Neuro-Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine (NICEM)

Aims and Missions

The Section on Neuro-Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine encourages and supports research, training and the scientific content of the annual congress, in the areas of Neurological Intensive care, trauma and emergency medicine.

Chair and deputy

Chair Giuseppe Citerio - Monza, Italy

Deputy Pedro Navarrete - Granada, Spain

Membership

There are currently 141 voting members and 1256 registered members. Please note that only the voting members of the Section may elect the chair and the deputy.

Do you wish to be one of the members of this Section or do you wish to change your Section registration? Please send an email at public@esicm.org.

Activities

The mission of this Section is to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening neurological illnesses. In particular, our mission is to promote:

Professional Collaboration by providing a forum for communication, collaboration, and exchange of ideas between physicians and allied health-care professionals within different specialties who care for critically ill neurological patients.
Research by fostering experimental, clinical, and outcomes research focused on developing medical and surgical interventions for acute neurological disorders.
Training and Educationby developing standards for training and physician competencies in the subspecialty of neurological intensive care.
Advocacy by making the case to patients, the public, policy makers and other health-care professionals that complex, life-threatening neurological diseases are best cared for by a multidisciplinary team with specialised expertise in neurological critical care.

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To achieve these aims, the Section for Emergency Medicine and Trauma is now known as the Neurological Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Section.In the next year we plan a number of extremely important developments that I am sure will attract considerable interest from Section members, members of the European Society and intensivists from throughout the new expanded European Union who are not yet members of the Society.

One of the most important developments will be a post-graduate course on neurological intensive care. The aim of this course is to provide theoretical background for the basis of neuro-intensive care and then practise points to allow them to deliver high quality neurological intensive care. The directors of this course will be Giuseppe Citerio from Monza, Italy, Didier Payen, Paris, France and Peter Andrews, Edinburgh, Scotland. The course will encompass lectures, practical presentations and skill stations. We expect to be able to roll this post-graduate course out for the European Society meeting in Amsterdam 2005. In addition to this important development the core members of the Section are working towards a consensus conference on the management of poor grade subarachnoid haemorrhage.

It is apparent that in many European countries, and throughout the rest of the world, there is a need to consider and standardise the care of these vulnerable patients.We hope to collaborate with the Neuro-Intensive Care Society in the United States on this venture. Finally, a number of potential research projects have been suggested from Section members and non-members involving neurological intensive care. These projects are in their infancy and the section would welcome input from experts within the European Society. Contact can be made directly to the European Society who will forward your e-mail contributions directly to myself and the section deputy, Professor Giuseppe Citerio.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the Berlin meeting where the Neurological Intensive Care & Emergency Medicine Section has co-organised a post-graduate course on Emergency and Disaster Medicine with Dermot Phelan and Janice Zimmerman. Details of this important development is advertised on the website.

Meetings agenda and minutes

The next meeting of this Section will take place as follow:

Room BM1

Lisboa Congress Centre (CCL)

Monday 22 September 2008

11.30-13.30

Interesting links

Educational website of the European Medical Education Initiative on Advanced Bleeding Care