This event is NOT cancelled.
Sorry for the confusion and miscommunication!
The event is still on as scheduled.
Itinerary
Not Finalized, Tentative
Wednesday May 8th
0830
Coppersmith: Introductions
0900
Ratner: Trauma in the Austere Environment
Work-shops: 1000 and 1100
Coppersmith: Wild Women; Women in the Wilderness
Elliott: Improvised Splints, Litters and Carries
Assisted by: Michael Nguyen MD FACEP, FAWM Candidate, Curtis Flaherty MD, FAWM Candidate, Christopher Kennedy DO, Alex (Stephen) Lee DO, Samantha Gaetani MD, Alay Parikh DO, FAWM Candidate, Mostafa Meleis MD, FAWM Candidate, Chad Keller MD, Charles Wowkanech MD
Ratner: Emergency Airways
Sigal: Foot Maladies: Trench foot, Blister Care, Frost Bite, Gear Selection
1200: Lunch
1300
Fischer: Physics and Physiology of Altitude
1400
Steele: Dive Medicine
Workshops: 1500, 1600
Berggren: Avalanche Rescue
Cobb: Avoiding and Surviving Animal Attacks
Coppersmith: CPR in Wilderness Environment and Canine Rescue
Salen: Traveler's Diarrhea
Stankewicz: Plant Toxins and Dermatitis
Thursday May 9th
Friday May 10th
0800
Favini: Field Management of Orthopedic Problems
0900
Whitmore: Tactical Emergency Medical Services and Tactical Critical Casualty Care
Workshops: 1000, 1100
Fikse: Edible... or Not?
Pester: Managing Disasters on Airplanes
Sharpe: Through-Hiking the AT - Gear, First Aid and Through-Hiking
Steele: Hyperbaric Oxygen and Recompression Therapy
1200: Lunch
1300-1500
Jarod Berggren MD - Wilderness Medicine Skills Course
Clinical Supervisor: Veronica Coppersmith
Assisted by: Samantha Gaetani MD, Christopher Kennedy DO, Curtis Flaherty MD, FAWM Candidate, Danielle Sultan DO, Stephen Alex Lee DO, Mahrukh Malik MD, Alay Parikh DO, FAWM Candidate
0800
R. Jeanmonod: How People Die in the Mountains
0900
Yurachek: Pain Management in the Wilderness - Perspective from a Dying Patient
Workshops 1000, 1100
Baker: Snake Envenomation
R. + D. Jeanmonod: Gear Expo - Learn About Gear
Ray: Fire Starting
Rollhauser: Basics of Knot Tying, Anchors, and Rope Rescue
Stankewicz: Hypothermia
Yurachek: Water Procurement and purification
1200: Lunch
1300
D. Jeanmonod: Jungle Medicine
1400
R. Jeanmonod: Pediatric Wilderness Medicine
Workshops: 1500, 1600
Baker: High Altitude
R. + D. Jeanmonod: Gear Expo - Learn About Gear
Ratner/Coppersmith: Snap, Crackle and Pop - Osteopathy in the Backcountry
Ray: Survival Signalling
Rollhauser: High Angle Rope Rescue
Yurachek: Survival: Shelter building