ANNOUNCEMENTS

Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters - vol. XIX - n. 3 - September 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS

National Congress
of Italian Society of Burns (SIUST)
Udine - Italy
12-14 October 2006

Main Topics:

  • Problems of the ventilation of burned patients in a Burn Centre
  • Covering materials for burned areas and skin grafts
  • The severely burned patient in an emergency ward
  • Miscellaneous

For further information contact:
www.meetingsarazanassi.it
E.mail.info@meetingsarazanassi.it

8th Asia-Pacific Conference
on Disasters Medicine (APCDM)
Tokyo - Japan
20-22 November 2006

Main theme:

  • Global Collaboration for Disaster Response

Symposium:

  • Governmental and non-govemmental collaboration in major disasters How to coordinate NGO medical teams with the action of the Government concerned
  • Pandemic emergencies, e.g. avian influenza, SARS. The need for intra-country and international collaboration
  • International humanitarian medical assistance. Needs, resources, and management

Topics:

  • Needs of global collaboration for disaster response
  • New disasters due to global environmental and climate changes
  • New technologies in disaster relief and management
  • Response to emerging infections
  • Education and training in disaster medicine
  • Rapid response system
  • Coping with aftermath of disasters

For further information contact:
Dept of Emergency & Critical Medicine
Nippon Medical School
1-15 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603 Japan
E-mail: kaido@nms.ac.jp
www.convention.co.jp/8apcdm

2nd Pan African Burn Society Congress
Assiut-Egypt
16-18 January, 2007

Topics:

  • First aid in burns
  • Burn pain
  • Burn wound care
  • Inhalation injury
  • Pathophysiology and immunology
  • Nutrition in bums
  • Burn wound infection
  • Special burns
  • Skin substitutes
  • Burn reconstruetion
  • Burn physiotherapy
  • Social rehabilitation
  • Fire disasters
  • Epidemiology and prevention
  • Miscellaneous

    For further information contact:
    Prof. Mahmoud E1-Otiefy
    Plastic Surgery Department
    Assiut University Hospital
    Assiut 71526 - Egypt
    Fax: +2 088 233 3327
    E-mail: plasticassiut@hotmail.com

    EMMIT 2007
    Euro-Mediterranean
    Medical Informatics and Telemedicine
    Constantza - Romania
    1-3 March 2007

    Topics:

    • Medical record and health cards
    • Clinical and epidemiological data bases
    • Multimedia database, images and sėgnals processing
    • Hospital Information System and health care networks
    • Teleconsulting/telediagnosis
    • Telernonitoring and telehome care
    • Teleradiology, telecardiology, telepathology, teleophthalmology, telediabetology, etc.
    • Internet in healthcare and medical web portals
    • Distance learning in healthcare
    • Decision support system in medicine
    • Statistical software in biomedicine
    • Bioinformatics and genoma data bank
    • Neuroinformatics knowledge and brain cognitive processes
    • Digital signature in health documents
    • Security, privacy of medical data
    • Regional and national information Systems GRID technology in healthcare

    For further information contact:
    E-mail: segreteria@aitim.net
    Website: www.aitim.net
    Romanian contact: E-mail: gpg@itcnet.ro

    12th Congress of the European
    Burn Association (EBA)
    Budapest - Hungary
    19-22 September 2007

    Proposed congress theme:

    • A painful paradox: technical breakthrough and financial restraints

    For further information contact:
    E-mail: congress@motesz.hu
    www.motesz.hu

    International Training Programme
    for Conflict Management
    Pisa - Italy

    For further information contact:

    www.itpem.sssuo.it