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:
- 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
- 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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