Tuesday

AIRMED Opening Session
Start	End	Title	Speaker
9:00	9:05	Opening address - EHAC President	Breitenbach C (GER)
9:05	9:10	Opening address - Local Host	Müller P (CZE)
9:10	9:20	Opening address - President of the Czech Senate & Patron of AIRMED 2008	Sobotka P (CZE)
9:20	9:30	Opening address - Minister of Health of the Czech Republic	Julinek T (CZE)
9:30	9:35	Opening address - Chairman of the Scientific Committee	Stolpe E (GER)
9:35	9:45	Video Presentation: "They have a Mission Now"	Zdenek Z (CZE)
9:45	10:15	Key note speech: Simulation in Air Medicine	Lackner C (GER), Lutz S (GER), Rall M (GER)

Challenges of Consolidation
Chairmen: Christoph Breitenbach and Sven Mertes
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:30	16:45	European tenders	Tùri P (HUN)
16:45	17:00	Endangers Cost Increase the Existence of Air Rescue	Jaspers F (NED)
17:00	17:15	EU as Donor - The Leonardo da Vinci Program	Pesch G (LUX)

Clinical Standards in Fix Wing Operations
Chairmen: Olivier Seiler and Reed Brozen
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:30	10:50	Hemodynamic monitoring on ambulance flights	N.N. ()
10:50	11:10	Mechanical ventilation on board	Hörmann C (AUT)
11:10	11:25	Laboratory analysis during air transport: What Data and which Benefit?	Ish-Tov E (ISR)
11:25	11:40	Mobile Artificial Lungs to Transport Patients with Severe Lung Damage	Strauss A (GER)

Cross-border Cooperation
Chairmen: Reinhardt Kraxner and Jens Valk
Start	End	Title	Speaker
17:45	18:00	European cooperation in HEMS	Schlechtriemen T (GER)
18:00	18:15	European cooperation in HEMS mountain rescue	Stadler R (GER)
18:15	18:45	Panel discussion - European cooperation: Kraxner R (AUT), Müller P (CZE), Schlechtriemen T (GER), Stadler R. (GER), Tùri (HUN)	Valk J (NED)

How to ensure the Level of Quality
Chairmen: Gregory Powell and Gerhard Kugler
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:30	10:45	Principles I - EHAC	Voelckel W (AUT)
10:45	11:00	Principles II - CAMTS	Frazer E (USA)
11:00	11:15	Principles III - The Australian experience	Wolfers D (AUS)
11:15	11:30	Total Quality Management (TQM)	Hemetzberger T (AUT)
11:30	11:45	Benefits of Standards	Thomson D (USA)
12:00	12:15	The Human Factor - Essential in Quality	Rall M (GER)
12:15	12:30	European Standards in Air Rescue - A Contribution to Secure Quality in HEMS	Andersen P (NOR)

Improving the Chain of Survival
Chairmen: Alexander Lechleuthner and Tom Judge
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:30	10:45	When to send a Helicopter - Dispatch Criteria	Chwojka C (AUT)
10:45	11:00	HEMS and Hospitals in Germany	Bouillon B (GER)
11:00	11:15	HEMS, EMS and Hospitals in the U.S.	Judge T (USA)
11:15	11:30	“Where to bring the patient?” – Optimizing destination decisions	Letellier N (FRA)
11:30	11:45	Destination decisions under the aspect of QM	Schlechtriemen T (GER)
11:45	12:15	Panel discussion - "Integration of HEMS in Prehospital Emergency Medicine": Bouillon B (GER), Judge T (USA), Lechleuthner (GER), Letellier (FRA), Schlechtriemen T (GER)	Judge T (USA)

Operations & Dispatch
Chairmen: Michael Wirnsperger and Klaus Schäfer
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	Minimum standards - Aircraft Expectations	Kofler E (AUT)
14:45	15:00	Dispatch patterns for using an Air Ambulance on Long-distance Flights	Patti M (SWI)
15:00	15:30	10 years of PTC by Lufthansa: An Evaluation by an Assistance Company	Schäfer K (GER)
15:30	15:45	Quality in Repatriations	Mertes S (LUX)
15:45	16:00	Transport Complexities across international Borders	Cimone S (CAN)

Selecting HEMS Helicopters acc. to Mission
Chairmen: Siegfried Sobotta and Gunter Carloff
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	15:00	Industrial Response to HEMS Market and Operators´ Demands	Rudolph M (GER)
15:00	15:15	Helicopter selection - The customer´s point of view I - AGUSTA	Hässig P (SWI)
15:15	15:30	Helicopter selection - The customer´s point of view II - EUROCOPTER	Burger W (AUT)
15:30	15:45	Helicopter selection - The customer´s point of view IV - MD	Philpott D (GBR)
15:45	16:00	Customer driven design approach of Bell 429	Kinkade S (USA)

Update lectures I
Chairmen: Erwin Stolpe and Frank Thomas
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	Pre-hospital Management of Major Trauma in Europe	Bouillon B (GER)
14:45	15:00	Pre-hospital Management of Major Trauma in the U.S.	Thomas F (USA)
15:00	15:15	Prehospital Management of spinal injury	Braun V (GER)
15:15	15:30	Trauma Management of the Elderly - Too Young to Die?	Valk J (NED)
15:30	15:45	The HIRT (head injury retrieval trail) project	Garner A (AUS)
15:45	16:00	Improving Trauma Care - An Example from Romania	Marinescu D (ROM)
16:00	16:30	Panel Discussion - Trauma care: Bouillon B (GER) Braun V (GER) Garner A (AUS) Marinescu (ROM) Thomas F (USA) Valk J (NED)	Stolpe E (GER)

Update lectures II
Chairmen: Martin Hinterseer and Sharaz Khan
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:45	16:55	Update Acute Coronary Syndrome - Strategies in Air Rescue	Hinterseer M (GER)
16:55	17:05	Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest	Clumpner M (USA) & Mobley J (USA)
17:05	17:15	Chain of Survival on PDAs	Ertl L (GER)
17:25	17:35	Telemedicine	Khan S (CAN)

Update lectures III
Chairmen: Kevin Hutton and Andrew Berry
Start	End	Title	Speaker
18:00	18:15	Facts on Neonatal Intensive Transports	Berry A (AUS)
18:15	18:30	Neonatal Intensive Transports - Transport of critically ill children to and under ECMO	Reckers J (GER)
18:30	18:45	Is a Paediatric Specialist really needed in Primary Missions?	Thomas S (USA)

Wednesday

Crew I - The Human Factor
Chairmen: Jörg Braun and David Thomson
Start	End	Title	Speaker
9:00	9:15	Duty-times – What about the Med Crew?	Thomson D (USA)
9:15	9:30	Simulator based training – The DRF experience	Conrad G (GER)
9:30	9:45	ACRM – An Initiative of EHAC	Lang B (AUT)
9:45	10:00	Identifying Errors and Mitigating Risk - What makes your system safe?	MacDonald R (CAN)

Crew II:The Right St(a)uff
Chairmen: Miroslav Rada and Frank Pajonk
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:30	10:45	Mental and Physical Fitness of Flight-Crew Members	Rada M (CZE)
10:45	11:00	Physical Fitness of Med-Crew Members	Voelckel W (AUT)
11:00	11:15	Selection criteria of HEMS Crew Members	Lang B (AUT)
11:15	11:30	Crew Standards - MTLI (Medical Transport Leadership Institution)	Mancuso D (USA)
11:30	11:45	Warning Signs of Risk taking Behavior - Mental Stability as Selection Criteria and therapeutical Possibilities	Pajonk F (GER)

Flight Safety Update
Chairmen: Massimo Mazzoletti and Daan Remie
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	International Strategic Safety Initiative (ISSI) & International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST)	Judge T (USA)
14:45	15:00	European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI)	Mazzoletti M (ITA)
15:00	15:15	SMS - Safety Management Systems	Uhlin D (USA)
15:15	15:30	Incident Reporting - An Appropriate Method to Increase Safety	Heitmüller K (GER)
15:30	15:45	Simulators for HEMS Training	Brade S (GER)
15:45	16:00	The Aviation Safety Network	Turner K (kturner@aerosafe.com.au)

Grande Debate
Chairmen: Tom Judge
Start	End	Title	Speaker
12:00	12:30	Grande Debate: Human Errors & Patient Safety - Insurance, Training or what else? Pro Group: Lackner C (GER) Lutz S (GER) Rall M (GER); Contra Group: Earlam R (GBR) Hutton K (USA) Stolpe E (GER)	Judge T (USA)

Infection Control in Air Medical Transports
Chairmen: Stephan Harbarth & Michael Bell
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:50	Safe Air Medical Evacuation of Patients with potentially Dangerous Infections	Bell M (USA)
14:50	15:10	The Problem of Multiresistant strains in Air Medical Transport	Harbarth S (SWI)
15:10	15:25	Environmental (De-)Contamination of Planes - Dos and Don´ts	Dettenkofer M (GER)
15:25	15:40	Preparing the Inevitable: Towards Best Practice in Managing the Transport of Highly Infectious Patients	Déry M (USA)
15:40	16:00	Transmission of Infectious Diseases during Commercial Air Travel	Gendreau M (USA)

Legal Aspects of International Repatriation
Chairmen: Christoph Breitenbach and Eytan Ish-Tov
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:45	11:15	Responsibility & Liability in International Repatriation I - The Lawyer´s point of view	Prudil L (CZE)
11:15	11:30	International Repatriation III - The Provider´s point of view	N.N. ()
11:30	11:45	Safety Regulations and Use of Medical Equipment in Commercial Aircrafts	Brozen R (USA)

Markets & Competition - Regulatory Control
Chairmen: Friedrich Rehkopf and Antar Daouk
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:30	16:45	Regulatory-induced Bureaucracy: Its Effects on Safety in Aircraft Maintenance	Zoller J (GER)
16:45	17:00	Working Life Time and Duty Time Regulations for Pilots	Leibundgut H (SWI)
17:00	17:15	Public Health Policy (Open Market vs. Public Task)	Wietschel W (GER)
17:15	17:30	Legal Position of HEMS Operators (Govt. vs. Private)	Garovi N (SWI)
17:30	17:45	Word-of-Mouth Marketing	Lyden G (USA)

Medical Escorts on scheduled Flights
Chairmen: Francesc Bonet & Michael Braida
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:30	16:45	Dispatch criteria, Equipment and Medical staff: An Overview	Braida M (GER)
16:45	17:00	Experience with Stretchers on Long-distance Flights	Buchsein T (GER)
17:00	17:15	Intensive Care Medicine on Board – Limits to Medical Escorts?	Steiner B (AUT)
17:15	17:30	Medical Escorts on Scheduled Flights: Airliner´s point of view	Kaul G (GER)

Medical Risk Management
Chairmen: Matthias Ruppert and Sandra Kinkade
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:45	17:00	Patient Safety: Essential Procedures in Prehospital Settings	Ruppert M (GER)
17:00	17:15	Physicians & Delegated Practice in USA	Dinerman N (USA)
17:15	17:30	Physicians & Delegated Practice in Europe	Letellier n (FRA)
17:30	17:45	Incident Reporting - Experience in Air Rescue	Conrad G (GER)
17:45	18:00	HEMS in Japan - Strong today and in the Future	Nishikawa W & Ogino R (JPN)

Special Missions
Chairmen: William White and Ian Badham
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	Advanced Automobile Crash Notification (AACN) - The Manufacturer´s Point of View	Rauscher S (GER)
14:45	15:00	HEMS Missions in Alpine Environments	Demetz F (GER)
15:00	15:15	Surf and Ocean Rescue using HEMS	Badham I (AUS)
15:15	15:30	Operation Solomon - How to evacuate 15,000 by Air Lift?	Lynn M (USA)
15:30	15:45	Tactical HEMS	Delgado J (USA)
15:45	16:00	Combat Trauma	White W (USA)

Thursday

Air Medical Transport of Critical Ill Patients
Chairmen: Rupert Gerzer and Jean-Ernst Harbarth
Start	End	Title	Speaker
9:00	9:15	Transport Physiology – An Update	Hankins D (USA)
9:15	9:30	The Untreated Critically ill Patient – A Case Report	Harbarth J (GER)
9:30	9:45	The Instable Cardiac Patient	Nordrehaug J (NOR)
9:45	10:00	Air Medical Transport of Acute Psychotic Patients	Nacht A (SWI)

Airway Management
Chairmen: Eric Swanson and Wolfgang Voelckel
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	Basics on Airway Management	Swanson E (USA)
14:45	15:00	Basics on Ventilation	McIntosh S (USA)
15:00	15:15	Prehospital Pleural Decompression: A 5-year Experience by a HEMS	Sep D (NED)
15:15	16:00	Workshop Airway Management - Ask the Expert: Buchsein T (GER), Domres B (GER), MacIntosh S (USA), Sep D (NED), Voelckel (AUT)	Swanson E (USA)

Cost / Benefit Analysis
Chairmen: Stephen Thomas and Steffen Lutz
Start	End	Title	Speaker
14:30	14:45	Interpreting Results of Cost Analysis	Thomas S (USA)
14:45	15:00	Documentation and Efficiency Control	Reinhardt K (GER)
15:00	15:15	An economic Analysis of HEMS	Müller jun. P (CZE)
15:15	15:30	Cost/Benefit Analysis in Eastern Europe	Tùri P (HUN)

Disaster Management
Chairmen: Bernd Domres & Ryukoh Ogino
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:15	16:30	MICU - Mobile Intensive Care Unit by SAS	Österhed H (SWE)
16:30	16:45	Role of Helicopters in Disaster Evacuation - Lessons Learnt from Kathrina	Larson E (USA)
16:45	17:00	ICS - An Instrument for Disaster Management	Grimes K (USA)
17:00	17:15	How to Avoid Finacial Disasters in Disaster Management	Delgado J (USA)
17:15	17:30	Japan Earthquake Disaster Management	Ogino R (JPN)
17:30	17:45	European Coordination of Air Ambulances in Cases of Major Disasters	Karud O (NOR)

Financing
Chairmen: Kevin Hutton and Alexander Wolff
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:45	11:00	Impact of Competition on Quality and Safety	Matzke-Ahl S (GER)
11:00	11:15	Evolution of HEMS in Slovakia - Financing	Rokfalusy J (SLO)
11:15	11:30	Cost Driver Operational Maintenance	Zoller J (GER)
11:30	12:00	How to Keep Air Rescue Affordable? - Perspectives for Financing in the Future	Hutton K (USA)

Fixed Wing Operations Worldwide in 2008
Chairmen: Viktor Vojtech and Thomas Buchsein
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:45	11:00	Possibilities of the Cech Air Force in Long Distance Flights w/ A319	Vojtech V (CZE)
11:00	11:15	DOJET 328 as an Air Ambulance: The ADAC Experience	Krebs P (GER)
11:15	11:30	Ambulance Flights in South-East Asia and South Pacific	Bishop R (AUS)
11:30	11:45	Pre-hospital Management of Burn Injury	Kadlcik M (CZE)
11:45	12:00	Ambulance Flights to Remote Areas	Rabausch E (VAE)

Methods of Financing and Consolidation
Chairmen: Andreas Lüthi and Henny Versluijs
Start	End	Title	Speaker
9:00	9:15	Financing I - Membership based - Switzerland / REGA	Lüthi A (SWI)
9:15	9:30	Financing II - Health Insurance - Austria / Germany - ÖAMTC / ADAC	Wolff A (AUT)
9:30	9:45	Financing III - Government - France	Daouk A (FRA)
9:45	10:00	Financing IV - Donor / Sponsorship based - UK	Philpott D (GBR)
10:00	10:15	Financing V - Financing models in the USA	Hutton K (USA)
10:15	10:30	Financing VI - Financing models in Australia	Hooper M (AUS)

Night Vision Goggles (NVG)
Chairmen: Erik Norman and Gunter Carloff
Start	End	Title	Speaker
10:15	10:35	NVG I – The ANWB Experience	Remie D (NED)
10:35	10:50	NVG II - The REGA experience	Gnägi T (SWI)
10:50	11:05	Bell Helicopter NVG Training Center	Baxtor S (USA)
11:05	11:20	NVG Operations - Medical Aspects	Stern C (GER)
11:20	12:00	NVG - Which Amount of Training is Required?	Norman E (NOR)

Regulations
Chairmen: Daan Remie and Rudolf Einsiedl
Start	End	Title	Speaker
9:00	9:20	Transferring JAR OPS 3 to EU OPS 3	van der Weide B (NED)
9:20	9:35	Performance (Cat. A) – Who understands it?	Lyons J (GBR)
9:35	9:50	Heliports at Hospitals - Approaching safely	Carloff G (GER)
9:50	10:05	Standardisation of Flight Licenses and Flight Permissions by EASA	Ruge A (GER)

Technical Mission Support
Chairmen: Hooper Harris and Wolfgang Burger
Start	End	Title	Speaker
16:15	16:30	GPS-guided Low Level IFR Approach	Norman D (USA)
16:30	16:45	TAWS & TCAS in HEMS?	Hooper H (USA)
16:45	17:00	Flight following in EMS dispatch	Zoller J (GER)
17:00	17:15	Obstacle Detection Systems	Carloff G (GER)
17:15	17:30	Aviation Digital Data System (ADDS) - Individual misson adapted weather forecast system	Sizemore G (USA)