09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Les Folio, DO, MPH; Col (ret), USAF, MC, SFS
Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Associate Professor, Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Radiologist
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

09.10 Medical Support In Joint Operations From The Perspective Of The Command Surgeon Headquarters Air Mobility Command

• Strategic challenges to delivering the best medical care in conflict zones
• Treatment and evacuation policy of US Forces
• Air Force Medical Service Critical Care Air Transport Teams
• Mission shift in current conflicts

Major General (Dr.) Douglas J. Robb
Command Surgeon, Headquarters Air Mobility Command
USAF

09.50 The Joint Medical Forces Command Approach To Meeting Current And Future Commitments

• Taking the mission approach to casualty care
• Restructuring of hospitals
• Developing multinational cooperation all the way down to the tactical level
• Vision for the future

Colonel Dr. Ruediger Trapp
Assistant Chief of Staff G3, Joint Medical Forces Command
Bundeswehr

11.00 Tactical Medicine An Example From The Canadian Forces

• TACMED training for Canadian Medics
• Who to train and how much training should each soldier receive in casualty care?
• What needs to be taught
• Lessons from the front line

Lieutenant Colonel Ron Wojtyk
Section Head, Operational Medicine, Directorate Health Services Operations
Canadian Forces Health Services Group

11.40 Aeromedical Evacuation: A Perspective From The Raf

• Current capabilities and overview of operational commitment
• Lessons from MERT-E teams
• Strategic aeromedical evacuation
• What issues still need to be ironed out?

Wing Commander Martin J Ruth DAvMed MRAeS FRCA
RAF Consultant Adviser Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Tactical Medical Wing
RAF

12.20 Providing Blood To The Battlefield The Challenges, The Need

• Current transfusion policy of the UK MoD
• Challenges of implementing an Apheresis capability in Afghanistan
• Massive Transfusion Capability

Colonel Heidi Doughty
Blood Transfusion Consultant, Selly Oak Hospital
UK MoD

14.00 Lessons From A Role One Facility In Helmand

• Mission of a young Dr in Helmand
• Advances in care given and unique challenges
• What else do we need to be able to do?
• Feedback from service in a Host Nation Clinic in POB Price

Lieutenant Eva Lykke MD
Medical Officer
Danish Army

14.40 Intraosseous Access On The Battlefield: Where Are We Now?

• The nature of battlefield trauma
• History of IO
• History of IO in the military (the two being closely linked)
• The problems of vascular access in the military environment
• The role of IO in recent military operations
• Case studies
• Where IO now fits into the full spectrum of vascular access and damage control resuscitation
• The future?
• Conclusions

Major Thomas Konig
Specialist Registrar in General Surgery, Defence Medical Services
British Army

15.30 Multinational Cooperation At Camp Bastion

• July to October 2009: Running the field hospital at a time of extremely high operational tempo
• Overview of medical care during the operational period
• Lesson learned, shared and a possible way forward

Lieutenant Colonel Jens Tingleff M.D
Commanding Officer, The Danish Field Hospital
Danish Army

16.10 Damage Control Radiology

• Effective radiologic triage of mass casualty situation
• Guiding emergency physicians and trauma surgeons in prioritizing casualties in need of immediate surgery
• Expedited preliminary review to help save the most lives by paralleling damage control surgery concept

Les Folio, DO, MPH; Col (ret), USAF, MC, SFS
Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Associate Professor, Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Radiologist
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

16.50 Treating Junctional Injuries At Lrmc

• Mechanism of injury
• Concurrent injury
• Evaluation and imaging
• Specific management

17.30 Chairman’s Summary And Closing Remark

17.40 Annual Drinks Reception, With A Difference!

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