Working Group Goal Directed Hemodynamic and Volume Therapy (WG GDT)

Head

Michael Sander, Germany
Rupert Pearse, United Kingdom

Aims & Missions

Hemodynamic monitoring and goal directed therapeutic approaches in perioperative patients can reduce length of intensive care unit treatment, length of hospital stay and improve outcome. The primary goal of this working group is to establish a European consensus process with the aim to generate international guidelines for the hemodynamic and volume therapy in perioperative patients. This guideline process can be achieved by providing a basis for international experts in the field within this working group helping us to start an integrated effort in designing multicentre trials, collaborative research projects, and international exchange of researchers in the field. Further goals are to connect the activities of this group with national societies (like the DGAI-German society of anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine) and international societies (e.g. EACTA, SCCM, SCA).

Meeting agenda and minutes

The minutes of the GDT WG Section on POIC Meeting held in Brussels on 11 March 2010 are available here.

Useful links

Section Perioperative Intensive Care (POIC)