In this online CME program, internationally recognized leaders present a multi-faceted approach to care of one of the most challenging patients: the critically-ill acute trauma patient. Interventional Radiology and Surgical Management of the Trauma Patient focuses on current endovascular and interventional techniques and state-of-the art equipment used to perform life-saving procedures by both interventional radiologists and trauma surgeons.
Earn CME credits with lectures covering embolization, balloon occlusion, stent and stent-graft placement, and other downstream interventions. You get interventional radiology CME that covers all major topics in the global treatment of trauma, including:
- exam choice and accurate diagnosis
- arterial and venous injuries
- solid organ trauma
- pelvic trauma
- firearm injuries
- acute brain trauma
- sepsis and infection control
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- State the appropriate interventional radiology and surgical diagnosis and treatment guidelines for solid organ injuries
- Identify the unique challenges presented by the management of the trauma patient in the ICU
- Discuss how the approach to the pediatric trauma patient differs from the approach to the adult trauma patient
- Identify problems associated with the management of mass casualties
- Describe the nursing and technologist role in the life-saving measures provided to the trauma patient
Intended Audience
This activity is designed for interventional radiologists and trauma surgeons as well as other surgical sub-specialties, intensivists, ER physicians, technologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who care for critically-ill acute trauma patient.
TOPICS / SPEAKERS
You Make the Call: The Accurate Diagnosis of the Trauma Patient
Let’s Make a Trauma Center – How We Did It – Debra L. Allen, MSN, RN, TCRN, CCRN-K
Fast Exam vs. CT Scan for Blunt Abdominal Trauma – Peter Bendix, MD, MPH
xHybrid CT vs. Fluoroscopy (4DCT) in the Management of the Trauma Patient – Osman Ahmed, MD
How to Approach a Positive Blush on CT-Angiography – Peter Bendix, MD, MPH
Exam Choice, Technique Optimization, and Role of CTA in the Unstable Patient – Osman Ahmed, MD
Resident Case Presentations – Hybrid CT – Karan Nijhawan, MD, Lea Hoefer, MD, and Alyssa Varsanik, MD
Fast And Furious: The Management of Arterial Injuries
Blunt Aortic Injury Repair – Timing and Management – Kenneth L. Wilson, MD, FACS
Stent Grafting for Major Vessel Arterial Injury – Divya Kumari, MD
Hemothorax and Intercostal Embolization – Jonathan Lorenz, MD
Periperal Arterial Injuries and the Trauma Surgeon – Kenneth L. Wilson, MD, FACS
Kill Me Now or Kill Me Later: The Management of Venous Injuries
Traumatic Major Venous Lacerations – Surgical Perspective – Priya Prakash, MD
Traumatic Major Venous Lacerations – IR Perspective – Osman Ahmed, MD
Endovascular Management of Caval Thrombosis – Osman Ahmed, MD
Resident Case Presentations – Arterial and Venous Injury – Ethan Ungchusri, MD, and Lea Hoefer, MD
Where Were You When…
Trauma Care for the VIP Patient – Jack Sava, MD
Interventional Radiology for the VIP Trauma Patient – Arshad A. Khan, MD, FSIR, FACR
November 22, 1963 – Joseph Goldstrich, MD, FACC
Chainsaw vs. Exacto-knife Surgical vs. Interventional Treatment of Solid Organ Trauma
Liver & Pancreas Trauma – The Surgical Perspective – David Hampton, MD
Liver Trauma – The IR Perspective – Christopher Molvar, MD
Pancreas Trauma – The IR Perspective – Jonathan Lorenz, MD
Kidney and Splenic Trauma – The Surgical Perspective – David Hampton, MD
Kidney and Splenic Trauma – The IR Perspective – Rakesh Navuluri, MD
Resident Case Presentations – Solid Organ – Kurt Zacharias, MD, Spencer Martens, MD, and Alyssa Varsanik, MD
Life is Like an Open Book: Fracture Pelvic And Polytrauma
Pelvic Trauma and Hemorrhage Control – The Surgical Perspective – Priya Prakash, MD
Pelvic Trauma and Hemorrhage Control – The IR Perspective – Rakesh Navuluri, MD
The Surgical Management and Complications of Firearm Injuries – Tanya Zakrison, MD
Daily Dilemmas
Resident Case Presentations – Pelvic Trauma – Patrick Tran, MD, and Lea Hoefer, MD
Daily Dilemmas – Controversies in the World of Trauma – Moderator – Rakesh Navuluri, MD, Panel – Drs. Sava, Zakrison, Prakash, Lorenz, and Khan
If I Only Had a Brain…And Intact Blood Vessels
Surgical Workup and Management of Blunt Carotid and Vertebral Artery Injuries – Priya Prakash, MD
Axillary and Subclavian Injury – Peter Bendix, MD, MPH
IR Management of Subclavian, Axillary and Pulmonary Artery Injuries – Christopher Molvar, MD
Acute Brain Trauma – David Kennedy, MD
Shock Treatment: The ICU Management of the Trauma Patient
Infections During Trauma – Shock-Critical Illness and the Micrbiome – John C. Alverdy, MD
Whole Blood Versus Component Therapy – Kenneth L. Wilson, MD, FACS
Reversal of Anticoagulation/Anticoagulation in the Trauma Patient – Priya Prakash, MD
Resident Case Presentations – Axillary Subclavian Injury – Austin Clarey, MD, Emily Sellers, MD, and Alyssa Varsanik, MD
The Use of Medicinal Cannabis in the Treatment of PTSD – Joseph Goldstrich, MD, FACC
Battlefield Trauma – Kenneth L. Wilson, MD, FACS
Operating a Trauma Center During a National Disaster – David Parkus, MD, and Kathy Rogers, MD
Date of Original Release: January 15, 2022
Date Credits Expire: January 15, 2025
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