Mountain Medicine beyond the textbooks

09/12/2017

The Palace Hotel, Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire

Bookings start from £0.00

About

MOUNTAIN MEDICINE BEYOND THE TEXTBOOKS

Dr David Hillebrandt has recently retired from the presidency of the UIAA Medical Committee and as a member of the ICAR medical committee. He is the Hon medical advisor to the BMC and BMG and one of the founders of the UK UIAA/ICAR/ISMM Diploma of mountain medicine. Medically he has postgraduate qualifications in travel medicine, emergency pre hospital care and mountain medicine but more importantly he has climbed on most continents of the world, been on over 12 expeditions to the greater ranges, loves new routing on the rock (and ice) of SW sea cliffs and is a dreadful skier. His presentation will bring together all these skills.

The target audience are experienced mountaineers who already hold basic and advanced remote area first aid qualifications but who have always left a course with unanswered questions. With David gearing the two hour session to the personal educational needs of the individual delegates it is accepted that they will still have unanswered questions but will have developed insight into modern research and the reasons why the “rules” of first aid are constantly changing in a mountain environment where the medical factors have to be modified by a mountaineers risk assessment.

The open ended presentation will involve a short powerpoint introduction to David’s areas of expertise and mutual group introductions outlining individuals levels of medical/first aid medical knowledge. There will then be a short outline of potential topics including water purification, travelling with co-existing medical conditions, Common travellers illness, immunisations, malaria, hypothermia, avalanche resuscitation, frostbite, High Altitude illness, the potential problems of having a doctor in a group of clients.

The audience will select and prioritise the topics they want covered and we hope to introduce recent research updates in to this section of the presentation. We can look at new publications on the use of Diamox (acetazolamide) , drug use and misuse in the mountains (UIAA paper), drug use for frostbite, prolonged avalanche burial and triage.

I hope to address the needs of various adult learning styles by incorporating discussion and sharing of ideas, hopefully having the soft educational skills to involve any less outgoing participants in a mutually supportive non-judgmental environment.

Where And When

Start
09/12/2017
End
09/12/2017
Maximum Bookings
30
Bookings
19
Venue
The Palace Hotel, Palace Road, Buxton, Derbyshire
Town
Buxton
County
Derbyshire
Postcode
SK17 6AG
Country
United Kingdom
Latitude
53.26000
Longitude
-1.92000

CPD Points

CPD Points
1.00

Provider

Name
British Mountain Guides
Phone
01690 720 386
Email

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  • Standard

    FREE

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