Scientific Program / March 4, 2027
07:30 - 08:30 | Registration, exhibits |
08:30 - 08:35 | Opening remarks; Dr. Lukas Widmer, Fribourg |
SESSION 1: Initial Assessement of the Acute Surgical Patient
Location | Main lecture hall |
Moderators | Prof. Dr. Wolf Hautz, Basel; Dr. Fabio Butti, Nyon |
08:35 - 08:50 | “Sick vs. not so sick” assessment – How I do it! |
Dr. Jessica Schwaller, Fribourg | |
08:50 - 09:05 | POCUS at the Front Door: What can we know in five minutes |
Dr. Beat Lehmann, Bern | |
09:05 - 09:20 | The Diagnosis we (almost) missed: Cognitive Errors in Surgical Acute Care |
Prof. Dr. Wolf Hautz, Basel | |
09:20 - 09:35 | AI as a second pair of eyes: Second opinion or dangerous distraction? |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Sauter, Bern | |
09:35 - 10:00 | Discussion |
10:00 - 10:30 | Refreshment break, exhibits |
SESSION 2: Workshops
Workshop 1 | ||
10:30 - 11:10 | Room 1 | Difficult Conversations in the ED: Communicating With Patients and Families in Life-Threatening Emergencies |
Dr. Susanne Eichenberger, Bern and friends | ||
10:30 - 11:10 | Room 2 | EBSQ Emergency Surgery – what is it and how to prepare? |
Dr. Peter Svenningsen, Kopenhagen, Dr. Lukas Widmer, Fribourg | ||
10:30 - 11:10 | Room 3 | Management of serial rip fractures |
tba | ||
Workshop 2 | ||
11:20 - 12:00 | Main lecture hall | Acute pain management after trauma: What you need to know! |
PD Dr. Michael A. Harnik, Bern | ||
11:20 - 12:00 | Room Alpha | From Shock to acute kidney injury: How to save renal function |
Dr. Cioccari Luca, Aarau and friends | ||
11:20 - 12:00 | Room Beta | Designing the Perfect On-Call Team Roster: Balancing Patient Safety, Workload and Training |
Dr. Oliver Quaile, Solothurn and friends |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch, exhibits |
SESSION 3: State-of-the-Art Lecture
Location | Main lecture hall |
Moderator | Dr. Lukas Widmer, Fribourg |
13:00 - 13:30 | Prepare for elderly and frail patients! – Lessons from Denmark |
Dr. Peter Svenningsen, Kopenhagen |
SESSION 4: “Fix Now, Fix Later, or Don’t Fix Yet?”
Location | Main lecture hall |
Moderators | Prof. Dr. Thomas Lustenberger, Bern |
13:30 - 13:45 | Open Fracture: How Urgent Is Urgent? |
Dr. Axel Gamulin, Geneva | |
13:45 - 14:00 | Compartment Syndrome: Cut, Measure, or Wait? |
tba | |
14:00 - 14:15 | The Fracture Nobody Owns |
Dr. Basil Hatz, Basel | |
14:15 - 14:30 | Discussion |
SESSION 5: SwissACS Special Guest Lecture
Location | Main lecture hall |
Moderator | Prof. Dr. Carmen Pfortmüller, Bern |
14:30 - 14:50 | ECMO Essentials – What You Need to Know in the Trauma Bay |
PD Dr. Anna Messmer, Bern | |
14:50 - 15:00 | Discussion |
15:00 - 15:30 | Refreshment break, exhibits |
SESSION 6: Tough Trauma Cases: The Experts’ Decisions
Location | Main lecture hall |
Moderation | tba |
15:30 - 17:00 | TBA |
tba | |
Experts panel | tba |
17:00 | Closure, Dr. Lukas Widmer, Fribourg |
Eat, Meet and Greet!
18:00 - 23:00 | Get-Together and Dinner, Bern |