4th Surgical Forum

The 4th Surgical Forum in Conjunction with the
1st Annual Surgical Scientific Conference

The Organising Committee
Front (L to R): Mr V Matthew, Mr Tan, Mr Kok, Dato Yapp, Mr Chua, Mr William, Hjh Rumput
Back (L to R): Dr Nourul, Mr Yusri, Mr Mackie, Dr Ak Azmi, Ms Zue, Mr Tin.

9th September 2007.

For the 4th consecutive year the Department of General Surgery successfully held it's annual surgical forum with this year's theme ‘Management of the Trauma Patient – Working Towards Better Survival’.

In the morning sessions, we had interesting talks about the current trend in trauma and the statistics by Dr Da of Accident & Emergency. Dr Ang presented on Fluid management in the Trauma patient, Mr Paw talked about cardiothoracic injuries and Mr Tan shared his experience in management of abdominal injuries.

We also lucky when we had a guest speaker from Singapore who was also a Specialist Trauma Surgeon who spoke of his experience as a Trauma surgeon in singapore and advised our surgeons on current standard management for trauma patients.

Dr Ang giving his talk

Mr Zul & Dr Vui Heng amongst the guests

For the first time this year, the organising committee also held it's first annual Scientific Conference and invited scientific papers from all the surgeons working in Brunei to present their study, research or interesting cases of which top 10 papers were presented in the afternoon. The Best Scientific Paper was awarded to Mr Yusri Yahya a General Surgeon, who's paper triggered an interesting remark from one of our guests, Dr Hjh Roslina. Mr Yusri's Paper was an interesting case report of a male patient who injected his genitalia with foreign substance to make it ... well 'bigger' however it ended up all wrong (as usual) and the patient had to end up having surgery to make it 'smaller'! And oh yes.. when Dr Hjh Roslina said what is that.... the whole room just burst into laughter... who wouldnt aye.. Anyway due to certain restrictions we are not allowed to show the gruesome pics of the surgery however it's enough for us to deter anyone from having any one of these nasty injections. Well done Mr Yusri!