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Multidisciplinary Trauma Forum

Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026

Full Day Workshop: 08:00am – 16:00pm

Location: Hilton Hotel, Sydney

Cost: $125 per person

About:

An inclusive trauma system involves an interdisciplinary approach to injury prevention, pre-hospital, acute in-hospital care, rehabilitation, community partnerships, research, education, and quality improvement.

We invite all interdisciplinary healthcare professionals who are actively involved in trauma care, trauma services, or the wider trauma system to participate in this full-day interactive forum.

  • Invited Speakers: representing dimensions of trauma care throughout the patient journey.
  • Rapid Fire: an opportunity to share an innovative project, quality improvement initiative or their latest research.
  • Marketplace: an opportunity to share a 30 second ‘pitch’ on a trauma initiative or project they are involved in.
  • Round Table Discussions: focusing on many aspects of trauma quality improvement.

 

From Damage Control to Definitive Closure: Strategies in Open Abdomen Trauma Care

Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026

Half Day Workshop: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Hilton Hotel, Sydney

Costs:

Medical Professionals: $350 per person

Nurses: $125 per person

About:

 

This practical workshop will focus on the principles of managing the complex abdominal wall after trauma, with particular emphasis on the open abdomen, loss of domain, and delayed primary closure strategies.

The session will explore decision-making in contaminated fields, strategies to avoid frozen abdomen and entero-atmospheric fistula, the timing of definitive closure, and adjuncts such as negative pressure wound therapy and dynamic fascial traction. The workshop will be case-based and clinically focused, aimed at trauma, general and acute care surgeons who manage complex abdominal wall defects in emergency and delayed settings.Topics include:

  • Open abdomen management
  • Staged closure strategies
  • Mesh-mediated fascial traction (MMFT) and Fasciotens
  • Timing of definitive reconstruction

Ideal for trauma, general and acute care surgeons, as well as nurses involved in caring for patients with complex abdominal wall injuries.

 

 

Critical Decision Making in Trauma Workshop

Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026

Half Day Workshop: 13:00pm – 17:00pm

Location: Hilton Hotel, Sydney

Cost: $125 per person

About:

Effective trauma resuscitation and management requires prompt decision making at a series of critical decision nodes. The outcomes are time-dependant, and often associated with incomplete information. So how do clinicians make timely and safe decisions?

This workshop will provide an overview of critical decision making, including the concepts of standardised care, establishing clinical probabilities and decision making with incomplete information. The importance of teamwork and what this should look like will also be included. These themes will then be further explored with small group facilitated discussions about specific decision making at key phases of trauma care

The multidisciplinary faculty are all experienced practising clinicians, who will share their strategies for effective trauma management.

Target audience: medical, paramedical and nursing clinicians involved in the acute care of severely injured patients.

 

Please note: The Workshops are available for Trauma 2026 Conference delegates only. Delegates can register for workshops on the conference registration portal.

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