Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters
- vol. XVIII - n. 3 - September 2005
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12TH BIENNIAL CONGRESS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BURN SOCIETY
Cape Town, South Africa
5-8 October 2005
Main Topics:
- Basic pathophysiology
- Anaesthesia
- Pain control
- Infection
- Surgery
- Nutrition
- Rehabilitation
For further information contact:
Deborah McTeer
Tel.: + 27 214066414
E-mail: deborah@curie.uct.ac.za
Website: www.cmc.uct.ac.za
IAHM
International IAHM-Pugwash Conference
Palermo, Italy
7-9 October 2005
Topics:
- The Right to Ask, the Duty to Help
- Problems of Health in a Destabilized World
For further information contact:
International Association for Humanitarian Medicine
c/o Div. Chir. Plastica e Terapia delle Ustioni
Ospedale Civico
90127 Palermo, Italy
Tel.: + 39 091 6663631
Fax: + 39 596404
E-mail: contact@iahm.org
FIRE SAFETY IN TERRESTRIAL PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION SANTANDER, SPAIN
20 October 2005
Main topics:
- Fire safety in passenger transportation by highway
- Fire safety in passenger transportation by railway
For further information contact:
D. Mariano Lazaro Urrutia
Gruppo GIDAI
Transport and Projects Technology and Processes
Department
School of Industrial and Telecommunication
Engineers
University of Cantabria
Ave. Los Castros s/n, 39005, Santander, SPAIN
Tel.: + 34 942 20 18 26
Fax: + 34 942 20 18 73
E-mail: lazarom@unican.es
APBC
5th Asia Pacific Burns Congress
Shanghai, China
5-7 November 2005
Main topics:
- Prevention & epidemiology
- Mass casualty, catastrophes & first aid
- Organization of burn services
- Economics of burns
- Medico-legal aspects
- Resuscitation
- Metabolism & basic sciences
- Lung injury
- Pain control
- The psychological approach
- Anaesthesia
- Burn wound management
- Infections
- Nursing
- Physical & occupational therapy
- Non-thermal burn
- Skin replacement
- Scar modulation
- Hand burns
- Reconstruction
For further information contact:
5Th APBC
International Dept., Chinese Medical Association
42 Dongsi Xidajie, Beijing 100710, China
Tel.: + 86 (10) 65249989 ext. 1610
Fax: + 86 (10 65244086/65123754
E-mail: kevinchen@cma.org.cn
Website: www.chinamed.com.cn/5 apbc
International Forum on Patient Safety
Tokio, Japan
23-24 January 2006
Main topics:
- Epidemiology of clinical accident
- Role of information, labeling and patient safety
- Electronic technology toward clinical accident
- Risk communication, risk behavior, risk perception in clinical accident
- Monitoring and severance system for clinical accident
- Ethics and risk education system for clinical accident
- The third party for clinical accident
- Legal aspects in clinical accident
- Medical economics in patient safety
- Development in drug product for patient safety
- Ergometrics for man-machine system in clinical instruments for patient safety
- Clinical governing and policy for clinical accident
- Training of accident-prone medical staffs
- Clinical risk management for cancer, infectious diseases, and illnesses
- Risk management in rehabilitation and care houses
For further information contact:
Shirley V. Villalobos Chaves
Assistant of Editor in Chief for JMS
International Secretary of Union of Risk Management
for Preventive Medicine (URMPM)
URMPM Information, Publication and Registration Office
E-mail: secr-office@umin.ac.jp
Fax: 506+292-6136 (506 is the countrycode of Costa Rica)
(Homepage) http://www.urmpm.org
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