LIVES C19 Marathon – ICU COVID Best Practices

Directors: Maurizio CECCONI MD FRCA FFICM MD(Res), ESICM President, Head of the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Department at the Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy, and Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Humanitas University, Milan.

Élie AZOULAY, MD, PhD, President-elect of the ESICM, Professor of Medicine, Specialty Pulmonary Medicine at the Paris Diderot University and Critical Care Director of the Medical ICU of the Saint Louis Teaching Hospital, Paris, France.

Since the pandemic outbreak, ESICM continues to facilitate cooperation and information dissemination to encourage and strengthen the intensive care community worldwide. The LIVES C19 Marathon was a live, digital event on the ICU COVID-19 best practices and lessons learnt during the past year.

The Marathon run for eight hours to provide intensive care professionals with insights into improving their daily practice. 38 experts from 5 continents shared their experience and debated management of respiratory failure, cardiovascular involvement, long term effects of the virus, antimicrobials, neurological involvement, implications for patients and families and how to rebuild the future.

With special thanks to all the speakers for their willingness to participate in this LIVES C19 Marathon Webinar despite their heavy workloads.

The LIVES C19 Marathon, Brussels, Belgium, 22/05/2021-22/05/2021 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 8 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

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