Ghent University Hospital and defence health experts are joining hands in this colloquium on military innovations boosting physical and mental health & care. The symposium features both national and international keynote speakers, each of whom will elaborate on innovations in their field of expertise. Think of innovative approaches to polytrauma and multi-organ failure, critical developments in our fight against infections, rehabilitation after multiple amputations, injury biomechanics, use of robots and exoskeletons, augmented and virtual reality, deep brain stimulation and the ethical questions inevitably raised with some of these innovations …
Lessons learned from the battlefield and translated to general health care.