Scientific Program / February 23, 2019
7:30 – 8:30 | Registration, Exhibits, Croissant and Coffee |
8:30 – 8:35 | Opening Remarks; PD Dr. B. Schnüriger, Bern |
SESSION 1: The Acute Surgical Patient
Moderators: | PD Dr. B. Schnüriger, Bern; Dr. T. Zingg, Lausanne |
8:35 – 8:55 | Acute Necrotizing Fasciitis; Prof. Dr. P. Talving, Tallinn, Estonia |
8:55 – 9:15 | Emergency Abdominal Surgery in the Pregnant Patient – The Anesthesiologists’ Point of View; PD Dr. P. H. Vuilleumier, Bern |
9:15 – 9:35 | Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: When to Operate?; PD Dr. S. Käser, Zürich |
9:35 – 10:00 | Discussion |
10:00 – 10:30 | Refreshment Break, Exhibits |
SESSION 2: How I Do It?
Moderators: | Prof. Dr. C. A. Seiler, Bern; Dr. J. Lavanchy, Bern |
10:30 – 10:50 | Rendez-Vous Procedure in Choledocholithiasis; Dr. T. Haltmeier, Bern |
10:50 – 11:10 | Initial Evaluation and Treatment of the Septic Patient in the ER; PD Dr. C. Pfortmüller, Bern |
11:10 – 11:30 | Swallowed foreign bodies: Take it or leave it?; Dr. A. Aiolfi, Milan, Italy |
11:30 – 12:00 | Discussion |
12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch, Exhibits |
SwissACS General Assembly
12:15 - 12:45 Annual General Assembly of the Swiss Association for Acute Care Surgery |
SESSION 3: State-of-the-Art Lecture
Moderator: | PD Dr. B. Schnüriger, Bern |
13:00 – 13:30 | Definition of Sepsis and its Importance in Clinical Decision Making; Prof. Dr. J.-L. Vincent, Brussels, Belgium |
SESSION 4: Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery
Moderators: | PD Dr. S. Käser, Zürich; Dr. A. Aiolfi, Milan, Italy |
13:30 – 13:50 | What that lean management for an acute abdomen mean: the ED physicians perspective; Prof. Dr. A. Exadaktylos |
13:50 – 14:10 | Introduction of an ACS-service: The Economical Point of View; Dr. S. Winterhalder, Interlaken |
14:10 – 14:30 | Discussion |
14:30 – 15:00 | Refreshment Break, Exhibits |
SESSION 5: Case Presentations and Discussion
Experts panel: | Prof. Dr. J.-L. Vincent, Prof. Dr. C. A. Seiler, PD Dr. S. Käser, PD Dr. B. Schnüriger, Dr. T. Zingg, Dr. T. Haltmeier, Dr. J. Lavanchy, Dr. A. Aiolfi |
15:00 – 16:00 | Presentations of Unusual and Tricky ACS Cases from Lausanne (Dr. T. Zingg), Zürich (PD Dr. S. Käser), and Bern (Dr. J. Lavanchy) |
16:00-16:05 | Closure, PD Dr. B. Schnüriger |