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2025 USC National Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Symposium

Enjoy 45 leading-edge lectures, high caliber plenary sessions, interactive and provocative panel discussions, and inspiring keynote addresses by leaders in the field of trauma, critical care and acute care surgery.

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2025 USC National Trauma, Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery Symposium includes 47 lectures:

CME Expiry Date: September 15, 2028

  1. Course Introduction (3:45)
  2. Prehospital Bleeding Control: When, How, What? (15:42)
  3. Prehospital Blood Products, Life Saving or a Waste of Resources? (16:27)
  4. Multiple GSW's Survivor: A LAPD Officer's Story and Lessons Learned (32:56)
  5. Trauma Care in Absolutely Austere Environments (14:29)
  6. Gunshot Wounds of the Head: Lessons Learned From the Military Experience (16:20)
  7. Culture and Engagement in the Hospital and Community (13:12)
  8. Compassion in Medicine: Why We Have Lost It and How We Can Get It Back! (14:39)
  9. Socioeconomics and Violence Injury (14:33)
  10. Reduction of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Male Patient with the Use of a Male External Catheter in the Progressive Care Unit (5:18)
  11. Special Guest (9:29)
  12. OPO's Perspective of the MedicalExaminer and Organ Donation (8:51)
  13. Preparation and Medical Response in the LA Fires (22:59)
  14. Robotics in Acute Care Surgery (14:33)
  15. Streets for Everyone: From a Trauma Victim to an Injury Prevention Advocate (14:47)
  16. REBOA in 2025: What is the Evidence? (14:25)
  17. Trauma Patient: Whole Blood or Component Therapy? (26:27)
  18. The Death of Princess Diana: Mysteries and Revelations! (34:44)
  19. Update on Sepsis Guidelines and Management (16:38)
  20. Reducing Surgical Site Infections: What Do We Know in 2025 (15:04)
  1. Rib Fixation 2025, Who, When and How? (12:38)
  2. Hip Dislocation: What Every Surgeon and ER Physician Should Know! (11:31)
  3. Retained Hemothorax-Prevention and Management (8:37)
  4. Blunt Cervical Neurovascular Trauma (11:35)
  5. Intra-Abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in the Burn Patient (10:15)
  6. Optimal Approach to Extubation from Mechanical Ventilation (11:03)
  7. Anticoagulant Emergent Reversal: Latest Guidelines (10:30)
  8. Narcotic Sparing Pain Control Techniques (10:58)
  9. Severe Liver Injuries: Operate or Observe? (9:48)
  10. Knotless Barbed Suture for Fascia Closure in Emergency Laparotomies (10:19)
  11. Antibiotics for Appendicitis: Who, What, When, and How? (9:56)
  12. One Hour with Dimitri: Believe It or Not! (Panel Discussion) (1h, 02m)
  13. In the Dark: When a Cyberattack Hits Your Trauma Center (18:04)
  14. Nursing Support for Retention and Positive Patient Outcomes (11:10)
  15. Clinical Quality Registries: Common Data Models for Critical Care Excellence (10:45)
  16. Implementing an ECMO Program in the Operating Room in the Critically Unstable Patient. Is It a Practical Consideration? (24:35)
  17. Severe Peritonitis: Laparotomy on Demand, Planned Relaparotomy or an Open Abdomen? (12:18)
  18. Acute Cholecystitis in Pregnancy (15:58)
  19. Trauma in Pregnancy (12:31)
  20. Diverticulitis-When to Operate and What Operation? (13:21)
  21. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Pitfalls and Advances (23:30)
  22. International Collaborations in Trauma: Establishing a Trauma Program in Shenzhen, China-Lessons Learned (25:28)
  23. Opioid Epidemic: The Medical Examiner's Perspective (25:25)
  24. Excited Delirium in Trauma: What To Do and Not To Do! (13:12)
  25. Dealing with Stress as a Trauma/Critical Care Fellow (23:34)
  26. Therapeutic Options for Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in the Trauma Patient? (15:49)
  27. Jeopardy (43:49)

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