2024 Virtual Summer World Congress on Mountain & WM

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Virtual 2024 Summer World Congress on Mountain & Wilderness Medicine

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When
7/28/2024 10:00 AM - 8/1/2024 2:00 PM
Mountain Daylight Time
Where
Virtual Online UNITED STATES
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Program

Sunday, 28 July 2024

Description
Virtual Networking
Time
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
10:00 AM

Monday, 29 July 2024

Description
Welcome
Time
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
7:45 AM
Beyond the Limits - Mountain Medicine Pushing the Extreme
Mix personal life-changing experiences in emergency medicine with medicine science.
Time
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
8:00 AM
Challenges of Caving Expedition
Find out what it takes to be a caver. Learn how to organize a major caving expedition, the challenges, the risks, and what to do in case of an emergency.
Time
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
9:00 AM
Break
Time
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:00 AM
Introduction to Dive Medicine & Hyperbarics
Overview of Dive (SCUBA) Medicine including types of dive injuries, when on the dive they occur, mechanism of injury, and treatment options. Review identification and stabilization in the field, transfer to higher level of care and role of hyperbaric/ recompression therapy.
Time
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
10:30 AM
Altitude Diving
Time
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM
Small Group: PFO and High Altitude
Recognize the role that intracardiac and intrapulmonary shunts play in impacting exercise performance and HAPE susceptibility on ascent to high altitude, and how to manage them.
Time
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
2:00 PM
14ers Lectures
Time
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
4:30 PM
14ers Lecture: 1
Time
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
4:45 PM
14ers Lecture: 2
Time
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:00 PM
14ers Lecture: 3
Time
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM
5:15 PM
14ers Lecture: 4
Time
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM
5:30 PM
14ers Lecture: 5
Time
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM
5:45 PM
14ers Lecture: 6
Time
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM
6:00 PM
14ers Lecture: Wrap Up
Time
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM
6:15 PM

Tuesday, 30 July 2024

Description
High Altitude Medicine
Recognize the role that intracardiac and intrapulmonary shunts play in impacting exercise performance and HAPE susceptibility on ascent to high altitude, and how to manage them.
Time
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
8:00 AM
The Athlete at Altitude/Limits to Exercise at Altitude
The presenters will discuss the challenges faced by athletes who compete at high altitude.  The presentation will cover current understanding of the limits to athletic performance at altitude, including both physical and physiological effects of the altitude environment, and encompassing both the acute effects, and the impact of acclimatization.  New data will be presented regarding the unique vulnerability of the right ventricle during prolonged endurance exercise at altitude and its importance in limiting exercise performance.
Time
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
10:30 AM
Rescue at Extreme Altitude/History & Development of DiMM
Move beyond 'everyone for themselves' to realism and safe development of rescue services.
Time
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM
Trivia
Conference participants will have the opportunity to test their wilderness medicine knowledge against their peers and experts in the field. Questions and factoids are drawn from conference lectures and workshops.
Time
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:30 PM

Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Description
Plan to Get Found: Personal Locator Beacons
Overview of personal locator beacon technology, current available features, and utilization.
Time
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:00 AM
High Altitude Medicine on Mt. Aconcagua
Learn about the operation of a large high altitude mountaineering medical service screening thousands of climbers annually and directing care for evacuations and rescues on the highest mountain in the Americas, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina (22,837 ft/6960 m).
Time
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
8:45 AM
Psychological First Aid in Wilderness Medicine
Learn to apply the procedural steps in provision of psychological first aid in the wilderness medicine setting.
Time
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
9:30 AM
WEM Year in Review
Review of articles published in WEM in the past year, with a focus on their relevance and implications for the wilderness medicine practitioner.
Time
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
10:45 AM
SAR Strategies in the Rest of the World
This is a panel made up of 4-5 SAR leaders from various international regions. We will have prepared topics to discuss including but not limited to: volunteer vs professional organizations, medical capabilities and practice environment, training standards, jurisdictional authorities, financial support, air assets. The panel is intended to drive discussion through audience participation.
Time
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM
Trivia
Conference participants will have the opportunity to test their wilderness medicine knowledge against their peers and experts in the field. Questions and factoids are drawn from conference lectures and workshops.
Time
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:30 PM

Thursday, 01 August 2024

Description
UIAA: Women at Altitude - 1
UIAA: It’s high time for women: how female climbers have performed in the Himalaya from the first ascents to the present day.

In this lecture, Billi Bierling talks about the pioneering women in the high mountains and the important role women play in high-altitude mountaineering. A look back at history with important female mountaineers such as Wanda Rutkiewicz from Poland, the Englishwoman Lucy Walker – the first woman to climb the Matterhorn – and the Austrian extreme mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. An important focus of the lecture is the role of the female Sherpas, or Sherpanis, and how they have developed over the last decade. In addition, Billi’s former boss at the Himalayan Database, the late Miss Elizabeth Hawley, forms a substantial part of this talk.
Time
8:00 AM - 8:35 AM
8:00 AM
UIAA: Women at Altitude - 2
AMS/HACE and Women - what we need to know

Description: An updated review on the literature of AMS/HACE incidence for lowlander women at altitude

Does sex make a difference to HAPE susceptibility and performance?

Description: Sex-differences in HAPE

Can psychology help explain sex fidderences in mountain medicine?

Description: Although the data are very limited, there is a "suggestion" within the data that women may have a lower risk of HAPE, and of dying (by any cause), at high altitude. Without clear physiological rationale, can psychological / behavioral differences help explain?
Time
8:35 AM - 9:30 AM
8:35 AM
UIAA: Women at Altitude - 3
Cycle Control and Contraception at High Altitude

Description: Acquiring the skills to lead, teach and provide care in an expedition setting.

Pregnancy and Mountain Travel

Description: This session will cover the UIAA recommendations for pregnant women traveling to high altitude.

UIAA MedCom Recommendations: Addressing the (lay) climbing community

Description: A presentation to open people’s eyes on how to take lessons from quality mountain medicine research to produce practical and pragmatic advice to non-clinicians working and playing in the outdoors.
Time
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
9:30 AM
Oxygen Use at Extreme Altitude: Evolution Over 100 years
Learn the rich history of oxygen use at extreme altitudes, current use and future trends. What will you advise your clients?
Time
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
11:00 AM
High Altitude Case Panel
Using cases provided by both the audience and panel members - the participants will have the opportunity to participate in the discussion of treatment considerations for various altitude illness presentations. The panel will reinforce the treatment of altitude illness as well as discuss the potential diagnosis and treatment challenges that may be faced in different remote settings.
Time
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
11:45 AM