From front line care through rehabilitation

Defence IQ’s 2nd annual Battlefield Healthcare conference will focus on the multiple realities that face combat casualty care today: from the front line through rehabilitation: - Operational feedback from those who have just returned from theatre: Including from 62 medical brigade who will have just returned from a 15 month operational tour in Iraq - More briefings covering the strategic level of military healthcare: Including assessment for meeting the future challenges of the battlefield and developing international standards for combat medical care - Analysis of multi disciplinary approaches to dealing with complex injuries that we are seeing in current conflicts including the management of thermal injuries, facial trauma surgery and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Understand the pioneering treatments that are leading to the largest number of casualty survivors in modern combat history - The latest understanding and treatments in rehabilitation: Special attention is given to long term treatments issues that we will be facing in the next 5-10 years with currently badly injured service personnel. What are the necessary provisions to be set aside to deliver the best possible care

Already confirmed to brief at Battlefield Healthcare: Major General Alan Hawley, Director General Army Medical Service, UK MoD Colonel Stephen F. Flaherty, Trauma Consultant to the Surgeon General, Chief of Surgery, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Dr Mehmet Eryilmaz, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Turkish Armed Forces Colonel Jonathan Jaffin, Director, Warrior Transition Office, US Army Dr Paul Bode Leiden, Trauma Radiology, University Medical Centre, Netherlands Dr Markus Koerner resident in clinical radiology at Munich University Hospital Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Holman, S3 Medical Task Force, 62nd Brigade, US Army Colonel Brian Lein, Commander, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center For more information, or to reserve your place:

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