Scientific Programme

09.00 – 09.15

Welcome Address (President SSMM, Organizers of Interlaken Meeting)

Corinna SCHÖN, Beat H. WALPOTH, Monika BRODMANN
Bruno DURRER, Alex KOTTMANN

09.15 – 10.30

Session 1: Pre-hospital Management
Chair:  Bruno DURRER, Corinna SCHÖN

Bruno DURRER: Dilemmas of the On-site Treatment of Hypothermia
Corinna SCHÖN: Cold death – Hypothermia from the Forensic Point of View
Mathieu PASQUIER: Hypothermia Staging
Oliver REISTEN: On-site Triage, Transport and Treatment Options
Michael LEHMANN/Max HALBE: State-of-theArtinAirLifT and ECMO Transport

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.45

KEYNOTE I
Chair: Beat WALPOTH

Sequelae-free outcome of the deepest adult accidental hypothermic arrest
Anna BAGENHOLM & Torvind NAESHEIM, Tromsø, Norway

11.45 – 13.00

Session 2: In-hospital Management: CPB vs ECMO
(With the Swiss Expert Group on Accidental Hypothermia)
Chair: Monika BRODMANN,Alberto WEBER


Monika BRODMANN: TheRevised Bernese Algorithm
Christian SEIDL: The Anesthetist’s View
David REINEKE: The Surgeon’s View
Raymond FRIOLET / M atthieu de RIEDMATTEN: The Intensivist’s View
Carlo BANFI / Raphael GIRAUD: Successful ECMO Rewarming& Cannulation Techniques

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (on-site)  & Poster Session
14.00 – 15.15

Session 3: Special Situations - avalanche, drowning, frostbite
Chair: Alex KOTTMANN, Michael WANSCHER

Tomasz DAROCHA: Progression of the Hypothermia Treatment Center Cracow
Gregoire ZEN RUFFINEN:  Multi-victim Accidental Hypothermia in Avalanche
Alex KOTTMANN: Avalanche Checklist
Sandra LEAL: Frostbite: The Chamonix Experience
Leslie GORDON: Does rewarming by non-ECLS methods have a place in 2016?

15.15 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 16.15

KEYNOTE II
Chair: Leslie GORDON

Michael WANSCHER :  5-years outcome after the Danish Praesto Fjord boating accident

16.15 – 17.45

Session 4: Research, Algorithm and Registries
Chair:  Luigi FESTI, Marc BLANCHER

Luigi FESTI: Will Master Programmes in Mountain Medicine Protect Alpinists’ Life?
Beat WALPOTH / Christian GAUDET: International Hypothermia Registry
Monika BRODMANN: International Avalanche Registry
Alessio RUNGATSCHER: Small Animal Research
Marc BLANCHER / Raphael BRIOT: Large Animal Research
17.45 – 18.15

Round Table with all speakers: Hot Topics in Accidental Hypothermia
Chair: Beat WALPOTH, Monika BRODMANN

18.15 – 18.30 Closing Remarks (Organizing Committee / Next Meeting)
18.30 – 19.00 Apero
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