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British Trauma Society Surgical and Emergency Trauma Skills (SETS) Course

We look forward to welcoming you to our action-packed Surgical and Emergency Trauma Skills Pre-Conference Workshop! Full CPD points provided by the Royal College of Surgeons.

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About the SETS Course

Please arrive at 08:30 to the venue on the day

Time: 08:30-17:15

Military grade, highly realistic surgical simulations will be used to illustrate and allow the participants to experience and perform damage control techniques! Led by Prof Pallister

Provisional Course Outline

Casualty Simulation Scenarios and Skills Stations:

  1. Introduction to Damage Control Surgery
  2. Introduction to Mass Casualty Management (including NHS MITT & TST)
  3. Code RED – The Exsanguinating patient
  4. Code BLACK – Head injury & difficult airway management
  5. Code PINK – Trauma in Pregnancy  
  6. Code WHITE – Extremity Trauma 
  7. Code GREEN – Abdominal Trauma

BTS SEST Course in action!

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Optional Reading

  1. Some of the course will cover “Roadside to Recovery” … we would recommend you taking a look at this excellent talk on Extrication: Extrication – The Resus Room, and take a read of this paper: Rescue and Extrication Nutbeam et al 2022
  2. It would be useful to have an overview of traumatic cardiac arrest: Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – RCSEd-oct-2018
  3. We will also be covering REBOA, and discussing the following paper: Bad_REBOA_Outcomes_2022
  4. We will also be covering cervical collars, here is a useful review: C-collarsreview_FINAL
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