Tuesday
| AIRMED Opening Session | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | 9:05 | Opening address – EHAC President | Breitenbach C (GER) |
| 9:05 | 9:10 | Opening address – Local Host | Müller P (CZE) |
| 9:10 | 9:20 | Opening address – President of the Czech Senate & Patron of AIRMED 2008 | Sobotka P (CZE) |
| 9:20 | 9:30 | Opening address – Minister of Health of the Czech Republic | Julinek T (CZE) |
| 9:30 | 9:35 | Opening address – Chairman of the Scientific Committee | Stolpe E (GER) |
| 9:35 | 9:45 | Video Presentation: “They have a Mission Now” | Zdenek Z (CZE) |
| 9:45 | 10:15 | Key note speech: Simulation in Air Medicine | Lackner C (GER), Lutz S (GER), Rall M (GER) |
| Challenges of Consolidation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Christoph Breitenbach and Sven Mertes | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | European tenders | Tùri P (HUN) |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Endangers Cost Increase the Existence of Air Rescue | Jaspers F (NED) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | EU as Donor – The Leonardo da Vinci Program | Pesch G (LUX) |
| Clinical Standards in Fix Wing Operations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Olivier Seiler and Reed Brozen | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | Hemodynamic monitoring on ambulance flights | N.N. () |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Mechanical ventilation on board | Hörmann C (AUT) |
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Laboratory analysis during air transport: What Data and which Benefit? | Ish-Tov E (ISR) |
| 11:25 | 11:40 | Mobile Artificial Lungs to Transport Patients with Severe Lung Damage | Strauss A (GER) |
| Cross-border Cooperation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Reinhardt Kraxner and Jens Valk | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 17:45 | 18:00 | European cooperation in HEMS | Schlechtriemen T (GER) |
| 18:00 | 18:15 | European cooperation in HEMS mountain rescue | Stadler R (GER) |
| 18:15 | 18:45 | Panel discussion – European cooperation: Kraxner R (AUT), Müller P (CZE), Schlechtriemen T (GER), Stadler R. (GER), Tùri (HUN) | Valk J (NED) |
| How to ensure the Level of Quality | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Gregory Powell and Gerhard Kugler | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Principles I – EHAC | Voelckel W (AUT) |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Principles II – CAMTS | Frazer E (USA) |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Principles III – The Australian experience | Wolfers D (AUS) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Total Quality Management (TQM) | Hemetzberger T (AUT) |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Benefits of Standards | Thomson D (USA) |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | The Human Factor – Essential in Quality | Rall M (GER) |
| 12:15 | 12:30 | European Standards in Air Rescue – A Contribution to Secure Quality in HEMS | Andersen P (NOR) |
| Improving the Chain of Survival | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Alexander Lechleuthner and Tom Judge | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | When to send a Helicopter – Dispatch Criteria | Chwojka C (AUT) |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | HEMS and Hospitals in Germany | Bouillon B (GER) |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | HEMS, EMS and Hospitals in the U.S. | Judge T (USA) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | “Where to bring the patient?” – Optimizing destination decisions | Letellier N (FRA) |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Destination decisions under the aspect of QM | Schlechtriemen T (GER) |
| 11:45 | 12:15 | Panel discussion – “Integration of HEMS in Prehospital Emergency Medicine”: Bouillon B (GER), Judge T (USA), Lechleuthner (GER), Letellier (FRA), Schlechtriemen T (GER) | Judge T (USA) |
| Operations & Dispatch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Michael Wirnsperger and Klaus Schäfer | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Minimum standards – Aircraft Expectations | Kofler E (AUT) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Dispatch patterns for using an Air Ambulance on Long-distance Flights | Patti M (SWI) |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | 10 years of PTC by Lufthansa: An Evaluation by an Assistance Company | Schäfer K (GER) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Quality in Repatriations | Mertes S (LUX) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Transport Complexities across international Borders | Cimone S (CAN) |
| Selecting HEMS Helicopters acc. to Mission | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Siegfried Sobotta and Gunter Carloff | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Industrial Response to HEMS Market and Operators´ Demands | Rudolph M (GER) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Helicopter selection – The customer´s point of view I – AGUSTA | Hässig P (SWI) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Helicopter selection – The customer´s point of view II – EUROCOPTER | Burger W (AUT) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Helicopter selection – The customer´s point of view IV – MD | Philpott D (GBR) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Customer driven design approach of Bell 429 | Kinkade S (USA) |
| Update lectures I | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Erwin Stolpe and Frank Thomas | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Pre-hospital Management of Major Trauma in Europe | Bouillon B (GER) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Pre-hospital Management of Major Trauma in the U.S. | Thomas F (USA) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Prehospital Management of spinal injury | Braun V (GER) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Trauma Management of the Elderly – Too Young to Die? | Valk J (NED) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | The HIRT (head injury retrieval trail) project | Garner A (AUS) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Improving Trauma Care – An Example from Romania | Marinescu D (ROM) |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Panel Discussion – Trauma care: Bouillon B (GER) Braun V (GER) Garner A (AUS) Marinescu (ROM) Thomas F (USA) Valk J (NED) | Stolpe E (GER) |
| Update lectures II | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Martin Hinterseer and Sharaz Khan | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:45 | 16:55 | Update Acute Coronary Syndrome – Strategies in Air Rescue | Hinterseer M (GER) |
| 16:55 | 17:05 | Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest | Clumpner M (USA) & Mobley J (USA) |
| 17:05 | 17:15 | Chain of Survival on PDAs | Ertl L (GER) |
| 17:25 | 17:35 | Telemedicine | Khan S (CAN) |
| Update lectures III | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Kevin Hutton and Andrew Berry | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 18:00 | 18:15 | Facts on Neonatal Intensive Transports | Berry A (AUS) |
| 18:15 | 18:30 | Neonatal Intensive Transports – Transport of critically ill children to and under ECMO | Reckers J (GER) |
| 18:30 | 18:45 | Is a Paediatric Specialist really needed in Primary Missions? | Thomas S (USA) |
Wednesday
| Crew I – The Human Factor | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Jörg Braun and David Thomson | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | 9:15 | Duty-times – What about the Med Crew? | Thomson D (USA) |
| 9:15 | 9:30 | Simulator based training – The DRF experience | Conrad G (GER) |
| 9:30 | 9:45 | ACRM – An Initiative of EHAC | Lang B (AUT) |
| 9:45 | 10:00 | Identifying Errors and Mitigating Risk – What makes your system safe? | MacDonald R (CAN) |
| Crew II:The Right St(a)uff | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cha irmen: Miroslav Rada and Frank Pajonk |
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| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Mental and Physical Fitness of Flight-Crew Members | Rada M (CZE) |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Physical Fitness of Med-Crew Members | Voelckel W (AUT) |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Selection criteria of HEMS Crew Members | Lang B (AUT) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Crew Standards – MTLI (Medical Transport Leadership Institution) | Mancuso D (USA) |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Warning Signs of Risk taking Behavior – Mental Stability as Selection Criteria and therapeutical Possibilities | Pajonk F (GER) |
| Flight Safety Update | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Massimo Mazzoletti and Daan Remie | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | International Strategic Safety Initiative (ISSI) & International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) | Judge T (USA) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI) | Mazzoletti M (ITA) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | SMS – Safety Management Systems | Uhlin D (USA) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Incident Reporting – An Appropriate Method to Increase Safety | Heitmüller K (GER) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Simulators for HEMS Training | Brade S (GER) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | The Aviation Safety Network | Turner K (kturner@aerosafe.com.au) |
| Grande Debate | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Tom Judge | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Grande Debate: Human Errors & Patient Safety – Insurance, Training or what else? Pro Group: Lackner C (GER) Lutz S (GER) Rall M (GER); Contra Group: Earlam R (GBR) Hutton K (USA) Stolpe E (GER) | Judge T (USA) |
| Infection Control in Air Medical Transports | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Stephan Harbarth & Michael Bell | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Safe Air Medical Evacuation of Patients with potentially Dangerous Infections | Bell M (USA) |
| 14:50 | 15:10 | The Problem of Multiresistant strains in Air Medical Transport | Harbarth S (SWI) |
| 15:10 | 15:25 | Environmental (De-)Contamination of Planes – Dos and Don´ts | Dettenkofer M (GER) |
| 15:25 | 15:40 | Preparing the Inevitable: Towards Best Practice in Managing the Transport of Highly Infectious Patients | Déry M (USA) |
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Transmission of Infectious Diseases during Commercial Air Travel | Gendreau M (USA) |
| Legal Aspects of International Repatriation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Christoph Breitenbach and Eytan Ish-Tov | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:45 | 11:15 | Responsibility & Liability in International Repatriation I – The Lawyer´s point of view | Prudil L (CZE) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | International Repatriation III – The Provider´s point of view | N.N. () |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Safety Regulations and Use of Medical Equipment in Commercial Aircrafts | Brozen R (USA) |
| Markets & Competition – Regulatory Control | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Friedrich Rehkopf and Antar Daouk | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Regulatory-induced Bureaucracy: Its Effects on Safety in Aircraft Maintenance | Zoller J (GER) |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Working Life Time and Duty Time Regulations for Pilots | Leibundgut H (SWI) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Public Health Policy (Open Market vs. Public Task) | Wietschel W (GER) |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Legal Position of HEMS Operators (Govt. vs. Private) | Garovi N (SWI) |
| 17:30 | 17:45 | Word-of-Mouth Marketing | Lyden G (USA) |
| Medical Escorts on scheduled Flights | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Francesc Bonet & Michael Braida | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Dispatch criteria, Equipment and Medical staff: An Overview | Braida M (GER) |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Experience with Stretchers on Long-distance Flights | Buchsein T (GER) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Intensive Care Medicine on Board – Limits to Medical Escorts? | Steiner B (AUT) |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Medical Escorts on Scheduled Flights: Airliner´s point of view | Kaul G (GER) |
| Medical Risk Management | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Matthias Ruppert and Sandra Kinkade | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Patient Safety: Essential Procedures in Prehospital Settings | Ruppert M (GER) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Physicians & Delegated Practice in USA | Dinerman N (USA) |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Physicians & Delegated Practice in Europe | Letellier n (FRA) |
| 17:30 | 17:45 | Incident Reporting – Experience in Air Rescue | Conrad G (GER) |
| 17:45 | 18:00 | HEMS in Japan – Strong today and in the Future | Nishikawa W & Ogino R (JPN) |
| Special Missions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: William White and Ian Badham | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Advanced Automobile Crash Notification (AACN) – The Manufacturer´s Point of View | Rauscher S (GER) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | HEMS Missions in Alpine Environments | Demetz F (GER) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Surf and Ocean Rescue using HEMS | Badham I (AUS) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Operation Solomon – How to evacuate 15,000 by Air Lift? | Lynn M (USA) |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Tactical HEMS | Delgado J (USA) |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Combat Trauma | White W (USA) |
Thursday
| Air Medical Transport of Critical Ill Patients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Rupert Gerzer and Jean-Ernst Harbarth | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | 9:15 | Transport Physiology – An Update | Hankins D (USA) |
| 9:15 | 9:30 | The Untreated Critically ill Patient – A Case Report | Harbarth J (GER) |
| 9:30 | 9:45 | The Instable Cardiac Patient | Nordrehaug J (NOR) |
| 9:45 | 10:00 | Air Medical Transport of Acute Psychotic Patients | Nacht A (SWI) |
| Airway Management | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Eric Swanson and Wolfgang Voelckel | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Basics on Airway Management | Swanson E (USA) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Basics on Ventilation | McIntosh S (USA) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Prehospital Pleural Decompression: A 5-year Experience by a HEMS | Sep D (NED) |
| 15:15 | 16:00 | Workshop Airway Management – Ask the Expert: Buchsein T (GER), Domres B (GER), MacIntosh S (USA), Sep D (NED), Voelckel (AUT) | Swanson E (USA) |
| Cost / Benefit Analysis | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Stephen Thomas and Steffen Lutz | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Interpreting Results of Cost Analysis | Thomas S (USA) |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Documentation and Efficiency Control | Reinhardt K (GER) |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | An economic Analysis of HEMS | Müller jun. P (CZE) |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Cost/Benefit Analysis in Eastern Europe | Tùri P (HUN) |
| Disaster Management | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Bernd Domres & Ryukoh Ogino | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | MICU – Mobile Intensive Care Unit by SAS | Österhed H (SWE) |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Role of Helicopters in Disaster Evacuation – Lessons Learnt from Kathrina | Larson E (USA) |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | ICS – An Instrument for Disaster Management | Grimes K (USA) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | How to Avoid Finacial Disasters in Disaster Management | Delgado J (USA) |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Japan Earthquake Disaster Management | Ogino R (JPN) |
| 17:30 | 17:45 | European Coordination of Air Ambulances in Cases of Major Disasters | Karud O (NOR) |
| Financing | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Kevin Hutton and Alexander Wolff | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Impact of Competition on Quality and Safety | Matzke-Ahl S (GER) |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Evolution of HEMS in Slovakia – Financing | Rokfalusy J (SLO) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Cost Driver Operational Maintenance | Zoller J (GER) |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | How to Keep Air Rescue Affordable? – Perspectives for Financing in the Future | Hutton K (USA) |
| Fixed Wing Operations Worldwide in 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Viktor Vojtech and Thomas Buchsein | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Possibilities of the Cech Air Force in Long Distance Flights w/ A319 | Vojtech V (CZE) |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | DOJET 328 as an Air Ambulance: The ADAC Experience | Krebs P (GER) |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | Ambulance Flights in South-East Asia and South Pacific | Bishop R (AUS) |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Pre-hospital Management of Burn Injury | Kadlcik M (CZE) |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | Ambulance Flights to Remote Areas | Rabausch E (VAE) |
| Methods of Financing and Consolidation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Andreas Lüthi and Henny Versluijs | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | 9:15 | Financing I – Membership based – Switzerland / REGA | Lüthi A (SWI) |
| 9:15 | 9:30 | Financing II – Health Insurance – Austria / Germany – ÖAMTC / ADAC | Wolff A (AUT) |
| 9:30 | 9:45 | Financing III – Government – France | Daouk A (FRA) |
| 9:45 | 10:00 | Financing IV – Donor / Sponsorship based – UK | Philpott D (GBR) |
| 10:00 | 10:15 | Financing V – Financing models in the USA | Hutton K (USA) |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Financing VI – Financing models in Australia | Hooper M (AUS) |
| Night Vision Goggles (NVG) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Erik Norman and Gunter Carloff | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 10:15 | 10:35 | NVG I – The ANWB Experience | Remie D (NED) |
| 10:35 | 10:50 | NVG II – The REGA experience | Gnägi T (SWI) |
| 10:50 | 11:05 | Bell Helicopter NVG Training Center | Baxtor S (USA) |
| 11:05 | 11:20 | NVG Operations – Medical Aspects | Stern C (GER) |
| 11:20 | 12:00 | NVG – Which Amount of Training is Required? | Norman E (NOR) |
| Regulations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Daan Remie and Rudolf Einsiedl | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 9:00 | 9:20 | Transferring JAR OPS 3 to EU OPS 3 | van der Weide B (NED) |
| 9:20 | 9:35 | Performance (Cat. A) – Who understands it? | Lyons J (GBR) |
| 9:35 | 9:50 | Heliports at Hospitals – Approaching safely | Carloff G (GER) |
| 9:50 | 10:05 | Standardisation of Flight Licenses and Flight Permissions by EASA | Ruge A (GER) |
| Technical Mission Support | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chairmen: Hooper Harris and Wolfgang Burger | |||
| Start | End | Title | Speaker |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | GPS-guided Low Level IFR Approach | Norman D (USA) |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | TAWS & TCAS in HEMS? | Hooper H (USA) |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Flight following in EMS dispatch | Zoller J (GER) |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Obstacle Detection Systems | Carloff G (GER) |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Aviation Digital Data System (ADDS) – Individual misson adapted weather forecast system | Sizemore G (USA) |