Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters - vol. XII - n. 1 - March 1999

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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 middot;
• 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

• 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 (telemedic, ecc..)
• 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, 946003 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/ Quinfiliano, 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 AN DISASTER MEDICINE
10-13 May 1999, Osaka, Japan

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

Topics:

1. Disaster medicine

• Lesson learned from the great Hanshin-Awaii 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

2. 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 11I-Wadem
Prefectural Senri Critical Care Medical Center
1-1. Tsukumodai, 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 WI, 53792, USA
Fax: + 1.608.263-9461
E-mail: mlb@medicine.wisc.edu

CONTROVERSIES IN CIVILIAN AND MILITARY TRAUMA
15-16 May 1999, Brisbane, Australia

For further information:
XICA Conference and Event Masters
P.O. Box 7091, East Brisbane, Queensland
4169 Australia
Tel.: 07-3395-5743
Fax: 07-3395-6883

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
Faulmarmgasse 4
1040 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: ++ 43 1 588 04 0
Fax: ++ 43 1 586 91 85
E-mail: congress@mondial.via.at

21ST ESPEN CONGRESS CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
4-8 September 1999, Stockholm, Sweden

For further information contact:
Espen '99, c/b MCI Congress
Rue de Lyon 75
1211 Geneva 13, Switzerland
Tel.: + 41 2233 90580
Fax: + 41 2233 90521

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

For further information contact:
Congress Secretariat: Svoronos Travel
5, Apollonos str.
105 27 Athens, Greece
Tel.: + 30-1-3244932
(from Monday to Friday 09.00-17.00)
Fax: +30-1-3250660
E-mail: luca@hol.gr

2ND WORLD CONGRESS OF TISSUE BANKING AND 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EATB
7-10 October 1999, Warsaw, Poland

Topics:

• Legal and ethical aspects of tissue retrieval, banking and tranplantation, national and EC standards
• Tissue procurement, processing, preservation, sterilization and storage; standardization of procedures, safety and quality control
• Theoretical and clinical aspects of tissue allograft application in reconstructive surgery (bone, cartilage, tendons, skin, amnion, heart valves, corneas & others)
• Preservation and storage of human living cells (keratinocytes, reproductive cells, stern cells of peripheral blood, bone marrow, cord blood)
• Interaction of tissue with artificial materials
• Miscellaneous

Contact:
Scientific Secretariat & Information:
Department of Transplantology & Central Tissue Bank
Medical University in Warsaw, Institute of Biostructure
02-004 Warsaw
Chalubifiskiego 5, Poland
Tel./Fax: 48 22 621 7543 or 48 22 629 5282
E-Mail: agoclaw@ib.amwaw.edu.pl

Symposia:

• Intensive care of the critically burned patient
• Free tissue transfer
• Ambulatory plastic surgery
• Ethics and malpractice in plastic surgery
• Live operation workshops, satellite and video presentations

• Wide spectrum of modem plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery procedures, free papers, posters and discussions

For further information:
Dr Ali Al-Numairy
President, Arab Plast '99
P.O. Box: 7787
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel.: 971 4699717
Fax: 971 4681771
E-Mail: numairy@emirates.net.ae

TISSUE ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM:
IMAGINATION TO REALITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
3-5 September 2000, Perth, Western Australia

For further information:
Congress West Pry Ltd.
P.O. Box: 1248
Perth, Western Australia 6872
Australia
Tel.: 61-8-9322-6906
Fax: 61-8-9322-1734
E-Mail: conwes@congresswest.com.au

For further information:
Congress West Pry Ltd.,
P.O. Box: 1248
Perth, Western Australia 6972
Australia
Tel.: 61-8-9322-6906
Fax: 61-8-9322-1734
E-Mail: conwes@congresswest.com.au

Early Announcement for this important international conference MBC participation.
For further information contact:
Prof. M. Wayne Greene
Director, Health, Safety & Environment
Stet, 50 - 2075 Westbrook Mall, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 121, Canada
Fax: + 1,604.822-6650
E-Mail: greene@safety.ubc.ca