Our Medical Director, Dr Ammar Darwish, was invited to join the panel on Humanitarian Surgery at the ASGBI (Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland) Annual Congress, and to lead two half-day training sessions as part of the Pre-Congress Training Village. 

 

Ammar delivered training to 30 participants over the two courses, who were able to learn more about how to deal with major trauma, both blunt and penetrating injuries, that are common in patients on the frontline.  

 

These two training sessions focused on Cardiothoracic and Abdominal Trauma, and mirror closely what we teach in our HEST® course, through a lecture, presentation of real-life cases seen by our faculty and an opportunity to get hands-on practical experience making use of the prosthetic organs and Heston® to build skills, knowledge, confidence and proficiency. 

 

These types of training sessions allow doctors in training to gain some insight into the world of humanitarian surgery and continues to shine a light on the training needs of those doctors living and working on the frontline. 

 

I was training surgeons on chest trauma and abdominal trauma and I gave a talk about training surgeons in conflict zones and the work of the DNF which had a huge positive impact on the audience who where surgeons and trainees from the UK and overseas.