May 13 – 15, 2010 – Utrecht, The Netherlands

Prior to the 11th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, a satellite course as above is organized in collaboration between ESTES Section for Disaster & Military Surgery and the Mass Casualty Incident Hospital (UMC, Utrecht, the Netherlands).

Background and aims
The medical response to major incidents is a chain of many components: Prehospital response, transport, hospital response, communication, coordination & command. The outcome of the response is dependent of the function of all these components, and also (which is important) how they function together.

Consequently, effective and realistic training and evaluation of the medical response can not be done by training of one isolated component: The different functions must be trained together to make possible an accurate evaluation of the outcome, as a base for learning and further development of the methodology.

A way to achieve this is to use advanced simulation models. In such models, special emphasis can be put on any of the components in the chain, but all the other components also have to be illustrated and involved to permit a complete and realistic training and also an accurate evaluation of the outcome with regard to mortality and complications.

The aim of the present course is to illustrate and teach a methodology that can be used to achieve these goals. This methodology can be used for training and evaluation of any organisation and any way or working and is thereby widely applicable.

Design of the course
The course is built up in two steps:
(1) Lectures + practical training session under guidance of instructors
(2) Two full-scale simulation exercises where the whole response to a major incident is trained and evaluated under guidance of instructors. All participants are actively working in their respective functions.

Time
May 13 – 15, 2010

Location
Mass Casualty Incident Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Transportation
On the 13th of May the participants will travel with the Hi-Speed train from Brussels to Roosendaal (1 hour) and will be picked up with a bus and transported to the training facility.
On the 15th, the participants will be transported back to Brussels with Hi-Speed train.

Registration fee
500 € including transportation. Members of ESTES 10% discount.

Faculty
Course President, Chairman of Faculty: Sten Lennquist, Sweden
Course Director: Mike Bemelman, the Netherlands
The faculty includes 15 experts from Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom.

Application
Application form can be downloaded here or requested from Mike Bemelman m.bemelman (at) umcutrecht.nl and should be sent back to the same address at latest March 10, 2010. The number of participants is restricted to 50.

The organizers reserve the right to cancel the course if an insufficient amount of candidates apply.