Second Emergency Medicine Congress in Byblos, Lebanon
For the second year in a row, Notre Dame Maritime Hospital (HNDM) held an Emergency Medicine Congress. This year, it was entitled, ‘Byblos Health II: Second Conference of Emergency Medicine of Notre Dame Maritime’ and was held in the beautiful city of Byblos, 30 km to the North of Beirut, Lebanon. The Congress took place from 8–13 April with some 300 delegates and exhibitors from six countries—making it bigger and more international than its precedent edition.
The diversity of the Congress was reflected by the different subjects presented and the variety of workshops on offer. The preconference workshops (Figure 1) included hands-on adult and paediatric emergency simulations, patient triage, and skills stations covering airway management, point-of-care ultrasound, patient assessment, and suturing. Other sessions covered basic and advanced paediatric and adult life support with a focus on the use of the automated external defibrillator (AED). A few days before the Congress, (HNDM) offered an AED to the Byblos Government Headquarters. The Lebanese Resuscitation Council trained the staff on its use and it is the first AED to be placed in a governmental building in Lebanon (Figure 2).
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