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Sponsorship

Prometheus is proud to be sponsoring the following events;

MARS Charity Golf Day 2013

Prometheus is delighted to announce that we will be hosting another charity golf day which will be held in aid of the Mercia Accident Rescue Service (MARS). The day will be held at The Herefordshire Golf Club in Wormsley on Friday 7^h June 2013.

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The Mongol Derby 2013

Prometheus is pleased to be a regular sponsor of the Mongol Derby and has provided the Mongol Derby with both financial and medical assistance for the past four years and is looking forward to doing so again this year.

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'The Old Blues Brothers' - The Mongol Rally 2013

Prometheus is delighted to be supporting the ‘Old Blues Brothers’, who are attempting the Mongol Rally this year. In July and August, Ian McCurdie and Paul Chambers are attempting to complete the 10,000 mile journey, which will see them travel through 18 countries, 5 mountain ranges, 3 deserts over approximately 6 weeks.

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Polar Ice, Greenland Kite Skiing Expedition 2013

Prometheus is delighted to be sponsoring Simon Edmundson and Tim Tottenham on their 2400km expedition from south to north on Greenland’s ice cap. The team are raising money for Dallaglio Foundation Rugby for Change and MAG (Mines Advisory Group).

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Conferences

Prometheus will be exhibiting at/attending the following conferences this year:

Date and Location	Conference	Prometheus Activity
22-23rd April, Telford	Trauma Care Conference	Exhibiting
25-26th April, Glasgow	Retrieval Conference	Exhibiting
23rd May, Middleborough	Teeside Trauma Symposium	Exhibiting
2nd June, Isle of Man	TT Medical Symposium	Attending
19^th June, Basildon	Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust Aeromedical Conference 2013	Exhibiting
10-11th July, Coventry	Ambulex	Exhibiting
15th July, Shrivenham	Military Tri-Service Pre-Hospital Care Conference	Exhibiting
12-15th August, Tampa	MHSRS	Attending
31^st August, Cumbernauld	BASICS Scotland	Exhibiting
10-13th September , London	DSEI	Exhibiting
25-26th September, NEC Birmingham	Emergency Services Show	Exhibiting
3-5th October, Harrogate	RCGP Annual Conference	Exhibiting
14-16th October, Winterbourne Gunner	Tri Service Emergency Medicine	Exhibiting
18-19th November, Telford	AAA Awards	Exhibiting
20-23rd November, Dusseldorf	Medica	Attending

Dr Malcolm Russell, Prof. Charles Deakin, Dr Alastair Nicol and Dr Richard Lyon are regularly invited to speak at medical and specialist conferences:

Recent talks by Prof. Deakin include:

May 2013 - Isatricon 2013. International Conference on Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain. Trivandrum, India – ‘Resuscitation – The Science Behind the Guidelines’
May 2013 - . Isatricon 2013. International Conference on Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain. Trivandrum, India – ‘Haemorrhagic Shock and Coagulopathy’
February 2013 - Liverpool Medical Institution. Liverpool – ‘Drowning and Survival’
January 2013 - National Undergraduate Anaesthesia Conference. University Hospital Southampton – ‘The Anaesthetist’s Role in Trauma and Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine’
October 2012 - Resuscitation 2012. Vienna – ‘Haemorrhagic Shock and Coagulopathy’
September 2012 - Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Annual Symposium. Bournemouth – ‘Resuscitation’
June 2012 - Wessex Intensive Care Society, Winchester – ‘Adrenaline in Cardiac Arrest: Friend or Foe?’
June 2012 - 14^th International Conference on Emergency Medicine, Dublin, Ireland – ‘Translating Evidence to Practice: The ILCOR experience’
April 2012 - 1^st Pan-Hellenic Congress on Emergency Prehospital Care. Thessaloniki, Greece – ‘Mechanical Assistance of the Cardiovascular System in Trauma’
April 2012 - 1^st Pan-Hellenic Congress on Emergency Prehospital Care. Thessaloniki, Greece. . Honoured Lecture – ‘The Science Behind the Resuscitation Guidelines’
Feb 12 - Association of Anaesthetists Resuscitation Seminar, London - 'Advances in Prehospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation'
Nov 11 - Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Core Topics meeting, Winchester - 'Resuscitation - The Science Behind the Guidelines'
Oct 11 - Resuscitation Council Annual Symposium Valetta, Malta - 'Implementing the 2011 European Resuscitation Council Guidelines'
Oct 11 - Resuscitation Council Annual Symposium Valetta, Malta - 'Impedance Threshold Devices'
Jun 11 - Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Core Topics Meeting, Bournemouth - 'Resuscitaion - The Science Behind the Guidelines'
May 11 - Royal Society of Medicine, London - Cardiac Arrest - 'KnO2wledge VI: Cold Comfort - The Double-Edged Sword of Hypothermia'
Apr 11 - Resus 2011 Limerick, Ireland - 'The Science Behind the Guidelines'
Apr 11 - Resus 2011 Limerick, Ireland - 'The 2011 Advanced Life Support Guidelines', Plenary Session.
Feb11 - 5th Scientific Symposium. Cyprus Resuscitation Council. Limassol, Cyprus - 'How Safe is Hands-On Defibrillation?'
Feb 11 - 5th Scientific Symposium. Cyprus Resuscitation Council. Limassol, Cyprus - 'Adult Advanced Life Support: The New Guidelines'
Jan 11 - Association of Anaesthetists Resuscitation Seminar, London - 'Advances in Prehospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation'
Jun 10 - Euroanaesthesia 2010, Helsinki, Finland - Early Management of Traumatic Brain Injury. - 'Summary of Advanced Life Support Resuscitation Science'
Jan 10 - International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, Dallas - 'Consensus on Science and Treatment Recommendations'
Dec 09 - London Trauma Conference - 'Mechanical Assistance of the Cardiovascular System in Trauma'
Dec 09 - Association of Anaesthetists Resuscitation Seminar, London - 'Defibrillation: State of the Art'
Oct 09 - Resuscitation Council (UK) 18th Annual Scientific Symposium, Royal College of Physicians - 'Drugs are redundant in Advanced Life Support'
Oct 09 - 22nd International Symposium on Trauma Care and the Annual Emergency Medicine Meeting of the Bavarian Society of Emergency Physicians, Ulm, Germany - 'Adequate Analgesia in Trauma Patients - A Challenge'

Recent talks by Dr Russell include:

16 April 12 - Royal Society of Medicine, London - Catastrophic Haemorrhage
28 March 12 - Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust Aeromedical Case Study Conference - 'Case Presentation for KSS Air Ambulance Trust'
15 Nov 11 - Banks Town, Australia - 'Pre-Hospital Haemorrhage Control'
11 Nov 11 - Fire & Rescue Trauma Conference - 'Understanding the Medical Team to Improve Extrication'
1 Oct 11 - Courtyard, Hereford - 'Talk on Everest'
30 Sept 11 - Basic International Pre-Hospital Care Conference - 'Expedition Medicine: Delivering Pre-Hospital Care on the Edge'
24 Jun 11 - London Trauma Conference - 'Medical Support for Natural Disasters - Experiences from New Zealand and Japan'
9 Jun 11 - Hereford Primary Care Trust Lecture - ' Talk on Japan'
4 Nov 10 - Police Pre-Hospital Trauma Conference - 'Tourniquets in Police Operations - the Pros and Cons'
30 Nov 09 - Scientific Exploration Society - 'Everest West Ridge'
17 Nov 09 - Police Trauma Conference - 'BASICS HEMS Interaction'
19 Oct 09 - Police Tactical Emergency Conference - 'The Cold Case: Hypothermia in Trauma'
13 Oct 09 - BNHFT Trauma Conference - 'The Control of Catastrophic Haemorrhage'
17 Oct 09 - Fire Trauma Conference - 'Challenging Dogma in Pre-Hospital Care'

Dr Russell will be speaking at the following events:

TBC

Recent talks by Dr Nicol include:

16 Mar 11 - London Sport and Exercise Medicine Conference - 'Experiences of a New Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine'
21 May 13 - Scottish Sport and Exercise Medicine Symposium - 'Rehabilitation challenges in the military'

Recent talks by Dr Lyon include:

2013 - European Inaugural Emergency Medical Dispatch Conference, Stockholm, Sweeden - 'Emergency Medical Dispatch in Europe'
2013 - Resus 2013, Irish National meeting, Limerick - Keynote address: 'The challenge of pre-hospital resuscitation'
2013 - Retrieval 2013, Glasgow - 'Pre-hospital extra-corporeal life support'
2012 - European Resuscitation Council Conference, Vienna - 'Time to target: is fast good?'
2012 - European Resuscitation Council Conference, Vienna - 'Do dispatchers affect the rate of bystander CPR?'
2012 - British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, Glasgow - 'The challenge of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest'
2012 - Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, Kenilworth - 'Improving quality of pre-hospital resuscitation'
2012 - Noble Hospital, Isle of Man - 'Grand Round Lecture, invitee of Isle of Man Government'
2012 - Irish Resuscitation national meeting, Dublin - 'An update on resuscitation'
2011 - Russian Resuscitation Council, St Petersburg, Russia - 'Improving cardiac arrest survival'
2011 - The London Stock Exchange, London - 'London’s Air Ambulance'
2011 - Retrieval 2011, Glasgow - 'Who to cool'
2011 - Irish National Cardiovascular Society Meeting, Dublin, Ireland - 'Surviving Cardiac Arrest in Scotland'
2011 - Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh - 'Pre-hospital Care in Scotland'
2011 - Noble Hospital, Isle of Man - 'Grand Round Lecture, invitee of Isle of Man Government'