INTENSIVE CARE

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

Intensive Care: Leadership, Performance Improvement and Teamwork as the Roadmap to Achieving Excellent Outcomes in the CICU
10:00 – 10:20 Safety Culture in the CICU
Darren Klugman, US
10:20 – 10:40 Weekly performance rounds – managing threat and error after cardiac surgery
Ed Hickey, Canada
10:40 - 11:00 Leadership & Creating high reliability teams in the CICU
Daniel J. Penny, US
11:00 – 11:20 Managing the "special” clinician
Graeme MacLaren, Singapore
11:20 – 11:40 Maintaining team resilience and avoiding team burnout
Geoffrey L. Bird, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

Intensive Care: Resource-poor but problem rich… Challenges of Cardiac Intensive Care in developing countries
10:00 – 10:20 Nosocomial Infections in the CICU
Angelo Polito, Italy
10:20 - 10:40 Implication and impact of non-fatal injuries – expectations and practical constraints
Eva Miranda Marwali, Indonesia
10:40 – 11:00 Late presentation of d-TGA
Babar Hasan, Pakistan
11:00 – 11:20 Malnourished and small patients..an everyday problem
Parvathi Iyer, India
11:20 – 11:40 Univentricular Hearts at High Altitude in Resource Limited Geographical Regions
Nestor Sandoval, Colombia
11:40 – 12:00 Undertrained and overworked – can we or should we fast track cardiac intensivists in low-income countries?
Intensive Care: The Kidney and Critical Cardiac Disease
13:30 – 13:50 AKI After CPB: Why do We Care, How do We Find It, and What are We Going to Do About It?
Zaccaria Ricci, Italy
13:50 – 14:10 Fluid Overload in Critically Ill Patients – It’s Not Just Cosmetic
14:10 – 14:30 Interventions to Prevent AKI – Is there hope?
Ayse Akcan-Arikan, US/Turkey
14:30 – 14:50 Renal Replacement in the CICU
Akash Deep, UK
14:50 – 15:10 Long-term Outcomes of Pediatric AKI: Silent but Deadly?
David Cooper, US
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

Intensive Care: Modulating and Redistributing blood flow in Congenital Heart Disease
10:00 -10:20 Pharmaceutical vasodilation and vasoconstriction of the systemic and pulmonary circulation
Steven Schwartz, Canada
10:20 -10:40 Positive and negative pressure ventilation
Lara Shekerdemian, US
10:40 – 11:00 Inspired gases – O2, CO2, N2 and iNO
Joan Sanchez de Toledo, Spain
11:00 – 11:20 Impact of acid-base balance
Anke Furck, UK
11:20 – 11:40 Can we monitor our interventions in a meaningful way?
George Hoffman, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Intensive Care: Wellbeing and Ethical Dilemmas Cardiac Intensive Care
13:30 – 13:50 Do we really have nothing more to offer and who decides?
Roxanne Kirsch, Canada
13:50 – 14:10 Withdrawal of life support in the era of mechanical circulatory support?
Ravi Thiagarajan, US
14:10 – 14:30 Recognizing and treating secondary victims after team errors
Harris Baden, US
14:30 – 14:50 Caring for the team after a death in the CICU
Allan Goldman, UK
14:50 – 15:10 Everyday I have to make decisions based on limited resources
Parvathi Iyer, India
15:10 – 15:30 Discussion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

Intensive Care: The Future of Research and Innovation in Cardiac ICU
10:00 – 10:20 Acuity adaptable care in the CICU
John Costello, US
10:20 – 10:40 Re-structuring the education of the next generation of cardiac intensivists
Damian Hutter, Switzerland
10:40 – 11:00 Doing more and better for less: Mission impossible?
Martin Elliott, UK
11:00 – 11:20 Can we make rounds more efficient and effective?
Duncan Macrae, UK
11:20 – 11:40 Clinical Trials: What’s New? What’s Next? Do We Care?
Andrew M. Atz, US
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
Intensive Care: Optimizing Nutrition in the CICU
13:30 – 14:30 Top 4 ICU Abstracts
14:30 – 14:50 How can we better understand caloric needs in the critically ill cardiac patient?
Nazima Pathan, UK
14:50 – 15:10 Variability in perioperative feeding – who, when and how?
Eric M. Graham, US
15:10 – 15:30 Nutritional status and outcomes in patients with CHD
David Heihr, US