Emergency Medicine National Conference 2011

Emergency Medicine 2011 has been carefully designed to provide participants with updates on the current issues and latest developments in prehospital care and emergency medicine.

It will prove indispensible for emergency physicians, trauma specialists and paramedics, as well as specialist nurses and trainees in these disciplines.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Keith Willett, National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, London:

‘Major trauma care in the UK: recent achievements and future directions’

Participants will also benefit from:

• A greater understanding of ‘hot topics’ in prehospital care including the role of the paramedic practitioner, changing performance standards for ambulance services and sub-speciality programmes in prehospital care

• Insights into optimal prehospital management of patients, including advances in prehospital CPR, airway management, and anasthesia and sedation

• Student/trainee workshops on clinical research, student experiences of clinical placements and writing for publication

• Expert views on the management of trauma patients, including lessons from military medicine, mass trauma, head injuries and pelvic fractures

• Advice on investigation and treatment of common emergencies including infectious and tropical diseases, pulmonary embolisms, intracerebral haemorrhage and acute aortic syndromes