Mastering the Brain in Critical Conditions Course

Directors:

• Carmen LOPEZ SOTO MD Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
• Romain SONNEVILLE MD Université Paris Cité, IAME, INSERM U1137, F-75018 Paris, France; APHP. Nord, Hôpital Bichat – Claude Bernard, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Paris, Chair Neuro-intensive care section, ESICM  

Endorsement: This Course is endorsed by the Neuro-Intensive Care Section, ESICM.

• Define basic anatomical and physiological principles of cerebral blood flow, metabolism and autoregulation
• Understand the inter-connection between the pathophysiology with clinical presentation and their correlation with neuro-monitors in the management of the neurocritical care patient
• Recognize altered mechanisms of intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure leading to secondary brain injury
• Recognize the different aspects of the pathophysiology of the injured brain with a context-specific approach to
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Cerebrovascular disease
  • Central nervous system infection
  • Central nervous system inflammation
• Understand the mechanisms of injury of the spinal cord
• Appraise indications and identify limitations of the following monitors
  • Intracranial pressure
  • Cerebral oxygenation
  • Microdialysis
  • Transcranial doppler and brain ultrasound
  • Pupillometry
  • EEG
  • Neuro-imaging

• Intracranial pressure dynamics and its relation with cerebral perfusion pressure
• Brain metabolism
• Inflammatory responses in the acute brain injured brain: the good, the bad and the ugly
• The role of temperature on brain pathophysiology
• Based on practical cases, the following monitors will be explained and inked with the pathophysiological processes that lead to brain injury
  • ICP
  • Pbt02
  • Microdialysis
  • Transcranial doppler
  • Electroencephalography
  • Imaging: CT and MRI
• Mechanisms of spinal cord injury and spinal perfusion pressure 

Experienced and junior intensive care physicians, intensive care nurses and allied healthcare professionals who would want an update and overview of the neurocritical care patient.

ESICM members from the Emerging Nations and Eastern Europe (see list of countries here) are entitled to an discount on registration fees. To qualify, participants must be active ESICM members for the current year. To become a member, please see more information here.

The Mastering the brain in critical conditions, Virtual, Belgium 19/11/2025 – 20/11/2025, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 14.0 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications .
Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.