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

	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.
	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
	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.
	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
	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.