Saturday 27th November 2021 - Full Day

Altitude medicine and cold injuriess

This workshop will cover scenarios, high altitude illness and thermal injury physiology and pathology, prevention strategies, treatment, the use of pulse oximeters and the very latest guidelines and research.
The workshop will be as interactive as possible so please think about altitude cases beforehand which may be relevant to share with other IMLS.

Equipment

Pens and paper / Laptop

Provider info

Jon is a semi-retired 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 since 1988. 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 he has become the medical officer for Severn Area Rescue Association – lifeboats, land search, cliff and swift water/flood rescue disciplines.
In September 2021 he started (another) MSc – this time in Mountain Medicine!

Start

27/11/2021

End

27/11/2021

Maximum Bookings

10

Bookings

11

Venue

The Royal Victoria Hotel

Town

Llanberis

County

Gwynedd

Postcode

LL55 4TY

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.11651

Longitude

-4.11925

Name

BAIML

Phone

01690 720 272

Email