 10.30 – Extrication Revisited: From Metal to Medicine - Professor Tim Nutbeam (Plymouth, UK)

• Q1: Why traditional technical extrication may not benefit patients
• Q2: What has research revealed?
• Q3: What might a more patient-centred approach look like?

10.30 - 11.00 – Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.20 – How far can we go in training laypersons to fill the major trauma time gap? - Professor Stuart Maitland-Knibb (Northampton, UK)

• Q1: How effective is existing first aid?
• Q2: What more advanced interventions can non-medics do?
• Q3: What existing training can help?

11.20 - 11.45– Surgical management of penetrating cardiac injuries - Professor Andrew Nicol (Cape Town, South Africa)

• Q1: Which injuries are amenable to surgery?
• Q2: Basic techniques
• Q3: Advanced techniques

11.45 - 12.10– Trauma Calls: When do you need an obstetrician? - Dr Tracey-Louise Appleyard (Bristol, UK)

• Q1: Trauma in pregnancy – the facts
• Q2: When obstetricians need to go in before other surgical interventions
• Q3: When there is no obstetrician?

12.10 - 12.45 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Improving care in established trauma systems: Where is the low hanging fruit? - A/Professor Dan Ellis (Adelaide, Australia)

12.45 - 13.45 – Lunch Break

13.45 - 14.10 – Aortic Occulsion in non-compressible haemorrhage - Professor ED Barnard (Cambridge, UK)

• Q1: What techniques are available?
• Q2: What is the evidence?
• Q3: How can we move things forward?

14.10 - 14.35 – Hybrid resuscitation - Professor Brian Burns (Sydney, Australia)

• Q1: Which patients?
• Q2: How does it work?
• Q3: What are the challenges?

14.35 - 15.00 – Pharmacological options in the management of haemorrhagic shock - A/Prof Zaff Qasim (Pennsylvaia, US)

• Q1: What is the role of adrenaline?
• Q2: How and when should we administer calcium?
• Q3: What newer drugs show potential?

15.00 - 15.30 – Coffee Break

15.30 - 15.50 – Pelvic Fractures - Ms Sharon Scott (Salford, UK)

• Q1: What are the main types
• Q2: What is the day 1 management?
• Q3: What are the surgical controversies?

15.50 - 16.10 – Open fractures - Jayne Ward (Cardiff, UK)

• Q1: When is 'open' really significant?
• Q2: What is the initial management?
• Q3: What is the operative management?

16.10 - 16.30 – Limb blocks for orthopaedic trauma - Dr Jonny Wilkinson (Northampton, UK)

• Q1: What are the key blocks
• Q2: How do you do them?
• Q3: Top practical tips

16.30 - 16.50 – Zombie ideas in paediatric trauma care: What are they & why won't they die? - Professor Patrick Van De Voorde (Ghent, Belgium)

16.50 - 17.30 – Trauma Panel - Professor Peter Brindley (Calgary, Canada), Professor Brian Burns (Sydney, Australia), Professor Rod Makenzie (Cambridge, UK), A/Prof Zaff Qasim (Pennsylvaia, US)