International Federation for Emergency Medicine

March 2014

ICEM 2014, Hong Kong The Program for Hong Kong is nearly finalised and you can check out all the details on the Website here. So get your registration in soon and enjoy FREE entry for you and your partner to the Sky 100 Observation Deck at the Welcome Cocktail Reception, with every full registration.

ICEM 2016, Cape Town Join the mailing list here, and Save the Date for April 18-21 2016 in Cape Town. Call for expressions of interest for 2019 and 2020 A reminder that expressions of interest in hosting the ICEM in 2019 and ICEM 2020 should be forwarded to the Secretariat by 1 May 2014. Guidelines for submitting a bid can be found here. The host organisations for both ICEM 2019 and 2020 will be announced in October 2014.

Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum Guidelines

IFEM’s Emergency Ultrasound Special Interest Group has developed a document on point-of-care ultrasound training programs and practice governance, which will assist in providing structure and guidelines for best practice. It is a consensus document drawing on regional and national guidelines already in practice around the world. It highlights the important features of a sound training and practice program, and is aimed at a complementary, diagnostic tool that can help make the clinician more efficient, more independent and more confident in their medical decision-making.

SAVE THE DATE ICEM 2014 11-14 June 2014

IMPORTANT DATES

12th March Closing date for nominations for IFEM Board/Executive

1st May Closing date for receipt of Bids for ICEM 2019 and ICEM 2020

10th June Next IFEM Board and Assembly meetings

IFEM Executive/Board Elections 2014 Do you want to get involved? Nominations are invited for Executive and Board positions commencing June 2014. Tenure is two years and is renewable. Find out more here.

Closing date for nominations: 12th March 2014.

Executive: President: Peter Cameron (ACEM) President-elect: C. James Holliman (ACEP) Vice-President: James Ducharme (CAEP) Treasurer: Andrew Singer (ACEM) Secretary: Robert Schafermeyer (ACEP) Member-at-Large: Hiu-fai (Paul) Ho (representative of ICEM 2014) (appointed) Regional Board Members: Africa: Lee Wallis (EMSSA) Asia: V. Anantharaman (SEMS) Australasia: Sally McCarthy (ACEM) Central/South America: Edgardo Menendez (SAE) Europe: Juliusz Jakubaszko (Polish SEM) North America: Terry Mulligan (ACEP)

EVENTS

2014 23rd Winter Symposium on Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Date: 12-15 March 2014,Karpacz, Poland www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.pl Philippine College of Emergency Medicine Annual Convention 2014 16-18 April 2014, Manila Philippines http://www.pcemph.org/index.php/news SEMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2014 11-13 April 2014, Singapore http://semsonline.org/category/sems-asc Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting 2014 14 May 2014, Dallas, USA http://www.saem.org/annual-meeting CAEP Annual Conference Date: 31 May – 4 June 2014, Ottawa http://caep.ca/Conference International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2014 11-14 June 2014, Hong Kong www.icem2014.org The Global Emergency Medicine Meeting 2014 Shenzhen 16-18 June 2014, Shenzhen CHINA www.gemhkuszh.com 3rd International Emergency Care Symposium, Melbourne 4-5 September 2014, Melbourne Australia 8

th European Congress on Emergency Medicine

28 September – 1 October 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands www.eusem2014.org ACEP Scientific Assembly 2014 27-30 October 2014, Chicago, USA www.acep.org/sa 4th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine 12-16 November 2014, Antalya Turkey

2015 21

st Annual Scientific Assembly, American Academy of EM

28 February – 4 March 2015, Austin, USA Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting 12-16 May 2015, San Diego ,USA 8

th Asian Conference for Emergency Medicine 2015

7 – 10 November 2015, Taipei, Taiwan http://www.acem2015.org

Emergency Physicians International (EPI) is the magazine and online network dedicated to emergency medicine development around the globe.

New Clinical Teaching Resources We have added further resources to our repository of powerpoint lectures. Some of these include:-

- HIV-Aids - Shock - Bioweapons - Dissection of a Research Project

Head to the Clinical Resources section of the Website. You are free to adapt these resources for your own needs.

The Global Emergency-Medicine Meeting (GEM) 2014, Shenzhen, China is the first international program organized by the AED, HKU-SZH. It aims to bring new ideas to Emergency Medicine, Emergency Nursing and pre-hospital care to China. The registration and Free Paper application of the Global Emergency Medicine Meeting 2014, Shenzhen is now open. The conference will take place from 16th June 2014 to 18th June 2014. For details, please visit http://www.gemhkuszh.com. The Global Emergency-Medicine Meeting (GEM) is organized by the Accident and Emergency Department (AED) of HKU-SZH. The AED began operations on 15th May 2013 with partial service, which was extended to 24 hours on 23rd October 2013. The AED is headed by Dr. Gary Chu, Fellow of Emergency Medicine of the Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (EM). He is the BLS and ACLS faculty member of the American Heart Association, and various international courses and conferences. Under his leadership, all doctors and nurses of the AED, HKU-SZH are trained according to the Hong Kong standard and overseas trainings and visits are conducted regularly. The Hong Kong AED Triage System is utilized. Patients are prioritized according to clinical needs.

Master of Advanced Emergency Care Course, University of Sheffield

A series of online open days for the MSc in Advanced Emergency Care will be held on 25th March and 11th April. Course information available at www.tinyurl.com/scharraec. See attached flyers.

GETUP GETUP is aimed at connecting countries with and without toxicology services with the hope of improving toxicology education. See Website www.acmt.net/GETUP.html or contact Dr Anselm Wong, anselm.wong@austin.org.au

23rd Winter Symposium on Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care

March 12th - 15th, Karpacz , Poland Speakers include Judith Tintinalli, Joe Lex, Bob Suter, Lisa Moreno, Dan O'Brien, Ashley Bean, Terry Mulligan . Attractive satellite events ( "Rescue Trophy Extreme" - ambulances rally), medical exhibition, workshops, reach social program, beautiful scenery....www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.pl

SAVE YOUR TIME!!!

23rd Winter Symposium of Emergency Medicine

and Intensive CareKarpacz, Poland

March 12th-15th, 2014

Dear Colleagues,It is a pleasure of the Polish Society for Emergency Medicine to invite you for the annual winter conference on Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care, as:

23rd Winter Symposium of Emergency Medicine

and Intensive CareKarpacz, Poland,

March 12th-15th, 2014Conference sessions will focus on or-ganizational and managerial topics of ED, on selected clinical aspects of sep-sis, cardiovascular emergencies, neu-rologic emergencies, pediatric emer-gencies, multitrauma and hyperbaric oxygenation in EM practice. As usual, some sessions will focus on administrative issues, financing, and legal responsibilities in emergency medicine. Joint support for the sessions will be provided by a large number of world-renowned speakers. Symposium attendees from Poland and from countries with a reciprocity agree-ment will receive educational credit. List of the associated courses and workshops includes:

ultrasound in emergency medicine –electrostimulation and ultrasound- –guided techniques for peripheral nerve block basic peri-injury procedures in pe- –diatric and adult patients selected endoscopic technique –simulation learning essentials –emergency department manage- –ment, organization and educa-tional role

Because our parallel scientif-ic sessions will cover topics for emergency nurses and paramedics, we strongly encourage those profes-sionals to participate.

Special workshops agenda for emer-gency nurses and paramedics in-cludes, but is not limited to:

New guidelines for resuscitation –Pre-hospital care report and tele- –transmission Legal aspects and responsibilities –in emergency care Health promotion technique in the –scope of emergency nurses’ and paramedics’ duties

There will be an important associated event during the symposium – Res-cue Trophy Extreme 2014 – which is spectacular EMS crews competitions within very hard, mountains environ-ment. Rescue Trophy Extreme 2014 partici-pation will be granted with additional educational credits. Conference reach social program will includes: high class philharmonic concert, Polish folk party, some win-ter mountains attractions.An official conference language for this international symposium will be Polish and English. Abstracts and papers, prepared in accordance with current guide-lines for abstracts prepara-tion available on web site, should be submitted electronically on the following address: ptmr@umed.wroc.pl.

It is imperative to submit papers be-fore an acceptance date, January 31st, 2014. Chosen Abstracts will be pub-lished in subsequent issues of Polish Journal of Emergency Medicine.Detailed information regarding sym-posium is regularly updated on the website of Polish Society for Emergency Medicine:www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.plSymposium Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Form with current fees available on website:www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.plDeadline for registration on regular fee is February 10th, 2014. We look forward to meeting you in Karpacz and deeply appreciate your consideration.

Regards,Professor Juliusz Jakubaszko,

MD, PhDPresident of Polish Society for

Emergency Medicine

SAVE YOUR TIME!!!

23rd Winter Symposium of Emergency Medicine

and Intensive CareKarpacz, Poland

March 12th-15th, 2014

Dear Colleagues,It is a pleasure of the Polish Society for Emergency Medicine to invite you for the annual winter conference on Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care, as:

23rd Winter Symposium of Emergency Medicine

and Intensive CareKarpacz, Poland,

March 12th-15th, 2014Conference sessions will focus on or-ganizational and managerial topics of ED, on selected clinical aspects of sep-sis, cardiovascular emergencies, neu-rologic emergencies, pediatric emer-gencies, multitrauma and hyperbaric oxygenation in EM practice. As usual, some sessions will focus on administrative issues, financing, and legal responsibilities in emergency medicine. Joint support for the sessions will be provided by a large number of world-renowned speakers. Symposium attendees from Poland and from countries with a reciprocity agree-ment will receive educational credit. List of the associated courses and workshops includes:

ultrasound in emergency medicine –electrostimulation and ultrasound- –guided techniques for peripheral nerve block basic peri-injury procedures in pe- –diatric and adult patients selected endoscopic technique –simulation learning essentials –emergency department manage- –ment, organization and educa-tional role

Because our parallel scientif-ic sessions will cover topics for emergency nurses and paramedics, we strongly encourage those profes-sionals to participate.

Special workshops agenda for emer-gency nurses and paramedics in-cludes, but is not limited to:

New guidelines for resuscitation –Pre-hospital care report and tele- –transmission Legal aspects and responsibilities –in emergency care Health promotion technique in the –scope of emergency nurses’ and paramedics’ duties

There will be an important associated event during the symposium – Res-cue Trophy Extreme 2014 – which is spectacular EMS crews competitions within very hard, mountains environ-ment. Rescue Trophy Extreme 2014 partici-pation will be granted with additional educational credits. Conference reach social program will includes: high class philharmonic concert, Polish folk party, some win-ter mountains attractions.An official conference language for this international symposium will be Polish and English. Abstracts and papers, prepared in accordance with current guide-lines for abstracts prepara-tion available on web site, should be submitted electronically on the following address: ptmr@umed.wroc.pl.

It is imperative to submit papers be-fore an acceptance date, January 31st, 2014. Chosen Abstracts will be pub-lished in subsequent issues of Polish Journal of Emergency Medicine.Detailed information regarding sym-posium is regularly updated on the website of Polish Society for Emergency Medicine:www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.plSymposium Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Form with current fees available on website:www.medycynaratunkowa.wroc.plDeadline for registration on regular fee is February 10th, 2014. We look forward to meeting you in Karpacz and deeply appreciate your consideration.

Regards,Professor Juliusz Jakubaszko,

MD, PhDPresident of Polish Society for

Emergency Medicine