1st EuroAfrica Conference Cairo
EuroAfrica, Cairo, February 09-13, 2023 (Triumph Hotel)
EuroAfrica organising committee is honoured to announce the first edition of EuroAfrica organised in collaboration with our colleagues from the Egyptian Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (ESCCEM).
The conference will host top KOLs from both societies and international collaborations in critical care and emergency medicine. You can expect to exchange best clinical practices, discuss new technologies and drugs, and the current initiatives to deal with the new normal, the pandemic and post-pandemic scenario of critical care.
We believe EuroAfrica will represent a powerful platform for promoting and advancing intensive care & emergency medicine in its dynamic field. We look forward to welcoming you to the enchanting city of Cairo for what promises to be an unforgettable Conference!
For more information visit the EuroAfrica website.
GENERAL INFORMATION
What you need to know
General Information
Organised by the ESICM and the Egyptian Society of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (ESCCEM), EuroAfrica is a first-edition conference that brings together an international expert faculty and a wealth of experience and research from all corners of the globe.
The main objective is to provide participants with an up-to-date review of the most recent developments in research and management of the critically ill and help our friends and colleagues in Africa to upgrade their knowledge and practice to assist in the outcome of our patients.
The conference will host top KOLs from both societies and international collaborations in critical care and emergency medicine discussing viral topics such as Sepsis management, ICU organisation, Trauma, Neuro Intensive care and many more critical topics.
We look forward to welcoming all intensive care experts for some highly-stimulating days of experiential workshops, keynotes, panel discussions, and networking opportunities, in Cairo!
Save the date!
EuroAfrica, Cairo will happen from 9-13 February 2023, in the splendid setting of the Hotel Triumph, Block 19 in front of Katameya Heights, Fifth Settlement Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.
For more inquiries, visit the EuroAfrica website, https://euroafricaconference.com/.
Contacts
For any inquiry related to conference registrations or hotel booking, please contact:
Call center: +20 01208000270
Mr Hazem Nabil: +20 01211124472
Email: abdallah.khalil@icomgroup.org
PROGRAMME
Programme
Programme
At EuroAfrica, the innovative formats of on-site sessions and activities will facilitate networking and knowledge exchange with colleagues and friends.
The programme will include an ample variety of formats: highly-interactive workshops, symposia, dynamic debates, case presentations, interactive lectures and case discussions and many more!
ESICM Faculty Lectures & Debates
- Acute respiratory failure in immunocompromised patients (E. Azoulay)
- Lipids are mandatory in the ICU (P. Singer)
- Initiation and discontinuation of renal replacement therapy in ICU (M. Ostermann)
- Fluid responsiveness: How to assess in 2023? (J-L. Teboul)
- Diagnostic of VAP: What is changing? (J-F. Timsit)
- How to use CVP in 2023? (O. Hamzaoui)
- The emergent role of microbiota in critical care and its impact on outcome (D. Battaglini)
- Treatment of pneumonia in the ICU (L. Derde)
- Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic (M. Cecconi)
- ARDS: Has the treatment changed in 2023? (J-D. Chiche)
- How to identify and manage GI dysfunction? (A. Reintam)
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (new evidence) (A. Reintam)
- Metabolic acidosis: For whom and when to consider bicarbonate administration? (S. Jaber)
- Heart-lung interactions: Clinical consequences (X. Monnet)
- Refractory septic shock: We need a common definition (R. Ferrer Roca)
- Hemodynamic management in septic shock: Beyond the guidelines (D. De Backer)
- Potential new drugs for AKI (M. Ostermann)
- How to monitor cardiac output changes in low resources settings (X. Monnet)
- The role of echocardiography in the management of septic shock (A. Messina)
- Mono or combo for antibiotic therapy in difficult to treat gram negative bacteria? (J-F. Timsit)
- Current options for personalized medicine in Sepsis (R. Ferrer Roca)
- Nutrition support for survivors of critical illness (D. Bear)
- Ventilation Induced Diaphragm Dysfunction (VIDD): Update in 2023 (S. Jaber)
- Why we need to introduce norepinephrine/noradrenaline in the early phase of septic shock (O. Hamzaoui)
- Invasive aspergillosis in non-immunocompromised patients (E. Azoulay)
- Role of new AKI biomarkers in critically ill patients (M. Ostermann)
- Post ICU nutrition: Fighting against post ICU syndrome (P. Singer)
- Nutrition in ICU: Enteral, Parenteral or Both? (M. Casaer)
- Update on COVID-19 treatments (L. Derde)
- Quality control in ICU-nutrition-management (M. Casaer)
- Fluid therapy in sepsis in 2023: Which solution? (M. Cecconi)
- SvO2 and PCO2 gap: What is better? (J-L. Teboul)
- Evidence-based medicine to personalised medicine: My take (D. De Backer)
- Fluid challenge: tips, tricks and pitfalls (A. Messina)
- Venous return: Physiology and clinical applications (X. Monnet)
- Sepsis biomarkers: what is in the pipeline? (J-L. Chiche)
- Nutrition support in patients receiving renal replacement therapy (including micronutrient and amino acids losses (D. Bear)
- Corticosteroids for severe infections: when and how? (R. Ferrer Roca)
- Supplemental parenteral nutrition: When is it indicated? (P. Singer)
- Prevention and management of skeletal muscle wasting during and following critical illness (D. Bear)
- Prone positioning and haemodynamics in ARDS (J-L. Teboul)
- Preload responsiveness in patients with spontaneous breathing cycles (O. Hamzaoui)
- Micronutrients: When and how? (M. Casaer)
- AKI and organ cross-talk (M. Ostermann)
- Microcirculation in sepsis: Where do we stand? (D. De Backer)
- Weaning patients in ICU according to their pathology: A new paradigm! (S. Jaber)
- Outcomes in critically ill cancer patients (E. Azoulay)
- Pandemic preparedness – are we ready for the next pandemic? (L. Derde)
These sessions will see the ESICM and African faculties discuss the hottest topics in the field:
- Empirical versus guided anti-fungal therapy in critically ill
- ICU team: Psychology, support, workload, rights and regulations
- Optimising brain perfusion after resuscitation
- ECMO: Appropriate timing to use, early versus late
- Non-invasive ventilation in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: Use with caution?
- What, if anything, can we translate from COVID-19 into (non-viral) infections
- Most prevalent ICU acquired infection. Is it the same everywhere?
- What is the best management for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in non-intubated patients? High Flow Oxygen / CPAP / NIV / Awake Prone
- Early fluid resuscitation in septic shock. Aggressive? Restrictive... or personalised?
- COVID-19: What would be the optimal strategy in the face of a new wave in terms of ventilation, renal kidney issues, sepsis, specific drugs, ethics
- Immuno-modulation in sepsis management
- Biomarkers in the ICU: PCT guided antimicrobial therapy
- Best haemodynamic monitoring modalities +/- case scenarios, with focus on cost efficiency
- Temperature control after cardiac arrest
ESICM-Curated workshops at EuroAfrica 2023, 9-10 February 2023
What does a young intensivist need to know about:
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Nutrition
- Vasopressive Drugs
- ARDS
- Infections
- Cardiovascular Physiology & Pathophysiology
- Fluid Therapy
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Sepsis
- Neuro Intensive Care
- Acute Respiratory Failure
- Haemodynamic Monitoring
- Basics in cardiovascular physiology
- Physiology of tissue oxygenation
- Physiology of heart-lung interactions
- Physiology of venous return
- How to interpret arterial pressure
- How to interpret SvO2/ScvO2
- PCO2-derived indices
- Which fluid in the ICU?
- Assessment of fluid responsiveness
- The issue of fluid overload
- How to interpret lactate
- Less-invasive and non-invasive monitoring devices
- Transpulmonary thermodilution
- Pulmonary artery catheter
- Demonstration with advanced monitoring devices
- How do I use echocardiography in septic shock
- Which vasopressor?
- Which inotrope?
- Septic shock: clinical case with discussions in small groups (rotation)
- Cardiogenic shock: clinical case with discussions in small groups (rotation)
- Echocardiography in circulatory failure: clinical case #1 & #2
MAIN TOPICS
- Introduction to the physiology of gas exchange
- Controlled mechanical ventilation settings: Basics
- How to assess respiratory mechanics at the bedside during controlled mechanical ventilation
- Hands-on-session 1_ Controlled ventilation - Basic settings and respiratory mechanics
- Heart-lung interaction during controlled ventilation
- Assisted mechanical ventilation settings: Basics
- How to assess respiratory mechanics and patient's drive and effort during assisted mechanical ventilation
- Patient-ventilator interaction during assisted mechanical ventilation
- Curves on the ventilator screen and loops: how can we use it?
- Trouble shootings duringmechanical ventilation: patients' short stories
- Hands-on-session 2_ Assisted ventilation - The basics and advanced
- Role of non-invasive ventilation in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure
- High-flow nasal cannula: Theoretical and practical aspects
- Non-conventional ventilatory modes
- Pathophysiology of ARDS
- ARDS: how should I set the ventilator?
- Strategies to set PEEP and to achieve lung recruitment
- The future of ARDS ventilation and treatment
- Prone position theoretical and practical aspects
- Role of ECMO in the treatment of acute respiratory failure
- Hands-on-session 3_ Ventilation of an ARDS patient clinical case
- Long term outcome of ARDS patients
- Ventilation in COPD patients (NIV and invasive) and in acute asthma
- Hands-on-session 4_ Ventilation of an obstructive patient
- Weaning from mechanical ventilation, the basics
- How to deal with a difficult-to-wean patient
- Prevention of extubation failure
- Questions and answers + Feedback
MAIN TOPICS
- Feeding a complex patient, made simple by the ESPEN guidelines
- Case Discussion - GL overview
- Assessment and Management of Gastrointestinal function & failure
- Clinical Case discussion - GI failure
- Video laparoscopic jejunostomy placement, discussion while being played
- Nutrition management in North African & Egyptian ICU's
- Avoiding over- and underfeeding
- Video indirect calorimetry
- Nutritional risk assessment and quality monitoring (video SGA)
- (Lack of) Integrated management of nutrition in Egyptian hospitals (MD, Nurse, Pharm, Dietitian)
- "Special" lipids via enteral or parenteral route: When and to who?
- Clinical cases and questions proposed by participants (in group discussion)
- Main messages from each group and remaining questions
- Combined Feeding and Mobilization or other talk in function of previous interactions"
- Micronutrients and refeeding syndrome
- Discussion - Micronutrients: How do you do it in your ICU's?
MAIN TOPICS
- Sepsis Epidemiology : Africa/Egypt
- Sepsis Epidemiology : Europe
- Evolution of Sepsis Definition
- Pathophysiology of sepsis
- Clinical applications
- Sepsis in tropical infections
- Skill Stations - "Screening for Patients with Sepsis & Septic Shock" and "Initial fluid resuscitation & Hemodynamic monitoring"
- Septic Cardiomyopathy
- Septic AKI
- Antibiotic Stewardship: The European perspective
- Antibiotic Stewardship: The African/Egyptian perspective
- Source control in Sepsis
- Skill Stations - "Vasoactive agents" and "Infection Diagnostics"
- Adjunctive therapies in sepsis
- Skill Stations - "Sepsis Mimics and Community-acquired infections"; "Antibiogram interpretation and Antibiotics in MDR/XDR Infection" and "Anti-Fungal and antiviral therapy in sepsis-When and what?"
MAIN TOPICS
- Applied physics and Knobology of US, what we need to know
- LUS: why we need and how to do
- LUS in ARF: Overview of common pathologies
- DVT: role of US in critically ill
- FAST in ICU and acute care
- ONSD /TCD to predict ICP
- LUS hands-on/image interpretation
- FAST hands-on/image interpretation
- DVT hands-on/image interpretation
- ONSD/TCD hands on
- How to evaluate the RV function?
- How to evaluate the LV systolic function?
- How to evaluate the LV diastolic function
- How to use Echocardiography to manage patients with Shock?
- How to use Echocardiography to manage patients with acute respiratory failure?
- How to use Echocardiography to predict fluid responsiveness?
- Hands-on sessions on views and essential parameters
REGISTRATION
Registration Information
Registration Information
CONFERENCE FEES
| Type | 1st of July - 30th September |
1st October - 31st December | Onsite |
| Conference Registration | 130 € | 170 € | 200 € |
| Conference Package | 230 € | 270 € | 300 € |
| REGISTRATION INCLUDES | PACKAGE INCLUDES |
| Conference Syllabus | Conference Syllabus |
| Education Presentation | Education Presentation |
| E-Certificate of Attendance | E-Certificate of Attendance |
| One special menu coffee break per day | One special menu coffee break per day |
| One menu lunch per day | One menu lunch per day |
| X | 1 workshop |
SPONSORSHIP & EXHIBITION
Sponsorship Opportunities
Industry Sponsorship
For questions regarding sponsorship and EuroAfrica Cairo 2023, please contact:
Joel Alexandre
ESICM CEO
Email address: joel.alexandre@esicm.org
Elise Maquestiaux
ESICM Events & Sponsors Coordinator
Email address: elise.maquestiaux@esicm.org
Maha Desouky
ICOM Sponsorship
Email address: maha.desouky@icomgroup.org
For more information, check EuroAfrica's Sponsorship Guide, here.