The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre Resuscitation Update 2017

The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre Resuscitation Update is organized by The Alfred Hospital and would be held during Sep 8, 2017 at AMREP Education Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The target audience for this medical event basically for Emergency Medicine, Trauma.

Update 1: Updates in resuscitative care for older patients:

TOPICS:
• Epidemiology of resuscitation of the older person
• Pathophysiological differences in the older person
• Cardiac Arrest
• Trauma resuscitation
• Sepsis in the older patient
• Legality framework for limiting resuscitation in the older patient
• Supporting the older person to die with dignity
• Debate: Deciding when to resuscitate

Update 2: Resuscitation in special circumstances:

TOPICS (more detail coming soon):
• Airway – trauma
• Ventilation - new techniques
• ECMO
• Novel haemostatic techniques – eg REBOA
• Burns resuscitation
• Novel resuscitation techniques/ideas
• Paediatric resuscitation