Day one

70 mins

Thoracic trauma

Dr Lisa Meacock

Consultant Radiologist, Kings College Hospital, London

  • Chest wall injury
  • Trauma to the lung
  • Trauma to the heart and pericardium
  • Rupture of the hemi diaphragm
  • Considerations in penetrating vs blunt injury

60 mins

Special considerations in the paediatric trauma

Dr Saira Haque

Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Radiation exposure
  • Protocols
  • Assessing the cervical spine
  • Alternatives to CT, e.g. contrast ultrasound
  • Paediatric cases

60 mins

Abdominal trauma I

Dr Matthew Seager

Consultant Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Suggested CT protocols
  • Considerations in penetrating vs blunt trauma
  • Hepatobiliary and pancreatic trauma
  • Splenic trauma

60 mins

The thoracolumbar spine

Dr Dermot Mallon

Consultant Neuroradiologist, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Differentiating between stable and unstable injuries
  • Common injury patterns of the thoracic and lumbar spine
  • Associated injuries

45 mins

Angiography and Interventional radiology in trauma

Dr Fiona Miller

Consultant Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Know your limits - When to call the radiologist
  • Active extravasation and pseudo aneurysm formation
  • Endovascular control of haemorrhage

Day two

75 mins

Cervical spine

Dr Anish Raithatha

Consultant Neuroradiologist, Australia

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Differentiating between stable and unstable injuries
  • Common injury patterns of the cervical spine
  • Associated injuries, e.g. vascular dissection

75 mins

Pelvic trauma

Dr Andreas Panayiotou

Musculoskeletal Radiologist at Ygia Polyclinic Private Hospital in Limassol, Cyprus

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Anteroposterior compression injuries
  • Lateral compression injuries
  • Vertical shear injuries
  • Acetabular fracture patterns
  • Associated injuries, e.g. bladder injury

75 mins

Imaging of cranio-cerebral trauma

Dr Luke Dixon

Consultant Neuroradiologist,
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Review areas – types of brain herniation
  • Mimics
  • Cranial vault and cranial base fractures
  • Intracranial extra-axial injury
  • Subarachnoid and intraventricular haemorrhage
  • Cerebral contusion
  • Brain herniation

90 mins

Abdominal trauma II

Dr Kenneth Courtney

Consultant Radiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Introduction of relevant anatomy
  • Injuries to the urinary system and retroperitoneum
  • Vascular injuries
  • Bowel and mesenteric injury (the seat belt injury)