Speakers, content and line up firming up as Extreme Medicine 2014 gets closer. Medics, Astronauts, Scientists, and the extraordinary all feature
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes comments on the Extreme Medicine 2014 Conference
Extreme Medicine Conference 8-11 November 2014, Royal Society of Medicine, London
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is delighted to endorse the Extreme Medicine Conference Series. The subject matter, close to his heart, brings together the disparate but complimentary, and often overlapping fields, of Extreme & Expedition, Humanitarian & Disaster and Pre Hospital Care medicine.
It is medicine that saves the lives of not only the most remote explorer but also populations devastated by natural disasters, covering the most in need in the most vulnerable of places.
The conference serves to bring global leaders in these areas to share knowledge, network and introduce new equipment and techniques as well as presenting cutting edge research. It is this excellence in extremes which Sir Ranulph is proud to be associated with.
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Final speakers program for Extreme Medicine 2013 | Harvard Medical School, Boston
An amazing array of speakers ranging from Astronauts to Everest summiteers, from humanitaritian to pre hospital care experts are gathering next week at the Harvard Medical School Conference Centre in Boston for the annual Extreme Medicine Conference.
The final polish has now been applied to an amazing an speakers program – you can view it here and if you are one of the few people without a ticket yet they can be purchased here…
The International World Extreme Medicine Conference and Expo 2013 will host some of the very best speakers from around the world, who are amongst the leading figures in remote extreme medicine fields, including expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster, and relief medicine. Alongside the daily lecture series will be exhibitions from focused industry leaders, showcasing products and services to meet your extreme medicine needs.
**’This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 33.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity’.
EXTREME MEDICINE 2013 CONFERENCE
Final speakers program for Extreme Medicine 2013 | Harvard Medical School, Boston
An amazing array of speakers ranging from Astronauts to Everest summiteers, from humanitaritian to pre hospital care experts are gathering next week at the Harvard Medical School Conference Centre in Boston for the annual Extreme Medicine Conference.
The final polish has now been applied to an amazing an speakers program – you can view it here and if you are one of the few people without a ticket yet they can be purchased here…
The International World Extreme Medicine Conference and Expo 2013 will host some of the very best speakers from around the world, who are amongst the leading figures in remote extreme medicine fields, including expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster, and relief medicine. Alongside the daily lecture series will be exhibitions from focused industry leaders, showcasing products and services to meet your extreme medicine needs.
**’This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 33.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity’.
EXTREME MEDICINE 2013 CONFERENCE
MSF in action in the Congo, Early Bird tickets sales for Harvard Extreme Medicine and more…
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Trauma Doctors by Channel 5
Channel 5 is featuring a major new documentary about the London HEM’s trauma doctors including Expedition & Wilderness Medicine’s Medical Director Amy Hughes and Extreme Medicine Conference speaker Anne Weaver
Trauma Doctors documents the on the spot medical decisions and procedures that can reverse the dying process in critically injured. The battle for a patient’s life starts within minutes of their injury when London’s Air Ambulance arrives at the scene of the incident, delivering advanced medical procedures to the roadside, and continues with their hospitalisation and subsequent treatment at The Royal London Hospital.
Heading up the team is Dr Gareth Davies, one of the UK’s leading trauma specialists, Medical Director of London’s Air Ambulance and Emergency Medicine Consultant at Barts Health NHS Trust. From helping patients in road traffic collisions to working on the aftermath of the 7/7 London Bombings, he and his team work at speed to bring the patient back to life.
Dr Gareth Davies said: “Trauma Doctors will give viewers an insight into the medical care provided by London’s Air Ambulance. We only attend the most serious trauma cases in London and are renowned throughout the world for our medical excellence. Most people do not realise that we deliver the emergency room to the patient so, by giving people a snapshot of what we do, we hope that one day everyone in the UK will receive similar levels of care.”
Barts Health Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine Dr Malik Ramadhan who also appears in the programme said: “The opening of the new Royal London Hospital last year has allowed us to combine one of the UK’s leading medical and nursing trauma structures with the facilities to provide world class care. In addition, the new trauma system in London means that severely injured patients are only taken to hospitals with the expertise to deal with a very complicated group of patients and The Royal London was one of the first hospitals in the UK to develop a formal trauma system. This programme gives an excellent insight into the thought processes of doctors looking after these patients.”
London’s Air Ambulance is on-call 24 hours a day to respond to life and death medical emergencies within the M25, treating almost 2,000 patients a year. The Royal London Hospital treats 2,800 trauma patients a year.
In the UK trauma accounts for around 18,000 deaths a year and covers a multitude of complex and life threatening injuries caused, for example, by vehicle collisions, industrial accidents and assaults, all of which are profiled in the series.
Of interest
Médecins Sans Frontières TB Project
With Expedition & Wilderness Medicine’s Medical Director Dr Amy Hughes on a mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sri Lanka we are going to feature the projects and oppurtunities that working for Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) presents.
MSF have asked us to feature the TB&ME is an MSF blogging platform, created to help patients suffering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) share their stories. Over the coming months and years MSF will campaign for better treatment/services for TB sufferers. TB&ME enables MSF, and others, to learn where improvement is most needed and provides a much-needed support network for patients. http://msf.ca/blogs/tb
We feature one of the MSF’s Citizen bloggers Christiaan Van Vuuren AKA the Fully Sick Rapper, was diagnosed with tuberculosis in December 2009. In 2010 it was 
discovered that Christiaan actually had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. After spending nearly seven months in isolation, plus many more taking a host of TB drugs, Christiaan is nearly at the end of his treatment. Here, he blogs his experiences for TB&ME. http://msf.ca/blogs/tb/author/fullysickrapper/
International 'World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo' – London 2012
International Extreme Medicine EXPO- Expedition & Wilderness | Tactical | Disaster Medicine
‘Taking Medicine To The Extremes’
A major new International ‘World Extreme Medicine conference and EXPO’ series with the first inaugural event in London April 2012 followed by Salt Lake City in September 2012 with the very best speakers from around the world, leading figures from the world of expedition and wilderness travel, displays from focused industry leaders and also awards. All CME accredited on a modular basis to allow you select just a day or to attend the entire medical expo.
Over the last ten years the care of casualties in a remote environment has come a long way. This has been driven by conflict, the apparent exponential rise in natural disasters and our capacity to respond on an international scale and not least by the evolving interest in the field of expedition and wilderness medicine. The conference concept was generated out of a desire to amalgamate the associated specialties in this field and to share the skills and knowledge we have acquired. It will run over 4 days and involve some of the major specialists in their field of remote and austure medicine.
Developed specifically with medical professionals in mind the International ‘World Extreme Medicine EXPO’ will also be of interest to other medical specialists and students for which there will be a discounted rate.
To pre-register your interest for ‘Extreme Medicine’ email us here.
Extreme Medicine Conference and Expo
International ‘World Extreme Medicine Conference & Expo’ – London 2012
International Extreme Medicine EXPO- Expedition & Wilderness | Tactical | Disaster Medicine
‘Taking Medicine To The Extremes’
A major new International ‘World Extreme Medicine conference and EXPO’ series with the first inaugural event in London April 2012 followed by Salt Lake City in September 2012 with the very best speakers from around the world, leading figures from the world of expedition and wilderness travel, displays from focused industry leaders and also awards. All CME accredited on a modular basis to allow you select just a day or to attend the entire medical expo.
Over the last ten years the care of casualties in a remote environment has come a long way. This has been driven by conflict, the apparent exponential rise in natural disasters and our capacity to respond on an international scale and not least by the evolving interest in the field of expedition and wilderness medicine. The conference concept was generated out of a desire to amalgamate the associated specialties in this field and to share the skills and knowledge we have acquired. It will run over 4 days and involve some of the major specialists in their field of remote and austure medicine.
Developed specifically with medical professionals in mind the International ‘World Extreme Medicine EXPO’ will also be of interest to other medical specialists and students for which there will be a discounted rate.
To pre-register your interest for ‘Extreme Medicine’ email us here.
Extreme Medicine Conference and Expo