About this event
- Date and time Fri 31 Jan 2020 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Surgery
**This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Delegates who have already booked will be contacted by our Customer Service team.**
This exciting meeting will deliver knowledge base of trauma and emergency general surgery, facilitate the exchange of information and encourage interdisciplinary networking with related specialties.
Meeting topics include:
- To update regards to current trends in emergency surgery
- Debate controversial issues in the management of emergency patients
- Improve models of emergency surgery provision
Surgery Section: Norman Tanner Prize
Prize: £250 plus the Norman Tanner Medal
Submission deadline: Monday 16 December 2019
Open to all surgical trainees.
Application guidelines: Candidates must submit clinically oriented papers detailing original clinical research, multidisciplinary care and audit leading to improved patients' care. Submissions should be no longer than 500 words +/- 10%.
Abstracts will be shortlisted to present at this meeting and the best presentation will be awarded the Norman Tanner medal plus prize money.
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Surgery Section: President's prize
Prizes: 1st prize: £100; 2nd prize: £50
Submission deadline: Monday 16 December 2019
Open to all surgical trainees
Application guidelines: Abstracts on any emergency general surgery topic should be submitted for this prize. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words and have a maximum of 5 references.
Shortlisted candidates will be expected to present their poster at this meeting.
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Agenda
View the programme 31 January 2020
Registration, tea and coffee
Introduction and welcome
Session 1: Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Ms Rachel Hargest
GIRFT in general surgery: what is achievable?
Speaker TBC
Trauma and emergency surgery as a stand-alone subspecialty in the NHS
Speaker TBC
Models for provision of emergency and trauma surgery
Mr Henk Wegstaple
Tea and coffee break
Session 2: Norman Tanner Prize
Chair: Mr Hamid Khawaja
Norman Tanner Prize
(7 min oral presentation, 3 min discussion)
Lunch
Council meeting
Session 3: Cancer presentation in the emergency setting
Chais: Professor Ameet Patel, Mr Joseph Nunoo-Mensah
Pancreatic cancer: ERCP locally vs tertiary
Dr John Devlin
Malignant GI Bleeding
Dr Bu Hayee, Dr Dylan Lewis
Emergency colorectal cancer: Who should operate?
Ms Rachel Hargest
Tea and coffee break
Session 4
Chairs: Ms Avril Chang, Dr Jay Dasan
Perioperative optimisation of the acute patient
Speakers TBC
ERAS in the emergency settings
Speaker TBC
Is early cholecystectomy achievable in the NHS?
Speaker TBC
President Poster Prize
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom