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Published by: SMI Publishing, Ltd
Published: Oct. 26, 2005
Table of Contents
- Day 1
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Colonel Alan Moloff, Commander, Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute.
- 9.10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - MILITARY HEALTH CARE IN A CHANGING WORLD
- The UK perspective
- Key defence medical outputs
- Deployable operational medical capability
- The maintenance of fit service personnel
- Nature of the operations
- Clinical governance
- Scientific and evidence base
- Vice Admiral Jenkins, Surgeon General, Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 9.50 SPECIAL ADDRESS - NATO POLICY
- Alliance casualty management policy and requirements
- Transformation of NATO influenced by external and internal factors
- Transformation of national armed forces
- Transformation of military medical services
- Effect of these transformations on Alliance casualty management policy and requirements
- Major General Roger van Hoof, Chief , Plans Division, Strategy and Chairman Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services of NATO (COMEDS), NATO.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 GERMAN CASUALTY CARE
- Healthcare in future operaitons - a joint medical approach
- Current policy and organisation of Medical Command Centre
- Identifying areas in need of change and the challenges of implementation
- Operational experiences and their effects on planning
- Colonel Dr Michael Tempel, Chief, Training and Doctrine Division, Acting Chief of Staff, Medical Office of the German Armed Forces.
- 11.40 DEVELOPMENTS IN COMBAT CASUALTY RESEARCH
- Saving lives in the combat environment
- Update on Recombinant, Activated Factor VII and its potential revolutionary impact on the battlefield.
- Animal tests show a potential new treatment for silent seizures from trauma
- Physiological markers from Air EVAC patients show a potential for accurate prediction of trauma complications.
- New markers of head injury will show medics the severity of head injuries and who to evacuate first.
- Pending Hypertonic Saline-Dextran clinical trials
- Colonel Robert Vandre, Director, Combat Casualty Care Program, US Army.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 THE MILITARY OPERATIONAL MEDICINE RESEARCH PROGRAM
- Protecting soldiers and enhancing performance
- Identify many of the battlefield stressors that negatively effect the warfighter’s mental and physical performance
- Describe current research efforts directed toward mitigating the effects of the battlefield stressors
- Discuss accomplishments that protect or enhance warfighter’s performance
- Colonel Brian Lukey, Director, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, US Army.
- 2.30 FORWARD, ROTARY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION
- Op TELIC experience
- Op TELIC Helicopter Evac Plan
- Capabilities
- Casualty breakdown
- Lessons Identified
- The future
- Wing Commander Dr David Bruce, Command Flight Medical Officer, Royal Air Force.
- 3.10 Afternoon Tea
- 3.40 CRITICAL CARE AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION
- The Royal Air Force perspective
- Forward Critical Care in the air
- Strategic Critical Care in the air
- Team composition for RAF Critical Care
- Team training objectives and delivery
- Patient care and role equipment
- Group Captain Neil McGuire, Consultant Advisor in Anaesthetics, Royal Air Force.
- 4.20 LOGISTICAL SUPPORT
- Ensuring quick delivery of medical supplies
- Captain Chari Kirshner, Commanding Officer, Naval Medical Logistics Command.
- 5.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
- Day 2
- 8.30 Registration & Coffee
- 9.00 Chairman's Opening Remarks
- Colonel Robert Vandre, Director, Combat Casualty Care Program, US Army.
- 9.10 COMBAT CASUALTY CARE: HOW DO YOU PREPARE?
- New, old and bold battlefield medical training methodologies
- Define tactical combat casualty challenges, skills and medical planning
- Develop military healthcare professionals with affective, psychomotor and cognitive skills to excel on the battlefield
- Discuss civilian versus military medical training requirements
- Discuss how traditionally non-medical factors affect battlefield medicine
- Training military medical personnel to co-ordinate and synchronize the battlefield healthcare delivery system
- Colonel Alan Moloff, Commander, Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute.
- 9.50 MILITARY MEDICAL TRAINING
- Current status and future plans for the UK's medical training
- Developing, co-ordinating, and evaluating joint medical readiness training concepts and curricula
- Ensuring that military health-care providers have battlefield survival skills as well as medical skills
- Refinement of tactical combat casualty care skills and the necessary elements of medical planning
- Teaching health care providers to master basic military and combat survival skills
- Captain (RN) Mick Bowen, Commandant, Defence Medical Education and Training Agency, Ministry of Defence, UK.
- 10.30 Morning Coffee
- 11.00 PRE-HOSPITAL CASUALTY CARE
- Training and equipping civillian companies in hostile environments
- Mr David Connell, Managing Director, Ex+Med UK.
- 11.40 PANEL DISCUSSION
- Co-ordinating international approaches to Combat Casualty Care
- Colonel Robert Vandre, Director, Combat Casualty Care Program, US Army.
- Colonel Brian Lukey, Director, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, US Army.
- Group Captain Neil McGuire, Consultant Advisor in Anaesthetics, Royal Air Force.
- 12.20 Networking Lunch
- 1.50 DEFENCE MEDICAL INFORMATION CAPABILITY PROGRAMME
- The key to the defence medical information revolution
- Capability gaps - why is the Programme needed?
- Concepts and solutions - how will it work?
- Acquisition - how is the IS being procured?
- Business change - how are the DMS preparing for implementation?
- Benefits - what will it give to patients, clinicians and the DMS management?
- Lieutenant Colonel David Williams, SO1 Clinical Policy, British Army.
- 2.30 BATTLEFIELD MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - TACTICAL (BMIST)
- A revoluiton in mobile medical information
- Necessity for mobility medical technology
- Handheld aid for medical personnel in-theater
- Understanding the latest in the electronic collection and evaluation of recorded data
- Future of the Battlefield Medical Information System - Tactical (BMIST)
- Mr Tommy Morris, Chief Information Technology Officer, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Cener (TATRC).
- 3.10 FUTURE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS
- Enabling advances in casualty care
- Dr Emrys Kirkman, Team Leader Combat Casualty Care Research, Dstl.
- 3.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks followed by Afternoon Tea and Close of Conference
AbstractSMi’s Combat Casualty Care conference will present current and future knowledge of war casualty management, reflecting on experiences from tactical situations and scientific research. It will assess the challenge of diagnosis of combat casualties on the battlefield, evaluating the use of new medical technologies in theatre and the critical matters of aeromedical evacuation, logistical support and military medical training. It will assess the utilisation of the latest communication systems to transmit medical data and recommend improvements and solutions to enhance capability.
This event will provide recommendations with regard to the improvement of armed forces medical support, as well as civil-military health care integration. You will hear of the prospective areas and directions for the further research, discussion procurement and development within battlefield healthcare from an outstanding international speaker line up.
The outstanding international speaker line-up includes Keynote Addresses from:
- Vice Admiral I L Jenkins CVO QHS FRCS, Surgeon General, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Major General Roger Van Hoof, MD, Aide to the Belgian King, Chairman, Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services (COMEDS), NATO
And Special Addresses from:
- Colonel Dr Alan Moloff, Commander, US Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute
- Colonel Robert Vandre, Director, Combat Casualty Care Research Program, Medical Research and Materiel Command, US Army
- Colonel Brian Lukey, Director, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, Medical Research and Materiel Command, US Army
- Colonel Dr Michael Temple, Chief, Training and Doctrine Division and Acting Chief of Staff, Joint Medical Forces Command, Germany
- Group Captain Neil McGuire, Consultant Advisor in Anaesthetics (RAF), Consultant Intensivist, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford, Royal Air Force
- Captain Shari H Kirshner, Deputy Chief Logistics, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Medical Logistics Command, US Navy
- Captain Mick Bowen, Commandant, Defence Medical Education and Training Agency, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Lieutenant Colonel David Williams, SO1 Clinical Policy, Defence Medical Services Department, Ministry of Defence, UK
- Wing Commander Dr David Bruce, Command Flight Medical Officer, Headquarters Personnel and Training Command, Royal Air Force
- Tommy Morris, Director, Mobile Computing and Chief Information Technology Officer, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, Medical Research and Materiel Command, US Army
- Dr Emrys Kirkman, Team Leader, Surgical Science, Biomedical Sciences, Dstl
The conference will be chaired by:
- Professor Dr Erik Fosse, Chairman, Human Factors and Medicine Panel, NATO Research and Technology Organisation
Benefits of Attending Combat Casualty Care:
- CONSIDER the key challenges facing 21st Century Battlefield Healthcare
- REVIEW the Combat Casualty Immediate Care policies of the world’s leading military forces
- IDENTIFY the emerging requirements for improved combat theatre healthcare provision
- ASSESS the status of emerging healthcare technologies, medical support platforms and medical information systems
- ANALYSE lessons learned from recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and recent real-time exercises
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