Scope and Topics

The annual clinical meeting of the British Trauma Society brings together clinicians from different disciplines with a major interest in trauma care.

Presentation of papers of original research covering a broad spectrum of topics and keynote lectures allow clinicians to become familiar with all the latest advances made in every aspect of trauma care.

Topics will include:

  • Resuscitation strategies
  • Advances made in diagnostics - Radiology
  • Interventional radiology
  • Immunoinflammatory response to trauma
  • Polytrauma
  • Abdominal trauma
  • Pelvic ring injuries
  • Spinal fractures
  • Paediatric trauma
  • Long bone fractures
  • Vascular injuries
  • Fracture fixation of osteoporotic fractures
  • Upper and lower limb trauma
  • Proximal femoral fractures
  • Management of open fractures
  • Management of periarticular injuries
  • Treatment of non-unions
  • The role of bone substitutes in upper and lower limb reconstruction
  • Periprosthetic fractures

An abstract book will be provided for delegates at the conference.

Call for Papers

Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on the above themes by 14 November 2008. There will be a £1000 Injury prize for the best papers presented.
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