Educational Programme
Educational Workshops
It is time to return to in-person learning! LIVES 40 offers multiple hands-on sessions to learn new practices for clinical effectiveness, covering the hottest Intensive Care topics.
If you have participated in one of our digital Master Classes, you can benefit from a 30% discount on registration fees.
Do you wish to attend more than one workshop? Contact the ESICM Registration Department to benefit from a 50 EUR net discount on the registration fee of a second workshop of your choice.
Please note: An application will be made to the UEMS-EACCME® for CME accreditation of each workshop.
One 4-hour workshop, limited to 50 participants.
This workshop aims to provide hands-on experience. By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Apply and use of HFNO in the critically ill
- Optimise the use of video laryngoscopy in ICU
- Select suitable patients suitable for awake tracheal intubation, preparation and performance using a flexible bronchoscope
- Use of supraglottic airway devices in difficult airway management
- Conduct percutaneous emergency cricothyroidotomy for rescue oxygenation
- Carry out percutaneous tracheostomy in ICU
Content
- Peri-intubation oxygenation strategies
- Other strategies to improve outcomes
- Station 1: High-Flow Nasal Oxygen
- Station 2: Supraglottic airway devices and Videolaryngoscopes
- Station 3: Awake tracheal intubation using the flexible bronchoscope
- Station 4: Emergency cricothyroidotomy and Percutaneous tracheostomy
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Two 4-hour workshops, each limited to 30 participants.
This workshop is a joint event between EuroElso & ESICM.
Learning objectives
- Understand the respective indications and basic management of V-A and V-V ECMO
- Identify basic circuit components & mechanical troubleshooting
- Understand the physiology of ECMO-patient interactions
- Identify and manage drainage insufficiency
- Identify and manage recirculation (V-V)
- Identify and manage LV distension (V-A)
- Identify and manage differential oxygenation (V-A)
- Understand the basics of weaning from V-A and V-V ECMO-support
- Gain the basic skill set to perform an ultrasonographic vessel assessment and echo guided percutaneous ECMO cannulation (Seldinger technique)
Content
- Interactive clinical case on V-V and V-A
- Station 1: Cannulation station
- Station 2: V-V station
- Station 3: V-A station
- Station 4: Troubleshooting/Basics of priming, elements of the circuit
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Please note. This workshop is the natural hands-on complement to our homonymous digital Master Class.
Two 4-hour workshops, each limited to 40 participants.
The workshop will consist of clinical case discussions, practical demonstrations, as well as hands-on sessions. By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Remind the determinants of arterial pressure and to explain how to interpret it at the bedside
- Underline how different cardiac output monitoring devices work and to detail their respective indications
- Remind the means for assessing tissue oxygenation and to discuss their drawbacks and advantages
- Discuss the practical use of different haemodynamic variables during simulation and clinical cases
Content
- Fundamentals in Haemodynamic Monitoring
- Clinical case debate and practical demonstration: determinants of arterial pressure and their interpretation at bedside; cardiac output monitoring devices simulation
- Station 1: Practical use of different haemodynamic variables
- Station 2: Assessment of tissue oxygenation
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Please note. This workshop is the natural hands-on complement to our homonymous digital Master Class.
Two 4-hour workshops, each limited to 40 participants.
This workshop aims to provide hands-on experience. By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Assess the respiratory mechanics of patients with ARDS and in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and set up a ventilator
- Understand the role of oesophageal pressure monitoring in assessment of trans pulmonary pressure and breathing effort
- Understand the principles of airway pressure release ventilation and use in clinical practice
- Use lung and diaphragmatic ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography
Content
- Master clinical case on ARDS
- Station 1: Assessment of Lung mechanics of ARDS patient; Setting the ventilator: initial settings for ARDS
- Station 2: Measuring oesophageal and trans pulmonary pressure
- Station 3: Airway pressure release ventilation
- Station 4: Demonstration of lung and diaphragmatic ultrasound and electrical impedance tomography
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Please note. This workshop is the natural hands-on complement to our homonymous digital Master Class.
Two 4-hour workshops, each limited to 40 participants.
This workshop aims to provide hands-on experience. By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Learn how to setup a CRRT circuit
- Identify practical issues associated with vascular access and filter
- Manage and understand common alarms
Content
- The CRRT Circuit
- Scenario and Setup using different type of devices
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Please note. This workshop is the natural hands-on complement to our homonymous digital Master Class.
Please note: Registration for the conference is a prerequisite for signing up for the workshops. Seats are limited and will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.
Case-Based Fundamentals on Sepsis & Infection
Fundamental concepts of intensive care explained in English and Spanish by top experts on real cases and MCQs.
Learning objectives
- Review the current knowledge of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of infections, recognition, source identification and initial treatment (antibiotics, organ support and fluid therapy)
- Employ antibiotic stewardship: PKPD of antibiotics, biomarkers, duration and de-escalation of antibiotic therapy as well as preventive strategies
- Diagnose and manage septic shock
Content
- Epidemiology and pathophysiology of infections
- Recognition, source identification and initial treatment
- Antibiotic stewardship: PKPD of antibiotics, biomarkers, duration and de-escalation of antibiotic therapy as well as preventive strategies
- Diagnosis and management of septic shock
Seats will be limited! These sessions can only host up to 100 participants per CBF!
The Case-Based Fundamentals are included in the conference's fees.
Breakfasts Meet the Experts (fully booked)
Do you have a burning question for our profession’s leading experts and best-known speakers? Join us for this 60-min experts’ breakfast on End-of-Life Care and Sepsis & Severe Infections.
The breakfast is a great opportunity to meet and discuss current and emerging issues with experts in the field of end-of-life care in an informal setting.
Learning objectives
- To explain end-of-life principles, goals and preferences
- To discuss the role of palliative care
- To debate the limitation of life-sustaining treatments
- To discuss End-of-Life decisions with members of the health care team, promote their participation in decision-making and understand the role of MDT
- To communicate effectively with relatives who may be anxious, angry, confused, or litigious
Topics
- End-of-life principles, goals and preferences
- The role of palliative care
- The limitation of life-sustaining treatments
- Communication and shared decision-making in End-of-Life Care
The breakfast is a great opportunity to meet and discuss current and emerging issues with experts in the field of sepsis and severe infection in an informal setting.
Learning objectives
- To discuss the diagnosis and early recognition of sepsis
- To debate the antibiotic treatment
- To explain the organ support
Topics
- Diagnosis and early recognition of sepsis
- Antibiotic treatment
- Organ support
