Scientific program

Asian Intensive Care: coming of age
International intensive care conference, Hong Kong, December 14th-15th
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The scientific program is currently being compiled. This page will be updated periodically.

Monday 14th December (provisional)

	Hall A (3rd floor)		Hall B (4th floor)		Hall C (5th floor)
	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson
	Sepsis		Ethics		Epidemiology
0900-0930	Steroids in patients with sepsis	Rui Moreno	Should we admit patients with malignancy?	Thomas Li	Tight glucose control - what went wrong?	Rob Boots
0930-1000	Early goal directed therapy: do we need more evidence?	Steve Webb	Ethical issues in modern Chinese ICU	Du Bin	Sepsis in India	Subhash Todi
1000-1030	Genetics & sepsis	Tony Mclean	Hinduism	Shivakumar Iyer	MOSAICS	Younsuck Koh
1030-1100	Coffee/tea break 6th floor
	Ventilation				Cardiovascular
1100-1130	Multi-organ failure and the lung	Art Slutsky	Bedside teaching: how to do it	Rob Boots	Cardio-renal syndrome	Claudio Ronco
1130-1200	Spontaneous breathing in ARDS	Ross Freebairn	Australasian training	Ross Freebairn	Acute heart failure is an inflammatory condition	Tony Mclean
1200-1230	NIV: clinical decision making	Shirish Prayag			Non-invasive cardiac output measurement	Pravin Amin
1230-1400	Lunch
	Outcomes		Research masterclass & free paper session		Infection
1400-1430	Measuring outcome in randomized controlled trials of critically ill patients	Steve Webb	How to design your study I	Anna Lee, Tony Gin	Controversies and subtleties of antibiotics in ICU	Jeff Lipman
1430-1500	Developing and using severity scores	Rui Moreno	How to analyze your results		Approach to fungal infections	Hussain Al-Rahma
1500-1530	Determinants of long-term survival after critical illness	Steve Webb	How to write up your study		Fever & induced hypothermia in ICU	Younsuck Koh
1530-1600	Tea
	Trauma		Neurological		Infection in Asia
1600-1630	Does ICU alter outcome?	Colin Graham	Subarachnoid haemorrhage	George Wong	Dengue	Pravin Amin
1630-1700	Update in trauma critical care	Daniel Talmor	Prolonged support of the brain dead patient	Claudia Cheng	Leptospirosis	Ross Freebairn
1700-1730	Sichuan earthquake	Du Bin	An approach to the unconscious patient	Hussain Al-Rahma	Malaria	Shirish Prayag

Tuesday 15th December (provisional)

	Hall A (3rd floor)		Hall B (4th floor)		Hall C (5th floor)
	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson	Topic	Speaker or Chairperson
	Ventilation 2		Training		Antibiotics
0900-0930	Mechanisms of ventilator induced lung injury	Art Slutsky			Who doesn't need the "standard" dose of antibiotics in ICU	Jeff Lipman
0930-1000	Titrating PEEP	Daniel Talmor			New agents	Charles Gomersall
1000-1030	Anti-inflammatory therapy in ARDS	Younsuck Koh			Understanding PK/PD relationships of antibiotics	Jeff Lipman
1030-1100	Coffee/tea break 6th floor
	Ventilation 3				Renal
1100-1130	Low tidal volumes for all?	Daniel Talmor			RRT in AKI: when, how and how much?	Claudio Ronco
1130-1200	Dysynchrony	Alex Li			Drug dosing in patients on CRRT	Gordon Choi
1200-1230	High frequency ventilation	Art Slutsky			Epidemiology and classification of acute kidney injury	Claudio Ronco
1230-1400	Lunch
	H1N1				Imaging & monitoring
1400-1430	European experience	Rui Moreno			Echo in the management of PE	Tony McLean
1430-1500	Australian experience	Steve Webb			Advances in critical care radiology	KT Wong
1500-1530	Indian experience	Shivakumar Iyer			Intra-abdominal pressure	Gavin Joynt
1530-1600	Tea
	Asian Intensive Care: where are we now and where are we going?				Technology
1600-1630	A view from Dubai	Hussain Al-Rahma			Clinical information systems	Phillip Lam
1630-1700	A view from India	Shirish Prayag			Echocardiography	Tony Mclean
1700-1730	A view from China	Du Bin			TBA

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