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Trauma and Orthopaedics in Conflict Settings (TOCS)
Friday 6 June 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Auditorium: Brussels | ExCeL London
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Conflict settings and crisis situations pose specific challenges to medical care that can only be addressed on the basis of scientific evidence in the exchange of academic surgeons and their colleagues working on the ground.
Dr. Bernhard Ciritsis will be hosting, at the 15th EFORT Congress in London, a symposium dedicated to these specific requirements. “Outside the Anglo-American world, the EFORT Congress is the major platform that provides networking opportunities between academic surgery and surgery in conflict situations with the goal of generating evidence-based conclusions and developing them further through the exchange of experts on both sides,” according to Dr. Ciritsis.
The topics on the agenda of the symposium are not limited to war situations, but include all types of conflict scenarios as well as natural disasters such as tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, mass panics or blast injuries.
Conference participants will discuss issues such as quality standards in surgery under precarious conditions, the effects of long-term presence of humanitarian organizations in developing countries, treatment strategies in the context of natural disasters, the management of mass casualties as well as the analysis of gunshot and stab wounds on the basis of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) generated algorithm.
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