CICM 2015 ASM

Start:

Fri, 29 May 2015, 00:00

End:

Sun, 31 May 2015, 00:00

Website:

http://www.cicm-asm.org.au/2015

Venue:

The College of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting (CICM ASM) is being held in Darwin, NT from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 2015.

The 2015 meeting will be single themed - Catch the Bug - Battling Infectious Diseases in ICU and will showcase ICU and Infectious Diseases expertise in a spectacular tropical setting. The international speakers are experts drawn from Adult and Paediatric ICU with an interest in infectious diseases - Prof Jean-Daniel Chiche (Past President of ESICM), Prof Sunit Singhi (President of WFPICCS), Prof Argen Dondorp (Mahidol-Oxford group), Prof Charles Gomersall (Hong Kong) and A/Professor Victor Peter (Vellore).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof Jean-Daniel Chiche

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Professor of Critical Care Medicine - Paris Descartes University, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Cochin University Hospital
Research Director - Cochin Institute (INSERM U1016)

Prof. Charles David Gomersall, FCICM

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Department of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital: Shatin, Hong Kong

Professor Bart Currie, Director

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Director - RHDAustralia

Professor Steven Webb, Senior Staff Specialist

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Senior Staff Specialist - Royal Perth Hospital

Dr Alexander Padiglione, Professor

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Infectious Diseases - Monash Medical Centre

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The Australian and New Zealand speakers are drawn from both ICU and Infectious Diseases fields - a unique blending of the two disciplines in one meeting. The program will cover all aspects of the treatment and management of infections in ICU from antimicrobials, monitoring, ventilation strategies and even ECMO - it's an exciting program that will generate a lot of discussion and ideas to take home into your own practice.

Registration Process

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Topics Include

SESSION 1: ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN ICU: FIGHTING THE BUG

Pathogens strike back - escaping the immune system
Global trends of multidrug resistance infection in ICU
Antibiotic resistance in paediatric ICUs - are small people different?

SESSION 2: CHALLENGING INFECTIONS IN ICU

ARISE to the Challenge
Probiotics, Candida colonization and invasive candidiasis
Necrotising infections in ICU

SESSION 3: FELICITY HAWKER PRESENTATION

SESSION 4: MANAGING INFECTIONS IN ICU

The Alphabet Soup of Sepsis, the Transplant Recipient and the Intensive Care Unit
Sepsis biomarkers - where do we stand?
Delivering rapid microbiology results to Intensivists
Advances and challenges in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis