Towards the Future of Trauma Care

Wednesday, 3 October, 2012

09:30 – 16:10

Post Graduate Centre

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

09:30 – 10:00Registration and coffee

Chair:Richard Stone (Director, Medilink)

10:00 – 10:05Introduction:

Richard Stone (Director,Medilink)

10:05 – 10:30 Keynote Speech: The Clinical Problems of the Injured Patient

Professor Sir Keith Porter, Professor of Clinical Traumatology, Director of the NIHR SRMRC, University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust, UK

10:30 – 10:35Patient Video Footage 1: Dawn Pickett

Clinical challenge session

10:35 – 11:00Clinical Challenge Area 1: Drug Delivery

Drug delivery to the Bone

Ms Deepa Bose, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedics Surgeon, UHBFT:

Lower limb trauma – bone infection. She is working with UoB academics – bioengineering for new regenerative therapies in bone repair

Drug delivery to the brain

Prof Garth Cruickshank,Consultant Neurosurgeon, UHBFT:

1.Blood Brain Barrrier (BBB) manipulation

2. Depot therapy (avoiding BBB)

3. Convection Enhanced Delivery and Reverse Microdialysis and Micro Multipoint Injection (volumetric delivery to brain parenchyma and tumours)

11:00 – 11:25Clinical Challenge Area 2: Patient monitoring at the bedside

How PICS is used at the QE for monitoring of patients at the bedside

Gochi Nwulu, Senior Research Associate, CLAHRC, Theme 9

IT-informatics

Monitoring of ITU patients

TBC

11:25 – 11:30Patient Video Footage 2

11:30 – 12:00:Coffee

12:00 – 12:20Clinical Challenge Area 3: Enabling and Rehabilitative Technologies

Enabling and Rehabilitative Technologies

Clare Travis, Occupational Clinical Lead in Burns, Neuro and Trauma,UHBFT

12:20 – 12:30Patient Video Footage 3: Stroke patient

12:30 – 12:50Research programmeoverview

Acute response to injury

Maj Mark Foster

Bed-side Devices to monitor coagulation/ inflammatory response. Diagnostic kits

Microbiology

Beryl Oppenheim

High through-put sequencing of microbes; wound care – dressings/ infection control

Regenerative & reconstructive medicine

Ann Logan and Tony Belli

Anti-scar treatments/ neuro-repair/ skin repair etc./ stem cells/ neuroprotection – cooling helmets

Burns research

Naiem Moiemen

Wound care/ dressings/ skin scaffolds/ infra-red photography

12:50 – 13:50Networking Lunch

13:50 – 13:55Introduction to afternoon session – breakout groups

Breakout session

13:55 – 14:30Breakout Session:

Patient monitoring at the bedside

Chair:to identify speaker

Drug Delivery

Chair:Prof John Marriott, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Birmingham

Enabling and Rehabilitative Technologies

Chair: Steve Sturman, Consultant Neuroscientist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

14:30 – 15:30Feedback from Breakout Sessions/ Panel Discussion

15:30 – 16:00Bringing Devices to the NHS Market – an economic evaluation at the design stage

Prof Richard Lilford, Vice Dean, Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham

16:00 – 16:10Q & A andMeeting Close