Scientific program
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10.00 - 12.00

Hall I+II+III - 1A

Opening session

 

 

 

12.30 - 14.00

 Lunch and exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

Controlled ventilation in the critically ill and injured patient - not so controlled after all?
Daniel P Davis

 

Emergency airway management: whether in the ambulance or the Emergency Department, there are far too many airway gadgets and too few airway experts
Arnd Timmermann

 

Lessons learned from failed pre-hospital airway management
David Lockey

15.00 - 15.30

15.30 - 17.00

3B
How to organise emergency care in the future, part 2

 

Using Norway as an example with interactive plenum discussion involving all key players
Tor Ingebrigtsen, Trude Grønlund, Odd Søreide, Kristin Lossius

 

Intro 10 min each and 5 min for questions
Tor Ingebrigtsen, Trude Grønlund, Odd Søreide, Kristin Lossius

 

PLENARY DISCUSSION with AUDIENCE INTERACTION
Tor Ingebrigtsen, Trude Grønlund, Odd Søreide, Kristin Lossius

 

Quick summaries of the discussion - what are the main points that needs to be adressed?
Jannicke Mellin-Olsen & Torben Wisborg

 

 

 

 

18.30-20.00

Karibu
Hosts: Marius Rehn and Helga Langhelle Freyer

20.30-

Stand-up Science
Venue: Hall Toll See google-map for path description from the conference hotel, Clarion Hotel Stavanger

FRIDAY APRIL 24

 09.00 - 10.30

4A
Quality improvement, simulation based training and CRM

4B
Emergency care in the Scandinavian countries

4C
Free Papers
Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine

 

CRM – from Crew to Crisis Resource Management and back again.
Peter Dieckmann

Organizing in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergency medical services in Scandinavia - major changes to come? Yes, definitely!
Maaret Castren

Quality of CPR has little impact on cerebral oximetry during in-hospital cardiac arrest
--preliminary data from three case reports
Marko Sainio

Adrenalin significantly increases intracranial pressure in hypovolemic cardiac arrest model in male piglets
Egidijus Semenas

Cardiovascular effects of inhaled oxygen assessed with magnetic resonance imaging
Ulf Ekelund

Continued cardiopulmonary resuscitation during transport in a physician-based Emergency Medical System
Elín E. Sigurdardóttir

Making simulations more real: Experiences from an advanced resuscitation provider course.
Håvard Landsdalen

Circadian presentation patterns and ECGs of men and women with suspected acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department
Catarina E. Hilmersson

Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients without return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) - should they be transported with ongoing resuscitation to the hospital?
Thomas W Lindner

Laerdal MiniAnne with a counting device: does it improve performance?
Conrad A. Bjørshol

 

CRM and simulation based training - an update focusing on why this is so important for all clinicians working in teams
Peter Dieckmann

Prehospital reorganisation in Demark - what is really new and controversial.
Freddy Lippert

 

An update on medical simulation in Scandinavia - DIMS, SAFER and much more……
Stephen Sollid

Emergency medicine in Sweden: a separate speciality, but now what? Lessons learned and recent developments
Anders Eriksson

 

Simulated prehospital airway management problems, human factors and CRM – Swiss experiences with how to improve quality of care and patient safety
Wolfgang Ummenhofer

How to organise  high-quality prehospital  (ground and air ambulances) and in-hospital (surgical and medical specialities) emergency care  in rural areas? Experiences from a Local Health Trust in Norway
Rune Larsen

 

 

 

 

10.30 - 11.00

Coffebreak and exhibition

11.00 - 12.30

5A
Recent research and hot topics

5B
Alarm- and -dispatch and prehospital care in the Scandinavian countries - recent controversies

5C 
Free Papers
Trauma & Emergency Surgery

 

A Scandinavian focused Update on key studies in Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Erika F. Christensen

Alarm- and dispatch in the Scandinavian countries - what are the differences and do they affect quality and patient safety?
Freddy Lippert

Post-traumatic stress symptoms two years after severe multiple injuries – self-reported disability and psychosocial functioning
Helene L Søberg

Incidence of traumatic long-bone fractures requiring inhospital management: a prospective age- and gender-specific analysis in 4,890 fractures
Terje Meling

Cardiopulmonary response to reamed intramedullary nailing of the femur with a traditional reaming system and a one-step reamer-irrigator-aspirator reaming system; an experimental study in pigs.
Elisabeth Ellingsen Husebye

Collet-Sicard-syndrome with spinal epidural hematoma due to occipital condyle fracture – A case report
Nils Christian Utheim

Traumatic Hip luxations and apoptosis
Annette K.B. Wikerøy

Is the observation unit a proper place to observe a trauma patient with minor injuries?
Ole Petter Vinjevoll

Leadership is the essential human factor in the trauma team – results of a qualitative study
Magnus Hjortdahl and Amund H Ringen

Trauma Systems and Early Management of Severe Injuries in Scandinavia: Review and Current Status
Thomas Kristiansen

Severity of injury does not have any impact on posttraumatic stress symptoms in severely injured patients
Anette Johansen Quale

Secondary neurological deficits after a conservatively treated U-shaped sacral fracture
Aron Adelved

Errors in Acute Surgery: A Statewide Hospital Survey
David Dries

 

Why I think Chest-Compression-Only is the way to go to improve outcome in cardiac arrest, and ERC not
Katarina Bohm

How to save lives and ease the pain, but remain within the budget frame. Organising a large urban ambulance service – experiences from the past and challenges in the future
Mats Kihlgren

 

Improving outcome and out-come prediction in resuscitation – still room for improvements?
Ilkka Virkkunen

Prehospital emergency care – lessons learned in Sweden and what we all can learn from them
Poul Kongstad

 

HEMS, medical and non-medical staffing, flight and patient safety - what's up and what's new?
Daniel P Davis

Recent controversies in resucitation training. An update from Scandinavian Resuscitation Councils
Kristian Lexow

 

 

 

 

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch and exhibition

14.00 - 15.00

6A
The Emergency Department - the missing link?

6B
Trauma, disaster and emergency care - documentation and outcome

6C
Free Papers
Emergency Medicine

Moderator: Anders Eriksson &  Guttorm Brattebø

Moderators: Kjetil Søreide & Bjørn Gunnarson

 Moderators:
Anders Åneman & Freddy Lippert

 

Emergency medicine, emergency care, EMS and co-operation: the Danish perspective
Inger Søndergaard

Improving experimental and observational design in trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine research - why and how?
Eirik Skogvoll

Feedback on emergency medical dispatching – the ambulance crew experience of a computer based feedback system
Veronica Lindström

Improved communication between ambulance personnel and supervising doctors. A quality improvement project in central Norway.
Trine Landsem

Incidence of unexpected out-of-hospital death in Norway
Erik Zakariassen

Laryngeal Tube as airway rescue device from prehospital to tracheostomy: Case report
Aimone Giugni

Are patients fulfilling MET criteria recognized?
Rasmus Hesselfeldt

Bubblewrap for hypothermia prevention- the ultimate solution or yet another fancy gadget?
Robert Brennestad

Interhospital transport of critically ill patient with dedicated ICU ventilator
Aimone Giugni

 

Organising emergency care in  "the emergency room" – how was it done in the past and how must it be done in the future? A Norwegian perspective
Torben Wisborg

Centralisation and specialisation of hospitals is based on what? Quality of care, patient safety, cost-effectiveness, or politics? Using trauma as an example
Olav Røise

 

How to organise  a large multi-speciality Emergency Department? Who is in charge? Does Triage of patients really help? What about the not so critically ill and injured patients? Does anybody really care? Experiences from a Norwegian University Hospital
Ole Christian Langlo & Ole Kristen Zweidorff

Documentation during major incidents and disasters, does it really matter?
Anders Rüter

 

 

 

 

15.00 - 15.30

Coffebreak and exhibition

Moderators: Torben Wisborg & Inger Søndergaard

Moderators: Niels Juul & Jouni Kurola

Moderators:
Per Kristian Hyldmo & Jannicke Mellin-Olsen

The prehospital emergency team – does it function the way it should? What about patient safety?
Guttorm Brattebø

Neurotrauma and neurointensive care in the future – an overview.
Martin Rusnak

The European Project SIDARTHA using Emergency Care Data for Public Health Surveillance and Health Threat Preparedness.
Freddy Lippert

Compiance with 6-hour sepsis bundle in a Saudi Emergency Department
Rehmani Rifat

Risking Lives to Save Them – Hazards of Emergency Transport
Anne Marie Silver

Medical Oversight with Wireless Real time Audio-Visual Transmission Device
Chu Hyun Kim

Laryngeal tube – the new silver standard in out-of hospital cardiac arrest?
Ronny Cassells

A pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia pre-procedure checklist
Rod Mackenzie

Presence of the local general practitioner on-call in medical emergencies - A 10 year analysis of data from the Dombås HEMS base.
Andreas Krüger

Air ambulance missions to patients at locations not accessible by road - pleasant way to evacuate or advanced medicine in the field?
Andreas Krüger

Is the sky the limit? Trends in ambulance usage in Sør-Trøndelag County, Norway, from 1997-2007
Andreas Krüger

Which factors influence the use of e-learning programs?
Frederik Mondrup

Physician manned helicopters - just a flying ambulance, or a flying ICU as well?
Liv Berit Stenseth

Neurotrauma and neurointensive care – a European perspective on clinical guidelines and other ways to improve quality of care
Walter Mauritz

Emergency teams - what make them function and what not?
Wolfgang Ummenhofer

The Neurotrauma Chain of Survival - what the neurosurgeon needs to know and what the prehospital care provider should do!
Niels Juul

The response to out-of-hospital emergencies is one thing but what about in-hospital emergencies? An update on the Rapid Response Team concept and its future role in Scandinavia
Anders Åneman

The New Neurotrauma Clinical Practice Guidelines are good, but are they used?
Ben Heskestad

SATURDAY APRIL 25

Moderators:Guttorm Brattebø & Poul Kongstad

 

Teaching and Research in Disaster Medicine in Scandinavia
Anders Rüter

 

How to organise high quality prehospital and in-hospital emergency care in rural and artic surroundings – an update from exotic Iceland
Bjørn Gunnarsson

 

The Norwegian general practitioners' experiences as emergency physicians
Erik Zakariassen

 

The traditional community and doctor based emergency care system in
Norway – can it survive?
Steinar Hunskår

 

 

 

 

10.30 - 11.00

11.00 - 13.00

9B
Disaster and emergency medicine, part 2

Moderators: Guttorm Brattebø & Poul Kongstad

 

Management of Trauma Patients
in the Emergency Room: Old Truths and New Developments
Walter Mauritz

 

New Scandinavian guidelines for prehospital airway management – the basic parts are as important as the advanced ones!
Per Kristian Hyldmo

 

If early endotracheal intubation and controlled ventilation are so crucial in patients with severe traumatic brain injury, do we know if they get it? An overview of the Scandinavian neurotrauma systems
Niels Juul

 

The nurse anaesthetist plays an important role in prehospital care
Arild Sørensen

 

PRO-CON DEBATE:
What will it take to become an Emergency Care and HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service)  Physician in the future? A lot! 
Stephen Sollid

 

13.00 - 14.30

Lunch