EUSEM Winter Days at Secours Expo – Paris, France I 19–20 March 2026

EUSEM Winter Days at Secours Expo – Paris, France I 19–20 March 2026

EUSEM Winter Days

Secours Expo- Paris – France

19-20 March 2026 – Paris, France

Day 1 – Thursday 19th  March:

Starting at 13:00: Opening “Welcome to EUSEM Winter Days.” 

Frontline Military Medicine meets Frontline Emergency Medicine - a growing need to share skills and knowledge ” 

Delivered by Dr Robert Leach - EUSEM President

13.20 KEYNOTE 1:

The future of Disaster and Prehospital Medicine in a changing world.

13.50.  Plenary 1 Advances in Prehospital at the extremes 

  • Traumatic Cardiac Arrest. Resuscitative Thoracotomy who survives?
  • How do you train for rare events.    
  • Bringing increasingly complex care to the roadside (Endovascular Resuscitation)
  • French /Euro specialist – Medicine in extreme remote areas.

14.50. Coffee Break.

15.10 – 16.10.  Workshops

Disaster Medicine & Mass casualties

  • Mass Casualty Triage: MCM in your ED

16. 20 KEYNOTE 2:

"Psychological Impact of war and terrorism: The medic as target." 

Delivered by Dr Saleyha Ahsan

17.00: Networking reception

Day 2 – Friday 20th  March:

9:15 Keynote 3:

"Overview of recent disasters & humanitarian crises." 

Delivered by Dr Steve Photiou

09:45 Plenary 3

What every EM Doctor needs to know about Military Medicine and Damage Control 

  • Lessons in Military Medicine we have forgotten/relearnt
  • Wounds of War: Blast Injuries in Modern Combat and Civilian Zones”.  
  • Lessons learned from the surgical experience of a WHO-EMT-2 in Mayotte after the Chido Cyclone
  • The "C-ABCDE approach in a hostile environment - initial stabilization under threat
  • Lessons learnt from Ukraine

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Plenary 4.    

CBRN Threats in the 21st Century: Preparedness and Response

  • Preparing the population for CBRN attacks
  • ECDC/CDC specialist – Emerging biological threats. 
  • Detection at the scene

12.30 Keynote 4

International response coordination.

13:00 – Lunch Break

14.00 Workshops

  • Workshop 1: Triage and Case studies
  • Workshop 2: Simulation of CBRN response

15.20 Keynote 5

Civil–Military Cooperation in Mass-Casualty Response

  • Preparing the civilian response to military casualties in Europe

15.45– Closing Round Table
“Disaster Medicine 2030: Priorities for Research, Training and International Cooperation”

16.30 – Closing Ceremony

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