Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters Vol. XI - n. 4 - December 1998

ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE INTERNATIONAL TRAUMA ANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE SOCIETY MULTIDISCIPLINARY CME COURSES


Locations:
February 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana
April 1999, Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 1999, London, England
August 1999, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

For complete information contact:
Cambridge Health Resources
ITACCS-CHR
1037 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164
Tel.: 617 630 1371
Fax: 617 630 1325
E-mail: mstarzyk@chealth.com

 

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
15-16 March 1999, Strasbourg, France

For further information contact:
Eva Wimmerstedt
The Nordic School of Public Health
Box 12133, 402 42 Goteborg, Sweden
Fax: + 46 31691777
E-mail: christina@nhv.se

 

15TH WORLD CONGRESS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
12-16 April 1999, S;5o Paulo, Brazil

For further information contact:
Ministry of Labor, Fundacentro, Rua Capote Valente, 710
05409-002 Sdo Paulo, Brazil
Tel.: 0 11 3066 6000
Fax: 011 3066 6234
E-mail: xvcongresso@fundacentro.gov.br
Online: www.fundacentro.gov.br

 

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PREVENTION AND REDUCTION OF NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

 

MEDITERRANEAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR THE REDUCTION OF NATURAL DISASTERS

 

MEDITERRANEAN SEMINAR ON TELE-DETECTION AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO
THE PREVENTION OF DISASTERS

 

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN SYMPOSIUM ON BURNS AND DISASTERS PRODUCED BY FIRE
4-7 May 1999, Valencia, Spain

 

EURO-MEDITERRANEAN SYMPOSIUM ON BURNS AND DISASTERS PRODUCED BY FIRE
in collaboration with
MEDITERRANEAN CLUB FOR BURNS AND FIRE DISASTERS (MBC)

Topics:

Clinical and therapeutic aspects of burns

  • Resuscitation of patients with severe burns. Complications of the respiratory system and polytrauma

  • Special surgery in burns to the face, hands and genitals Immunological aspects 

  • Research on skin cultivated in vitro. Current situation. Live donors, skin from corpses, pig skin, amnion, bone homografts, cartilage, comea 

  • Biotechnology 

  • Rehabilitation of burns patients (social employment and family problems and impact of burns on sexuality)

  • Psychological support

  • The organization of prehospital medical attention in emergencies caused by fire in the different autonomous regions

  • Current situation in Burns Centres

  • History of disasters caused by fire

Civil Defence in Fire Disasters

  • Nuclear energy department
  • Research into fires. The current situation in the Mediterranean area 
  • The risk culture, training and misinformation
  • Medical and technological progress in fire-fighting (telemedicine...
  • General operating methods in co-ordination centres
  • Urban disaster
  • Industrial disaster
  • Forest fires
  • Terrorism

For further information contact:
Federacio Valenciana de Municipis i Provincies
c/ Conde Trenor, 9
46003 Valencia Spain
Fax: 96 391 51 07
E-mail: congress@fvmp.es

For further information on the 
Mediterranean Regional Conference of the International Decade for the Reduction of Natural Disasters and Mediterranean Seminar on Tele-detection and New Technologies applied to the Prevention of Disasters Contact: General Directorate of Civil Protection c/ Quintiliano, 21 28002 Madrid, Spain Tel.: 91 537 33 05 Fax: 91 582 89 24 E-mail: conmed@procivil.mir.es

 

11TH WORLD CONGRESS ON EMERGENCY AND DISASTER MEDICINE
10-13 May 1999, Osaka, Japan

The MBC is an Affiliated Society of WADEM and recommends the 1999 World Congress in Japan.
Topics: 

  1. Disaster medicine 
  • Lesson learned from the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake 
  • How to coordinate for anti-personnel landmines 
  • Modem technology of warning systems for various disasters 
  • Volcanic eruption: short and long term, direct and indirect health effects 
  • Emergency response for radiation accidents 
  • Mass evacuation for war and civil conflict 
  • Terrorism including suicide bombing 
  • Quality management for disaster medicine 
  • International assistance 
  1. Emergency medicine 
  • How to treat multiple-trauma patients 
  • New CPR 
  • Fluid therapy at the pre-hospital phase 
  • Advanced therapy of AMI 
  • Quality management for emergency medicine 
  • EMSS

For further information contact:
Dr Tatsuro Kai, Secretery General 11-Wadern
Prefectural Senri Critical Care Medical Center
1-1. Tsukurnodai, Suita City
Osaka, Japan 562-0862
Fax: + 81.6.6872-1846
E-mail-: wademll@osk3.3webnb.ne.jp
Homepage: http://www2.osk.3web.ne.jp/~wademll
or
The Editor: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Clinical Science Center
600 North Highland
E5/615 University of Wisconsin
Madison Wl, 53792, USA
Fax: + 1.608.263-9461
E-mail: mlb@medicine.wisc.edu

 

12TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION FOR PLASTIC, RECONSTRUCTIVE AND AESTHETIC SURGERY
27 June - 2 July 1999, San Francisco, California

Contact:
12th Congress of IPRAS
c/o Associated Management Services
444 E. Algonquin Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005
Tel.: 647-228-9900 Fax: 847-228-6509

 

38TH WORLD CONGRESS OF SURGERY INTERNATIONAL SURGICAL WEEK (ISW99)
15-20 August 1999, Vienna, Austria

For further information contact:
Congress Secretariat ISW99
Mondial Ges.m.b.H. & Co. KG
Faulmaringasse 4
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: ++ 43 1 588 04 0
Fax: ++ 43 1 586 91 85
E-mail: congress@mondial.via.at

 

8TH CONGRESS EUROPEAN BURNS ASSOCIATION (EBA)
15-18 September 1999, Marathon-Attica, Greece

For further information contact:
Congress Secretariat: Svoronos Travel
5, Apollonos str.
10527 Athens, Greece
Tel.: + 30-1-3244932
(from Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00)
Fax: +30-1-3250660
E-mail: luca@hol.gr

 

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