2025 Trauma/Critical Care Symposium

22nd Annual Trauma/Critical Care Symposium

Friday, September 5, 2025

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Trauma Services presents the 22nd Annual Trauma/Critical Care Symposium to educate healthcare professionals about current evidence-based research and advances in trauma care.

Educational Objectives

• Discuss the management of chest wall injury and evaluate the operative indications and complications of chest wall surgery.
• Describe the grading of liver injury, review common liver injury patterns and discuss operative strategies and pitfalls of complex hepatic trauma.
• Examine the unique hazards associated with e-bike use, the traumatic injury pattern being witnessed nationally, and the legislative and public policy processes being used to catalyze change.
• Review the purpose of the massive transfusion protocol and the reason for each blood product usage.
• Discuss the benefits of effective communication, as well as the potential opportunities for improving communications between EMS and hospitals.
• Differentiate various types of penetrating trauma and develop a treatment plan.
• Differentiate inpatient and outpatient challenges for patients from the trauma professional’s perspective.
• Identify the overlapping mechanisms of coagulopathy in cirrhotic and trauma patients, apply principles of balanced and targeted resuscitation in cirrhotic trauma patients and develop a postoperative management plan for ascites in trauma patients with cirrhosis.
• Summarize the steps in the assessment of brain-injured patients and examine the current clinical practice guidelines for severe traumatic brain injury.

Symposium Schedule