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688 688 Berlin 2011
Saturday, October 1
Top Advanced haemodynamic monitoring Physiology and pathophysiology
Course overview Maurizio CECCONI
Venous return: understanding preload Jan BAKKER
Completing the picture: integrating variables at the bedside Jean-louis TEBOUL
Pulmomary artery catheter: uses and limitations Chris HOFER
Top Advanced haemodynamic monitoring The tools
Less invasive technologies: an overview Maurizio CECCONI
Top Advanced haemodynamic monitoring From theory to practice
How to use vasoactive drugs Daniel DE BACKER
How to improve outcome in patients with shock Jan BAKKER
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Acute CNS dysfunction
Metabolic encephalopathies Geoffrey BELLINGAN
Epilepsy: what does the intensivist need to know? Mauro ODDO
Party-drug intoxication Armand GIRBES
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Nutrition and metabolism
How do i feed my patient Jan WERNERMAN
Special nutrients, selenium, glamin and fish oil Mette BERGER
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Ethics and ICU organisation
Quality indicators in the icu Andreas VALENTIN
Intensive care medicine facing the increasing age of our patients Hans FLAATTEN
How to keep quality of care while saving money Hans ulrich ROTHEN
Top Critical care refresher course Acute respiratory failure
The open lung concept, new aspects Christian PUTENSEN
Lung recruitment maneuvers, including proning Claude GUÉRIN
Sedation and analgesia during mechanical ventilation Martin DÜNSER
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Acute cardiovascular failure
Goal oriented haemodynamic management Marco MAGGIORINI
Vasopressors side effects Daniel DE BACKER
Heart and lung interactions, the essentials Armand GIRBES
Top Critical care ultrasound (advanced level)
Basic doppler measurements Stefanie BRUEMMER-SMITH
Regional lv and rv function Philippe VIGNON
Evaluation of preload Alexandre MEBAZAA
Advanced lung Paul MAYO
Top Critical care ultrasound (basic level)
Basiclung us Paul MAYO
Vascular access Michel SLAMA (Amiens)
Sunday, October 2
Top Critical care nephrology Citrate anticoagulation
Case #3 Patrick HONORÉ
Citrate anticoagulation - the principle Heleen OUDEMANS-VAN STRAATEN
Citrate anticoagulation in cvvh, cvvhd, cvvhdf modalities Michael JOANNIDIS
How do i detect citrate toxicity Catherine BOUMAN
Top Critical care nephrology AKI
Case #1 Lui FORNI
Changing epidemiology of aki Eric HOSTE
Recommended diagnostic workup of aki Lui FORNI
Pharmacologic and therapy prevention of aki? Miet SCHETZ
Fluid management in aki Michael DARMON
Top Critical care nephrology RRT modalities
Case #2 Catherine BOUMAN (Amsterdam)
Initiation and termination of rrt Wilfred DRUML
Rrt machines and membranes? Patrick HONORÉ
Which modality and dosing? Olivier JOANNES-BOYAU
Drug dosing during crrt? Catherine BOUMAN
Standard and alternative anticoagulation Anne-cornelie DE PONT
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Sepsis/Severe infection
Goal oriented therapy in severe sepsis and septic shock Marco MAGGIORINI
Necrotising fasceitis Geoffrey BELLINGAN
Acute pancreatitis Hans ulrich ROTHEN
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Fluid and acid/base disorders
The stuart approach to acid-base disorders Hervé QUINTARD
Hypo- and hypernatremia Anne berit GUTTORMSEN
Lactic acidosis Daniel DE BACKER
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Trauma
Multiple trauma Gavin LAVERY (Belfast)
Thoracic trauma Hervé QUINTARD
Crush injury and myoglobinemia Michael DARMON
Top Critical Care Refresher Course Acute kidney injury
Risk assessment and prevention Michael JOANNIDIS
Medical treatment Marlies OSTERMANN
When should i start crrt John KELLUM
Top Critical care ultrasound (basic level)
Assessment of preload Alexandre MEBAZAA
Top Management of trauma Session 3. Transfusion and infections in trauma
Coagulopathy in trauma patients Rolf ROSSAINT
Top Management of trauma Session 4. Special situations
Management of head trauma Mauro ODDO
Management of chest trauma Theodoros KYPRIANOU (Nicosia)
Management of abdominal injuries Thomas GEERAERTS
Top Opening Session
Excellence in medicine Charles SPRUNG
Esicm honorary memberships & society medal award Andrew RHODES
Better doctors, better patients, better decisions Gerd GIGERENZER
Life campaign highlights Jean-daniel CHICHE
24th congress highlights & exhibition opening Giuseppe CITERIO
Monday, October 3
Top Acute kidney injury: A consensus statement
Identification and definition of acute kidney injury John KELLUM
Prevention of aki during routine icu care Ville PETTILÄ
Prevention in specific diseases Michael JOANNIDIS
Impact of renal replacement therapy Claudio RONCO
Top Advances in neuro-intensive care
Edaravone, a radical scavenger, suppresses microglial activation and consequently inhibits perikaryal and axonal damage following global cerebral ischemia induced by cardiac arrest and resuscitation in rats Fuyuta MASAKI
Brain lactate metabolism in humans with poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage Mauro ODDO
Efficiency of neuromuscular electrical stimulation to prevent icu-acquired weakness in mechanically ventilated patients Andrée-anne DEVOST
Top Bacteremia and VAP in ICU patients
The critically ill patient at risk for bacteremia and vap Claude MARTIN
Influenza-induced lung injury results in severe bacteremia following secondary pneumococcal infection Koenraad VAN DER SLUIJS
Outcome of bacteremia in intensive care unit patients: a subgroup analysis from the epic ii study Andrea ROSA-BAHIA
Resolution of ventilator-associated pneumonia: prospective evaluation of clinical, radiological and laboratory parameters Kostoula ARVANITI
Vap patients - reality of a portuguese mixed case icu Ricardo PINHO
Combined aerosolized and intravenous colistin for the treatment of ventilator associated pneumonia due to multidrugresistant gram-negative pathogens Gennaro DE PASCALE
Top Blood sugar monitoring
Presentation Marcus SCHULTZ
Top Cardiac output measurement and monitoring revisited
Technology assessment: what you should know Pierre SQUARA
Thermodilution methods Elias KNOBEL
Pulse contour-based technologies Andrew RHODES
Bioreactance & bioimpedance methods Maurizio CECCONI
Applying fick principles Jean-louis TEBOUL
Echocardiography & doppler-based methods Michel SLAMA
Top Caring for the spinal cord injury patient
Acute care in spinal cord injury Katerina ILIOPOULOU
Preventing complications Dominique VANDIJCK
Rehabilitation after spinal injury George NTOUMENOPOULOS
What we can learn from patients experience Peter GIBB
Top Caring for the ventilated patient
Nursing responsibilities in ventilatory care Christina JONES
Mechanical ventilation and weaning responsibilities: an international survey Louise ROSE
Oral health care in intubated patients: exploration of knowledge and practice among 663 icu nurses Sonia LABEAU
Manual hyperinflation partly prevents reductions of functional residual capacity in cardiac surgical patients - a randomized controlled trial Frederique PAULUS
Influence of patient position changes on endotracheal tube cuff pressure: results of a pilot study in mechanically ventilated patients Christelle LIZY
Accurate tracheal tube cuff pressure measurement in intensive care patients Jane TAYLOR
Top Case solving interactive discussion
My patient is oliguric Michael JOANNIDIS
My patient is hypoxemic Antonio PESENTI
My patient is herniating Mauro ODDO
Top Consensus on management of subarachnoid hemorrhage
Why and how reach a consensus on sah? Michael DIRINGER
What are our clinical targets? Nino STOCCHETTI
Monitoring and treating delayed cerebral ischemia David MENON
Prophylactic hemodynamic augmentation therapy: no evidence for use Claude HEMPHILL
Hemoglobin targets Peter LEROUX
Temperature and glucose control Giuseppe CITERIO
Top Continous glucose monitoring in ICU
Continous glucose monitoring in icu: pro Jan WERNERMAN
Continous glucose monitoring in icu: con Mette BERGER
Top Decision support in nutrition and glucose management B. Braun
Decision support in nutrition and glucose management Bjoern ELLGER
Top Did we improve communication with the relatives over the last years?
Have family needs changed over the last two decades? Julie BENBENISHTY
Discrepancies between practices and perceptions Bara RICOU
Evidence-based interventions in family-centered care J. randall CURTIS
Post-icu burden: inexorable or changeable? Colin FERGUSON
A list of simple things to change in our daily practice Kathleen PUNTILLO
Further effective interventions Elie AZOULAY
Top Disclosing triage decisions to patients
Disclosing triage decisions to patients: pro Antonio ARTIGAS RAVENTOS
Disclosing triage decisions to patients: con Charles SPRUNG
Top Donor management
Global management Pedro NAVARRETE NAVARRO
Top Drugs and the kidney
Drug-induced nephrotoxicity Anne-cornelie DE PONT
Ace inhibitors and acute kidney injury Wilfred DRUML
Drug dosing during acute kidney injury Catherine BOUMAN
Top Endotoxin absorbers in sepsis
Endotoxin absorbers in sepsis: pro Claudio RONCO
Endotoxin absorbers in sepsis: con John KELLUM
Top Enterohemorrhagic E. coli infections: Food for thoughts
Virulent diarrheagenic e. coli: what you should know Antje FLIEGER
Enterohemorrhagic infections: clinical features and treatment options Dominique BENOIT
Hus/ptt: critical discrepancies Elie AZOULAY
Mounting a complete response to disease outbreaks Andrew RHODES
Top ESICM/SCCM - End-of-life: Integrating palliative care in the ICU
Integrating palliative care in the icu with symptom management Kathleen PUNTILLO
Integrating palliative care in the icu with non invasive ventilation Elie AZOULAY
Integrating palliative care in the icu: dealing with family and communication Jozef KESECIOGLU
Sccm analgesia, sedation, and delirium 2011 guidelines: how can they guide us? J. randall CURTIS
Top Ethical and legal differences in end-of-life care in the ICU: Is regional variation a problem?
Who does and who should decide about limiting life-sustaining treatments: a northern european perspective Colin FERGUSON
Who does and who should decide about limiting life-sustaining treatments: a southern european perspective Martin LANGER
Developing a world-wide consensus regarding the ethics of end-of-life care in the icu Charles SPRUNG
Are regional differences in end-of-life care appropriate cultural variation J. randall CURTIS
Top Ethical issues in behaviour and communication
Moments when information is crucial Bob TRUOG
Objective and subjective quality of family meetings in the icu: a single-center study Simon LAGRANGE
Frequency and documetation of “advance directives” in icu patients Udo GOTTSCHALDT
Nurse behaviors in critically ill dying patients Elie AZOULAY
Perception by family members and icu staff of the quality of dying and death in the icu. a prospective multi-center study in the netherlands Rik GERRITSEN
Top Excessive losses in the ICU
Is crrt causing malnutrition? Agneta BERG
Dialysis for liver failure: what is actually eliminated? Julia WENDON
Trace elements deficit: which patients are at risk? Hans BIESALSKI
Removing ascites: what are the real consequences? André VERCUEIL
Top Extracorporeal CO2 removal improves survival in acute respiratory failure
Extracorporeal co2 removal improves survival in acute respiratory failure: pro Antonio PESENTI
Extracorporeal co2 removal improves survival in acute respiratory failure: con Jordi MANCEBO
Top Fever control is mandatory in brain-injured patients
Fever control is mandatory in brain-injured patients: pro Elisa ZANIER
Fever control is mandatory in brain-injured patients: con Pedro NAVARRETE NAVARRO
Top Fluid in the surgical patient
Optimization of oxygen transport variables: lessons learned from recent rcts Rupert PEARSE
What fluids to use? Willehad BOEMKE
How best do we decide to replace volume loss? Benoit VALLET
What transfusion threshold should we use in the peri-operative period? Christian VON HEYMANN
Top Functional lung monitoring and its future Draeger
Electric impedance tomography: clinical reality and vision Christian PUTENSEN
Using eit as a guide to optimize peep levels in mechanically ventilated patients Diederik GOMMERS
Optimising ventilatory settings using eit Helena ODENSTEDT
Top Fungal infections in critically ill patients
Invasive aspergillosis Pamela LIPSETT
The enigma of candiduria Stijn BLOT
Emerging fungal pathogens José artur PAIVA
Prophylaxis, pre-emptive & empiric therapy: when and how Philippe MONTRAVERS
What to expect from new antifungal agents George DIMOPOULOS
Top Guidelines 2010 on post-cardiac arrest management
2010 cardiac arrest guidelines: what's really new? Jerry NOLAN
Cpr and new devices Kjetil SUNDE
Post-resuscitation syndrome Martin DÜNSER
Therapeutic hypothermia Michael HOLZER (Vienna)
Top Haemodynamic management, a circulatory approach of the cardiovascular system: Let's visualize the circulation! Applied Physiology
Introduction: the guytonian view of cardiovascular physiology Michael PINSKY
Interactive workshop in visualized decision support Jan BAKKER
Interactive workshop in visualized decision support Richard BEALE (London)
Interactive workshop in visualized decision support Geoffrey PARKIN
Top Haemodynamics and weaning failure
Hemodynamic changes during spontaneous breathing trial Michael PINSKY
The role of the left ventricle Xavier MONNET
The role of the right heart Gorazd VOGA
Can biomarkers predict weaning failure? Alexandre MEBAZAA
Should we use echocardiography? Frances COLREAVY
Should we use co monitoring? Maurizio CECCONI
Top Heart failure: Perioperative support
Hemodynamic support Azriel PEREL
Analgesia and sedation Elias KNOBEL
Top How do I recognize the patient with sepsis?
Presentation Ricard FERRER ROCA
Top How I manage intra-hospital transport of the critically ill patient
Presentation Hans FLAATTEN
Top Hypothermia in cardiac arrest survivors
Therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in finnish icus. the finnresusci study Jukka VAAHERSALO
Auditory evoked potentials predict awakening from post-anoxic coma and therapeutic hypothermia Mauro ODDO
Feasibility of xenon in combination with therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Olli AROLA
An extremely rapid and safe way to induce hypothermia in post-resuscitation patients Monique DE WAARD
Top ICU basic requirements
Architectural icu requirements Patrick FERDINANDE
Calculating manpower for doctors Dierk VAGTS
How many nurses? Gaetano IAPICHINO
Icu team building Andreas VALENTIN
Whats towards the future Rui paulo MORENO
Top ICU nutrition update
Electronic charts: a tool to monitor nutrition Mette BERGER
Glutamine: evidence and beliefs Jan WERNERMAN
Refeeding syndrome: not only in the past Djillali ANNANE
Will glucose control be a quality marker? Marcus SCHULTZ
Top ICU-acquired infections: Common challenges for patients and intensivists Pfizer
Welcome and introduction Jean CHASTRE (Paris)
The burden of icu-acquired infections and their impact on patient safety Derek ANGUS
Zephyr study: new clinical evidence in the treatment of mrsa nosocomial pneumonia Jean CHASTRE
Candida infections in the icu: results from the ice study George DIMOPOULOS
Top Imaging, modeling & renal outcome in ARDS
Future perspectives on pulmonary imaging Giacomo BELLANI
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in ventilator induced lung injury José a. LORENTE
Molecular imaging in ventilator-induced lung injury: rethinking the regional mechanisms João batista BORGES
Acute kidney injury in patients with ali/ards: results of a multicenter cohort study Michael DARMON
Minimal modeling of pulmonary gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide - modeling complexity required in intensive care patients Dan KARBING
Top Improving haemodynamic management
Importance and approach of endothelial dysfunction in critical care medicine Didier PAYEN DE LA GARANDERIE
Heart rate control with esmolol in septic shock: a randomized controlled trial Andrea MORELLI
The estimation of cardiac output by the third generation of the vigileo device is not reliable for tracking the changes in cardiac output induced by norepinephrine Xavier MONNET
Evaluation of the benefit of different cathecholamine regimes in cardiogenic shock: generalized propensity score approach Romain PIRRACCHIO
Respiratory change in ecg-wave amplitude is a reliable parameter to estimate intravascular volume status Raphaël GIRAUD
Circulating carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1 levels are a new marker of liver cell necrosis in patients with cardiogenic shock Valentin FUHRMANN
Top Increasing the global awareness for sepsis
What has come out of the surviving sepsis campaign Herwig GERLACH
Lessons learned in europe Antonio ARTIGAS RAVENTOS
Applying sepsis bundles with restricted resources Charles GOMERSALL
Do we need a global sepsis alliance? Konrad REINHART
Top Indicators for organ dysfunction in the perioperative environment
Global gene expression profiling reveals key pathways associated with the host response to cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass Eduardo SVOREN
Predictors of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. analysis of ariam registry of cardiac surgery Emilio CURIEL BALSERA
Prognostic value of the central venous-to-arterial carbon dioxide difference (pco2gap) at icu admission after high-risk surgery Benoit VALLET
Vitamin d levels before and after cardiothoracic surgery and correlation with outcome Jan johan WEENINK
Top Infective endocarditis
Clinical characteristics of infective endocarditis in the icu Marco MAGGIORINI
Prosthetic valves endocarditis Dirk VOGELAERS
Choosing the right antibiotic Christian BRUN-BUISSON
When to operate Herko GRUBITSCH
Management of neurological complications Christoph PLONER
Top Management of acute CNS infections
Bacterial meningitis Michel WOLFF
Viral encephalitis Garyfallia POULAKOU
Evd associated ventriculitis Peter HORN
Top Management of trauma hemorrhage
Initial hemodynamic resuscitation goals Jacques DURANTEAU
Management of massive hemorrhage in trauma Rupert PEARSE
Optimal coagulation Karim BROHI
Place of fibrinogen/pcc/antifibrinolytic agents Dietmar FRIES
Surgery vs embolization Thomas GEERAERTS
Damage control: advantages and limits Rolf ROSSAINT
Top Meet the expert: Case interactive session on mechanical ventilation Covidien
Is the patient fighting the ventilator? Laurent BROCHARD
Is the patient fighting the ventilator? Marco RANIERI
How to improve patient's comfort? Roberta COSTA
Top Metabolic aspects on MOF
Is insulin resistance a predictor of mof severity? Dieter MESOTTEN
Is there a characteristic gene expression in mof? Olav ROOYACKERS
Is substrate handling altered in mof? Heleen OUDEMANS-VAN STRAATEN
Ros in mof facts and frauds Peter RADERMACHER
The failing liver in mof André VERCUEIL
Top Metabolism & nutrition
Understanding metabolism for defining icu nutrition Jan WERNERMAN
Insulin signaling in skeletal muscle during early critical illness: impact on development of critical illness myopathy Tobias WOLLERSHEIM
Vitamin d deficiency, plasma il-18 levels and critical illness Kenneth CHRISTOPHER
Igf 1 in icu patients is associated with selective type ii muscle fibre atrophy in early stage of sepsis Martin KREBS
Omega-3 fatty acids does not blunt immune response or inflammatory response to an endotoxin challenge in healthy volunteers Anna JANUSZKIEWICZ
Top Monitoring mechanical ventilation: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Ventilator waveforms in ali/ards: what should i look for? Lluís BLANCH
Pressure-volume curves: are they useful? Anders LARSSON
Detecting and solving patient-ventilator asynchrony Laurent BROCHARD
Monitoring during weaning: what really matters? Jordi MANCEBO
Top Nasal High Flow Oxygenation (NHF): Acute care evaluation and recent clinical results Fisher & Paykel
Optiflow evaluation in the acute care setting Elise CUQUEMELLE
Nhf in critically ill patients, from viral pneumonia to heart failure: the val d'hebron experience Joan r. MASCLANS

Nhf to improve post-extubation oxygen therapy (in critically ill patients) Salvatore m MAGGIORE
Benefits of high flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy: in the icu and beyond Jean-damien RICARD
Top New insights into the pathophysiology of sepsis
Hydrogen sulphide restores atp availability by increasing the expression of -tubulin as a regulator of voltage dependent anion channel (vdac) and reduces organ damage caused by pneumococcal pneumosepsis in rats Hamid ASLAMI
Resistance of alveolar macrophage to endotoxin tolerance is not « endotoxin » specific François PHILIPPART
Role of pi3kgamma in the regulation of adhesion and junction molecules leading the pulmonary inflammation and permeability during sepsis Erica MARTIN-CONTE
Time-dependent alterations of vegf and its signaling molecules in acute lung injury in a rat model of sepsis Takeshi WADA
Top NIV NAVA: How will synchrony change non-invasive ventilation? Maquet
Syncrony has many aspects Philippe JOLLIET
Unloading of the patients breathing Hadrien ROZÉ
Top Nutritional challenges in patients with prolonged ICU stay Nestlé Health Science
Do we need bundles in clinical practice? Jean-daniel CHICHE
Early enteral nutrition: improving your icu’s feeding practices using change management theory Gordon DOIG
Who uses the resources of your icu? Hans ulrich ROTHEN
Feeding of complex long staying icu patients Richard BEALE
Top Optimizing gas exchange in the severe ARDS patient
High peep and lung recruitment is the trick Paolo PELOSI
Haemodynamics is the question Antoine VIEILLARD-BARON
Hfo is the answer Jean-daniel CHICHE
Ecmo is safer Kenneth PALMER
Top Oral care in intubated patients
Oral care in endotracheal intubated patients Stijn BLOT
Top Patient safety outside ICU
Impact of intra-hospital transport in ventilated critically ill patients Carole SCHWEBEL
The impact of the rapid response team (rrt) on patient outcome Bekele AFESSA
A comparison of local and proposed national 'nhs' early warning scoring systems Joanna KENNEDY
A survey of patients undergoing head computed tomography scans whilst on a mixed surgical/medical intensive care unit in a tertiary care london teaching hospital Alex TRIMMINGS
Intrahospital critical care transfers: are we taking them seriously enough? Kiron CHAKRABARTI
Top Picking the right monitoring system for the critically ill
Presentation Richard BEALE (London)
Top Renal replacement therapy
How do i prescribe and start rrt in the critically ill? Claudio RONCO
How do i estimate and apply adequate rrt dose? Catherine BOUMAN
How do i perform citrate anticoagulation? Heleen OUDEMANS-VAN STRAATEN
Top Renal replacement therapy for AKI: Clinical and therapeutic considerations Gambro
Rrt modality choice in aki: clinical and health economic considerations John KELLUM
New therapeutic fluids for rrt in aki Martin MAX
Top Safety in the ICU: Do we have a problem?
Impact of medical errors on mortality Jean-françois TIMSIT
From risk assessment to patient safety Rui paulo MORENO
May staff attitudes play a role? Maurizia CAPUZZO
How to improve safety in the icu Andreas VALENTIN
Involving the industry in patient safety Julian BION
Next steps after the vienna declaration Andrew RHODES
Top Sepsis after the controversy: what remains at the bedside Independently sponsored by Eli Lilly
Biomarkers Jérôme PUGIN (Geneva)
Hemodynamic management Daniel DE BACKER
Top Targeting regional perfusion in sepsis
Defining endpoints Richard BEALE
The cerebral perfusion Tarek SHARSHAR
The splanchnic circulation Daniel DE BACKER
The renal circulation Claude MARTIN
The myocardium Alexandre MEBAZAA
Top The asthmatic patient in the ICU
Presentation Jordi MANCEBO
Top The impact of alternative therapies on patient physiology
Optimizing the icu environment: do not harm! Sonia LABEAU
Use of hypnotherapy in the critical care setting Christina JONES
Music therapy to aid patient relaxation Polyxeni MANGOULIA
Aromatherapy & massage: does it have a place in the icu? Elizabeth PAPATHANASSOGLOU
Top Understanding immunosuppression in the critically ill
Assessing the infectious risk in patients with neutropenia Dominique BENOIT
Icu acquired immunosuppression Jean-daniel CHICHE
Why recipients of solid organ transplantation are at risk for infectious diseases? Massimo ANTONELLI
The specific situation of bmt recipients Dominique BENOIT
Haart and iris. where we are? Michel WOLFF
Infection in patients treated with monoclonal antobodies George DIMOPOULOS
Top Ventilatory synchronicity and weaning
Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (nava) improves the matching of diaphragmatic electrical activity and tidal volume in comparison to pressure support (ps) under non invasive ventilation Lise PIQUILLOUD
Does a weaning protocol facilitate liberation from mechanical ventilation in tracheostomized brain-injured patients? Rosanna VASCHETTO
Non invasive detection and quantification of patient-ventilator disharmony with the surface electromyographic activity of extradiaphragmatic inspiratory muscles Matthieu SCHMIDT
Eadi monitoring during t-tube trial in patients who are difficult to wean from ventilator support Cristina PEDRONI
Incidence of ineffective efforts in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients Dimitrios BABALIS
Top We do not need mechanical ventilation anymore: How a dream becomes true Hemodec
Total extracorporeal support Alain COMBES
Partial extracorporeal support Antonio PESENTI
Clinical indications of extracorporeal support: from lung failure to multiple organ failure Claudio RONCO
Top What is your diagnosis?
Presentation Dominique BENOIT (Gent)
Tuesday, October 4
Top "This really looks like septic shock..."
Toxic shock syndrome Brian MARSH
Hemophagocytic syndrome Dominique BENOIT
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome Alain COMBES
Capillary leak syndrome Jérôme PUGIN
Top Abstract Award Winning Session
Special lecture: international study on mechanical ventilation Andrés ESTEBAN
Ultrasound assessment of lung aeration loss during a successful weaning trial predicts postextubation distress Alexis SOUMMER
Characteristics of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in intensive care units: the eurobact study Alexis TABAH
Vasopressin, epinephrine, and corticosteroids for inhospital cardiac arrest: results from a three-center randomized controlled trial Spyros MENTZELOPOULOS
Top Acetylcysteine for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy
Acetylcysteine for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy: pro Olivier JOANNES-BOYAU
Acetylcysteine for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy: con Eric HOSTE
Top AKI in the perioperative setting
Preoperative risk assessment and prevention of aki Miet SCHETZ
Polymyxin b hemoperfusion in abdominal sepsis. is it indicated? Claudio RONCO
Hvhf for acute pancreatitis? Patrick HONORÉ
Top AKI: Is it the same in all patient groups?
Pediatric patients Klaus ARBEITER
The elderly Wilfred DRUML
Dramatic aki in pregnancy Marlies OSTERMANN
Diabetic patients Lui FORNI
Oncologic patients Arend jan WOITTIEZ
Burns and trauma Eric HOSTE
Top Brain damage mechanisms: New paradigms and their implications for future therapy
Erythropoeitin and derivatives Jean-françois PAYEN
Mitochondrial disfunction in tbi Michael DIRINGER
Sexual hormones Andrew MAAS
Selective seizure suppressants Martin HOLTKAMP
Stem cell therapies Elisa ZANIER
Top Current trials in neuro-ICU patients
Neuroprotective trials: past, ongoing, future Andrew MAAS
Mri and coma outcome prediction Robert STEVENS
Boost (brain oxygen and outcome after severe tbi) trial Peter LEROUX
Decompressive craniectomy (decra) trial Andrew DAVIES
Top Determinants for perioperative outcome
From delirium to fluid optimisation: keep the patient alert and avoid floods Manu MALBRAIN
Effects of prophylactic use of haloperidol in critically ill patients with a high risk for delirium M. VAN DEN BOOGAARD
Comparison of cam-icu and icdsc agreement to the diagnosis of delirium in clinical and surgical patients admitted to the icu Felipe DAL PIZZOL