Definitive Surgical and Anaesthetic Trauma Care Course

The DSATC is an intensive 2-day course that consists of key note lecturers, multidisciplinary case presentations, fireside discussions and workshops. During the course anaesthesiologists assisted by registered anesthesia nurses and surgeons assisted by OR nurses work together as real trauma teams.

The course focuses on:

• Surgical decision making in complex scenarios
• Operative techniques in critically ill trauma patients
• Hands-on practical experience with experienced instructors (both national and international)
• Insight into difficult trauma situations with learned techniques of haemorrhage control and the ability to handle major thoracic, cardiac and abdominal injuries
• Animal laboratory based surgical skills training. It boasts a high faculty to participant ratio with the faculty consisting of experienced trauma trained surgeons and anaesthesiologists.
• Multidisciplinary team approach