Emergency Surgery Section ECTES 2018 Valencia

Session I (Battle Session) – Perforated diverticulitis

Chairs: Andreas Shamiyeh + Spanish representative

 Case report
 Lavage and drainage
 Open Hartamnn’s procedure
 Damage control surgery
 Resection and anastomosis with protective ileostomy

Possible speakers:

Case report 15 minutes, 20 minutes each talk

Session II– Acute pancreatitis

Chairs: H. van Goor + Spanish representative

 Initial approach
 Organ dysfunction
 Local complications
 Surgery in pancreatic necrosis
 Nutrition standards

Possible speakers: Ari Leppaniemmi, H. van Santvoort

20 minutes each talk

Session III – Soft tissue infections

Chairs: Marianne Kinlaer + Spanish representative

 Cellulitis/Erysipelas
 Necrotizing fasciitis
 Wound care techniques
 Fournier’s gangrene

Possible speakers:

20 minutes each talk

Session IV – Anastomotic leakage

Chairs: Gary Bass + Spanish representative

 Prevention?
 Diagnosis and basic approach
 Special cases: Esophageal
 Special cases: Rectal

Possible speakers: Gary Bass

20 minutes each talk

Session V – Common pitfalls in geriatric surgical care

Chairs: Mihai Paduraru + Spanish representative

 Emergency surgery
 Trauma surgery
 Informed consent
 End of life decisions and care

Possible speakers: Mihai Paduraru, Soledad Monton

20 minutes each talk

Session VI – Education in Emergency Surgery

Chairs: Jonathan Tilsed + Spanish representative

 Emergency Surgery organization models

 Emergency Surgery training models
 Trauma and Emergency Surgery: Acute Care Surgery
 FEBS: after 2 years
 Emergency surgical units: are they a good idea?

Possible speakers: Carlos Mesquita, Jonathan Tilsed, Ari Leppaniemmi

20 minutes each talk

Session VII (Tandem Talks) – Acute appendicitis – perityphlitic abscess

Chairs: Hayato Kurihara + Spanish representative

 Diagnosis: US versus CT
 Emergency Surgery and Drainage
 Image – Guided Drainage + elective Surgery in interval
 Image – Guided Drainage alone
 Role of Laparoscopy – incidental Operation

Possible speakers: Diego Mariani

20 minutes each talk

Session VIII (Tandem Talks) – Upper GI bleeding (duodenal ulcer)

Chairs: Jorge Pereira + Spanish representative

 Gastroenterology input
 Interventional radiology input
 Surgery input
 Recent Literature Review
 Special cases: Aorto-digestive fistulae

Possible speakers: Luis Pinheiro

20 minutes each talk

Session IX (Battle Session) – Rectal cancer and Bowel obstruction

Chairs: Beat Schnüringer + Spanish representative

 Case report
 Stents
 Surgery

Possible speakers:

Case report 15 minutes, 30 minutes each talk

Session IX – Abdominal sepsis

Chairs: Shahin Mohseni + Spanish representative

 Peritonitis – classification
 Shock and sepsis care
 Damage control in abdominal sepsis
 Management of open abdomen in abdominal sepsis (Fernando
Ferreira)
 Case discussion
Possible speakers: Fernando Ferreira

20 minutes each talk

Suggestions:

1. What’s new in Emergency Surgery (possible together with visceral Trauma)

Chair: 2 from the editors of the Journal

Presentation and discussion of 6 papers from the last 12 months in particular

controversial issues (From the ESTES Journal or from Journal of trauma and
acute care surgery? Or the American Journal of Surgery…)

2. MUSEC Point of Care Ultrasound Consensus Conference

MUSEC Steering group

3. Video Session: ESTES: Members share their experience in difficult and

controversial topics, management of complications, etc.

4. World Café sessions: It would be necessary, that one lecture hall is dedicated for
this format and several sections have one of their sessions there. It is not feasible
to change the seating in every break. – It would be possible to gather all the
world café sessions of all sections in one room during one day and change the
seats for the next day – eventually

5. Keynote lectures:
a. Acute Appendicitis Diagnosis: Ultrasound or CT scan?
b. Swallowed foreign bodies
c. Emergency surgery in the immune compromised patient
 d. Antibiotics in Emergency Abdominal Surgery
e. Caustic injuries to the digestive and respiratory tract
f. Small Bowell occlusion in the 21st Century
g. REBOA in trauma and emergency surgery scenarios
h. Incarcerated incisional Hernia
i. Organ harvest and Emergency Surgery and Trauma Education

Possible lecturers: Fernando Ferreira, Milene Sá, Herbert Haller, Diego Mariani, Júlio
Constantino

12 minutes each talk

It is possible to gather some of the lectures and create a Session…