Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center are inviting to a 2 day workshop on the use of trauma registries.

The workshop will consist of three parts

  • Trauma Registries: why and how?
  • Severity scoring: possibilities and challenges
  • Trauma registry analysis

The workshop will be at University Hospital North Norway in Tromsø.

People interested in taking part of lectures are free to come and go as they would like.

Auditorium B3.506 (Lærings og mestringssenteret). Inngang rett nedfor legevakta.

Tuesday 15 June 2010

Trauma registries – why and how?

1200-1215

Research and clinical work – welcome to University Hospital of North Norway.

Anne Husebekk, director of research, University Hospital North Norway

1215-1225

Welcome to the northernmost level 1 trauma center

Ole-Kristian Losvik, medical student, University of Tromsoe

1225-1300

15 years of experience with trauma registries analysis in low resource countries.

Hans Husum, surgeon, Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center

1300-1345

What makes a survivor? Two groundbreaking publications based on a simple trauma registry in Iraq

Mudhafar Murad, head of Trauma Care Foundation Iraq

1345-1410

Design of clinical quality registries - Challenges and limitations of registries

Anne Høye, Leader  Center for Clinical documentation and evalutation, North Norway Regional Health Authority

1410-1430

Privacy protection - why and how should we protect personal information.

Eva Skipenes, Security advisor, Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine

1430-1450

Local injury registers in Norway – restrictions imposed by the privacy protection and possibilities

Torben Wisborg, head of Anaesthesia department, Hospital of Hammerfest

1450-1515

National trauma registry in Norway – process, plans and challenges.

Kjetil Ringdal, PhD research fellow, Norwegian Air Ambulance

1515-1600

10 years of experience with the Scottish trauma registry.

Diana Beard, Director Scottish Trauma Audit Group

1800

Cable car trip with dinner

 

 

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Part 1: Severity scoring

0800-0900

Complex injuries, simple registries? The validity of physiologic severity scoring.

Colin Robertson, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and a Consultant to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

0900-0930

Physiologic severity depends on time and location.

Hans Husum, surgeon, Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center

0930-1000

Coffee/tea

 

1000-1030

Feasibility of comparing data from international trauma registries.

Kjetil Ringdal, PhD research fellow, Norwegian Air Ambulance

1030-1045

Trauma scoring for triage. The use of vital parameters as an indication for resource allocation in the emergency room, experiences from Tromsø.

Trond Dehli, Senior Resident University Hospital North Norway

1045-1100

Limb salvage surgery: the trauma registry at Frankfurt trauma center.

Nenad Tajsic, Consultant Ortopedic surgery, University Hospital North Norway

1100-1130

Pilot study on external fixation in Cambodia. Extension of a trauma registry for clinical studies.  

Heng, Ollie, Trauma Care Foundation Cambodia.

1130-1230

Discussion: Trauma severity indicators

 

1230-1330

Lunch

 

Part 2: Trauma registry analysis

1330-1430

Sample representativity. The problem of sampling bias.

Eystein Skjerve, Professor epidemiology, Norwegian Veterinarian school, Centre of Epidemiology and biostatistics.

1430-1500

Delivery life support in Cambodia: The problem of detecting changes in small proportions.

Houy Chandy, Midwife; Ha Sam Ol, Trauma Care Foundation Cambodia.

1500-1515

Coffee/tea

 

1515-1600

When the sample size is small, the method is important. Statistical methods for analysis of small proportions

Stig Larsen, Professor research methodology, Norwegian Veterinarian school, Centre of Epidemiology and biostatistics.

1600-1700

Discussion: Better research design – better results?