2016 Annual Scientific Meeting

T The 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) took place on the Caribbean island of Cayman Brac between 5th and 9th December 2016.

Abstracts of the scientific meeting will be available shortly.

The program of the Scientific meeting was:

Venue: Conference Centre, Brac Reef Beach Resort, Cayman Brac

	Monday 5 December
07:30	Registration	Cayman Hyperbaric staff
08:00	Welcome	Dr Mark Glover
08:15	Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for diabetic foot ulceration – insight from involvement in a clinical trial and review of evidence	Dr Ron Linden
09:00	The effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on bone metabolism and its impact on radiation injuries to head and neck	Dr Jake Freiberger
10:00	Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation injuries to pelvis – insight from involvement in a clinical trial and review of evidence	Dr Mark Glover
10:30	Break
10:45	Advanced wound care for patients receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy	Dr Ron Linden
11:30	Dive readiness	Dr Neal Pollock
12:00	Lunch

	Tuesday 6 December
08:00	Narcosis research	Dr Jake Freiberger
09:15	Rebreather accident	Dr Fiona Sharp
09:45	The anatomy of a diving death	Dr Martin Sayer
10:30	Break
10:45	The Royal National Lifeboat Institution casualty care course	Dr Colin Wilson
11:30	Vertebral fracture following oxygen seizure	Dr Richard Wilson
12:00	Lunch

	Wednesday 7 December
08:00	Pathophysiology and prevention of immersion pulmonary oedema	Dr Jake Freiberger
08:45	Management of a decompression casualty who is not responding to recompression	Dr Tristan Cope
09:30	Poor response to recompression therapy – statistics, prognostic indicators and pathophysiology	Dr Mark Glover
10:15	Break
10:30	The interaction between endocrine conditions and diving (1)	Dr Neal Pollock
11:15	UK and US disability legislations and how these impact on diving	Dr Mark Glover
12:00	Lunch


	Thursday 8 December
08:00	The interaction between endocrine conditions and diving (2)	Dr Neal Pollock
08:45	Returning to diving after complete recovery – screening for risk factors	Dr Mihaela Ignatescu
09:30	Assessment of disabled divers	Dr Fiona Sharp
10:15	Break
10:30	Assisting disabled divers – experience of an Adaptive Dive Buddy.	Mr BJ Walton
11:15	The health of divers project	Dr Sally Simmons
12:00	Lunch

	Friday 9 December
12:00	Lunch
13:30	Discussion – Framework to assess a diver with disability	Plenary session – facilitators Dr Freiberger, Dr Pollock, Dr Glover
14:30	Summary of discussion regarding disability	Dr Glover
15:00	Break
15:15	Discussion – evidence gaps identified during the conference and how might they be addressed by research	Plenary session – facilitators Dr Freiberger, Dr Pollock, Dr Glover
16:15	Summary of discussion regarding evidence and proposed research	Dr Pollock
16:45	Close of meeting
Evening	Conference dinner

CPD Approval from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine has been applied for.

Hosted by the team at Cayman Hyperbaric Services. John Elliott, who has run the chamber with his wife Ann since 1996, has been an Associate Member of the British Hyperbaric Association for many years and we were very grateful for his offer to host the 2016 meeting.

Presentations

The topics of the meeting will, as usual, span themes relevant to diving and clinical hyperbaric medicine. The main diving theme will be the disabled diver, encompassing optimal management for the diver who is acutely disabled by DCI, the diver who remains disabled after recompression and decisions on fitness to dive for those disabled for other reasons. In order to address this issue as comprehensively as possible, we will invite presentations from a speciailist in disability assessment, health professionals who regularly assess disabled candidates for diving, speakers with relevant knowledge of diving physiology and representatives from the disabled diver community. Although guest speakers will be invited to present at the meeting, BHA members are also strongly encouraged to contribute. If you wish to give a presentation or to display a poster, please contact Mark Glover. Abstract submission deadline: Monday 31 October 2016.

Provisional Timetable

	Sat 3/12	Sun 4/12	Mon 5/12	Tues 6/12	Weds 7/12	Thur 8/12	Fri 9/12	Sat 10/12	Sun 11/12
morning	Depart UK	Diving	07:30-08:00 Registration 08:00 Academic Session	08:00 Academic Session	08:00 Academic Session	08:00 Academic Session	Diving	Depart Cayman Brac	Arrive UK
midday		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
afternoon		Free	Diving	Diving	Diving	Diving	AGM
evening	Arrive Cayman Brac						Conference dinner

Accommodation

Our hosts have negotiated a package which includes:

7 nights of hotel accommodation
breakfast, lunch and dinner buffet style plus 3 drinks nightly
taxes, services, ground transfers

28 double occupancy beach front rooms have been reserved at the Brac Reef Beach Resort hotel and there is additional condominium-style accommodation nearby.

Registration is now open on Eventbrite at this link.

Once you have registered, you will be sent an invoice at the following rates:

Hotel room for 1 person – £1050
Supplement for a second occupant in a hotel room – £450
Standard delegate fee for 1 person – £200
Discounted delegate fee for 1 person – £150
Diving package for 1 person – £360

Your booking will not be confirmed until your payment is received.

Registration

Once you have registered:

1. You will be given contact details to pay the hotel directly for accommodation and diving packages. The rates are as follows:

Dive Package/accommodation double occupancy – USD 1590 per person
Dive package/accommodation single occupancy – USD 2032 per person
Non diving /accommodation double occupancy – USD 1063 per person
Non diving /accommodation single occupancy – USD 1504 per person

2. You will be sent an invoice for the delegate fee – Standard fee is GBP 200 per person; discounted fee (for delegates who are not registered medical practitioners) is GBP 150 per person.

Flight Options

You are responsible for your own travel arrangements and costs. One option which fits with the timetable is AA 6160 which leaves Heathrow 9.10 a.m. arrives Miami 2.00pm.

This will allow for a Cayman Airways connection at 4.20 p.m. via Grand Cayman, arriving in the Brac at 7.40 p.m.

Other options are shown in the table below:

London to Grand Cayman BA (direct) – £985pp
Delta (1 stop) – £600pp
Grand Cayman to Cayman Brac (30 minutes) £100
London to Miami BA – £462pp
Miami to Cayman Brac £456

Any discounts and subsidies will be announced once the overall financial situation becomes clearer.

Presentations

Provisional Timetable

Accommodation

Registration

Flight Options

Membership Enquiries

British Hyperbaric Association