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British Trauma Society Surgical and Emergency Skills in Trauma (SEST) Course

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

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About the SEST Course

Please arrive at 08:30 to the venue (Engineers House Bristol) on the day

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:

  1. TBI, Facial Trauma & Airway Problem
  2. Severe Chest Trauma
  3. Dysvascular Limb
  4. Pelvic Trauma
  5. Trauma in Pregnancy
  6. Mass Casualty Simulation

Skill Stations

  1. Understanding Airway Management
  2. Cannulation and Massive Transfusion Strategies
  3. Dysvascular Limb & Compartment Syndrome
  4. Pelvic Trauma
  5. Trauma in Pregnancy
  6. Skeletal External Fixation

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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