Pre-course: Disaster Medicine

Monday 1 October 2012: 8:00 - 18:00

Course Directors

  • Francesco Della Corte, Novara, Italy
  • Steve Photiou, Padova, Italy Faculty
  • Francesco Della Corte, Novara, Italy
  • Ives Hubloue, Brussels, Belgium
  • Kristi Koenig, Irvine, CA, USA
  • PL Ingrassia, Novara, Italy
  • Steve Photiou, Padova, Italy
  • Abdo Khoury, Besançon, France

Participants

 25 physicians maximum.
 The course shall be cancelled if less than 15 participants are registered.

Learning objectives

How to implement a hospital plan to face the contemporary arrival to the Emergency Department of a large number of patients after mass casualties/disasters. Applicants must have basic competence in health care or health management. Practical experience in disaster preparedness or management is welcome.
 

Proposed schedule

The course will be organised in two phases: 

  • distance learning phase on a specific website for 15 days before the course
  • an on-site course of one (and half?) day before the 7th ECEM.

The “I SEE RICELAND” course has an innovative format making use of specific  application of multimedia and interactive simulation tools for prehospital and inhospital preparedness and response in mass casualties incidents and disasters. 

Frontal lectures and Workshops will deal with “Risk analysis” – “Command, control, coordination” – “Pre and In Hospital Triage” – “In Hospital areas definition and treatment pathways” – “Surge Capacity”

Lessons to be read before starting the course

  1. Introduction to Disaster Medicine
  2. Risk analysis
  3. Triage
  4. Expected pathologies in Disasters
  5. Prehospital preparedness
  6. Hospital Disaster Preparedness: general principles
  7. Surge capacity 
  8. Hospital Emergency Incident Command system
  9. Hospital preparedness to nuclear disasters 
  10. Hospital preparedness to bioterrorism
  11.  Hospital preparedness to chemical accidents

 

08:00 Registration of participants.
08:15 General principles of Hospital Preparedness – F. Della Corte
09:00 Risk analysis workshop – PL Ingrassia.
10:00 Principles of prehospital organisation in MCI – A. Khoury
10:45 Coffee break.
11:00 Exercise on triage – S. Photiou.
12:00 Surge capacity: concept and application to MCI emergencies – K. Koenig.
12:30 The chain of command – PL Ingrassia.
13:00 Lunch break.
14:00 Introduction to simulation exercise.
15:00 Simulation exercise : ISEE - Wiljan Van Norel.
17:30 Discussion and Conclusion.
18:00 End of course.

Directors

Dr Robert Leach
Dr Robert Leach
President
Dr Jim Connolly
Dr Jim Connolly
Immediate Past President
Dr Niccolo Parri
Dr Niccolo Parri
VICE- President
Prof. Dr Diana Cimpoesu
Prof. Dr Diana Cimpoesu
HONORARY Treasurer

 

Dr Tatjana Rajkovic
Dr Tatjana Rajkovic
Honorary Secretary

The Board of Directors may co-opt

Dr Jan Stroobants
Dr Jan Stroobants
Chairperson of the Professional committee
Dr Zsolt Bognar
Dr Zsolt Bognar
Chairperson of the Paediatric Branch
Dr Effie Polyzogopoulou
Dr Effie Polyzogopoulou
Chairperson of Ultrasound Committee
Dr Anna Spiteri
Dr Anna Spiteri
Co-Chair of EMERGE
 
Dr Ashraf Butt
Dr Ashraf Butt
Co-Chair of EMERGE
 
Dr Ruth Brown
Dr Ruth Brown
Chairperson of Education Committee
Prof Marc Sabbe
Prof Marc Sabbe
Chairperson of fellowship committee
Dr James van Oppen
Dr James van Oppen
Chairperson of the Geriatric section
Prof Ari Palomäki
Prof Ari Palomäki
Chairperson of the Research Committee
Prof Mehmet Karamercan
Prof Mehmet Karamercan
Chairperson of the Research Network
Dr Eric Revue
Dr Eric Revue
chairperson of the Pre-Hospital section
Prof Itai Shavit
Prof Itai Shavit
Chairperson of the Paediatric branch
Dr Steve Photiou
Dr Steve Photiou
Chairperson of the Disaster Medicine Section
Dr Kurt Anseeuw
Dr Kurt Anseeuw
Chairperson of the toxicology section
Prof Yonathan Freund
Prof Yonathan Freund
EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Dr Youri Yordanov
Dr Youri Yordanov
CHAIRPERSON OF THE EUSEM CONGRESS ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr Canberk Meseli
Chairperson of the YEMD Section