European Academy Bolzano | EURAC research
International Society for Mountain Medicine | ISMM
International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine | ICAR MEDCOM
Scientific Committee
Buddha Basnyat
Cynthia Beall
Hermann Brugger
Fidel Elsensohn
Max Gassmann
Erich Gnaiger
Peter Hackett
David Hillebrandt
Fabiola Léon-Velarde
Carsten Lundby
Marco Maggiorini
Heimo Mairbäurl
Gianfranco Parati
Jean-Paul Richalet
Ge Ri-Li
Giacomo Strapazzon
Erik Swenson
Beat Walpoth
John West
Ken Zafren
Nepal
USA
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Austria
USA
UK
Peru
Switzerland
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
France
China
Italy
USA
Switzerland
USA
USA
X. World Congress on High Altitude
Medicine and Physiology &
Mountain Emergency Medicine
Hypoxia and Cold – From Science to Treatment
Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
25-31 May 2014
With the participation of
APSMM - Asian-Pacific Society for Mountain Medicine
UIAA – International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation
WMS – Wilderness Medical Society
Speakers
With a focus on bringing international expertise and leading minds to this event, the X. ISMM World Congress will be host to an
impressive team of key speakers and a wide range of topics. There are over sixty main speakers representing over twenty-five
countries worldwide and all leading mountain medicine and mountaineering societies.
Paul Auerbach
Peter Bärtsch
Franz Berghold
Emmanuel Cauchy
Annalisa Cogo
John Ellerton
Rainald Fischer
Urs Hefti
Peter Mair
Scott McIntosh
Robert Norris
Peter Paal
Jasmeet Soar
Jay F Storz
USA
Germany
Austria
France
Italy
UK
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
USA
USA
Austria
UK
USA
Public events with the participation of
Reinhold Messner
Oswald Oelz
Albert Zink
Eduard Egarter Vigl
Italy
Switzerland
Italy
Italy
EURAC
Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine
Viale Druso 1
I-39100 Bolzano/Bozen
T +39 0471 055 541
ismm2014@eurac.edu
www.ismm2014.org
Hermann Brugger | Head EURAC Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine
Buddha Basnyat | President ISMM
Marco Maggiorini | Former President ISMM
Fidel Elsensohn | President ICAR MEDCOM
www.ismm2014.org
SUNDAY
25 MAY 2014
Location
EURAC, Viale Druso 1,
Bolzano
Main Entrance
Session
Title
MONDAY
26 MAY 2014
Auditorium
(Main session)
HIGH ALTITUDE
BASIC RESEARCH
Session A
Special issues
Genetic adaptation
to high altitude:
species and population
differences
9.00-10.30
10:30-11:00
Workers
at high altitude
Auditorium
(Main session)
Mountain sickness
Peter Bärtsch
EURAC research
Seminar Room
(Parallel session)
Auditorium
(Main session)
MOUNTAIN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
IV. International Symposium on Hypothermia
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
Seminar Room
(Parallel session)
MOUNTAIN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Trauma, airway & circulation
Special issues
Technical workshop
Acute altitude illnesses
(AMS, HAPE, HACE)
Xtreme Everest 2
–
Resamont 2 project
Pre-existing cardiac
and metabolic diseases
at high altitude
Solar irradiation and
eye problems
at high altitude
–
Nutrition
in mountaineering
Accidental
hypothermia—
prehospital
management
Drowning and
sea rescue
–
Diving accidents
(to be defined)
Alpine trauma
treatment
Shoulder dislocation
and thoracostomy
–
Lightning
Helicopter winching
and fixed hook
operations
(pros and cons)
Meet the expert
Wilderness workshop
Analgesia in the field
–
Canyoning and caving
rescue
Learn to Return
COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
Meet the expert
Session B
Meet the expert
Requirements for
expedition doctors—
what to bring and
what to know
Pre-existing
pulmonary,
immunologic and
neurologic diseases
at high altitude
Advising mountaineers
in planning a trip
to high altitude
LUNCH BREAK
Meet the expert
Session C
Meet the expert
Session C
Mitochondria—
Key organelle for
bioenergetics in
hypoxia and cold?
Prevention and
treatment of
AMS, HAPE, HACE
Women and children
at high altitude
Prevention and
treatment of nonaltitude related trekking
conditions
Presentation of
medical societies
–
Mountain medicine
diploma courses
COFFEE BREAK
Session D
Future issues
Pros-cons:
Is high altitude illness
predictable?
Utstein style
and GRADE—
models for establishing
high altitude
recommendations?
Public Lecture
The Ice Man
Albert Zink and Eduard Egarter Vigl
EURAC research
COFFEE BREAK
GUIDED EXCURSIONS
LUNCH BREAK
Session C
(no evening event)
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
Session A –
Clinical update
Chronic mountain
sickness
Ultrasound
and NIRS—
new tools for research
at high altitude
RESCUE IN NEPAL AND
GUIDED EXCURSIONS
Auditorium
(Main session)
Technical workshop
Practical medical
problems at base camp
Pros-cons:
Hypo- vs. normobaric
hypoxia and the
influence on exercise
performance
Opening Key Lecture
HIGH ALTITUDE FOR THE CLINICIAN AND
EXPEDITION DOCTOR
Seminar Room
(Parallel session)
Special issues
COFFEE BREAK
16.00-17.30
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
Session A –
Clinical update
Molecular biology of
hypoxia
Future issues
Auditorium
(Main session)
SATURDAY
31 MAY 2014
Special issues
Meet the expert
Session D
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
FRIDAY
30 MAY 2014
Session A
Session B
15:30-16:00
REGISTRATION
(afternoon)
Auditorium
(Main session)
THURSDAY
29 MAY 2014
Special issues
LUNCH BREAK
14.00-15.30
WEDNESDAY
28 MAY 2014
Session A –
Science update
Session B –
Science update
12:30-14:00
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
HIGH ALTITUDE FOR THE CLINICIAN AND
EXPEDITION DOCTOR
COFFEE BREAK
11.00-12.30
20:00-22:00
Conference Hall
(Parallel session)
TUESDAY
27 MAY 2014
Session D
Pros-cons:
Medications
at high altitude—
treatment, prevention
or doping?
Special issues
Workshop
Workshop
Sport climbing injuries
Presentation
of project initiatives
in Nepal
Mechanical chest
compression
devices in mountain
emergency medicine
Ultrasound
at high altitude I—
optic nerve
Registries
in high altitude and
mountain emergency
medicine
Technical workshop
Accidental
hypothermia—
in-hospital
management
Frostbite and
crevasse accidents
(to be defined)
Basic and advanced
airway management
LUNCH BREAK
Meet the expert
Future issues
Meet the expert
Session B –
Clinical update
LUNCH BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
Session C
Avalanche accidents
COFFEE BREAK
Future issues
(panel discussion)
Panel discussion
Nepal mountain rescue
development projects
Revision of
Lake Louise Score
COFFEE BREAK
Session B –
Clinical update
Wilderness workshop
Surviving the cold
LUNCH BREAK
Technical workshop
Session C –
Clinical update
Wilderness workshop
Technical workshop
Paragliding accidents
Circulation
management and
cardiac arrest in
mountain and remote
areas
Stings, bites and
animal attacks
Splinting and
immobilisation
COFFEE BREAK
Workshop
Ultrasound at high
altitude II—
lung
Session D
Therapeutic
hypothermia—
recent developments
and open issues
Future issues
Avalanche mass
casualty accidents­—
advances in
rescue strategies
COFFEE BREAK
Technical workshop
Key Lecture
Cable car rescues
Recent developments
and future perspectives
in out-of-hospital
resuscitation in
mountain areas
–
Closing ceremony and
presentation of XI.
World Congress 2016
Dinner for society presidents
Gala dinner & Keynote speech
Public lecture
(by invitation only)
Park Hotel Holzner, Soprabolzano, Renon
Bringing medicine to the wild and wilderness medicine to the world
Paul Auerbach
Kurhaus, Merano
Conquering the disbelief­­—the challenge of man at 8800m
Reinhold Messner and Oswald Oelz
Mountain Messner Museum Firmian, Bolzano
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