Saturday 26th November 2022
Altitude medicine and cold injuries (full day session)
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 needed
Comfortable indoor clothing. Notebook and pen.
Provider details
This workshop will be delivered by Jon Dalimore. 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.