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In its 6th year, the Emergency Congress is expanding to include more pressing
and relevant topics that emergency professionals encounter in their jobs.
Listed below are the conferences and topics that will be presented in
Abu Dhabi in October 2008:
Emergency Medical Services
• Operation Safe Arrival – Lessons to Improve Skills of EMTs
• Staying Alive – EMS Road Safety
• Advanced Driving Skills for EMS Personnel
• Helicopter EMS
• Challenging Cases from the Field – How Do You Manage Them?
• Personal Protection and Scene Safety
• Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support
• Basic Pharmacology for EMT
• EMS – Cultural Issues
• Incident Command System for EMS
• Strategic Planning for EMS Services
Workshops:
• BLS/ACLS Courses
• Defibrillator
• Hands-On Car Extrication Workshop
Trauma, Accident and Emergency
• Minimally Invasive Techniques in Trauma and Emergency Surgery
• Difficulties of Paediatric Trauma
• Trauma Anaesthesia
• Science of Resuscitation
• Burn Injury Management
• A Weighty Issue – Dealing with Obese Patients
• Trauma in Pregnancy
• Catastrophic Sports Injuries
• The Early Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes
• Treatment of Road Traffic Accident Injuries
• Early Management of Severe Trauma
• Industrial Trauma
• Evidence Based Trauma Care
• Clinical Insights: Making Your Assessment More Accurate
• ER Trauma Protocols
• Trauma Centre Set Up
• WHO Update Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care & Prehospital
Trauma Care Systems
Workshop:
• Difficult Airway Management
Disaster Management
• Outbreak/Public Health
- Creating Community Partnerships during Public Health Disaster Response
- CDC Pandemic Policy
- Water Contamination Events
- Mass Casualty or Chemical Disasters: The Nursing Role
• Planning
- Incident Management Teams
- Special Event Planning – Bahrain Grand Prix
- Role of Information Services for Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Hospital Assessment and Planning during a disaster
• Response
- Transforming from Planning to Operations: EMS Disaster Response
- Integrating Logistics, Medical and Safety
- Preparing and Managing the Healthcare Workforce during a disaster
- Public Safety/Crowd Control
Exhibitor Profile:
A large spectrum of emergency related products, which includes:
• Ambulances • Defibrillators • Immobilisation Devices• Mobile Surgical Equipment
• Rapid Infusion Systems • Bandages / Dressings • Portable Oxygen
Systems • Training /Simulation Equipment • Vehicle Extraction Equipment
• Manual Resuscitators • ECG • Portable Suction Systems • Paramedic Cases
/ First Aid Boxes • Pharmaceuticals• Pulse / Oximetry Units • Spinal Boards
• Stretchers • Splints • Orthopaedic Implants • Protective Clothing
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