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Adrian Kelland
08-02-2006, 18:43
Draft Programme

Diving Medicine 2006
Dates 23-24 March 2006
Organisers: United Kingdom Sport Diving Medical Committee
Venue: Shropshire Education and Conference Centre, Shrewsbury
http://www.ddrc.org/docs/diving_medicine_206.htm


23 March 2006
Session 1a
Fitness and exercise testing
09.30-10.00 Fitness for diving Dr Clare Peddie
10.00-10.30 Exercise testing Dr Stephen Glen
10.30-11.00 An exercise physiologist's view - speaker to be confirmed
Coffee
Session 1b
Featured lecture - Diving in South Africa
11.30-12.30 Medical standards for commercial and sport diving in South Africa Dr Jack Meintjes
Lunch
Session 2 Medical standards for divers
14.00-14.30 The HSE view on standards Speaker to be confirmed
14.30-15.00 The EDTC view Dr Jurg Wendling
15.00-15.30 A Scandinavian view ? Dr Hans Ornhagen
Tea
16.00-16.30 Anxiety and depression Dr Roger Beer
16.30-17.00 Review of cases Panel

24 March 2006
Session 3a Specific medical standards
09.30-10.00 PFO update Dr Peter Wilmshurst
10.00-10.30 Asthma Dr Peter Glanvill
10.30-11.00 Diabetes update Dr Chris Edge
Coffee
Session 3b Technical diving
11.30-12.00 The Physiology and medicine of technical diving. Dr Tristan Cope
12.00-12.30 Cope Deep diving and its technology Ian Thomas and Simon Pridmore.
Lunch
Session 4 Diving accidents and decompression illness
14.00-14.15 A diver's experience of DCI and treatment. David Pelly
14.15-14.45 Treatment of diving accidents. Dr Phil Bryson
14.45-15.30 A diving death and technical diving in South Africa. Dr Jack Meintjes
Tea
16.00-16.30 To be confirmed
16.30-17.00 Review of cases Panel

Conference Faculty
Overseas (Confirmed)
Dr Jack Meintjes
President of South African Hyperbaric Medical Association and Head of Diving Medicine Division, Occupational Medicine Department, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Dr Jurg Wendling
Chairman of Medical Subcommittee of European Diving Technology Committee

United Kingdom (Confirmed)
Dr Roger Beer
Consultant Psychiatrist, Caerphilly
Dr Phil Bryson
Director of the Diving Diseases Research Centre
Dr Tristan Cope
Consultant Anaesthetist
Dr Chris Edge, Oxfordshire
Anaesthetist
Dr Peter Glanvill, Somerset
General Practitioner
Dr Stephen Glen
Consultant Cardiologist, Stirling
Dr Clare Peddie
National Diving Officer of British Sub-aqua Club
David Pelly
Technical diver
Simon Pridmore
IANTD
Ian Thomas
Technical working diver
Dr Peter Wilmshurst
Consultant Cardiologist, Shrewsbury

To be confirmed
Dr Hans Ornhagen, Sweden.
An exercise physiologist