PG 12 - ABDOMINAL TRAUMA: BEYOND INITIAL CARE
Tuesday, April 27 8:00-11:30 am and 1:00-4:30 pm
Chair: Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD, FACS, Detroit, MI
6 HOURS (2 sessions) FEE: $325

This course will provide the surgeon with guidelines in interventions following the initial treatment of the trauma patient. Topics to be covered include timing of repeat operations and critical interventions, methods and challenges of nutritional support, advances in the management of short bowel syndrome, appropriate use of antimicrobial agents, diagnosis and therapeutic options of intra-abdominal infection, management of intestinal fistulas, evaluation and management of suspected vascular graft infection, and management of the open abdomen.

Session IA - Key Issues in the Immediate Perioperative Period
Tuesday, April 27 8:00-9:30 am
Moderator: Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD, FACS, Detroit, MI

Missed Injuries
Kimball I. Maull, MD, FACS, Birmingham, AL

Nonoperative Damage Control
Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD

Second Look Laparotomy in the Trauma Patient
J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS, Winston Salem, NC

Panel Discussion

Break (9:30-10:00 am)

Session IB - Avoiding and Treating Early Abdominal Complications
Tuesday, April 27 10:00-11:30 am
Moderator: Demetrios Demetriades, MD, FACS, Los Angeles, CA

Antibiotics: Which and for How Long?
Edward E. Cornwell III, MD, FACS, Baltimore, MD

Devastating Abdominal Infections
George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD, FACS, Los Angeles, CA

Nutritional Support: Methods and Challenges
David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS, San Diego, CA

Panel Discussion

Session IIA - Managing Special Patient Populations
Tuesday, April 27 1:00-2:30 pm
Moderator: Andrew B. Peitzman, MD, FACS, Pittsburgh, PA

Care of the Cirrhotic Trauma Patient
Michael Rhodes, MD, FACS, Wilmington, DE

Postoperative Severe Liver Trauma: Management of Complications
Timothy C. Fabian, MD, FACS, Memphis, TN

Shunts, Graft Infections, and Extraanatomic Bypass
David V. Feliciano, MD, FACS, Atlanta, GA

Panel Discussion

Break (2:30-3:00 pm)

Session IIB - Late Sequelae of Complicated Abdominal Trauma
Tuesday, April 27 3:00-4:30 pm
Moderator: Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD, FACS, Detroit, MI

Optimizing the Open Abdomen
Erwin F. Hirsch, MD, FACS, Boston, MA

Gastrointestinal Cutaneous Fistula
Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS, Boston, MA

Panel Discussion: Difficult Abdominal Cases

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