EuSEM - News and Information
We are pleased to announce that the 5th Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress (MEMC V) will be held in Valencia, Spain between the 14th and 17th of September 2009. The Congress is being organised jointly by EuSEM, the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). Please visit the Congress website: wwww.emcongress.org/2009/ for further information.
20/11/2008 – 16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, May 12th – 15th 2009, Victoria, Canada. Please visit the Congress website for more information and to submit abstracts: www.wcdem2009.org
29/10/2008 – 1st International Congress for Tropical Health, September 29th – October 1st 2009, Cairo, Egypt. First announcement and call for abstracts. For more details of this Congress please visit the Global Academy of Tropical Health website:
www.gath-international.com
13/10/2008 - Take time now to mark your calendar for the Caribbean Emergency Medicine Congress (CEMC) ©, scheduled for January 5-8, 2009, in Barbados.
The Caribbean Emergency Medicine Congress (CEMC)© is a joint educational effort made possible by the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM).
CEMC© will provide physicians an opportunity to update their knowledge and competence in EM, by systematic exposure to the most recent evidence based literature. Major topic areas in EM such as trauma, resuscitation, pediatrics, undifferentiated life-threatening conditions, toxicology, risk-management and also associated areas such as residency training, faculty development, the development of the specialty and international emergency medicine will be addressed.
The website is now online and will be continuously updated with speaker information, scientific programme developments, registration and travel tips. Bookmark http://www.aaem.org/cemc/2009/ and revisit it frequently for the latest on CEMC©.
23/09/2008 – We are delighted to welcome two new members to the European Federation of National Societies for Emergency Medicine, the Austrian Association of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and the Croatian Urgent Medicine and Surgery Association.
‘26/09/2008 - The First Eastern Mediterranean Regional Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion is being held in Feb 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. Several key organizations working in the region and in the field are co-sponsoring this exciting event. Please visit: http://www.emro.who.int/vip/ipsp/ for more information and note that the call for abstracts is open until the end of September - so please submit your relevant work!’
‘26/09/2008 - The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has published a draft 'addendum on atrial fibrillation' (EMEA/CHMP/EWP/352438/2008) to the existing 'note for guidance on antiarrhytmics'.
The document is available here.
The CHMP NfG on anti-arrhythmics (CPMP/EWP/237/95) provides only partial and incomplete regulatory guidance for development of medicinal products for the treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias, in particular atrial fibrillation. This document aims to provide an update and substitute those chapters of the above-mentioned document related to these arrhythmias.
Please provide any comments you may have to the secretariat of the Efficacy Working Party (EWPSecretariat@emea.europa.eu) by using this template: submitcomment.doc
The deadline for submitting comments is 31 January 2009.