Trauma & Critical Care Symposium 2010
The Harvard Trauma & Critical Care Symposium is designed to review state-of-the-art information about the diagnosis and management of severely ill patients. The Symposium provides an ideal mix of the traditional standard-of-care principles with cutting-edge, forward-moving practices. It explores issues related to surgical technique, resuscitation, inflammation and infection, respiratory care, nutrition, prehospital care, and ethics. Surgeons, intensivists, and other health care providers with an interest to trauma and critical illness is the target audience. To provide a fine balance between the multiple facets of care encountered, the Symposium runs "joint" sessions in the morning and "specialty" sessions in the afternoon. In the joint sessions, problems that are common to all specialties caring for trauma and critically ill surgical patients are explored. In the specialty sessions, the topics presented are related more specifically to surgeons. Among the highlights of the Symposium are debate sessions and expert panels that discuss real-life cases and seek audience participation. The education delivered is expected to be exciting, readily applicable, and memorable. This Symposium provides in-depth and cutting-edge information in the field of critical care and trauma.
Participants will:
Improve clinical skills in managing critically ill surgical patients
Establish priorities in resuscitation of trauma patients
Learn the evidence that supports decisions and interventions
Receive examples based on real-life cases through expert panel and debate sessions
List important diagnostic test and therapeutic maneuvers that are considered standard of care
Consider new interventions and against-the-dogma techniques that may improve outcome
Understand relevant areas of basic science that provide the foundation for clinical decision-making
Interact directly with local and national leaders in the field of trauma and critical care
