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The session will briefly discuss the roles and responsibilities of the expedition doctor/leader and will try to identify its scope. In addition, the lecture aims to discuss the real-life cases faced over few years which goes beyond the altitude illness and includes cases ranging from musculoskeletal injuries to resuscitation done in the wilderness.
Students should review the WMS CPG’s on Spinal Protection. Students must have a helmet and gloves for rope and litter work. This workshop will focus on difficulties encountered in patient packaging and extrication in SAR. Patients are rarely found in anatomic position on a flat, clean surface, ready for your assistance. Getting a patient out of awkward positions, stabilizing injuries, securing them into a litter and evacuating over complex terrain takes teamwork and practice. This workshop will give participants ample hands-on experience in these areas.
The importance of peer review lies in the hands of a journal readership. By understanding high quality peer review, attendees will have a greater appreciation of the efforts journal undertake to deliver high quality literature.
Active discussion identifying potential future direction of altitude illness research led by expert researchers
In the event of a caving emergency having a strategy is crucial. Learn how to make the most out of the resources you have available to execute a successful rescue.
This workshop will be an opportunity to get hands on with rope systems used in SAR. Practice will include mechanical advantage systems for raising a patient in a litter on low angle terrain, litter lowering with a variety of descent control devices, and other techniques as time allows.
Consider how a mindfulness practice can contribute to the development of compassion and thereby create the conditions for a more inclusive wilderness.
Can you bring the patient back from the dead?
Participants to bring their hypothermia SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) Protocols and be prepared to discuss their experiences.
Patient evaluation at altitude: A workshop with the Aconcagua medical service
In this lecture, Billi Bierling talks about the pioneering women in the high mountains and the important role women play in high-altitude mountaineering. A look back at history with important female mountaineers such as Wanda Rutkiewicz from Poland, the Englishwoman Lucy Walker – the first woman to climb the Matterhorn – and the Austrian extreme mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. An important focus of the lecture is the role of the female Sherpas, or Sherpanis, and how they have developed over the last decade. In addition, Billi’s former boss at the Himalayan Database, the late Miss Elizabeth Hawley, forms a substantial part of this talk.
Description: An updated review on the literature of AMS/HACE incidence for lowlander women at altitude
Description: Sex-differences in HAPE
Description: Although the data are very limited, there is a "suggestion" within the data that women may have a lower risk of HAPE, and of dying (by any cause), at high altitude. Without clear physiological rationale, can psychological / behavioral differences help explain?
Description: Acquiring the skills to lead, teach and provide care in an expedition setting.
Description: This session will cover the UIAA recommendations for pregnant women traveling to high altitude.
Description: A presentation to open people’s eyes on how to take lessons from quality mountain medicine research to produce practical and pragmatic advice to non-clinicians working and playing in the outdoors.
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