Global Intensive Care Working Group

Aims and Missions

The purpose of the Global Intensive Care working group is to consolidate and strengthen efforts within the ESICM to improve intensive care medicine in resource-poor countries. This shall be achieved by implementing specific initiatives in these countries as well as by increasing the awareness of the status of intensive care medicine in less developed countries within the Western intensive care community.

Detailed aims and missions
 

Head

Martin Duenser, Salzburg, Austria
List of Working Group members
 

Educational Resources

• Clinical Evaluation of the Cardiovascular System
• Clinical Evaluation of the Respiratory System
• Clinical Evaluation of the Critically Ill Child

Recommendations and Services

• Recommendations on Sepsis Management in resource-limited countries

Meetings’ agenda and minutes

The minutes of the Working Group meeting held in Barcelona, October 2010, are available here.

The minutes of the Working Group meeting held in Brussels, March 23rd 2011, are available here.

The minutes of the Working Group meeting held in Berlin, October 3rd 2011, are available here.

The minutes of the Working Group meeting held in Brussels, March 22nd 2012, are available here.

The next meeting will take place in Lisbon/Portugal during the upcoming ESICM LIVES 2012 from October 13-17, 2012.