The HEST course is accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The settings where HEST is taught often rule out cadaveric teaching so a combination of lectures, videos and discussions with practical exercises including the suturing of prosthetic organs and blood vessels and demonstrations on a bespoke simulator model, is used instead.Īlthough each course is tailored to the needs and experience of the audience, the normal topics covered over the four days are: He also performs a lot of other laparoscopic general surgical operations. He works as a NHS General surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster, specialising in upper gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery and is the main clinical lead for laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The David Nott Foundation’s world-leading faculty deploys several times each year to conflict and disaster areas to train local surgeons with its Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course, targeted at surgeons and doctors to improve their skills in emergency trauma surgery. Mr David Nott has been a consultant surgeon since 1992.
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