Critical Challenges in Trauma Care:Intra-abdominal Hypertension and the Bleeding Patient
The symposium explores the recognition and management of intra-abdominal hypertension in critically ill patients, as well as the assessment and treatment of bleeding patients. It will bring together healthcare professionals, students and members of the medical community.
The presentations will be followed by a case discussion and audience Q&A.
PROGRAMME
Prof. Demetrios Demetriades
Demetrios Demetriades, MD, PhD, FACS, is Professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Based at Los Angeles General Medical Center, he is internationally recognised for his expertise in trauma surgery and the management of critically ill surgical patients.
Professor Demetriades has published more than 760 peer-reviewed articles, 17 surgical textbooks, several surgical atlases and over 200 book chapters. His Atlas of Surgical Techniques in Trauma received first prize from the British Medical Association in 2016 and has been translated into six languages.
He has received 24 teaching awards and delivered more than 400 invited lectures in the United States and over 40 other countries. His distinctions include honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki, the American Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the US Food and Drug Administration Distinguished Service Award. Furthermore, he was instrumental in establishing the United States Navy Trauma Training Program at USC, the principal trauma-training programme for Navy medical personnel.
He has served in numerous national leadership positions, including as a member of the Academy of Athens, a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and its Executive Committee, Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Committee on Trauma, Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, a member of the Research and Education Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and a member of the FDA Advisory Board on Blood Products.
Prof. Chrysanthos Georgiou
Chrysanthos Georgiou, MD, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Nicosia Medical School and Director of Surgery and the Trauma Service at Nicosia General Hospital. He completed his medical degree at the Medical University of Sofia and specialised in General Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he later earned his PhD.
As a Leventis Foundation scholar, Professor Georgiou undertook a research fellowship in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His clinical expertise includes trauma and emergency surgery, colorectal surgery, complex abdominal procedures and intensive care medicine.
He established Cyprus’ first Trauma Registry in 2012 and founded the country’s first Level I Trauma Centre at Nicosia General Hospital in 2023. Professor Georgiou is also a certified Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor and National Director of ATLS in Cyprus, as well as an honorary Fellow in Emergency Surgery of the European Board of Surgery.