Program of the 2009 7th Meeting.

 


Scientific program
(Click on the speaker's name for more info)


FIRST DAY Friday May 29th 2009

Time Speaker Topic
09.00   Greetings from Professor of ICU, Dr. Charalambos Roussos and various announcements
09.30 Vincent Intensive care around the globe: Variations, common themes and perspective for the future
10.00 Agnus Early Goal Directed Therapy: Reconsidering the evidence and the indications today
10.30 Bleck Subarachnoid hemorrhage management: Is there still a place for hyperdynamic, hypertensive, hypervolemic therapy?
11.00 Kuiper Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, with emphasis on post cardiac arrest treatment. Hypothermia is only a part of the picture
11.30 Pinsky Minimally invasive technologies, applications and limitations (LiDCO, PiCCO, FloTrac, NICOM, NICO and Fenapress)
12.00 Annane Update on the indications of corticosteroids for the critically ill
12.30 Break Light lunch served
13.30 Hollenberg Why and when I still use the Swan-Ganz catheter in my ICU in the year 2009
14.00 Ronco The cardio-renal syndromes: Diagnosis and management in the ICU
14.30 Rouby Mechanisms of ventilator induced lung injury in ARDS
15.00 Agnus The sepsis bundle: pro
15.15 Singer The sepsis bundle: con
15.30 Short break Coffee served
16.00 Ronco When to begin and when to stop CRRT
16.30 Vincent Optimal fluid therapy in sepsis (when - how - what type) and when to add vasopressors
17.00 Rouby Ultrasound for the lung disease in the ICU: Diagnosing pneumothoraces, inflitrates, pleural effusions, diaphragm motility and other conditions with the simple placement of an ultrasound probe
17.30 Singer Potentially harmful critical care interventions: When less is more



SECOND DAY Saturday May 30th 2009

09.00 Bleck Neurologic complications of critical illnesses: how to prevent them and how to recognize them
09.30 Hollenberg Hemodynamics and myocardial function in sepsis: balancing fluids with pressors
10.00 Pinsky The effect of regional LV wall motion abnormalities on global ventricular function: clinical implications in the ICU
10.30 Annane 2008 critical care literature review: which articles I should mark and would have an impact on my ICU practice
11.00 Kuiper The Dutch experience with euthanasia
11.30 Pinsky Ability of pulse power, esophageal Doppler, and arterial pulse pressure to estimate rapid changes in stroke volume in humans
12.00 Vincent Monitoring the microcirculation to guide resuscitation
12.30 Singer Bench-to-bedside review: potential strategies to protect or reverse mitochondrial dysfunction in sepsis-induced organ failure
13.00 Break  
13.30 Hollenberg Nonlinear analysis of hemodynamic parameters: beat to beat variability in contradistinction to means in the ICU patient
14.00 Bleck Seizures and status epilepticus in the ICU: early recognition and optimal management
14.30 Matamis Use and misuse of the echocardiogram in the ICU
15.00 Agnus Using biomarkers and functional genomics technology to guide antibiotic therapy in the septic patient
15.30 Kuiper Selective digestive tract decontamination: Why we love it and why it works for us in Holland
16.00 Linton Update on non-invasive ventilation

 

Workshops

Friday morning 

Friday afternoon

Saturday morning

Saturday afternoon 

10:00-11:00
Ronco
 
CRRT practical workshop

11:00-12:00
Rouby

Non-invasive ventilation for the intensivist 

16:00-17:00
Bleck - Kuiper

Brain cooling post rescucitation

17:00-18:00
Aloizos

Practical PiCCO 

10:00-11:00
Tsagourias
 
Practical ultrasound for the intensivist.
Practical hands-on approach to the transcranial doppler in the ICU

11:00-12:00
Sourlas
 
Management of the difficult airway in the ICU

12:00-13:00
Aloizos

Transcutaneous tracheostomy: hands-on experience

15:00-16:00
Hollenberg

Arrhytmias in the ICU tutorial


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