Combat Extremity Surgery Course
"Training Teams to be a Team"
Overview
70% of combat wounds involve the extremities. The purpose of the Combat Extremity Surgery Course (CESC) is to provide deploying surgeons the skills necessary to manage extremity trauma. In addition to fractures, it is not uncommon for battlefield extremity injuries to also have complex soft tissue injuries, vascular injuries, and/or burns.
During this intensive 3-day course, deploying surgeons will receive didactic and practical surgery training that will prepare them to stabilize and resuscitate extremity trauma. Attendees will also learn the appropriate deployed-setting soft tissue coverage techniques for these wounds.
CESC Agenda
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
0530 - 0600 Continental Breakfast
0630 - 0700 The Battlefield Trauma System
0700 - 0730 Soft Tissue Wound Debridement
0730 - 0800 Extremity Compartment Syndrome and Burn Injury
0800 - 0830 Orthopedic Care of the Host National Patient
Thursday, December 17, 2009
0530 - 0600 Continental Breakfast
0630 - 0700 Amputations
0700 - 0730 Limb Salvage
0730 - 0800 Fracture Stabilization
0800 - 0830 Tourniquets
Friday, December 18, 2009
0900 - 1000 Peripheral Vascular Injuries
1000 - 1045 External Fixation
1045 - 1130 Upper Extremity Wound Coverage Techniques
1130 - 1200 Lower Extremity Wound Coverage Techniques
1200 - 1300 Lunch on your own
1300 - 1600 Cadaver Lab*
1) Place Ex-Fix Half Pins without Flouro: Femur, Tibia, Humerus, and Forearm
2) Extremity Fasciotomies - Check Extent of Ex-Fix Pin Penetration
3) Vascular Injury:
a. Vascular Exposures
b. Shunt Placement
c. Fogarty Catheter Thrombectomy
d. Vein Interposition Graft
4) Upper and Lower Extremity Coverage
a. Reverse Sural Artery Flap
b. Soleus Flap
c. Gastrocnemius Flaps
d. Radial Forearm Flap
e. Posterior Interosseous Flap
f. Varios "Hand Flaps"
*Gowns, gloves, and masks provided. Please bring your own scrubs if desired.
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