ANNOUNCEMENTS

Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters - vol. XIX - n. 4 - December 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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
  • Telemonitoring 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

Shanghai International Conference
on Trauma and Emergency Medicine
Shanghai - China
12-14 May 2007

Main Topics:


Clinical Programme:

  • Advanced Clinical Practices
  • Innovations in trauma and emergency care from prevention to discharge
  • New approach in training the next generation of trauma and critical care physicians and nurses

Scientific Programme:

  • Basic and clinical research on emergency and trauma care
  • Research on critically ill and injured patient: complication, infection, nutrition and rehabilitation
  • Research in the prevention and epidemiology of injury

System Organization, Development & Management:

  • Approaches to EMS and Trauma System organization development and management
  • Essential and emergency surgery in developing countries and rural areas;
  • Traffic safety – An emerging global health issue
  • Digital hospital / Telemedicine / Information Technology / E-Healthcare

Disaster Medicine:

  • The treatment and management of the massive wounded in disaster

For further information contact:

Secretariat:

Department of Trauma and Emergency

Shanghai East Hospital

150 Jimo Rd., Shanghai 200120, China

Tel.: +86-21-3880-4518 Ext 7204

Fax: +86-21-5882-3185

E-mail: sictem2007@hotmail.com

Website: www.sictem2007.com

WADEM
15th World Congress on Disaster
and Emergency Medicine
Amsterdam – The Netherlands
13-16 May 2007

Main Topics:

  • Civilian-Military Collaboration
  • Education and training
  • EMS systems
  • Ethics and International Law
  • Hot Topics
  • Humanitarian crises
  • Mass gatherings
  • Life-threatening situations in daily emergencies and disasters
  • Miscellaneous
  • Nursing and paramedics issues
  • Paediatrics
  • Preparedness
  • Public health
  • Psychosocial aspects
  • Research and health surveillance
  • Types in disasters

For further information contact:

Congress Office:

PAOG Course and Congress Organisation

Harriet Oudakkerr, Babette Schmidt

and Antionette Willingshofer

VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

Tel: +31 (0)20 444 8444

Fax: +31 (0)20 444 8445

E-mail: paog@vumc.nl

Website: www.wcdem2007.org

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