This event is NOT cancelled.
Sorry for the confusion and miscommunication!
The event is still on as scheduled.
Itinerary
Not Finalized, Tentative
Wednesday May 8th
0830: Coppersmith: Introductions
0900: Ratner: Trauma in the Austere Environment
Work-shops: 1000 and 1100
Nicole Elliott: Improvised splints litters and carries
Assisted by: Michael Nguyen MD FACEP, FAWM Candidate, Curtis Flaherty MD, FAWM Candidate, Christopher Kennedy DO, Alex (Stephen) Lee DO, Samantha Gaetani MD, Alay Parikh DO, FAWM Candidate, Mostafa Meleis MD, FAWM Candidate, Chad Keller MD, Charles Wowkanech MD
Ratner: Emergency Airways
Coppersmith: Women’s issues in traveling
Berggren: Avalanche Rescue
1200: Lunch
1300: Fischer: Physics and Physiology of Altitude
1400: Steele: Dive Medicine
Workshops: 1500, 1600
Sigal: Foot Maladies: Trench foot, blister care, frost bite, gear selection
Salen: Traveler's Diarrhea
Stankewicz: Plant Toxins and Dermatitis
Coppersmith: CPR in wilderness environment and canine rescue
Cobb: Avoiding and Surviving Animal attacks
Thursday May 9th
Friday May 10th
0800: Pete Favini: Field management of orthopedic problems
0900: Whitmore: Tactical Emergency Medical Services and Tactical Critical Casualty Care
Workshops 1000 1100
Derek Fikse: Wilderness Toxicology
Baker: Snake Envenomation
Lauren Sharpe: General Gear selection/ first aid kids, Packing for the outdoors Steele: Hyperbaric Oxygen and Recompression Therapy
Pester: Managing Disasters on airplanes
1200: Lunch
1300-1500: Jarod Berggren MD - Wilderness Medicine Skills Course
Clinical Supervisor: Veronica Coppersmith
Assisted by: Samantha Gaetani MD, Christopher Kennedy DO, Curtis Flaherty MD, FAWM Candidate, Danielle Sultan DO, Stephen Alex Lee DO, Mahrukh Malik MD, Alay Parikh DO, FAWM Candidate
0800: R. Jeanmonod: How people die in the mountains
0900: Bowman: Animal attacks
Workshops 1000, 1100
Bowman: water procurement and purification
Yurachek: Pain Management in the Wilderness - Perspective from a Dying Patient
Ray: Fire Starting
Rollhauser: Basics of knot tying, anchors, and Rope
Rescue
Stankewicz: Hypothermia
1200: Lunch
1300: D. Jeanmonod - Jungle Medicine
1400: R. Jeanmonod: Pediatric Wilderness Medicine
Workshops: 1500, 1600
Yurachek - survival: Shelter building
Ratner/Coppersmith - OMM in the wilderness
Rollhauser: High angle Rope rescue
Bowman: Hotel Evac and Bug out Bags
Ray: Survival Signalling