This online session will cover the latest guidelines for the management of hypothermia and frost bite. The webinar will include details of the pathophysiology of hypothermia and local cold injuries. Specific management of cold water immersion and avalanche will be examined in more detail. There will be case studies and opportunities for questions and answers.

Have a notebook handy.

The workshop will be run by Jon Dallimore who works as a General Practitioner in Chepstow and a Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary. He has been on many expeditions as a doctor and or leader and has spent more than 2 years in the field on various expeditions. These expeditions have been in many different environments - from the deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya to the jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador.

He loves the mountains and has undertaken many high altitude climbs and treks to Nepal, Greenland, Pakistan, Iceland, Morocco, East Africa and the Andes. Jon is an International Mountain Leader, a member of the Alpine Club and has taught on the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine since 2004. In 2016 Jon became a Director of the International Diploma in Expedition
and Wilderness Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Jon is medical consultant to World Challenge Expeditions and has taught about expedition medicine since 1991. He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (third edition) and a longstanding member of the Royal Geographical Society’s medical cell.  Most recently Jon has accepted the role of Medical Officer to Severn Area Rescue Association.

Please sign up for this workshop here on CMS. Bookings close on the 25th of January.

The workshop is financed by BAIML and UIMLA.

The workshop will be on ZOOM and a link will be sent to you beforehand.

For queries please contact peter.chapman@BAIML.org

Start

27/01/2021 09:00

End

27/01/2021 12:30

Total Days

0.5

Maximum Bookings

124

Bookings

115

Venue

Online

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Name

BAIML

Phone

01690 720272

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