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Conference Program - Nozawa Onsen

Medicine and Extremes of Temperature 2

Jan 8th - 16th 2015

Conference Day One 8th Jan

 

Time

17:00-19:30

 

Topic

Welcome Reception and Opening Session

 

  • Housekeeping

  • CME Objectives

  • Physiology Review - Thermoregulation in Humans

Conference Day Two 9th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • Measuring temperature in the clinical setting - a review of the technology

  • The febrile child - knowing the benign from the serious

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

  • Environmental Heat Syndromes - from the trivial to the terminal

Conference Day Three 10th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • Medication Related Heat Syndromes

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

  • Freezing cold injury

  • Non freezing cold injury

Conference Day Four 11th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

Burns Part 1

  • Epidemiology of burns injury

  • Pathophysiology of burns injury

  • Assesment of burns injury

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

  • The Deadly Trauma Triad

  • Temperature Control Strategies in Trauma

Conference Day Five 12th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • Accidental hypothermia - a case orientated review

  • Medical aspects of lightning strike - hot, hot, hotter

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

Burns Part 2

  • Resuscitation of the burns patient

  • Chemical burns

  • Electrical burns

  • Inhalational injury

Conference Day Six 13th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • Sunburn

  • Radiation Injury

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

Prior to the meeting participants will be provided with details of 4 famous survival cases that involved significant changes in body temperature. You will be encouraged to do some research around these cases and be prepared to participate in a group discussion leading to a summary of what we currently know about survival and extremes of temperature

 

  • Tales From the Wild - a case orientated review

  • Survival on Everest 1

  • Survival on Everest 2

  • Survival at sea

  • Survival under water

Conference Day Seven 14th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • Current technologies for cooling and warming - a review

  • Burns dressings - an update

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

  • The who, how, where and when of Therapeutic Hypotherrmia

  • The Quiz

 

Conference Day Eight 15th Jan

 

Time

07:00-09:00

 

Topic

  • The year in review- what we learnt in 2014

  • Final Q&A with Faculty

  • Closing comments

 

Time

17:00-19:00

 

Topic

Burns Part 2

  • Resuscitation of the burns patient

  • Chemical burns

  • Electrical burns

  • Inhalational injury

 

Pre Conference Program - Nozawa Onsen

Travel Medicine Update

Jan 6th 2015

 

 

Session1:

 

07:00 - 07:30 Malaria

07:30 - 08:00 Yellow Fever

08:00 - 08:30 Rabies

08:30 - 09:00 Dengue

 

 

Session 2:

 

09:00 - 09:45 How to climb "Kili"

09:45 - 10:30 Surviving the Kokoda Track

10:30 - 11:00 Water safety and adventure travel

 

 

Session 3:

 

11:00 - 11:30 Non infectious travel risks

11:30 - 12:15 Travel Insurance - what Doctor's need to know

12:15 - 13:00 Cruise ship medicine

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