ASM Program Day 1 – Friday 18 October
- 08:30 – 17:30 Followed by the Welcome Reception
- Adelaide Convention Centre
The following is a Provisional Program – topics will be expanded
Session One – Developments in Robotics
08:30 Welcome to Country & Official Opening
08:45 Hernia
09:00 HPB
09:15 Colorectal
09:30 ENT
09:45 Economic and ecological costs of robotic surgery: Is it worth it?
10:00 Panel and audience discussion
10:15 – 10:45 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
Session Two – Trauma Experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
10:30 How surgeons may help close the gap
10:45 Insights into aspects of law and justice surrounding domestic violence in the NT
11:15 Paediatric trauma
11:30 Panel and audience discussion
11:40 International Keynote Address by Prof Beat Schnüriger
12:10 Research podium presentations
12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
Session Three – Damage Control Surgery
13:30 Pelvic trauma
13:50 Temporary abdominal closure
14:10 Vascular trauma
14:30 Surgical trauma management in difficult circumstances: Under fire, resources limitations
14:50 Panel and audience discussion
15:00 – 15:30 AFTERNOON TEA
Session Four – Paediatric Trauma Management for the General Surgeon
15:30 Burns
15:50 Trauma laparotomy/emergency approach to paediatric abdominal trauma
16:10 Gastrointestinal foreign bodies
16:30 Orthopaedic trauma
16:50 Paediatric considerations and pitfalls
17:10 Panel and audience discussion
17:30 Day One Program Close
*This is an in-person event – attending virtually is not an option. However, the program will be recorded, and provided speaker-consent is given, securely stored on the members-only area of the GSA website for on-demand viewing. Please note that it can take up to six weeks before recordings become available.
