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The Procedures Course - San Diego

A fully immersive cadaveric course focusing on life, limb and sight saving resuscitative procedures.

Date

Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 December 2024

Mode

In-person

Format

Workshop

Acquire hands-on skills for the management of the multiply injured complex trauma patient at the inaugural North American delivery of The Procedures Course taking place in San Diego on 11 & 12 December 2024.


Designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery needed to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes, this course provides a hands-on learning experience guided by specialists from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service, alongside US – based experts in trauma reception.


This sell-out course has been delivered nationally across Australia, as well as throughout multiple European locations, and has become a highly sought-after course for emergency physicians worldwide.

 

The content has been specifically adapted to meet the needs of our American audience, in collaboration with our US colleagues. Grab your chance to take part in an enhanced educational experience. Featuring un-embalmed cadavers and an optimal cadaver-to-participant ratio, the program ensures a focused and confidence-boosting training environment.

 

Given the course's high demand and limited availability, we encourage you to register now and secure your place on this internationally recognised workshop.


PROCEDURES WILL INCLUDE

  • Surgical airway (cricothyroidotomy)

  • Orbital decompression (lateral canthotomy and cantholysis)

  • Pleural decompression (finger thoracostomy and pleural drainage)

  • Vascular access (MAC line / RIC line / Intraosseous access)

  • Temporary trans-venous cardiac pacing

  • Pericardial decompression (including resuscitative thoracotomy)

  • Retrieval limb amputation


WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Retrievalists

  • Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic Consultants

  • Rural GPs/CMOs involved in retrievals/trauma resuscitation

  • Senior Critical Care Registrars (Emergency/Intensive Care/Anaesthetic/Retrieval)


2024 DATES

Wednesday 11 & Thursday 12 December 2024 - San Diego

Jeffrey Tabas MD

Jeff is a professor of emergency medicine at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) school of medicine and practices clinically at San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department where he is the ED trauma liaison for the hospital trauma program. He completed internal medicine and emergency medicine residencies at UCLA Medical Center and has focused his professional career on researching and developing innovative curricula in cardiovascular emergencies, procedural skills training, and faculty development. He has developed and taught multiple cadaver based procedures courses at local, regional, and national venues.

Professor Mark Fitzgerald ASM

Professor Mark Fitzgerald is Director of the National Trauma Research Institute and Director of Trauma Services at The Alfred and has led the establishment of trauma reception, resuscitation and management programs along with Trauma Systems development in Australia, China, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka. He is co-chair of the Australian New Zealand Trauma Registry. Professor Fitzgerald’s research themes include trauma systems development, clinical care of the severely injured, error reduction and the standardisation of resuscitation care.

A/Prof Joseph Mathew

A/Prof Mathew has been successfully involved in Trauma systems development across Asia in countries like India, Sri Lanka, China and Saudi Arabia. He was the Australian lead of the successfully completed Australia- India Trauma System Collaboration which involved systems development, registry development and technology development. He has worked as a consultant in trauma systems development.

A/Prof Christopher Groombridge

MBBS MA(Cantab) MSc PhD DOHNS (RCSEng) DRTM (RCSEd) DIMC (RCSEd) MRCS FACEM

Chris is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Specialist at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and head of clinical research for the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI). Chris has a particular interest in the prehospital management of trauma and has worked as a retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS, CareFlight NSW, and Adult Retrieval Victoria, and internationally with London’s Air Ambulance and Essex & Hertfordshire Air Ambulance in the UK. He is a former director of emergency medicine training with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and also a founder of The Procedures Course and The Airway Course, which are cadaver-based skills courses, teaching life-saving interventions to critical care clinicians.

Dr Amit Maini

BSc MBBS FACEM

Amit is a Trauma Consultant and Emergency Physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, and has a special interest in education especially as it relates to emergency airway management, and trauma reception within the ED. Amit is also a former director of Emergency Medicine training with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and former Editor for EMRAP Australia - a global monthly emergency medicine audio program. He is a founder and co-creator of the Emergency Trauma Management Course based in Melbourne Australia, as well as The Procedures Course (Australia, and Europe) and The Airway Course (Australia), teaching life saving techniques to critical care physicians.

Dr Lauren Chalwell

Dr Lauren Chalwell, MD, FACEP, FACEM
Dr Lauren Chalwell is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Consultant at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She previously was the Director of Emergency Trauma Services and Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of California San Francisco - San Francisco General Hospital in the US. She has a significant interest in resuscitation and procedural skills education and for years has taught cadaver-based procedural skills courses locally, regionally and nationally at ACEP Scientific Assemblies. Her other academic interests include emergency trauma education, clinical guideline development, and community violence prevention.

Dr Marianne Juarez

Dr. Marianne Juarez is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, California. She is interested in orthopedic trauma and procedural skills education and has taught limb- and life-threatening procedural skills through cadaver-based courses locally, regionally and nationally, including at past ACEP Scientific Assemblies. Her other interests include medical education, mentorship and advising with a focus on those underrepresented in medicine, and the advancement of DEIB-related issues in medicine and medical education. She is also the Co-Director of Medical Student Education within the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and enjoys teaching across fields at all levels of education and training.

Dr Cecil Johnny


Dr Johnny graduated with a MBBS from Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, India, in 1998, and achieved a Master of Surgery in 2005.

He joined The Alfred in 2010 where he completed his Advanced Training in Emergency Medicine, and subsequently went on to receive his Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 2017. Dr Johnny previously held the positions of Senior Resident & Lecturer in General Surgery at Christian Medical College & Hospital and Trauma Fellow for The Alfred Trauma Service. He has significant surgical experience including general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular trauma.

Dr Johnny has a strong interest in medical education, especially resuscitative procedures and wound management. He regularly instructs on The Alfred Trauma Service’s procedural intervention and resuscitation trauma education programs. His clinical interests are thoracic trauma, resuscitation and interventional procedures.

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