Definitive Surgical and Anaesthetic Trauma Care Course
Trauma care taken to the next level
Trauma Care is changing all the time and many situations require specialist trauma expertise.The Definitive Surgical and Anaesthetic Trauma Care course is designed train the relatively fully trained anaesthesiologist, intensivist, surgeon and advanced trainee in strategic thinking and decisionmaking in the management of the severely injured patients and provide them with practical surgical skills to manage major organ injuries. The DSATC is an intensive 2-day course that consists of key note lecturers, multidisciplinary case presentations, fireside discussions and workshops. During the course anaesthesiologists assisted by registered anesthesia nurses and surgeons assisted by OR nurses work together as real trauma teams.
The course focuses on:
- Surgical decision making in complex scenarios
- Operative techniques in critically ill trauma patients
- Hands-on practical experience with experienced instructors (both national and international)
- Insight into difficult trauma situations with learned techniques of haemorrhage control and the ability to handle major thoracic, cardiac and abdominal injuries
- Animal laboratory based surgical skills training. It boasts a high faculty to participant ratio with the faculty consisting of experienced trauma trained surgeons and anaesthesiologists.
- Multidisciplinary team approach
Information
In 2024 two identical two-days courses will be given:
- DSATC Course A: November 05 and 06, 2024 (and webinar)
- DSATC Course B: November 07 and 08, 2024 (and webinar)
Each course consists of an online platform with e-learnings, a webinar on Thursday October 3th (7 PM) and the course.