The Intensive Care Units of the 401 General Army Hospital, 251 Air Force Hospital and of the Naval Hospital of Athens are hosting a two day meeting on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 of May 2009.

The meeting is sponsored by the Greek Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Registration is free.

Congress Secretariat: Ms Nasia Tsougia
Tel: +30 2107254360, Mob: +30 6936123776, Fax: +30 7254363, web: www.vitacongress.gr, e-mail: n.tsougia@vitacongress.gr
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Scientific program
(Click on the speaker's name for more info)

Friday May 28th 2010

Time Speaker Topic
09.00   Greetings
09.30 Glykatzi-Arveler First European Empire: The Byzantium
10.00 Stark Getting sick away from home: How bad can it be?
10.30 Docrat Docrat Pitfalls to disaster management: Lessons learned from Haiti
11.00 Stark Worldwide emergencies, disasters and epidemics and effecient response: How prepared are we?
11.30 Hodgson Practicing war medicine in a city: My experience from South Africa
12.00 Linton The Israel response to emergencies: Another way to fly! (Challenges in Air Ambulance Transport in the Middle East)
12.30 Armaganidis Non conventional treatments in response to pandemics: Is it necessary (and feasible) to provide Extracorporeal Oxygenation for severe ARDS secondary to H1N1 infection
13.00 Break Light lunch served
14.00 Jacobi A pharmacist president of SCCM? The role of the pharmacist in the ICU: More than dispensing drugs
14.30    
15.00 Jacobi Medication safety in the ICU: The evolving role of the pharmacist
15.30 Annane Intensive glucose control for critically ill patients: Pro
15.45 Klimathianaki Intensive glucose control for critically ill patients: Con
16.00 Short break Coffee served
16.30 Georgopoulos Interpreting acid-base balance in the criticall ill
17.00 Creteur Evaluation of the miscocirculation in the critically ill: How reliable and helpful is it?
17.30 Rouby Bedside quantification of pleural effusions in the critically ill
18.00 Matamis Cardiovascular bedside ultrasound evaluation of the critically ill patient: Illustrative cases and practical take-home messages



Saturday May 29th 2010

09.00 Annane Approach to the patient in septic shock: Tools that have evolved in the last 5-years and the validity of the septic bundles
09.30 Singer Decatecholaminization in septic shock: Why pressors may be dangerous
10.00 Vincent Fluid management in the septic patient: Which one and how much
10.30 Rouby The septic patient after organ transplantation: Our experience
11.00 Vincent Should I use activated protein C in my ICU in 2010? How and when?
11.30 Rouby Monitoring antibiotic efficiency in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia
12.00 Chiche The genomic approach to sepsis: Are we there yet?
12.30 Annane Steroids for community acquired pneumonia
13.00 Διάλλειμα
13.30   Why is my ICU different from all other ICU's? Are data from different ICU's comparable?
Greece Anthopoulos, South Africa Hodgson, Belgium Vincent, Israel Linton, France Chiche, United Kingdom Singer
  Practical bedside wisdom from the experts
14.45 Linton Non-invasive ventilation for the critically ill
15.15 Hodgson Infection control in the ICU: The 12 point approach to community acquired pneumonia with a special mention of the HIV-infected patient

 

Workshops

Percutaneous trachostomy
Aloizos

Airway management
Linton
Hodgson

Practical Ultrasound for the intensivist: FAST and cardiovascular assesment
Matamis
Karellas


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