Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) will host the 21st Annual Trauma and Critical Care Symposium from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday (Oct. 24) at the TTUHSC Academic Classroom Building, 3601 Fourth St.

The conference provides the latest advances and updates in trauma and critical care medicine. The focus is on providing tools for a multidisciplinary approach to improvements in everyday activities in trauma and critical care to improve patient care and outcomes.

Presentations and speakers include:

“Damage Control: It’s Not Just About the Operation”
Brian Eastridge, M.D., FACS

“Neurointerventional Therapy for Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke: The New Standard of Care”
Yazan Alderazi, M.D.

“Pain Assessment in the Critically Ill”
Emily Garcia, MSN, R. N., CCRN

“Compartment Syndrome in Orthopedics: Diagnosis and Current Recommendations”
Dustin Moore, M.D.

“Breaking Barriers: Gaining Insight into Trauma, Burn and Critical Care Through
Research”
Jayne McCauley, M.D., Daniel Ha and Alex Forrester, first-year medical students,
and Emily Garcia, MSN, R.N., CCRN

“Collaborative Discussion: Ethical Dilemmas in Trauma and Critical Care”
Sharmila Dissanaike, M.D.

“Pediatric Concussion Evaluation: Signs and Symptoms”
Alan Coleman, M.D.
“Inhalation Injury: Evaluation and Treatment”
Andres Leal, M.D.

“Thoracic Vascular Trauma”
Michael Hanna, M.D.

“Multidisciplinary Rounds: Effective and Systematic Patient Care”
Steven Brooks, M.D., Sarah Felan, MSN, R.N., CCRN, Sheri Penkert, RRT, Gabe Flores, R.Ph., Pharm.D.

The conference is sponsored by the TTUHSC Department of Surgery, the Office of Continuing Medical Education and the UMC Health System Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Burn Center. For more information, call Myra Jones, TTUHSC Office of Continuing Medical Education, at (806) 743-2928 or email myra.jones@ttuhsc.edu or cme@ttuhsc.edu.