Royal Society of Medicine, London
15 - 18 April 2012
World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo - Programme
International World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 15th April to 18th April 2012 BOOK NOW
Day 1 - 15th April 2012 Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
Day 2 - 16th April 2012 Pre-Hospital Trauma
Day 3 - 17th April 2012 Disaster and Humanitarian Medicine
Day 4 - 18th April 2012 Conflict Medicine

Extreme Medicine Programme Overview:

The International World Extreme Medicine Conference and EXPO 2012 will host some of the very best speakers from around the world, who are amongst the leading figures in remote extreme medicine fields including: expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster, and relief medicine. Alongside the lecture daily series will be exhibitions from focused industry leaders, showcasing products and services to meet your extreme medicine needs.

**'This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 31.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.'

Expedition & Wilderness Medicine invites you to join us for 4 days of "Taking Medicine to the Extremes"

Sunday 15th April 2012
Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
Monday 16th April 2012
Pre-Hospital Medicine
Tuesday 17th April 2012
Disaster and Relief Medicine
Wednesday 18th April 2012
Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine
  • 08.30 to 20.30
  • Introduction to expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Staying healthy in the wilderness
  • Risk and responsibility
  • Travel medicine and pre-existing conditions
  • Travellers’ diarrhoea
  • Heat illness
  • Frostbite
  • Hypothermia
  • Altitude medicine
  • Terrestrial envenomation
  • Marine envenomation
  • 08.30 to 18.00
  • Introduction to pre-hospital medicine
  • Reading the scene
  • Pre-hospital analgesia and anaesthesia
  • Catastrophic haemorrhage
  • Cold water immersion
  • Communication and reach back
  • Medical kits
  • Diving medicine
  • Jungle fever
  • 08.30 to 20.30
  • Introduction to disaster medicine
  • Mortality and morbidity in displaced populations
  • Wars and population movement in affluent countries
  • Reproductive health in refugees
  • Preparedness & logistics in natural /manmade disasters
  • Traumatic cardiac arrest
  • Teams in extreme environments
  • Thoracic trauma
  • Crash Injuries and entranpment
  • Pre-hospital medicine for the Olympics
  • Managing blast injuries pre-hospital
  • The problems with humanitarian aid
  • Code of conduct in disaster relief
  • Natural disasters
  • Managing burns pre-hospital
  • 08.30 to 18.00
  • Dealing with extreme medicine
  • Difficult airways in remote settings
  • Wound management
  • Security and safety in hostile environments
  • Coordinating MEDEVACS
  • Evaluating and monitoring aid programmes
  • Pre-hospital diagnostics
  • Managing traumatic amputations
  • Permissive hypotension and fluid resus
  • Frontline priorities versus reality - Libya
  • Space medicine
Guest Speaker:
Dr Mike Grocott
Caudwell Xtreme Everest
Guest Speaker:
Dr Mark Read
Living with Crocodiles
Guest Speaker:
Dr Anthony Redmond
Foreign Medical Teams in Disasters
Guest Speaker:
Girls Under Fire

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