BASIC INFORMATION:

 

Date and location

October 4 – 5, 2008 (Saturday and Sunday) in the cinema of Teplice nad Metují, Czech Republic, www.teplicenadmetuji.cz

 

Organizer and Organizational Committee

Czech Mountaineering Association, Medical Committee of CMA, Czech Society for Mountain Medicine, Municipality of Teplice nad Metují

Head of the Organizational Committee: MUDr. Jana Kubalová

Members of the Organizational Committee: Martin Honzík, DiS., Jindřich Pražák

 

Contact person for specialized programme:
(section of presentations and posters)

MUDr. Jana Kubalová

Head of the Medical Commission of CMA

Telephone:    +420 739 304 185, +420 603 759 454

E-Mail: jana.kubalova@email.cz

 

Contact person for accompanying programme:
(accompanying and social program, rescue show)

Martin Honzík, DiS.
Telephone:    +420 605 503 720
E-mail: martinhonzik@seznam.cz

 

Secretariat of the conference:
(registration)

Český horolezecký svaz (Czech Mountaineering Association)
Jindřich Pražák
Zátopkova 100/2, P.S. 40
160 17 Praha 6 – Strahov
tel./fax: +420 296 118 207,  + 420 603 646 207
E-Mail: info@horosvaz.cz
Website: www.horosvaz.cz

 

 

Main topics of the conference:

• High altitude medicine (problems at high altitudes and their solutions, chronic diseases before departure to the mountains, expeditions and expedition equipment...)
• Medical aspects of sport climbing (acute and chronic injuries, training)
• Mountain and wilderness rescue (mountains, rocks, caves)
• Workshops on follow topics: working with avalanche transceivers, tips and tricks during providing first aid in outdoor, resuscitation, taping

Official language

 

Official conference languages are Czech and English. Simultaneous translation will be arranged.