As a Level I Trauma Center, Denver Health is committed to providing trauma education to trauma centers, other hospitals and pre-hospital agencies throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Denver Health trauma surgeons will provide education locally or onsite. A list of available lectures can be found on the individual specialty pages below. However, if you do not find a topic of interest please contact our Trauma Education Coordinator.
Trauma Surgery Topics
Orthopaedic Surgery Topics
Emergency Medicine Topics
Neurosurgery Topics
Spine Trauma Topics
Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Maxillofacial
Radiology, Anesthesiology
Trauma Surgery Topics
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Aortic Injuries
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Blast injuries- diagnosis and management
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Blood Born Pathogen - Risk to Health Care Providers, HIV, Hep C, Hep B
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Blunt Carotid and Vertebral Injuries
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Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries
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Blunt Thoracic Injuries
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Controlling Major Vascular Injury in the Pelvis and to Iliac Vessels
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Controversies and Concepts in the Initial Care of the Seriously Injured Patient
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Current Concepts in Post Injury Coagulopathy –Balancing Science and Clinical Practice
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Current Management of Liver and Spleen Injuries
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Damage Control - Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Penetrating Wounds to the Extremities
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Evaluation of Chest/Head
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Evidence-based Critical Care
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Extremes of Trauma
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Future Role of Blood Substitutes in Trauma Care
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Hepatic Injuries Requiring Packing
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High Risk Injury Pattern
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Initial Evaluation of the Trauma Patient
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Management of Abdominal Vascular Injuries
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Management of Arterial Injury in a Contaminated Field
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Management of Colo-Rectal Trauma
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Options for Wound Closure in Hypovolemic Shock and Peritonitis
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Overview of chest injuries
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Penetrating Injuries of the Thoracic Outlet
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Penetrating Trauma to the Neck
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Peripheral Vascular Trauma
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Principles of Mass Casualty Incidents- Establishing drills
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Prone Ventilation
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Recognition and Management of Vascular Injuries
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Red Cell Substitutes
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Resuscitative Thoracotomy in the Emergency Department
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Role of the Gut in Post injury MOF
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Serious Injury to the Pancreas and Duodenum
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Shock - Controversies and Current Concept
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Staged Laparotomy for Trauma
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The Israeli Experience in mass Casualty Management
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The Open Abdomen/Delayed Abdominal Closure/Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
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Thoracic Incisions for Cervicomediastinal Trauma
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Trauma Algorithms
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Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit
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Orthopaedic Surgery Topics
- Acetabular Fractures – Classification & Management
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Ankle, Talus and Calcaneus Fractures
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Biomechanics of Fracture Fixation
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Biomechanics of Spine Fractures
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Bone Graft Substitutes in Trauma
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Compartment Syndrome
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Damage Control Orthopaedic Surgery
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Distal Femoral Fractures
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Emergency Room Management of Orthopaedic Injuries
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External Fixation – Rational Use in the Acute Setting
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Femur Fractures
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Finger Re-implantation & the Emergent Care of Amputated Body Parts
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Hardware Removal and Soft Tissue Handling
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Hip arthroscopy
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History of Orthopaedic Fracture Fixation Techniques
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Humerus Fractures
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Ilizarov Treatment of Periarticular Fractures
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Intertrochanteric Femur Fractures
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Joint Reconstruction and Revision Joint Replacement
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Limb Salvage – Decision Making & Techniques
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Limb Salvage in the Lower Extremity
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Management of Musculoskeletal Trauma in the Polytrauma Patient
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Minimally Invasive Fracture Fixation
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Mutilating Hand Injuries
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Non Operative Management of Spine Trauma
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Non union & Mal union
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Nonunion and Osteomyelitis
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Orthopaedic Emergencies
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Orthopedic Sports Medicine Injuries
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Pediatric Femur Fractures – Perc Plating
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Pelvic Fractures – Definitive Treatment
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Pelvic Fractures - Resuscitation Techniques
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Pelvic Trauma: Acute and Definitive Management
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Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in the Trauma Patient
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Radiographic Interpretation of Fractures-Orthopaedic Language and Descriptions of Common Fractures
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Still Elbow and Complex Elbow Fractures
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Supracondylar Femur Fractures
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Systemic Complications of Fractures
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The Management of Spine Trauma in the Multiply Injured
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Tibial Pilon Fractures
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Tibial Plateau Fractures
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Timing of Fracture Fixation
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Trauma System Development: Resource vs. Need
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Use of Bone Morphogenetic protein in orthopaedic trauma
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Emergency Medicine Topics
- Airway Management
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Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention and Referral for Treatment.
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Avalanche Injuries
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Biochemical and Nuclear Disasters
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Blistering Conditions in Emergency Medicine
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Cardiac Arrest
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Chest Trauma
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Cost Effective Trauma Management
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Critical Interpretation of Vital Signs
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Disaster Management
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Domestic Violence
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Echocardiography in the Emergency Department
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Emergency Ultrasound
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Emergency Management of HIV Infection
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EMS Trauma Care - Past, Present and Future
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Environmental Emergencies
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Evaluation of Cervical Spine Injuries
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Focused Abdominal Scan in Trauma
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Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
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Geriatric Trauma
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Gunshot Wound Ballistics
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Hand Injury
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Hypothermia
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Lightening and Electrical Emergencies
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Mass Casualty and Disaster Management: The Columbine Experience
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Mass Gatherings
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Mechanisms of Injury
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Near Drowning
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Pearls and Pitfalls in EMS Medical Direction
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Pearls and pitfalls in Pre-hospital Care
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Pearls and Pitfalls in Wound Care
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Penetrating Neck Trauma
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Pitfalls of Emergency Ultrasound
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Pre-hospital Trauma
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Principles of Resuscitation
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Resuscitative Thoracotomy
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Sexual Assault
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Transfer of the Rural Trauma Patient
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Trauma in Pregnancy
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Trauma Shock
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Ultrasound-guided Central Venous Access
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Neurosurgery Topics
- Artificial Disks
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Emotional (Psychological) effects of Trauma
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Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
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Management of Traumatic Brain Injury (Pre-Hospital)
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Neurotrauma (Critical care, ICP etc)
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Penetrating CNS Injuries
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Spine surgery and Spine Trauma (Cervical, thoracic and lumbar).
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Spine trauma
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War Trauma Experience as Chief Neurosurgery and Landsthul Regional Medical Center in Germany during Nov 2001 to Feb 2004 Caring for Casualties of War
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Surgical Oncology
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Pediatrics
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Pediatric airway management
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Pediatric head and neck injuries
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Pediatric Neurotrauma
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Pediatric resuscitation
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Pediatric trauma overview
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Critical Care Nursing
Many topics provided by Critical Care Nursing Education
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