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Department of Surgery Department of Surgery
  1. Department of Surgery
  2. Divisions
  3. Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns and Acute Care Surgery
  4. Education
  5. Didactic

Didactic

To ensure didactic for the night float team, the didactic session will be proctored by the weekly trauma/acute care service attending for the night float team (PGYIV, III and I). Here are the 10 topics that are a baseline curriculum for both acute care surgery and trauma surgery.

Acute Care Surgery:

  • Acute Diverticulitis: Diagnosis and management — when to operate immediately and electively.
  • Acute and necrotizing pancreatitis: Eat when you can, sleep when you can and stay out of the pancreas.
  • Biliary tract pathology: Management of acute cholecystitis, cholangitis and choledocholithiasis.
  • Sepsis: Resuscitation and management beyond surviving sepsis.
  • Bowel Obstruction: Why do we let the sunset and rise again?

Trauma Surgery:

  • TBI and intracranial hypertension
  • Hypocoagulability in trauma: Diagnosis, TEG interpretation and management
  • Vascular injury: Diagnosis, management and the role of intravascular technology
  • Free fluid on the CT scan following trauma: Differential diagnosis and management
  • Damage control laparotomy and decompressive laparotomy: Indications, goals of therapy and definitive closure.