Conference Overview
27th Annual Trauma Conference
Now in its 27th year, the Connecticut Trauma Conference continues to provide high quality education in trauma, critical care, and injury prevention. This year's speakers come from local, regional and national centers and will share their expertise in trauma care across the continuum.
This year’s agenda includes our popular point-counterpoint sessions exploring resuscitation models, plating rib fractures, and who manages the adolescent patient better. Experts will share their knowledge across the age continuum – from pediatric patients to the older adult. We will have a series of speakers for both burn management and spinal cord injury management. Injury prevention is always part of the trauma care paradigm – and we have included it in ours. This year, we also have a trauma survivor who is sharing their story.
This conference, designed to educate caregivers, draws local and regional professionals from across the spectrum of trauma care - pre-hospital, nurses, advanced practice providers, physicians from all specialties, and many essential providers.
Program Objectives
This activity is designed for the inter-professional team of healthcare providers. Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
1. Describe some of the controversies in trauma care, identifying different perspectives.
2. Identify the challenges and solutions associated with care across the age continuum.
3. Discuss some of the psycho-social and emotional surrounding trauma care.
4. Implement an inter-professional approach to trauma care for complex injuries.
5. Identify approaches to injury and violence prevention