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Keynote Lectures Titles:
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Anna Tötterman:
Are Trauma Patients still bleeding to Death? If so, how come?
Kees H. Polderman:
Therapeutic Hypothermia in Trauma and Resuscitation – a Therapy that works!
Maaret Castrén:
Recent developments in Scandinavian Trauma Care, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine – what has changed?
Harald V. Genzwuerker:
The new Role of Supraglottic Airway Devices in Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine – will it affect my clinical practice?
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Anna Tötterman, MD, works at Ullevål University Hospital (UUH) in Oslo, Norway, as an orthopaedic surgeon and trauma team leader. UUH is by far the largest Trauma Centre in Norway covering most of the Eastern Region of Norway with its 2 mill inhabitants.
Her research field of interest is the interdisciplinary management of pelvic fractures. She informs us that she is forty-something and very honoured to be the opening keynote-speaker at the Scandinavian Update 2005.
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Kees H. Polderman, MD, is a senior consultant in intensive care medicine at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the main capital of the Netherlands.
He holds many academic and research positions. He is both a member of the Neurotrauma and Emergency Medicine Sub-committee of the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the advisory board of the journal Intensive Care Medicine. Further, he is a member of the international steering group of the Northern Hypothermia Network.
He has published extensively in the field of emergency and intensive care medicine, and you will find his name on the author list of several exciting publication on the Internet (PUBMED). His current research interest is the use of therapeutic hypothermia, specifically in traumatic brain injury and after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Despite his young age (40 something), he has become a world leading expert in this field. He also work as a reviewer for various international medical journals including Intensive Care Medicine, Chest, The Lancet, Circulation, Anaesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine.
On top of all this, he is a nice guy. So use this opportunity to meet and have a chat with him and the rest of the Faculty…..
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Maaret Castrén, MD, PhD and 40-something, comes from Helsinki, Finland. She has her background in surgery and anaesthesiology and is now the Medical Director of the Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system in the Greater Helsinki area, which has a population of 850 000. Before going to Medical School she was a trained nurse. She holds a degree in educational science at the Helsinki University, where she is now also an Associate Professor in emergency medicine with four PhD students working in the field of resuscitation. On top of this, she is Medical Advisor for the Red Cross and involved both on a national and international level with working groups in the field of emergency medicine and medical dispatching. She looks forward to come back to Stavanger and meet new and old friends…..
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Harald V. Genzwuerker, MD, is 34 years old. He trained in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine at the Institute of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Mannheim, Germany before he sub-specialised in emergency medicine. He has a special interest in emergency airway management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the inter-hospital transfer of critically ill patients. His publication lists include several studies on the use of supraglottic airway devices in resuscitation and emergency medicine. He also serves as the chief emergency physician responding to major incidents in the Mannheim region.
He loves his work as an emergency physician, both with the ground ambulance and ambulance helicopter in Mannheim. Sometimes, he also gets to work in the Emergency Medical Back-up Team for the Formula 1 circus when it visits the local Racing Course in Mannheim.
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