September 2014 - worldextrememedicine.com

Extreme Medicine Conference welcomes Rachel Craven, Specialist Consultant Anaesthetist

23rd September 2014MCSExpedition & Wilderness MedicineConsultant Anaesthetist, Extreme Medicine Conference, International Emergency Trauma Register., Médecins Sans Frontières, Rachel Craven, syria

Rachael is a consultant anaesthetist at Bristol Royal Infirmary specialising in anaesthesia for maxillofacial and thoracic surgery. For the past decade she has also worked as a volunteer with Médecins Sans Frontières and is also the anaesthesia lead for the UK International Emergency Trauma Register.

Médecins Sans Frontières

Through this volunteer work she has gained extensive experience working in and setting up field hospitals, in post disaster and conflict situations, ranging from the Asian Tsunami to the Haiti earthquake and from the machetes of Congolese militias to the high explosives of the 2014 bombardment of Gaza.

In addition to her overseas work Rachael is heavily involved in medical education: she is the course director for the Anaesthesia in Austere Environments course, Anaesthesia lead for the Surgery in Austere Environments course, faculty for the Oxford-Uganda developing world anaesthesia course, a contributing author to the ABC of Emergency Medicine in Austere Environments, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine and the Association of Anaesthetists eSafe dvd and content editor for the Royal College of Anaesthetists eLearning Anaesthesia developing world module.

In 2014 she was awarded the Pask Certificate of Honour by the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for distinguished service to anaesthesia during conflict overseas.

The Pask Award was instituted in 1977 after the Moorgate Underground disaster. The award is made by Council. The certificates may be presented on any suitable occasion. The award was instituted to enable Council to honour those who have rendered distinguished service, either with gallantry in the performance of their clinical duties, in a single meritorious act or consistently and faithfully over a long period.

The award was named after Professor E A Pask. Pask had a distinguished career in the Royal Air Force Medical Branch as an experimental physiologist in the Second World War. This included dangerous self experimentation requiring considerable personal courage.

Meet Rachel at the Extreme Medicine Conference

World Extreme Medicine: From Devon to the Four Corners of the World

23rd September 2014MCSExpedition & Wilderness Medicineexpedition medicine, mark hannaford, medicine, remote, south west, southwest, SW england

From Devon to the Four Corners of the World

We might be based in Axminster, a small town in East Devon, but here at Expedition & Wilderness Medicine we have been helping train medical professionals the world over.

We’re proud to be the leading provider of expedition, wilderness and remote medicine training courses for medical professionals, and are delighted to have experienced considerable growth and success in recent years.

Expedition & Wilderness Medicine was co-founded in 2002 after a late night fireside conversation during an expedition in the deserts of Nambia, by our Managing Director, Mark Hannaford… and the rest they say is history. Today the company offers an abundance of courses throughout the world, including training in Trauma & Hostile, Diving, Jungle and Mountain Medicine to name but a few. Quite the achievement, when you think our first offering was a single course in the Lake District!

As we have grown, so have the partnerships we have formed with world famous institutions, including London’s Royal Medical School, Harvard Medical School and National Geographic. Expedition & Wilderness Medicine also has the support of Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

In addition to this, 2014 has already seen some fantastic achievements for us, including:

· Being selected by the production team behind the 2015 Hollywood film ‘Everest’ to supply on-location training and guidance

· Providing medical advice and reach back service to companies operating in a remote area of Iraq and trauma training in Liberia

· All courses operating at nearly 100% capacity

· A fully subscribed World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo taking place in London in November this year

And earlier this month we held a course at Dartmoor’s Heatree Centre which was attended by 40 medical professionals from several different countries, including Australia, Italy and Switzerland, highlighting the increasing worldwide interest in medical training courses.

‘I am thrilled with the rate in which Expedition & Wilderness Medicine has grown. The most rewarding element of our work is when we receive testimonials and endorsements from people that have attended our courses and are now putting the skills they learnt into practice in the most diverse range of locations. Especially as these are often the regions where vital medical assistance is most urgently required’. Mark Hannaford

We are delighted with the response that Expedition & Wilderness Medicine has received since our inception and with your help; we look forward to continuing on our diverse and challenging path for many years to come!

If you would like to know more about any of our courses, contact us today to find out more.

Vacancy: Expedition Nurse/ Medical Coordination Manager

18th September 2014MCSexpedition, Expedition & Wilderness Medicine, Expedition Medicine, Expedition Nursing, travel doctor, travel medic

Raleigh International has over 30 years’ experience driving sustainable change through inspiring young people to volunteer overseas. We are looking for an experienced nurse to join our management team in London.

As the Medical Coordination Manager you will play a key role in supporting our staff and volunteers. This involves ensuring the highest health and safety standards are met at all times on our international projects, including providing optimum response in case of emergencies. You will assist in the recruitment and support of expedition medics and vet all applicants to be volunteers and staff. You will also have considerable input into policy and practice. You will be a central part of the safety team with a high level of liaison with our overseas staff and programmes.

Raleigh International is a sustainable development charity. We harness the passion and energy of young people to effect positive change in sustainable development. Our programmes focus on providing access to safe water and sanitation, protecting vulnerable environments, building resilient communities and developing youth leadership.

Our work is delivered through young people and is a collaboration between local communities, partners and volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities and life stages. We operate in partnership with communities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and governments in Borneo, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, India and Tanzania. Since our foundation as a charity in 1984, Raleigh volunteers have become a global community of more than 38,000 people committed to building a sustainable future.

For more information or to apply for the role please go to: http://www.raleighinternational.org/work-for-raleigh

We love simple new ideas that potentially save lives… GoodSAM

15th September 2014MCSExpedition & Wilderness Medicine, Extreme Medicine EXPO, Extreme Medicine EXPO Boston, International Extreme Medicine' ConferenceExtreme Medicine Conference, goodsam, london hems, mark wilson, medical apps, remote medical emgerncies

By day Mark Wilson is a Neurosurgeon at Imperial. He also works with London’s Air Ambulance. His specialist area is acute brain problems especially traumatic brain injury (and in particular it’s hyperacute management), but in his spare time he is the developer of a life-saving mobile phone called GoodSAM that crowd sources off-duty doctors, nurses and paramedics to local life threatening emergencies.

Mark has worked extensively overseas both clinically and as an expedition doctor. Locations include India, Nepal, the Arctic, South Africa, and Australia as a GP and as a researcher with NASA. His research areas include the effects of altitude and microgravity on the cerebral circulation, the former of which he extensively researched during the 2007 Xtreme Everest expedition.

He authored The Medic’s Guide to Work and Electives Around the World in 2000 which is now in it’s 3^rd edition.

GoodSAM an App that crowd sources off-duty doctors, nurses and paramedics to local life threatening emergencies – GoodSAM. Please take a look and register!

A Message from Astronaut Tim Peake to our World Extreme Medicine Conference Delegates

11th September 2014MCSUncategorisedNo Commentspost format, video

https://vimeo.com/186260992

Hi,

I’m European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake,

…And after undergoing years of training and living for six months on the international space station, I have a new appreciation of intensity, isolation and confined spaces. As delegates of the world extreme medicine conference you’re listening to and meeting people working in some of the most austere places on the planet.

I certainly admire the skills and professional expertise to practice medicine despite limited access to resources, but above all the strength of character needed to perform on extreme environments.

I wish you all a successful and enjoyable conference.

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