The one-day course will include presentations, panel discussions, and demonstrations to comprehensively review surgical responses to catastrophic trauma. The course is designed as a practical guide for surgeons and trainees who may have to care for multiple victims of disaster or terrorism and for surgeons who wish to volunteer overseas. The faculty will be comprised of civilian and military surgeons who have worked in Canada’s military hospital in Kandahar. Fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.

Learning Objectives: At the end of the course, participants will be able to prepare and rehearse disaster plans including organization of security; explain mechanisms of injury from projectile, blast, chemical or biological attack; provide initial care in a mass casualty situation including damage control resuscitation and evacuation of casualties; undertake damage control surgery for abdominal, thoracic or head injuries and to initiate limb salvage procedures; organize post-trauma physical and psychological rehabilitation.

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The CSF Live Learning Centre is supported by an educational grant from ETHICON and ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, units of Johnson & Johnson Medical Products, a division of Johnson & Johnson Inc.