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STAVANGER NORWAY

 May 24-26 2007
FACULTY
Christer Axelsson
Åsa Axelsson
 Jón Baldursson
 Steen K Barnung
Stephano di Bartolomeo
Joost JLM Bierens
Lynn Biserød
Guttorm Brattebø
Per P. Bredmose 
Karim Brohi  
Maaret Castrén
Otto Chan  
Erika Christensen
Tim Coats
Ffion Davies
Gareth Davies
Charles Deakin
Peter Driscoll
Volker Dörges
Antoinette Edwards
 Bosse Erwander
Jacob Lundager Forberg
Tina Gaarder
Ernestina Gomes
Carl Gwinnutt
Pertti Hakala 
Lauri Handolin  
Niels Juul
Jon-Kenneth Heltne
 Poul Kongstad  
 Jo Kramer-Johansen  
Jouni Kurola
 Audun Langhelle
Sven Lethvall  
Fiona Lecky
Sven Lethvall
Anne Lippert
 Freddy Lippert
David Lockey
Helga Loose
Hans Morten Lossius  
 Sindre Mellesmo
Jannicke Mellin-Olsen  
 Søren Loumann Nielsen  
Jan Erik Nilsen
Pål Aksel Næss
Kjetil Ringdal
Olav Røise  
Tom Silfvast
Nils Oddvar Skaga  
Stephen Sollid
 Kjetil Sunde
 Eldar Søreide
Kjetil Søreide  
Torben Wisborg
David Zideman
 Bjørn Øglend
Per Örtenwall
Anders Östlund  


Christer Axelsson, Sweden, is a nurse anestetist and research fellow working with the ALS ambulance in Gothenburg, doing his PhD with the group of Professor Johan Herlitz. He will discuss:
- Mechanical chest compression in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - does it make any difference?
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Åsa Axelsson, Sweden, is a registred Nurse since 1984. She worked as nurse at CCU, Sahlgrenska University hospital, Göteborg, Sweden 1986-1999. She started to work part time with research in the pre-hospital field together with Johan Herlitz 1990. PhD, 2000. Titel of her thesis was “Bystander CPR: effects, attitudes and reactions. Senior lecturer at School of Social and Health Science, Halmstad University, Sweden, since february 2000. Fields of research interest are pre-hospital care, bystander CPR and ethics in resuscitation.
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Jón Baldursson, Iceland, MD, FACEP, is the Medical Director for Prehospital Emergency Services at Landspítali University Hospital in Reykjavík, Iceland and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Iceland. He is also in charge of the postgraduate training program in Emergency Medicine at his institution. Jón was the first Icelandic physician to become certified as a specialist in emergency medicine. He will explain how training in emergency medicine is organized in Iceland. He will also discuss patient safety in Emergency Medicine, what we can learn from the US and vice versa.
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Joost JML Bierens, The Netherlands, trained in Anaesthesiology and Emergency Medicine. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Freie University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is involved with both disaster medicine research and planning. He is the scientific chairman of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Congress in Amsterdam in 2006. He will talk and facilitate the discussion around some of his favourite topics:
- Drowning and hypothermia: current guidelines need urgent improvement!
- Performance indicators for trauma care: dream or night mare?
- Tips and tricks to start research in emergency and disaster medicine
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Lynn Biserød, Norway, is an ENT surgery consultant at the Stavanger University Hospital with a special interest in trauma.
- Airway management in the trauma patient with a smashed face – a real challenge. The ENT surgeon’s view.
- Acute and emergency tracheotomy – when everything that can goes wrong goes wrong!
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Guttorm Brattebø, Norway, is the Director of Prehospital Emergency Services, Bergen Health Trust, Norway. He is a trained anaesthesiologist with a keen interest in quality improvement and patient safety, and one of the founders of BEST (better and systematic trauma care). He will challenge us on how to make trauma and emergency care safer for the patient.
- Airway and trauma management by doctors – licence to kill? How we forgot to include quality
of care and patient safety in our calculations.
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Karim Brohi, United Kingdom, is the founder of www.trauma.org and works as a trauma surgeon at the famous Royal London Hospital.
He will present and try to provoke some discussion on several of his favourite topics:
- Management of massive bleeding in trauma. Novel agents for haemostasis – not so novel anymore, but still of interest?
- Time to surgery – an outdated concept or the key to the matter? An update on modern surgical approaches for surgeons and the non-surgeons alike, including resuscitative thoracotomy.
- WWW.TRAUMA.ORG as an excellent example on the importance of international co-operation on research, education and implementation in trauma.
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Maaret Castren, Finland, has worked with trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine both on a clinical, educational, administrative, and scientific level. She is to become the first Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Hence, it is natural to ask her to repeat the fantastic Scandinavian update on trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine that she gave in 2005.
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Otto Chan, United Kingdom, is a trauma oriented radiologist working at the Royal London Hospital. His radical views on trauma radiology has shaken the established trauma organisation, and he will give us a complete new view on initial trauma care.
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Erika Christensen, Denmark, is a medical director prehospital care in the county of Århus, medical director of the traumacentre in Århus and associate professor/senior lector at the university of Århus. Her special interests are reserch and education in prehospital trauma and ermergency mangement.
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Tim Coates, United Kingdom, is Professor of Emergency Medicine in Leicester, UK. He is the scientific coordinator of a huge international randomised, controlled trial (RCT) on trauma related bleeding/deaths and use of fibrinolytics (CRASH2). The plan is to include over 20 000 patients world-wide. He will give an update on the CRASH2 trial and put trauma deaths into an international perspective. Further, he will address current developments in the EU on consent in emergency care research and some recent UK developments in Emergency Medicine (EM) organisation. He is the Chairman elect of the United Kingdom Trauma Audit and Research Network (UK TARN).
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Ffion Davies, United Kingdom, is a paediatric emergency physician and chairs the Intercollegiate Paediatric Emergency Care Group in UK. She will speak on the development of paediatric emergency medicine in the UK, competencies in paediatric EM sub-specialty training and the use of video as an education tool.
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Gareth Davies, United Kingdom, is the Medical Director of the famous London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) program. Originally trained as an emergency physician, he has through his pre-hospital work gained an extensive experience with airway and trauma management. He will share with us his view on:
- Indications for and training in pre-hospital and ED surgical procedures (amputations, thoracotomy w/aortic occlusion). An update for surgeons and non-surgeons alike.
- The HEMS physician and the pre-hospital trauma team. How do you train them together and
how do you secure clinical excellence?
- Patient safety in emergency medicine - is human factors and human errors a bigger issue than
we used to think?
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Charles Deakin, United Kingdom, is a Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia at the Southampton University Hospital. He has done an extensive amount of research in the field of resuscitation and trauma and chairs the ERC ALS committee. Based on his experience from the London HEMS program, he now works to get a similar HEMS program established in the Southampton area.
- Hot resuscitation topics in adults.
- How many HEMS programs do we need? The UK experience.
- Cardiopulmonary arrest research – my view on the important issues in the future.
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Antoinette Edwards, United Kingdom
is project and research manager of the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network, and the driving force in the development of the European Trauma Audit and Research Network (EuroTARN).
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Ernestina Gomes, Portugal, is a trained anaesthesiologist and works in Porto, Portugal, which has a large and well-developed trauma program. Most of here clinical work and research is related to trauma management and outcome. She is one of the founders of the brand new European Trauma Course (ETC), which offers a more educational sound and European tuned approach to learning high quality pre-hospital and in-hospital trauma management. Besides this topic she will address
- Traumatic brain injury – first do no harm! But how?
- How to organising trauma care – lessons learned.
- Trauma outcome – more than just survival
- Drowning and hypothermia: current guidelines need urgent improvement!
- Performance indicators for trauma care: dream or night mare?
- Tips and tricks to start research in emergency and disaster medicine
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Carl L Gwinnutt, United Kingdom, FRCA,Consultant Anaesthetist, Hope Hospital, Salford UK for 19 years, specialty interests trauma and neurosurgical anaesthesia. Contributed to the establishment of Advanced Life Support (ALS) training in the UK in the early 1990s and has been a member of the ALS Subcommittee of the Resuscitation Council (UK) since 1994.  Involved in ATLS training in the UK since 1991. Author and contributor to textbooks on anaesthesia, trauma and resuscitation. Co-developer of the UK Emergency Airway Management Course. Currently joint lead in the production and development of the European Trauma Course.
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Pertti Hakala, Finland, works at the only trauma ICU in Scandinavia, located as part of the Helsinki University Hospital in Finland. He will share with us from his vast experience. One of his topics will be:
- The trauma patient in the ICU – what now?
He will also participate in the facilitated pro-con discussion on the bleeding trauma patient. Is the patient still bleeding? Or, are we making progress in Scandinavia?
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Lauri Handolin, Finland, is a surgeon with a special interest in trauma management. He works and lives in Helsinki, Finland, but has spent most of the last year in Congo, Africa as a member of a Finnish Forward Surgical Team (FST). He will share with us the experiences from the first European Force combat surgery unit in Africa. Further, he will share with us the result of the Helsinki Trauma Outcome Study 2005 - the first major trauma audit in Finland. With this background, he should be able to contribute to the facilitated pro-con discussion on the bleeding trauma patient. Is the patient still bleeding? Or, are we making progress in Scandinavia? Hopefully, he will also give us an update on surgical techniques in trauma.
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Jon-Kenneth Heltne, Norway
is a consultant in anaesthesiology and flight physician Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, Bergen Health Trust. He is responsible for research and development at the same place and member of the research board of Regional Centre for Emergency Medical Research and Development, Western Norway Regional Health Authority. He is an active researcher and the latest publications are about fluid shifts in hypothermia.
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Niels Juul is an anaesthesiologist and has for the past ten years worked in neuroanaesthesia and neurointensive care. Additionally he has worked at the anaestheisologist manned prehospital service in Aarhus for the past years.
He will present the new “Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic barin injury” drawn up by Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee. He willexplain why guidelines do not save lives but health care providers do.
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Jo Kramer-Johansen, Norway, is Research Fellow with the Cardiopulmonary Arrest Research Group at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, and The Norwegian Air Ambulance. He will share with us some new results from their exciting research, and how it may change the way we resuscitate patients.
- Why did we not pay attention to the quality of chest compression and the importance of the
compression: ventilation ratio?
- Have the new ERC guidelines on resuscitation changed everything, or anything at all?
- Cardiopulmonary arrest research – my view on the important issues in the future.
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Jouni Kurola, Finland, is a specialist in both GP and Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. He is the Medical director of prehospital care in Northern Savo Hospital District in Finland and Medical Director of Eastern Finland HEMS. His special interests are Airway management and Benchmarking.
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Fiona Lecky, United Kingdom
is a Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine and Honorary Consultant at Hope Hospital in Salford. Fiona’s role also includes that of Research Director of the Trauma Audit and Research Network (www.tarn.ac.uk). Fiona trained both as an undergraduate and Emergency Physician in the North West. During the latter period she received a Wellcome Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology which enabled her to look at clinical and biochemical matters of shock in major injury for her PhD. Recent publications include those looking at trends in trauma outcome and clinical effectiveness in trauma care with a particular focus on head injury. A Lancet publication which is current at the time of writing has harnessed the power of the TARN database in collaboration with neurosurgeons to demonstrate that specialist care is crucial in optimising outcome in severe head injury. Hope was also the leading UK recruitment centre in the recently published CRASH trial which has major public health implications worldwide.
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Sven Lethvall, Sweden, is trained in internal medicine and anaesthesiology at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has for many years had an interest in triage of patients in the ED. He is now involved on a national and international level with the development of such triage tools and how they can be scientifically validated.
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Anne Lippert, Denmark
is a Specialist in Anesthesiology. Currently working as a consultant, half-time ICU, half-time Danish Institute for Medical Simulation, based in same department of anesthesiology, Herlev University Hospital. She has been working with simulation as an educational tool for 7 years. Main interests are Ethical issues in ICU, currently participating in European multicenter study and developing simulator-based team-training courses as well as research. Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, neonatal resuscitation and trauma are the main issues. Involved in developing computerbased simulatorprogrammes in ALS and trauma.
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Freddy K. Lippert, Denmark, has a clinical bacground from the trauma centre of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and is now the Medical Director of Pre-hospital Care and Emergency Medicine in the Head Office of the new The Capital Region of Denmark. His is also an associate professor in anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Copenhagen University with special interests is resuscitation, trauma care and emergency medicine.
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David Lockey, United Kingdom, works in Bristol as an anaesthestist and intensivist when he is not staffing the London HEMS helicopter as flight physician or serves as a military doctor abroad. He is also one of the co-editors of the journal Resuscitation. Quite naturally, resuscitation, airway and trauma management are his main fields of interest.
- Pre-hospital airway management: Why all the controversy?
- The Surgical Airway – the non-surgeons view
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Hans Morten Lossius, Norway
is Director of Research and Development of The Norwegian Air Ambulance and Ass. Prof. at The Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger. He is a certified anaesthesiologist and has been working as flight physician with both urban HEMS and rural rescue services. His has founded the Acute Care Medicine Research Network, and his scientific work concentrate on the effect of prehospital advanced life support and effect of specialised emergency medical teams, like trauma teams. He is a Chair in Elect of The Scandinavian Networking Group for Emergency Management, and Editor in Chief of The Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine.
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Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, Norway
is a specialist Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, extensive prehospital and in-hospital experience in Norway and internationally (Red Cross-organisations and UN). Former director of Norwegian Air Ambulance, Global Medical Support. Former president of Norwegian Society of Anaesthesiology, current secretary Norwegian Society of Disaster Medicine. Now working in Asker & Bærum Hospital, Norway, in addition to serving as Medical Director MedAire, Ltd, www.medaire.com (HQ Phoenix, AZ), providing health and security services in remote areas, including commercial airlines. Responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Kjetil Ringdal, Norway
is a MD at the Innlandet Hospital Trust. He is a research fellow working with the Scandinavian Networking Group for Trauma and Emergency Management in the Scandinavian Major Trauma Outcome Study. Kjetil has done epidemiological research on accidential hypothermia.
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Olav Røise, Norway, is trained as an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon. Clinically he has a special interest in complicated pelvic injuries. He runs the national trauma referral program for these injuries at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo. His many publications are in the same field. He is the Medical Director of the coming Norwegian national trauma registry, and has led a national working group on the future national trauma organisation in Norway. He is also the medical director of ATLS Norway. Among more, he will discuss the following subjects:
- An update on orthopaedic injuries for everyone involved.
- All the new Trauma Training Courses – what to pick? ATLS, ETC, DSTC, BEST?
- International cooperation with focus on research, education and implementation
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Tom Silfvast, Finland, has worked with and done research in pre-hospital emergency care and intensive care medicine for many years. One of his tasks will be to update us on:
- Accidental hypothermia – the Nordic experience
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Nils Oddvar Skaga, Norway, is Chief Anaesthesiologist for Trauma at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo Norway, and a research fellow with The Norwegian Air Ambulance. He is one of the founders of the trauma registry at Ullevaal University hospital and has taken a central part in the development of the Norwegian national trauma registry. He is now finishing his PhD on trauma scoring, and will share his views and study findings on:
- Does the TRISS methodology apply in Scandinavia? And if not, so what?
- Trauma and co-morbidity – is the co-morbidity more important than the injury for final outcome?
And, what does a good outcome after trauma really mean?
- Anaesthesia for the trauma patient – my favourite drugs and gadgets.
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Stephen Sollid, MD, is a Sr. resident of anaesthesiology at the Stavanger University Hospital. Apart from his childhood in North Norway, medical study in Lübeck Germany and a short period as a resident of anaesthesiology at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo, Stavanger is his home!

His main interests are emergency medicine, traumatology, airway management and simulator based training and education in all these fields. Since 2002 he is an emergency flight physician with the hospital air ambulance and Airforce Rescue Helicopter in Stavanger. From this autumn he starts on the long road towards his PhD with a four-year scholarship and research in the field of simulator based training in medical education and training.
And not to forget, he is a computer nerd, and proud of it!
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Kjetil Sunde, works as an anaesthesiologist at the Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo. Since 2004 he has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Experimental Medical Research together with the Emergency Medicine Research Group under Prof. Petter A. Steen at Ullevaal University Hospital. His research field is cardiopulmonary resuscitation; both experimental, manikin and clinical studies. Quality of CPR, shock prediction with VF-analysis, and postresuscitation care including therapeutical hypothermia are fields of special interest.He is a board member of the Norwegian Resuscitation Council, and the chairman of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Working group. In addition, he is in the Steering Commitee of both ERCHACA Registry and Northern Hypothermia Network.
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Eldar Søreide, Norway, MD PhD, is Professor and Medical Director, ICU,  Trauma and Emergency Care,  Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Division of Acute Care Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.

He has more than 10 years experience as part-time flight physician with Norwegian Air Ambulance. Long-time member of  the International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society (ITACCS/TCI). Founding Editor of “Akuttjournalen” – the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma and Emergency medicine. Referee and editorial board member of several international journals. Søreide is President of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (SSAI) from January 2006.

Besides chairing and organising several succesful international and national scientific meetings in Stavanger, Norway (AIRMED2000, TraumaCare2002, HLR2003, Akuttdagene 2004 and 2006, Scandinavian Update 2005 on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation2006),  he is a much used  invited speaker both on international and national meetings.

Medical Director, SAFER (Stavanger Acute medicine Foundation for Research and Education) since 2006
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Kjetil Søreide, Norway, is a research fellow in the Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, and has already published extensively on trauma and what we can learn from the dead. One of his more exotic studies is on local risk sports: How dangerous is BASE-jumping? An analysis of adverse events in 20,850 jumps from the 1100 m high Kjerag massif, Lysefjorden, Norway.
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Torben Wisborg has been anaesthesiologist in Northern Norway since 1990, after finishing training in Copenhagen and Bergen. He works as head of the department of Acute Medicine in Hammerfest Hospital and as anaesthesiologist at the Rescue Helicopter Service in Finnmark. He is co-founder of the Norwegian foundation BEST:Better & Systematic Trauma Care training Norwegian trauma teams nationwide (see www.bestnet.no) and has been training medics to care for victims of land mines in Northern Iraq and Iran since 1996 (see www.traumacare.no).

His main research interests are trauma care, rural trauma, training and team function in Norway and in the third world. He is a former associate professor of the University of Tromsoe and presently doing a PhD in Trauma team training. Go back to top
David Zideman, United Kingdom, is a Consultant Anaesthetist and Chief of Service at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He is a Queen’s Honorary Physician.  David is the current Chairman of the European Resuscitation Council and co-chair of the 2010 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Consensus on Science Conference and therefore is eminently suitable to talk on: “What can the 2010 international guidelines on resuscitation and emergency cardiac care bring?”  His interest in pre-hospital trauma has led him to become the Chairman of The British Association for Immediate Care in the UK (BASICS) which is an organisation in which members actively participate in the management of pre-hospital trauma.  He is proud to be an Honorary Consultant with the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) programme.
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Per Örtenwall, Sweden, MD, PhD has spent most of his career in Göteborg as a general surgeon sub-specialising in vascular and trauma surgery. Over time he also developed an interest in disaster management and prehospital medicine. He is currently holding the positions as medical director for the regional centre for prehospital and disaster medicine (PKMC) in Västra Götalandsregionen, as well as medical director of the ambulance service in Göteborg.  He is chair of the Swedish Trauma Association and the Swedish Society of Disaster Medicine. Special areas of research interest are risk management, traffic safety and quality control of trauma care.  
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Anders Östlund, Sweden, is Chief Anaesthesiologist for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Karolinska Hospital Solna, Sweden. He will take part in the discussion around the trauma victim with massive bleeding and the new Scandinavian guidelines on management of these patients. He will also address the importance of good team work. Good communication saves lives, bad communication kills!
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Bjørn Øglænd, Norway, is a senior consultant, NICU, Stavanger University Hospital. He has many years as general practitioner, i.e. paediatric and neonatal training from Fredrikstad Central Hospital and Norwegian State hospital in Oslo. He is the former head of pediatric dept Stavanger University Hospital and part time project manager for study on developmental origins of adult health and disease. From summer 2007 he will be a consultant in NICU of Norwegian State Hospital Oslo.
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