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Romanian National Collaborators Meeting Bucharest 21-22 September 2002

Over 100 doctors and nurses from emergency departments throughout Romania attended a successful two-day conference in Bucharest at the end of September 2002. The title of the conference was "The Management of the Multiple- trauma Patient with Head Injury", with specific emphasis on the CRASH Trial. David Yates (Lead Clinician) and Ian Roberts (Clinical Co-ordinator) joined Romanian doctors Raed Arafat, Laura Balica, Daniela Bartos, Adrian Cristescu, Ioana Grintescu, Olivera Lupescu, Andrei Serbanescu and Claudiu Turculet, to give highly educational talks, which were followed by stimulating discussion.

At the close of the meeting the delegates watched as an agreement was signed between Dr Louchi, Laura Balica and David Yates declaring Spitalul Clinic de Urgenta Bucuresti the CRASH Trial National Co-ordinating Centre for Romania. Special thanks are due to Bogdan Oprita for his organisation of the meeting. With the co-operation of the other important hospitals represented in the meeting, including Tirgu Mures, Timisoara, Iasi, Ploiesti, Targouiste, Craiova and Cluj-Napoca, it is now hoped that Romania will become one of the leading contributors to the CRASH Trial worldwide.

Adrian Cristescu, Bogdan Oprita, Ian Roberts

Nurses' meeting

CRASHNET – Have you activated your account?
If you are a CRASH Trial collaborator, you are entitled to enter HTTPS://CRASHNET.LSHTM.AC.UK. The following services are available to you: 1. Enter your early outcome data directly via the Web 2. Analysis of early outcome data you have provided 3. Forum for you to make contact with other collaborators in your country or around the world and discuss any issues you wish 4. Order trial materials directly via the Web 5. Follow-up – see which patients have been followed up and which are due
Mentions - Many thanks to all collaborators listed below, for all their hard work
New centres with ethics approval: Maximiliano G Waschbusch, Policlinico Sofia T de Santamarina, Argentina Richard Hall, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Canada Humberto Lezcano, Hospital General Universitario "Carlos Manuel de Cèspedes", Cuba Dr Golle, Krieskrankenhaus Demmin, Germany Dr Seidel, Christophorous Krankenhaus GmbH, Germany Dr Gibb, Lukas Hospital, Germany K S Maheswari, Maheshwari Orthopaedic Hospital, India Manas Panigrahi, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, India Anup K Saha, Burdwan Medical College Hospital, India Vasant Dakwale, Choitram Hospital & Research Centre, India Radovan Wiszt, NsP Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia Sophie Jayamaha, Grantham and District Hospital, UK Gautam Ray, Princess Royal Hospital, UK	First patient N K Venkataramana, Manipal Hospital, India Maria Giuseppina Annetta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Karol Kalig, NsP Ruzinov, Slovakia Colin Read, Russell's Hall Hospital, UK 10 patients Walter Videtta, Hospital Dr Ramon Carrillo, Argentina Pedro Bedoya Barrios, Hospital General Copiapo, Chile Alvaro Ardila Otero, Hospital Universitario San Jorge, Colombia Oscar Palma, Hospital México, Costa Rica Ernesto Piferrer Ruiz, Hospital Clínico-Quirúrgico Docente “Saturnino Lora”, Cuba Mazhar Hussein, King George Medical College, India Nyoman Golden, Sanglah General Hospital, Indonesia Ivan Schwendt, NsP Poprad, Slovakia Romero Pellejero and Maria Luisa Gascon Castillo, Hospital General Yagüe, Spain Maite Misis, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Spain Ashis Bannerjee, Whittington Hospital, UK
Special Mentions – Special Congratulations!
50 patients Enrique Vergara, Hospital San Bernardo, Argentina Luiz Nasi, Hospital de Pronto Socorro de Porto Alegre, Brazil	100 patients Jafri Abdullah, Hospital University Science Malaysia Hesham El Sayed, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Who will author the CRASH Trial final report? You will! The success of CRASH will be entirely dependent upon the collaboration of nurses and doctors in the participating hospitals. Hence, the chief credit for the study will be assigned to them in the main publications, and the collaborators from each participating centre will be named personally in the main report.