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