Pre-course: Disaster Medicine

Saturday 23 September: 8:30 - 17:30 & Sunday 24 September: 8:30-12:30

 

Mass Gun Shooting and Blast: how to deal with these new challenges

 

Course Directors

  • Massimo Azzaretto (Italy)
  • Francesco Della Corte (Italy)
  • Abdo Khoury (France)

Faculty

  • Pinchas Halpern (Israel)
  • Hayato Kuryhara (Italy)
  • Mathieu Langlois (France)
  • Luca Ragazzoni (Italy)
  • Benoit Vivien (France)
  • Antoine Tran (Nice)

Course description and learning objectives

New threats and challenges are facing our health systems. EMS and In hospital community has to adapt and be prepared to such kind of violent actions and deal with their impacts. Planning for an adequate surge is crucial as well as accessing patients quickly and providing damage control (e.g., tourniquets) and rapid evacuation to an appropriate trauma center to address internal injuries. Paris, Istanbul, Brussels among many others, are crucial examples of what we are facing now and what our future unfortunately can be.
 
The aim of this course is to address all these issues and enable colleagues whom are not familiar with this type of clinical practice, to feel more confident in managing mass shooting multiple casualties. Experienced speakers from the military combined with Civil EMS will help us understand where to focus to improve their response capability in prehospital and hospital settings.

Schedule

Saturday 23 September

08:50 Welcome & Introduction Massimo Azzaretto, Francesco Della Corte, Abdo Khoury  
09:00

Introduction

 
  - Terrorism: New era, new threats: Abdo Khoury (France)  
09:30

State of the Art (part 1)

 
  - Mechanism of blast injuries: Francesco Della Corte (Italy)  
  - Mechanism of gun shooting: Massimo Azzaretto (Italy)  
10:30 Coffee Break and Networking   
11:00 State of the Art (Part 2)  
  - Triage in terrorist attacks: Where and how?  Pinchas Halpern (Israel)  
  - Tactical Medicine: SWAT medics.  Mathieu Langlois (France)  
  - Children in mass shooting. Nice experience Antoine Tran (France)  
12:30 Lunch break
 
13:30

How to prepare for such an MCI?  How to set the plans? 

 
  - Prehospital preparedness: Benoit Vivien (France)
 
  - In hospital preparedness: Pinchas Halpern (Israel)  
 15:00

Hands on (All faculties)

 
M Tourniquet, junctional/pelvis   
A

Crico, Intubation and alternatives

 
R

PNX treatment, penetrating chest injuries

 
C IO device, tourniquet, packing  
H

hypothermia prevention, head trauma management

 
17:00

Discussion and 1st day Wrap up (All faculty)

 

Sunday 24 September

08:30 - 13:00

Damage Control: From the military to the civilian

  - Damage Control Ground Zero : Mathieu Langlois (France)
  - Damage Control ressuscitation : Benoit Vivien (France)
  - Damage Control surgery: Hayato Kuryhara (Italy)
10:00 - 11:00 Training by simulation: Luca Ragazzoni (Italy)
11:00 - 12:00 

Evaluation, wrap up and discussion 

National Societies

Albania
Albania Albania

Albanian Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata Shqiptare e Urgjencës Mjekësore - SH.U.M.

Date of origin: 1 January 2013

Austria

Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina

Association of Emergency Medicine Physicians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Udruženje Urgentologa u Federaciji Bosne i Hercegovine

Date of origin: 15 March 2019





France
Georgia
Georgia Georgia

Georgian College of Emergency Physicians

საქართველოს გადაუდებელი მედიცინის ექიმთა კოლეჯი





Kosovo
Kosovo Kosovo

Kosovo Society of Emergency Medicine

Shoqata për Mjekësi Emergjente e Kosovës (SHMEK)  

Year of origin: 2008

Latvia

Lithuania
Lithuania Lithuania

Lithuanian Society for Emergency Medicine

Lietuvos Skubiosios Medicinos Draugija

Date of origin: 3 October 2003

Malta
Malta Malta

Association of Emergency Physicians of Malta

Ghaqda Maltija tat-Tobba ghall-Emergenzi

Date of origin: 1 December 2006


Moldova
Moldova Moldova

Society of Emergency Medicine and Disasters Medicine from Republic of Moldova

Asociația Obștească Societatea Științifico-Practică de Medicină de Urgență și Catastrofe din Republica Moldova

Netherlands

Norway
Norway Norway

Norwegian College of Emergency Medicine


Poland

Portugal
Portugal Portugal

Portuguese Society of Urgent and Emergency Medicine

Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina de Urgência e Emergência 

Romania

Serbia
Slovakia
Slovakia Slovakia

Slovak Society of Disaster and Emergency Medicine

Slovenská spoločnost' urgentnej medicíny katastrof 

Date of origin: 4 October 1997





United Kingdom
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Year of origin: 1993