Scandinavian Update Newsletter December 2006

In this newsletter we present a few of the faculty members that you will meet at Scandinavian Update 2007. Come and join us!
To read more see scandinavian-update.org

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.

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.

How important are the implementation of the new Scandinavian Guidelines on massive bleeding in trauma to improve outcome? What are the surgical challenges nowadays? To answer this we have Tina Gaarder, Norway, Consultant and Researcher in Trauma Surgery, Ullevaal University Hospital.

We have called one session Air ambulance services – cool guys, fancy toys, but also more? The Director of Medicine and Health Professions, The Norwegian Air Ambulance, Jan Erik Nilsen will be joined by 1-2 other facilitators to make sure the discussion take-off. Some of questions that will be addressed are:
- Air ambulance services - do they really make any difference? A view from down under and up north.
Per Bredmose, Denmark.
- Implementing a national air ambulance service in Denmark - why?
- Rural and urban air ambulance services - two of a kind? Audun Langhelle, Norway
- Can specialised nurses replace the physician in the air ambulance service?