MOUNTAINEERING NEWS ITEM

Joint Meeting between WMS and ISMM

MONDAY, 26 MARCH 2007

United Kingdom will be hosting an ambitious joint meeting between Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and International Society for Mountain Medicine (ISMM).

The Mountain and Wilderness Medicine World Congress 2007 will be headed by Dr. Charles Clarke and will be assisted by WMS's President Dr. Eric Johnson and ISSM President Dr. Jim Milledge. The Congress was said to be one of the most comprehensive meeting which will include paper presentations and workshops program.

Other sessions will deal with high altitude physiology and illnesses, cliff rescue, swift water rescue, wilderness casualty scenarios, hazardous encounters at sea and on land, exercise and training at high altitude, venomous bites and stings, wild animal attacks, hypothermia, mountain medicine, solar radiation, frostbite, lightning strike, water disinfection, mountain guides and porters, and many others.

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