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DETROIT TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM

November 6 & 7, 2008

MGM Grand Detroit

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6

 

7:00 – 7:45 AM        Final Registration and Continental Breakfast

7:45 – 7:55 AM        Welcome

                                    Donald W. Weaver, M.D.

                             Chairman, Department of Surgery

                             Wayne State University School of Medicine

 

Session I

 

          Moderator:     Lawrence N. Diebel, M.D.

 

8:00 – 8:30 AM        Advances in the Management of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: Past to Present
Timothy Fabian, M.D.

 

8:30 – 9:00 AM        Penetrating Neck Trauma

                             Norman McSwain, M.D.

 

9:00 – 9:30 AM         Lessons Learned from the Iraq Conflict

                             John Holcomb, M.D.

 

9:30 – 10:00 AM       The Need for Regionalization of Emergency Surgical Services

                             Timothy Fabian, M.D.

   

10:00 – 10:15 AM     Question/Answer/Discussion

                             Panel: Drs. Fabian, McSwain, Holcomb


10:15
- 10:30 AM      Break

         

10:30 – 11:00 AM     How to Avoid Problems in the Operating Room

                             Juan Asensio, M.D.

 

11:00 – 11:30 PM     New Concepts in Transfusion Therapy in the Critically Injured Patient

                             John Holcomb, M.D.

 

11:30 – 12:00 PM      Abdominal Trauma: When to Watch ans When to Operate

                             Norman McSwain, M.D.

 

 

12:00 – 1:00 PM       Lunch

 

 

 

Session II

 

          Moderator:     Michael T. White, M.D.

 

1:00 – 1:15 PM        Question/Answer/Discussion
Panel: Drs. Asensio, Holcomb, McSwain

 

1:15 – 1:45 PM        Pelvic Fractures
Donald Trunkey, M.D.

 

1:45 – 2:15 PM        Technical errors in performing emergency Thoracotomy
Kenneth Mattox, M.D.

 

2:15 – 2:45 PM        Current Management of Hepatic Trauma
David Feliciano, M.D.

 

2:45 – 3:00 PM        Question/Answer/Discussion
Panel: Drs. Trunkey, Mattox, Feliciano

 

3:00– 3:15 PM        Break

 

3:15– 4:30 PM        Complex Trauma Cases
Moderator: Anna M. Ledgerwood, M.D.
Panel: Drs. Mattox, Trunkey, Feliciano, Fabian, Asensio