Bio:

Professor Victor Kong is a specialist general and trauma surgeon based in Auckland. He has trained and worked across New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Canada, including at major trauma centres in Johannesburg and Toronto. A passionate educator, Professor Kong is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with particular interests in trauma education and the care of injured patients in rural and resource-limited settings.

Presentation topics include:

• Major trauma: the first hour
• The shocked trauma patient
• Chest trauma: recognition and early management
• Abdominal and pelvic trauma
• Penetrating trauma
• The deteriorating trauma patient
• Managing major trauma in a rural hospital
• Preparing the trauma patient for retrieval and transfer
• Trauma imaging: when, what and when not to wait
• Trauma case-based decision-making.