DEPARTMENTS OF PAEDIATRIC SURGERY

Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital

9 February 2010, Abdominal Emergencies in Children
Half day, Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape Town

Abdominal Emergencies
8:00-8:20       Registration
08:20-8:30     Welcome:                                                     
Professor Alastair Millar
08:30-8:55     Abdominal Trauma                                     
Professor Sebastian van As
8:55-9:20       Appendicitis                                                 
Dr. Richard Wood
9:20-09:45     Abdominal Tuberculosis   
Professor Daniel Sidler
09:45-10:10   Abdominal compartment syndrome         
Dr. Chris Westgarth-Taylor

10:10-10:40   Break

10:40-11:05-  Liver: Worms, Abscess, Malignancy, Hemangiomas
Professor Alastair Millar
11:05-11:30   Vomiting infants: Malrotation/intussusception/Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Professor Alp Numanoglu
11:30-11:55   NEC, Haemorrhagic disease of newborn, perforations in Neonates
Dr. Sharon Cox
11:55-12:20   Radiology: Abdominal imaging in ICU
Dr.Tracey Kilborn
12:20-12:45   Burns
Professor Heinz Rode
12:45-1300 Closure