Swiss Trauma & Acute Care Surgery (STACS) Days 2024
To err is human - the importance of working together!Ladies and Gentlemen
On March 14-15, 2024 the 13th STACS Days were held at the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital.
In Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, time is of the essence and descisions must be made under pressure. This creates the potential for errors that are inherent in the nature of these patients. It is important to learn from each other and to discusss these challenges.
At the 13th STACS Days, national and international experts were presenting the latest evidence in trauma care, resuscitation and non-trauma emergency surgery.
As every year, an international review board selected five abstracts that were presented in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Research Session 4, March 15, 2024. An award of CHF 1000.- was granted for the best scientific abstract by SwissACS.
Best regards,
Your STACS Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Beat Schnüriger, Prof. Dr. Aristomenis Exadaktylos, Prof. Dr. Carmen Pfortmüller, Prof. Dr. Thomas Lustenberger, PD Dr. Tobias Haltmeier, PD Dr. Dominik A. Jakob
SwissACS Research Price Award 2024
Congratulations to Marcel Quante for the SwissACS Research Price 2024 of CHF 1000.-!
Prize jury: Prof. Dr. Demetrios Demetriades, Los Angeles, USA; Prof. Dr. Peep Talving, Tallin, Estonia, Prof. Dr. Kenji Inaba, Los Angeles, USA; Prof. Dr. Carmen Pfortmüller, Bern, Switzerland; PD Dr. Tobias Zingg, Lausanne, Switzerland
The research price has been awarded for Lessons learned from ten years of M&M at a Swiss Level I Trauma Center.
Acute Care Surgery (ACS) covers two essential components – trauma and non-trauma emergency surgery. In ACS, the close interdisciplinary collaboration of emergency surgeons, critical care specialist, anaesthesiologists, and ED physicians is of paramount importance. In an effort to strengthen the care of patients with acute surgical disease in Switzerland, a new Society called SwissACS has been established in 2017.
Among the founding members there are surgeons, anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and intensivists. All of you that are interested in the care of acutely injured or surgically ill patients are very welcome to actively participate in SwissACS. If you are considering to become a member of this new interdisciplinary working group or in case you need more information, simply contact us here.
Upcoming events with ACS-relevant topics
May 29-31, 2024
Swiss College of Surgeons Annual Meeting 2024
Davos, Switzerland
March 13-14, 2025
14th Swiss Trauma & Acute Care Surgery Days
Bern, Switzerland
Coup d'oeil
Emergency abdominal surgery - Tension pneumopelvis due to rectal perforation
Published October 15, 2019. Authors: Andreas Kohler, MD, Antje Lechleiter, MD
75-years old female patient, presenting with fever and acute lower abdominal pain. The CT scan showed extensive air in retroperitoneal zone III resulting in a collapsed rectum and bilateral urethral obstruction with hydronephrosis. Attempted conservative treatment with endoscopic closure of the rectal perforation, retroperitoneal drainage and antibiotics failed. Subsequently, a Hartmann’s procedure was performed.
Polytrauma - Widened mediastinum
Published: October 25, 2017. Authors: Beat Schnüriger, MD, Tobias Haltmeier, MD
Polytraumatized patient with widened mediastinum on chest X-ray. CT-scan shows sternal and thoracic spine fracture with large hematoma, which is a possible differential diagnosis for a widened mediastinum on chest X-ray.
Emergency abdominal surgery - Gallbladder volvulus
Published: September 29, 2017. Authors: Tobias Haltmeier, MD, Beat Schnüriger, MD
A rare case of gallbladder volvulus. Elderly patient with signs and symptoms of acute cholecystitis. The diagnosis was made by laparoscopy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was subsequently performed.