Program
TRAUMA, CRITICAL CARE & ACUTE CARE SURGERY 2027
March 15-17, 2027
MEDICAL DSASTER RESPONSE
March 14, 2027
MATTOX VEGAS TCCACS 2027
Trauma, Critical Care, & Acute Care Surgery
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2027 | |||
Activity | Speaker | Time | Location |
| Breakfast in Exhibit Hall | 6:30 – 8:30 | PALACE 3 | |
| SESSION 1 HOT TOPICS 2026 | Moderator: Jennifer M. Gurney | 7:15 – 10:00 AM | Palace 1-2 |
| State of our Union – TCCACS 2027 | Kenneth L. Mattox | 7:15 – 7:30 AM | Palace 1-2 |
| Uses of Plasma – Back to the Future | Martin A. Schreiber | 7:30 – 7:45 AM | |
| Sepsis Management: EGDT is Out, Personalized Resuscitation is In! | Ali Salim | 7:45 – 8:00 AM | |
| Anticoagulation and reversal in the bleeding patient — new agents, protocols, rural access to reversal agents | Carlos V.R. Brown | 8:00 – 8:15 AM | |
| Robotics Above the Diaphragm: Applications in Thoracic and Thoracoabdominal Trauma | Matthew J. Martin | 8:15 – 8:30 AM | |
| New Guidelines and Optimal Practices for Penetrating TBI | Thomas J. Schroeppel | 8:30 – 8:45 AM | |
| Whole Blood or Components? What the Data Tell Us in 2027 | Juan C. Duchesne | 8:45 – 9:00 AM | |
| Hot off the Press – Top Recent Trials in Trauma | Bellal A. Joseph | 9:00 – 9:15 AM | |
| PANEL DISCUSSION | All Session Presenters | 9:15 – 9:45 AM | |
| BREAK & VISIT EXHIBITS | 9:45 – 10:15 AM | PALACE 3 | |
| SESSION 2 CASE MANAGEMENT SESSION | Moderator: Alison Wilson | 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | PALACE 1-2 |
| Panelist | Elizabeth R. Benjamin | ||
| Panelist | Michael Cripps | ||
| Panelist | Patrick Georgoff | ||
| Panelist | Purvi P. Patel | ||
| Panelist | Matthew J. Martin | ||
| Panelist | Martin A. Schreiber | ||
| SESSION 3 Kenneth L. Mattox Distinguished Lecture Luncheon Session | Moderator: Kenneth L. Mattox | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Augustus Ballroom |
| KENNETH L. MATTOX DISTINGUISHED LECTURE “60 Years of Changing Trauma Care The Evolution of Trauma & Acute Care Surgery Through the Story of MATTOX TCCACS” Demetrios Demetriades | 12:00 – 1:30 PM | ||
| SESSION 4 SEE ONE; DO ONE – HOW I DO IT | Moderator: Michael J. Sise | 1:30 – 3:30 PM | Palace 1-2 |
| Avoiding the Incisional Hernia: New Data and Techniques for Emergency Laparotomy Closure | Jason Turner | 1:30 – 1:45 | |
| Diagnosis and Management of Mediastinal Carnage | Matthew J. Wall, Jr. | 1:45 – 2:00 | |
| Crohn’s Disease – Maximum Medical Management vs Early Surgical Excision | Scott R. Steele | 2:00 – 2:15 | |
| No Place to Hide: An Operative Approach to Injuries of the Portal Triad | Kenji Inaba | 2:15 – 2:30 | |
| Traumatic Peripheral Vascular Injuries in the Pediatric Patient | Katie Russell | 2:30 – 2:45 | |
| Blood or Bowel: Evaluation and Management of Free Fluid Without Solid Organ Injury | Tanya Egodage | 2:45 – 3:00 | |
| Degloving’s Ugly Cousin: What You Need to Know About Morel-Lavallée Injuries | Andre’ P. Campbell | 3:00 – 3:15 | |
| Panel Discussion | All Session Presenters | 3:15 – 3:45 | |
| Break & Visit Exhibits | 3:40 – 4:15 | Palace 3 | |
| SESSION 5 – TCCACS DAY 1 – Commentary On and Lessons Learned | Kenneth L. Mattox | 4:15 – 5:00 | PALACE 1-2 |
| SESSION 6 MEET THE MASTERS – TCC & ACS EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES – WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO ASK THE EXPERTS! | Moderator: Kenneth L. Mattox | 5:00 – 6:00 | Palace 1-2 |
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2027 | |||
Activity | Speaker | Time | Location |
| Breakfast in Exhibit Hall | 7:00 – 8:30 | PALACE 3 | |
| SESSION 7- CRITICAL TRAUMA/ CRITICAL CARE TREATMENT | Moderator: Andre’ P. Campbell | 7:30 – 10:00 AM | Palace 1-2 |
| Getting it Right: Right Ventricular Failure Causes and Management | Hasan Alam | 7:30 – 7:42 AM | |
| Antithrombotics, Stents and Craniectomy: Multidisciplinary Decision Making in the TBI+BCVI Patient | Brent J. Emigh | 7:42 – 7:54 AM | |
| Tracheostomy: Yes or No? Timing Is Everything…or Is It? | Joshua C. Dilday | 7:54 – 8:06 AM | |
| Pain Control in the Geriatric Patient – Why Tramadol is not the Answer | Bryan A. Cotton | 8:06 – 8:18 AM | |
| Geriatric Triage – Who Needs the ICU? | Meghan R. Lewis | 8:18 – 8:30 AM | |
| Ventilator Strategies for the Patient With Pulmonary Contusion | Jeffrey J. Skubic | 8:30 – 8:42 AM | |
| Beyond Levopheds and Vasopressin: Novel Pressor and Vasoactive Agents in ICU Resuscitation | Ryan P. Dumas | 8:42 – 8:54 AM | |
| Clinical Implications of Severe Injury in the Patient on GLP-1 Agents | Thomas J. Schroeppel | 8:54 – 9:06 AM | |
| Smoke Gets in Your Airways: A Practical Guide to Inhalation Injury | Jay A. Johannigman | 9:06 – 9:18 AM | |
| Hot off the Press – Top Recent Trials in Critical Care | Natasha Keric | 9:18 – 9:30 AM | |
| Panel Discussion | All Session Presenters | 9:30 – 10:00 AM | |
| Break/ Visit Exhibits | 10:00 – 10:30 AM | Palace 3 | |
| SESSION 8 HOUDINI SESSION – HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS ONE? | Moderator: Bellal A. Joseph | 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Palace 1-2 |
| Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: Diagnostic Traps and Therapeutic Pitfalls | Demetrios Demetriades | 10:30 – 10:45 AM | |
| Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernias; Repair Early, Late, or Never? | Joshua C. Dilday | 10:45 – 11:00 AM | |
| Tube Trouble: PCT Management From Start to Finish | Sydney J. Vail | 11:00 – 11:15 AM | |
| Recognizing and Managing Stoma Complications – Early and Late | Scott R. Steele | 11:15 – 11:30 AM | |
| Two for One: EGS Surgery in the Advanced Pregnant Patient | Matthew J. Martin | 11:30 – 11:45 AM | |
| Peek and Shriek: The Exposed Vascular Graft | Michael J. Sise | 11:45 – 12:00 | |
| Little Shock, Big Shock: Operating on the Pediatric Patient in Hemorrhagic Shock | Jon Perlstein | 12:00 – 12:15 PM | |
| Panel Discussion | All Session Presenters | 12:15 – 12:30 PM | |
| SESSION 9 CAPSULE COMMENTARIES – EVOLVING ISSUES AND ANNUAL UPDATES | Moderator: Jeffrey J. Skubic | 2:00 – 3:15 PM | Palace 1-2 |
| Retained Bullets – To Remove or Not to Remove? That is the Question | Kenji Inaba | 2:00 – 2:08 PM | |
| A Modern Approach to the Most Underestimated Trauma Mechanism: Ground-Level Falls | Patrick Georgoff | 2:08 – 2:16 PM | |
| Trauma in the Wild: Teeth, Horns, Hoofs and Claws | Chris Cribari | 2:16 – 2:24 PM | |
| Powered Up, Banged Up: The Rise of E-Bike-& E-Scooter Trauma | Carlos V.R. Brown | 2:24 – 2:32 PM | |
| Practical Steps to Launching Your Robotic ACS Program | Meghan R. Lewis | 2:32 – 2:40 PM | |
| First-Line Facial Trauma: Survival Guide for General Surgeons | James M. Bardes | 2:40 – 2:48 PM | |
| Big, Small, or None at All? Chest Tubes in 2027 | Juan C. Duchesne | 2:48 – 2:56 PM | |
| Hot off the Press – Top Recent Trials in Emergency General Surgery | Ali Salim | 2:56 – 3:15 PM | |
| Break & Visit Exhibits | 3:15 – 3:45 | Palace 3 | |
| SESSION 10 – CASE MANAGEMENT – “STRICTLY RURAL” | Moderator: Alexander L. Eastman | 3:45 – 5:15 | Palace 1-2 |
| Panelist | Chris Cribari | ||
| Panelist | Justine Gavagan | ||
| Panelist | Jennifer M. Gurney | ||
| Panelist | Katie Russell | ||
| Panelist | Jason L. Turner | ||
| Panelist | Alison Wilson | ||
| SESSION 11 – TCCACS DAY 2 Commentary On and Lessons Learned | Alison Wilson | 5:15 – 6:00 PM | Palace 1-2 |
| SESSION 12 Meet the Professor/Discuss the Issues Reception/Dance | Host: Kenneth L. Mattox | 7:00 – 9:30 PM | Augustus Ballroom |
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2027 | |||
Activity | Speaker | Time | Location |
| Breakfast in Exhibit Hall | 6:30 – 8:30 | PALACE 3 | |
| SESSION 13 – COMPLICATIONS OF TRAUMA & ACUTE CARE SURGERY | Moderator: Michael Cripps | 7:30 – 9:00 AM | Palace 1-2 |
| Beyond the Graham Patch: Modern Surgical Management of Peptic Ulcer Disease | Purvi P. Patel | 7:30 – 7:45 | |
| Hepatic Help: Liver Angioembolization Complications and Management | Elizabeth R. Benjamin | 7:45 – 8:00 | |
| The Sentinel Bleed: A Step-by-Step Approach | Matthew J. Wall, Jr. | 8:00 – 8:15 | |
| Too Tight, Too Long, Too Late: Managing Pelvic Binder and Tourniquet Complications | Demetrios Demetriades | 8:15 – 8:30 | |
| I’ve Injured the Bile Duct – Now What? | Mark J. Kaplan | 8:30 – 8:45 | |
| Panel Discussion | All Session Presenters | 8:45 – 9:00 | |
| SESSION 14, Annual ACS Debates | Moderator: Martin A. Schreiber | 9:00 – 10:00 | Palace 1-2 |
| Resolved: Every patient with acute appendicitis should go to the OR | 9:00 – 9:30 | ||
| Pro Position | Alison Wilson | ||
| Con Position | Alexander L. Eastman | ||
| Resolved: Hemodynamically unstable or transiently responding trauma patients should undergo CT imaging before operative intervention | 9:30 – 10:00 | ||
| Pro Position | Katie Russell | ||
| Con Position | Bryan A. Cotton | ||
| BREAK & VISIT EXHIBITS | 10:00 – 10:30 | Palace 3 | |
| SESSION 15 – Henry C. Cleveland Forum on Contemporary Issues in Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery | Moderator: Jay A. Johannigman | 10:30 – 1:00 | Palace 1-2 |
| Most Common ACS VRC Deficiencies and How to Avoid Them | Jon Perlstein | 10:30 – 10:45 | |
| APPs, PAs, and NPs – Building Trauma & ACS Teams that Work | David V. Shatz | 10:45 – 11:00 | |
| When AI Lies: Managing Hallucinations in Clinical Practice | Patrick Georgoff | 11:00 – 11:15 | |
| Lights, Camera, Liability: What Every Surgeon Needs to Know About OR Recordings | Ryan P. Dumas | 11:15 – 11:30 | |
| Technology in Trauma & ACS: When More Gadgets Mean Higher Cost and Worse Outcomes | Hasan Alam | 11:30 – 11:45 | |
| Index Overload: Trauma Scores and Indices That Matter | James M. Bardes | 11:45 – 12:00 | |
| Panel Discussion | All Presenters | 12:00 – 12:30 | |
| SESSION 16 – TCCACS DAY 3 – Commentary On and Lessons Learned | Matthew J. Martin | 12:30 – 1:15 | Palace 1-2 |
| MEETING ADJOURNED | 1:15 PM | ||
Program Overview
The Latest Science. The Toughest Cases. The Operations That Change Practice
Join leading trauma, acute care surgery, and critical care experts at Mattox TCCACS 2027at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for three days of fast-paced education designed to change the way you care for injured and critically ill patients.
From groundbreaking research and controversial debates to technical operative pearls and real-world case management, TCCACS 2027 delivers the evidence, innovation, and practical decision-making today's surgeons need.
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Hot Topics That Will Shape Your Practice
Discover the newest evidence driving trauma and acute care surgery, including personalized sepsis resuscitation, whole blood versus component therapy, anticoagulation reversal, robotic applications in trauma, penetrating traumatic brain injury, plasma resuscitation, and the year's most influential clinical trials.
Master the Operations That Matter
Our signature "See One; Do One – How I Do It" session brings nationally recognized surgeons to the podium to demonstrate step-by-step approaches to some of the most technically demanding operations in trauma and emergency general surgery. Learn practical solutions for portal triad injuries, mediastinal trauma, Morel-Lavallée lesions, pediatric vascular injuries, emergency laparotomy closure, chest tube management, and more.
Critical Care at the Cutting Edge
Stay ahead of rapidly evolving ICU practice with updates on right ventricular failure, ventilator strategies, vasoactive agents, geriatric critical care, inhalation injury, GLP-1 medications in the injured patient, multidisciplinary management of TBI and BCVI, tracheostomy timing, and the latest landmark critical care trials.
Escape the Impossible with the Houdini Session
Complex patients require creative thinking. This popular session tackles the cases that test even experienced surgeons—from bleeding tracheostomies and exposed vascular grafts to traumatic abdominal wall hernias, perforated ulcer management, pregnancy emergencies, pediatric hemorrhagic shock, and difficult postoperative complications.
Annual Updates You Can Use Monday Morning
Get concise, high-yield updates on today's rapidly changing practice, including e-bike and e-scooter injuries, facial trauma, pediatric imaging, retained bullets, robotic ACS programs, wildlife injuries, ground-level falls, and the year's most important emergency general surgery literature.
Real Cases. Real Decisions. Real Lessons
Case management sessions, one focusing on urban scenarios and the other “strictly rural,” challenge a panel of nationally recognized faculty to think through complex clinical scenarios, while daily commentary sessions highlight key lessons, evolving evidence, and practical take-home messages from across the meeting.
When Things Go Wrong
Every surgeon faces complications. Learn expert strategies for rescuing patients after interventional radiology and advanced endoscopic complications, managing bile duct injuries, liver angioembolization failures, stoma complications, and tourniquet and pelvic binder injuries.
The Debates Everyone Will Be Talking About
Watch respected experts argue both sides of two of today's most controversial questions:
- Should every patient with acute appendicitis undergo surgery?
- Should unstable trauma patients ever undergo CT imaging before the operating room?
Expect lively discussion and evidence that challenges conventional thinking.
Leadership Beyond the Operating Room
The Henry C. Cleveland Forum explores the issues shaping the future of trauma surgery—from AI hallucinations in clinical practice, to OR recording liability, to trauma center verification, team building with APPs, meaningful performance metrics.
Why Attend TCCACS 2027?
- 100+ expert presentations covering trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery
- Nationally recognized faculty sharing practical, experience-based insights
- Evidence-focused updates featuring the year's most important clinical trials and guideline changes
- Interactive panels, debates, and case discussions that encourage audience participation
- Immediately applicable techniques you can take back to your trauma center, ICU, and operating room
Whether you practice at a Level I trauma center, community hospital, or rural surgical program, Mattox TCCACS 2027 delivers the clinical knowledge, technical expertise, and practical strategies to help you provide better care for every injured and critically ill patient.
Join us at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one of the premier educational meetings in trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery.
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