2nd Turkish Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery
It was performed at the Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center between 30 September and 4 October, 1997. The opening of the congress was performed by Suleyman Demirel - the President of Turkiye. Among 948 participants; 826 were physicians (87 %), 87 were residents (9.2 %) and 35 were nurses (4 %). There were 10 panel sessions and 8 conference talks. Experts of the field throughout the world were invited.
Our guests were: Donald Trunkey M.D., Kenneth L Mattox M.D., Charles E Lucas M.D. and John H Siegel from the U.S.A., Rasim Tekin M.D., Thomas Raff M.D., Klaus Noever M.D. and Clemens Schiestel M.D. from Germany and Clem W Imrie M.D. from Scotland. The congress president was Omer Turel M.D who is a Professor of Surgery.
250 presentations were accepted. 160 of these were from university hospitals (64 %), 57 were from teaching hospitals (23 %), 23 were from state hospitals (9 %), 5 were from private hospitals (2 %) and 5 were from ambulance services (2 %). The distribution according to the disciplines were: 42 % General Surgery, 14 % First Aid & Emergencies, 8 % Plastic Surgery, 8 % Orthopedics, 7 % Cardiovascular Surgery and 5 % multidisciplinary. Neurosurgery, Nursing Schools, Pediatric Surgery, Dental Surgery, Anesthesiology & Reanimation, Urology, Gynecology & Obstetrics were the less involved disciplines.
195 of the presentations were retrospective (78 %), 22 were prospective (9 %), 20 were case reports (8 %) and 13 were experimental research (5 %). Almost 80 % of the presentations were retrospective studies, which can be attributed to the lack of sufficient research funds in our country. 173 of the presentations were dealing with trauma (69 %), 54 with acute abdomen (22 %) and 23 with burns (9 %). 26 of the studies (10.4 %) were received from foreign countries. These were from: Macedonia (16), Bulgaria (4), Germany (2), Azerbaijan (2), Romania (1) and Ukraine (1).
The first day of the congress, at 30 September 1997 a Trauma and Resuscitation Workshop was performed. Most of the 200 participants were physicians and residents.