Practical aspects of RRT in ICU patients

Location: CityCube, Berlin, Germany
Dates: September 29, 2019 (during LIVES 2019 in Berlin)

Master Class Directors:
Antoine Schneider, MD PhD, Service de Médecine Intensive Adulte (SMIA), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne,  Switzerland, AKI section member
Eric Hoste, MD PhD, Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Chair of AKI section
Marlies Ostermann, MD PhD, Intensive Care Medicine, Guy’s & St Thomas Hospital, London, UK, Deputy Chair of AKI section

Endorsement: This Master Class is endorsed by the Acute Kidney Injury Section, ESICM

For more information about registration, see the LIVES 2019 webpages.

For more information about programme, see the Preliminary Programme.


Key Reasons to attend

  • Hands-on review of all practical aspects of RRT in patients
  • Opportunity to set up RRT machine
  • Participate in a highly interactive course, blending theory with clinical case discussions and hands-on experience
  • Exchange best practice and network with leading experts and peers
  • An application has been made to the UEMS EACCME® for CME accreditation of this event

Programme Content

  • Set-up of RRT machine
  • Review of catheters and filters
  • Revision of terminology, current state of timing, dosing and discontinuation of RRT
  • Alarms trouble shooting workshop
  • Regional citrate anticoagulation pitfalls workshop
  • Interactive case presentations

Who should attend this master class?

  • Intensivists, renal specialists and nurses with high interest in the practical aspects of RRT in ICU patients

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