Prevention of cold injuries

On the 19th and 20th May 2005, civilian and military scientists, medical officers, engineers and other personnel from NATO and Partners for Peace countries met in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for a Human Factors and Medicine Panel Specialist's meeting (HFM-126/RSM) on the "Prevention of Cold Injuries". The meeting was organized by the Human Factors and Medicine Panel in close collaboration with TNO Human Factors, The Netherlands and the Royal Netherlands Navy (RLN). The meeting comprised two 45 minute keynote papers, one at the beginning of each day and fifteen, 15 or 30 minute scientific presentations. This evaluation provides a brief review of the papers presented at the meeting; the salient points of each paper are listed and the objectives (OBJ I-III) of the meeting they addressed noted. A few general comments are then made about the presentations and the meeting as a whole.. Presented at the RTO Human Factors and Medicine Panel (HFM) Specialists' Meeting held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 19-20 May 2005. Published in conference proceedings, Prevention of Cold Injuries (Prevention des accidents dus au froid), RTO-MP-HFM-126, T1-14; ISBN 92-837-1150-5. See also ADM001854. The original document contains color images.