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Day 4 - Trauma 2

The London Trauma Conference 2026

Tuesday 8th - Friday 11th December 2026

Trauma 2 Friday 11th December

The last two days of the conference (Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December) are dedicated to Trauma.

The programme will cover core clinical material but also big picture talks on organisation, performance and quality improvement.
A wide range of relevant material will be covered by around twenty experts from across the globe.
The conference will be of interest to a broad range of clinicians and practitioners who know the basics but want highlevel knowledge and interaction with experts who are at the cutting edge of current practice and research.

 

Our keynote speakers are pioneers in their fields and will provide thought provoking presentations on key elements of acute care practice.

Day 3 - Thursday 10th December - Trauma Conference 1 -Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Dan Ellis (Adelaide,  Australia)

Day 4 - Friday 11th December - Trauma Conference 2 - Keynote Speaker: Professor Peter Brindley (Calgary, Canada)
 

View the Programme below:

 

09.00 - 09.05 – Introduction

 

09.05 - 09.35 – Outcomes in trauma research - Professor Stephen Thomas (Boston, USA)

  • Q1: What outcomes are commonly used?
  • Q2: What are the pitfalls?
  • Q3: What might be better?

 

09.35 - 10.00 – Update: Traumatic bleeding - Mr Ross Davenport (London, UK)

 

10.00 - 10.25 – UPDATE Whats new: Head and spinal cord injury - Professor Mark Wilson (London, UK)

 

10.25 - 11.00 – Head injuries: The pathologists perspective' - Dr Virginia Fitzpatrick-Swallow (London, UK)

  • Q1: What are the normal patterns?
  • Q2: How do we connect cause to our findings?
  • Q3: Cases

11.00 - 11.25 – Coffee Break

11.25 - 11.45 – Update: Trauma publications - Professor Matthew Wiles (Sheffield, UK)

 

11.45 - 12.05– POC testing - Professor Rob Arntfield (Canada)

  • Q1: What is available now?
  • Q2: Which patients are most likely to benefit?
  • Q3: What technology is in the pipeline?

 

12.05 - 12.30 – Lessons from the management of large volumes of penetrating trauma - Professor Andrew Nicol (Cape Town, South Africa)

  • Q1: What are  injury patterns in South Africa?
  • Q2: How do we adapt to manage large trauma volumes?
  • Q3: What are the lessons for others?

 

12.30 - 13.00 – War in Ukraine: Trauma on a Grand Scale - Dr Craig Jurisevic (Adelaide, Australia)

12.55 - 14.00 – Lunch Break

14.00 - 14.20 – Surgical approaches to severe intraabdominal bleeding - Miss Kate Hancorn (London, UK)

  • Q1: Arterial bleeding
  • Q2: Venous bleeding
  • Q3: Techniques for infrequent operators

 

14.20 - 14.40 – Bowel injury - Ms Maryam Alfa-Wali (St Marys, London, UK)

  • Q1: Detection
  • Q2: Initial management strategies
  • Q3: Pitfalls

 

14.40 - 15.05 – TBC - TBC

 

15.05 - 15.30 – Practical management of chest injury - Mr Zane Perkins (Royal London, UK)

  • Q1: Practical management of chest injury
  • Q2: The role of pleural irrigation
  • Q3: The role of rib fixation

15.30 - 16.00 – Coffee Break

 

16.00 - 16.30 – Optimising trauma team performance - Stephen Hearns (Glasgow, UK)

  • Q1: What is performance in a trauma team?
  • Q2: How can we optimise performance?
  • Q3: What are the challenges of working in a “flash team”?

 

16.30 - 17.00 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Resuscitation and Trauma Care: What you need to know before I go - Professor Peter Brindley (Calgary, Canada)

 

Trauma-2 Speakers 2026

Professor Stephen Thomas (Boston, USA)
Mr Ross Davenport (London, UK)
Professor Mark Wilson (London, UK)
Dr Virginia Fitzpatrick-Swallow (London, UK)
Professor Matthew Wiles (Sheffield, UK)
Professor Rob Arntfield (Canada)
Professor Andrew Nicol (Cape Town, South Africa)
Dr Craig Jurisevic (Adelaide, Australia)
Miss Kate Hancorn (London, UK)
Ms Maryam Alfa-Wali (St Marys, London, UK)
Mr Zane Perkins (Royal London, UK)
Stephen Hearns (Glasgow, UK)
Professor Peter Brindley (Calgary, Canada)

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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The London Trauma Conference will return

Tuesday 8th – Friday 11th December 2026