Description: Aortic Injuries was presented by David Spain, MD, FACS, on Nov. 5, 2010 at The Arizona Trauma and Acute Care Consortium second annual symposium. He discusses what was new in 2010 for blunt traumatic aortic injuries in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Dr. David Spain is a professor of surgery, the program director of surgical critical care, and chief of trauma and critical care surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California.