Welcome to CIMC´99
ABOUT THE CONGRESS
The purpose of a International Congress of Critical Care
Medicine, is updating concepts, technologies and the recent advances in
the critically ill patient's control.
When being a virtual congress, the first thing that gets
us the attention, is the image that a traditional congress, where the congress
members, presenters and members of different committees go walking for
the bordering of the rooms of communications, exhibitors talking on mobile
the phone, carrying suitcases and portfolios in the rooms of commercial
exhibition, stewardesses, waiters for corridors, agents of security, etc.
The initial idea of this congress was born November 24
1.998 in the breast of a thematic channel of Intensive Care Medicine, in
UNINet Network and Telematic Services, after conversation between two intensivists
and a medical pathologist and operator of IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
Once resolved that the organization, address, scientific
and technical pursuit, would be carried out at least in 85% through the
electronic mail. We can end up saying that until the current moment everything
has been carried out in 100% via Web and E-mail, what constitutes an entire
organizational landmark.
THE CONGRESS
In the present time, is more difficult to go to the meetings,
congresses and symposia organized for the world. The costs of Organization,
of such events have been shot vastly and therefore they rebound directly
in the inscription quotas, what sometimes makes impossible the participation
of that real potential congress member, interested in the permanent bring
up to date of the diagnosis, control and the critically ill patient's treatment.
To everything it must add it the derived expenses of the
trip, services innkeepers, the participant congress members maintenance,
etc. and that it usually rebounds from all over the world in many occasions
on the pharmaceutical industry, like more and more habitual support of
the continuous formation of the doctors and nurses.
To bring near to an entire potential world of congress
members, it is one of the most prospective challenges when organizing a
congress. If to everything it, we make it that it can visit one another
and how not, to participate comfortably from our work place as well as
of the own home, it is a fact of which very few precedents exist.
TECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES
The realization of this First Virtual International Congress
of Critical Medicine will suppose an entire primary experience as for the
use of strategies of technological and computer type, breaking linguistic
barriers (three official languages) and bringing near different medical
specialists from all over the world, with an only goal: the critically
ill patient's care.
From the technological point of view, they have 10 servers
mirror of the main web (http://www.uninet.edu/cimc99) located in UNINet
Network (University Net of Telematic Services). it is in preparation the
setting in new march of 2 “mirrors.” These servers they are located in
different points of the world, allow a very high flow of visits. Automatically
from 3 to 6 hours updating the pages web in the different servers.
One server (under construction), goes connected directly
via satellite, what will facilitate a very quick connection with the United
States of America and other countries.
In turn it will implant technical of virtual visit through
worlds VRML, what supposes to carry out a wide computer technological unfolding
in a medical congress.
The communications will place in the pages web of the
congress during the time of exhibition of the congress and during at least
5 years, what supposes a virtual database within reach of the visitors.
These communications will discuss through text-conference
in real time being based on a program client IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
and the electronic mail (E-mail). All the discussions will be recorded
in log files, combined to the communications, so that they are visionadas
or read to posteriori, what can make attractiveness the congress.
Once concluded the congress, a CDROM will be published
(CDROM-Proceedings) with all the reports and discussions.
Santiago Herrero Fernández
Vice- President and Technical Director CIMC´99 |
First International Congress on Critical Care Medicine in Internet
