Paediatric Surgery for General Surgeons

 

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Programme

Date: 08 February 2010 Monday

Venue: D3 lecture room Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Registration Fee:    Specialists R300 - Registrars  R150

Live surgical demonstration from state of the art digital theatres and lectures

Elective surgery:

Welcome (Alastair Millar)
Lumps and bumps (Derek Harrison)
Neck swelling (Richard England)
Constipation and rectal bleeding (Rob Brown)
Umbilicus and abdominal wall (N Tsifularo)
Undescended testes and varicocele (Sharon Cox)
Approach to infant with jaundice (Alastair Millar)

Emergency surgery:

Acute scrotum (John Lazarus)
Inguinal Hernia & Hydrocoele & complicated inguinal hernias (Daniel Sidler)
Vomiting infants: intussusception, hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (Alp Numanoglu)
Acute/recurrent abdominal pain (Chris Westgarth-Taylor)
Appendicitis (Richard Wood)
Burns management (Heinz Rode)
Stomas of small and large intestine (Alastair Millar)
Abdominal Trauma (Sebastian van As)

Medico/legal:

Ethics (Daniel Sidler)
Informed consent (Sam Moore)

Interactive discussions centred on clinical scenarios (3 or 4 interesting cases)

Live Surgery (Inguinal Hernia, Large Umbilical Hernia, Undescended testes)

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