Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters - vol. XIX - n. 4 - December 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS

2nd Pan African Burn Society Congress * Digital signature in health documents Assiut-Egypt * Security, privacy of medical data 16-18 January 2007 * Regional and national information Systems GRID technology in healthcare Topics: * First aid in burns For further information contact: * Burn pain E-mail: [email protected] * Burn wound care Website: www.aitim.net * Inhalation injury Romanian contact: E-mail: [email protected] * Pathophysiology and immunology * Nutrition in bums * Burn wound infection * Special burns * Skin substitutes Shanghai International Conference * Burn reconstruetion on Trauma and Emergency Medicine * Burn physiotherapy Shanghai - China * Social rehabilitation 12-14 May 2007 * Fire disasters * Epidemiology and prevention * Miscellaneous Main Topics:

For further information contact: Clinical Programme: Prof. Mahmoud E1-Otiefy * Advanced Clinical Practices Plastic Surgery Department * Innovations in trauma and emergency Assiut University Hospital care from prevention to discharge Assiut 71526 - Egypt * New approach in training the next Fax: +2 088 233 3327 generation of trauma and critical care E-mail: [email protected] physicians and nurses

Scientific Programme: * Basic and clinical research on emergency and trauma care EMMIT 2007 * Research on critically ill and injured Euro-Mediterranean patient: complication, infection, Medical Informatics and Telemedicine nutrition and rehabilitation Constantza - Romania * Research in the prevention and 1-3 March 2007 epidemiology of injury

Topics: System Organization, Development & Management: * and health cards * Approaches to EMS and Trauma System * Clinical and epidemiological data bases organization development and * Multimedia database, images and sìgnals processing management * Hospital Information System and health care networks * Essential and emergency surgery * Teleconsulting/telediagnosis in developing countries and rural areas; * Telemonitoring and telehome care * Traffic safety – An emerging global * , telecardiology, telepathology, , health issue telediabetology, etc. * Digital hospital / Telemedicine / Information * in healthcare and medical web portals Technology / E-Healthcare * Distance learning in healthcare * Decision support system in medicine Disaster Medicine: * Statistical software in biomedicine * The treatment and management of the * Bioinformatics and genoma data bank massive wounded in disaster * Neuroinformatics knowledge and brain cognitive processes

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For further information contact: * Paediatrics Secretariat: * Preparedness Department of Trauma and Emergency * Public health Shanghai East Hospital * Psychosocial aspects 150 Jimo Rd., Shanghai 200120, China * Research and health surveillance Tel.: +86-21-3880-4518 Ext 7204 * Types in disasters Fax: +86-21-5882-3185 For further information contact: E-mail: [email protected] Congress Office: Website: www.sictem2007.com PAOG Course and Congress Organisation Harriet Oudakkerr, Babette Schmidt and Antionette Willingshofer VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam Tel: +31 (0)20 444 8444 WADEM Fax: +31 (0)20 444 8445 15th World Congress on Disaster E-mail: [email protected] and Emergency Medicine Website: www.wcdem2007.org Amsterdam – The Netherlands 13-16 May 2007

Main Topics: 12th Congress of the European * Civilian-Military Collaboration Burn Association (EBA) * Education and training Budapest - Hungary * EMS systems 19-22 September 2007 * Ethics and International Law * Hot Topics Proposed congress theme: * Humanitarian crises * A painful paradox: technical breakthrough and financial restraints * Mass gatherings * Life-threatening situations in daily emergencies and disasters For further information contact: * Miscellaneous E-mail: [email protected] * Nursing and paramedics issues www.motesz.hu

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