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ASM Programme

 

Friday 31 October 2008

FridayASM 1
7.00 - 8.00Registration


8.30 - 10.30Past, Present Future

Opening Ceremony

President of APACCM - Shin Ok Koh - 4 mins
President of ACCCN - Amanda Rischbieth - 4 mins
President of AuSPEN - Kerry McIlroy - 4 mins
President of ANZICS - Peter Hicks - 4 mins


Iqbal Mustafa Memorial Lecture

TBA - 30 mins

Critical Care - Future challenges and opportunities

Kathleen Dracup - 25 mins

Critical Care - Translating what we know into what we do

Dale Needham - 25 mins
10.30 - 11.00Trade display & morning tea


11.00 - 12.30Management of patient comfort/1

The experience of being an ICU patient

Speaker TBA - 15 mins

Sleep in the intensive care patient

Rosalind Elliott - 25 mins

Monitoring delerium

Claire Rickard - 20 mins

Monitoring sedation and pain

Teresa Williams - 30 mins
1230 - 1400Trade display, posters & lunch


14.00 - 15.30Management of patient comfort/2

Do sedation alogrithms and daily wakeup improve patient outcomes

outcomes? - introduction

Sharon McKinley - 10 mins

Sedation guidelines in Australian ICUs - the results

T Bucknall - 15 minutes

R Elliott - 15 mins

Daily interruption of sedation - ventilation and psychological outcomes

L Weisbrodt - 20 mins

Can outcomes be improved with sedation guidelines?

Panel - Rosalind Elliott, Leonie Weisbrodt, Teresa Williams

- 30 mins
15.30 - 16.00Trade display & afternoon tea


16.00 - 17.45Sedation management and patient outcomes

The effect of pharmacology on management of patient sedation

Geoff Shaw - 25 mins

Novel sedatives by novel routes

Ian Seppelt - 25 mins

Sedation mamagement practices - what is actually done

Mark O'Connor - 25 mins

Beyond ICU - Long term consequences of sedation

John Griffiths - 25 mins
18.45Close of day
FRIDAY NIGHT SESSIONS


FridayASM 2
7.00 - 8.00Registration


10.30 - 11.00Trade display and morning refreshments


11.00 - 12.30Acute heart failure in young people

A case of acute heart failure

TBA

The ICU management of acute heart failure

Tony Mclean - 20 mins

Will emerging technologies really save lives?

Vin Pellegrino - 20 mins

When does it become futile?

Peter Saul - 30 mins

Panel: TBA, Tony Mclean, Vin Pellegrino, ++
1230 - 1400Trade display and lunch


14.00 - 15.30Free Papers - CVS & Monitoring

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15.30 - 16.00Trade display and afternoon refreshments


16.00 - 17.45Monitoring and resuscitation in the critically ill patient:

An international perspective

Haemodynamic goals for resuscitation in sepsis - what is the evidence?

Dale Needham - 20 mins

Lactic acidosis

Xavier Leverve - 20 mins

Mean systemic filling pressure

Geoff Parkin - 20 mins

Microvascular resuscitation as a therapeutic goal in shock

Keith Walley - 25 mins

Is hypoxia really dangerous?

Farhad Kapadia - 20 mins
17.45 - 18.45ANZICS AGM


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FRIDAY NIGHT SESSIONS


FridayASM 3
7.00 - 8.00Registration


10.30 - 11.00Trade show and morning refreshments


11.00 - 12.30Sepsis & Organ Failure 1

Epidemiology of Sepsis

Greg Martin - 25 mins

Susceptibility to sepsis

Younsuck Koh - 20 mins

Current management of severe sepsis and septic shock

J-L Vincent - 25 mins

Targets for fluid resuscitation of septic shock

Phil Dellinger - 20 mins
1230 - 1400Trade show and lunch


14.00 - 15.30Free Papers - Sepsis & Organ Failure

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15.30 - 16.00Trade show and afternoon refreshments


16.00 - 17.45Sepsis & Organ Failure 2

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines 2008

Phil Dellinger - 25 mins

Glycaemic control in critically ill patients: magic or myth

Du Bin - 20mins

Hypercytokinemia in Critical Care--Pathophysiology,

Evaluation and Countermeasures with Continuous Hemodiafiltration

Hiroyuki Hirasawa - 25 mins

Genomic signatures of sepsis: what can gene-expression studies tell us

Ben Tang - 20 mins

International variations in sepsis management and outcomes: implications

for development of Guidelines.

Simon Finfer - 20 mins
17.45 - 18.45ACCCN AGM




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FridayASM 4
7.00 - 8.00Registration


10.30 - 11.00Trade show and morning refreshments


11.00 - 12.30Trauma 1

Damage control resuscitation - Too much, too late!

Ken Boffard - 25 mins

Abdominal compartment syndrome: A rarity of little significance to

intensivists

Michael Sugrue - 20 mins

Severe chest trauma should be managed this way

Thomas Nau - 20 mins

Long term outcomes from trauma - what do we know?

Leanne Aitken - 25 mins
1230 - 1400Trade show and lunch


14.00 - 15.30Free Papers - Trauma & Resuscitation

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15.30 - 16.00Trade show and afternoon refreshments


16.00 - 17.45Trauma 2

Essential trauma nursing care - the what and the why

Kate Curtis - 20 mins

Trauma systems and mass casualty events

Bill Griggs - 20 mins

Managing major trauma in rural centres

Martin Jones - 20mins

Trauma systems in China

John Myburgh - 20 mins
17.20 - 17.45Trauma Case Panel

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FRIDAY NIGHT SESSIONS


FridayASM 5
7.00 - 8.00Registration


10.30 - 11.00Trade show and morning refreshments


11.00 - 12.30Research Methodology & Evidence-based practice in the ICU

Difficulties and the future with head injury trials

Jamie Cooper - 15 mins

MERIT: Translation of a trial that did not report a positive result

Rinaldo Bellomo - 15 mins

SAFE translation and SAFE-TRIPS

Simon Finfer - 20 mins

Endpointsof trials: Function, survival, both?

Steve Webb - 20 mins

Trials that evaluate processes of care

Anthony Delaney - 20 mins
1230 - 1400Trade show and lunch


14.00 - 15.30Matt Spence Medal Papers

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15.30 - 16.00Trade show and afternoon refreshments


16.00 - 17.45Research in the ICU continued

What does a Clinical Trials Group contribute to ICU research?

John Myburgh - 15 mins

What does a Research Centre contribute to ICU research?

Al Nichol - 15 mins

Interaction between genetics and clinical trials

Keith Walley - 20 mins

Converting evidence into guideliines

Chris Joyce - 20 mins

The importance of understanding "usual care" in planning RCTs

Michael Reade or Sandy Peake - 20 mins

The "toxic placebo": Making sense of single centre, phase II trials

with unexpectedly high mortality in the placebo group

Rinaldo Bellomo - 15 mins
18.45
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Saturday 1 November 2008

SaturdayASM 1
7.00Registration


7.00 - 8.00Breakfast session


08.30 - 10.00


9.00ANZICS ORATION

TBA


10.00 - 10.30Trade show and morning refreshments


10.30 - 12.30Nosocomial Infection

Infection around the globe: the EPIC II Study

J-L Vincent 25 mins

Interventional patient hygiene

Kathleen Vollman - 25 mins

Oral decontamination & nosocomial pneumonia

Ee Yuee Chan - 20 mins

Nosocomial infection and antibiotic prophylaxis in trauma

Ken Boffard - 20 mins

Central line bacteraemias can be eliminated

Dale Needham - 30 mins
12.30 - 14.00Trade show, posters and lunch


14.00 - 15.30 Infection / antimicrobials / prevention Free Papers

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15.30 - 16.00Trade show and afternoon refreshments


16.00 - 18.00Infection and the ICU

Eliminating endemic MRO infections in the ICU

John Gallagher - 20 mins

VAP - A new diagnostic approach

Daren Heyland - 20 mins

Bedside identification of bacteraemia

Jon Iredell - 20 mins

Rational antibiotic prescribing

Jeff Lipman - 20 mins

Mosquito menace - Dengue fever

Shirish Prayag - 20mins

Infection control processes - the legacy of SARS

Ee Yuee Chan - 20 mins
18.00Close of day

SaturdayASM 2
7.00 - 8.00Breakfast session


8.30 - 10.00Outcome from Intensive Care

Outcome in patients admitted and refused ICU admission

Gavin Joynt - 20 mins

PTSD

John Griffiths - 20 mins

Can we improve recovery after intensive care

Doug Elliott - 20 mins

Use of data linkage for population outcomes

Theresa Williams - 20 mins

Discussion - 10 mins
10.00 - 10.30Trade show and morning refreshments


10.30 - 12.30Quality matters in ICU

Use of checklists can impove quality in critical care

Dale Needham - 20 mins

Quality management in critical care

Isabelita Rogado - 20 mins

Predicting outcome: Scoring versus physician prediction

Du Bin - 20mins

ICCMU

Tony Burrell - 20 mins

Sustaining Quality Care

Carol Ball - 20 mins

Using a Clinical Information System to improve processes of care

Robert Herkes - 20 mins
12.30 - 14.00Trade show, posters and lunch


14.00 - 15.30 ICU Outcomes Free Papers

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