Day 1; Thursday June 15

Kennear Centre Room: KC 103 / KC 105 Room 2

1:30 PM

Opening Ceremonies and Welcome to WCACS2017

1:35 PM

Singing of O-Canada - National Anthem

1:40 PM

Introduction to Banff Centre/History of Banff/Southern Alberta/Geography and UNESCO details

1:50 PM

Introduction to the Abdominal Compartment Society

2:00 PM

Introduction to the World Society of Emergency Surgery

2:10 PM

Introduction to the Group considering IAH in Pre-Eclampsia

2:20 PM

Introduction to the Basic Science of Inflammation within the Abdominal Compartment

2:30 PM

Introduction to DAMPS and PAMPS and why they matter in Critical Intra-abdominal Injury/Ilnness

2:40 PM

Introduction to the Fluid Society

2:50 PM

Introduction to the Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

3:00 PM

Mild to moderate intra-abdominal hypertension: Does it matter?

3:10 PM

Coffee break

The PROBLEMS - Epidemiology/Physiology of IAH/ACS in Critical Care

The PROBLEMS - Epidemiology of IAH/ACS in Acute General surgery/Obstetrics/and Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

4:00 PM

Epidemiology of IAH (incl different grades) and ACS

Epidemiology of IAH and the ACS in Acute General Surgery

4:10 PM

Critical Care Physician Awareness of IAH/ACS - Why do we still put our heads in the sand?

Epidemiology of IAH and the ACS in Elective Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

4:20 PM

Has Damage Control Resuscitation Made IAH Irelevant?

Epidemiology of IAH and the ACS in Obstetrics

4:30 PM

Awareness Nursing

Abdominal Wall Failure and the Impact on Human Health

4:40 PM

Recognizing the specific contributing impact of IAH in catastrophically ill and injured patients

Patching versus reconstructing - the relative physiologic implications of laparoscopic approaches versus open in "big" hernias

4:50 PM

Implications of IAH on feeding the criticaly ill

Implications of IAH on Soft tissue healing and complications for AWR

5:00 PM

Implications of IAH on weaning the criticaly ill

Implications of size and chronicity of ventral hernia on pre-operative risk stratification for AWR

5:10 PM

Implications of IAH on renal failure in the critically ill

Co-Morbidities prevaiing amoung those requiring AWR: When is "no" a hard-line?

5:20 PM

Question and Discussion

Question and Discussion

5:30 PM

Day 1 wrap it up and explanation of the Social Program

5:45 PM

Executive Meeting

6:45 PM

Welcome reception

8:30 PM

Speakers dinner

Day 2; Friday June 16

Room 1

Room 2

8:00 AM

Global Impacts of sepsis upon Human Health

Plenary

8:10 AM

Plenary Session title: Advances in the Basic Understanding of Infection/Inflammation within the Abdominal Compartment

8:20 AM

Advances in Modulating the Inflammatory Response within the Peritoneal Cavity: Pharmacologic

8:30 AM

Advances in Modulating the Inflammatory Response within the Peritoneal Cavity: Negative Pressure Therapy

8:40 AM

Advances in Modulating the Inflammatory Response within the Peritoneal Cavity: Extracorporeal Therapies

8:50 AM

Panel Discusion with audiece interaction - Future Advances in Modulating the Inflammatory Response in the Peritoneal Cavity - what will be needed?

9:00 AM

First Case

9:30 AM

Coffee break

Basics - Measuring IAP

Track B

10:00 AM

Is bladder presure still the best standard?

"Normal" IAP in humans

10:10 AM

How do we avoid Recumbancy in measuring IAP

How do you decide normal IAP in the Obese

10:20 AM

Are there new technologies to measure IAP in the ICU

How do you decide normal IAP in children?

10:30 AM

Are there new technologies to measure IAP outside the ICU on the ward

How do you decide normal IAP in Pregant Woman?

10:40 AM

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

10:50 AM

Coffee break

Overt and Occult Abdominal Compartment Syndromes

Inflammation and the Peritoneal Cavity: A unique Anatmoic

Space for inflammation

11:10 AM

Overt Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Inflammation and the Peritoneal Cavity: A unique Anatomic Space for Inflammation

11:20 AM

Occult Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

Swelling, Inflammation and the Peritoneal Cavity: Fluids and Peritonitis

11:30 AM

When Intra-Abdominal Hypertension Matter

Systemic Mediators and a local problem: Interactions between systemic inflammation and the abdominal compartment

11:40 AM

When Intra-abdominal Hypertension Doesn't Matter

How surgical research generates basic science advances in inflammation

11:50 AM

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

12:00 PM

Lunch break

Track A

Track B

1:00 PM

Case 1

plenary

1:30 PM

Free papers

Free papers

Prevention of Abnormal IAP in the ICU

Damage Control surgery and the OA

3:10 PM

Prevention of IAH in the ICU

The Basic History of Damage Control Surgery

3:20 PM

Prevention of ACS in the ICU

The Fundamentals of Damage Control Surgery

3:30 PM

Resuscitation changes make IAH irrelevant?

When can you close the abdomen after Damage Control Surgery?

3:40 PM

Prevention of IAH before the ICU

Indications for use of damage control surgery in the current era of improved resuscitation practices: are prospective studies required to re-evaluate the procedure?

3:50 PM

Coffee break

Case Presentation

Case Presentation

4:10 PM

Typical ICU ACS Case

Abdominal wall Reconstruction and Permissive Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

4:40 PM

Discussion

Discussion

Medical Treatment of ACS

Closure of the Open Abdomen

5:00 PM

Pharmacologic management of IAP

Historical Approaches that saved many lives

5:10 PM

Positioning to manage IAP

Comprehensive Approaches to the Problem

5:20 PM

Percutaneous drainage to manage IAP

Vacuum therapy

5:30 PM

Diuresis and renal replacement therapy to manage IAP

Mesh Mediated Traction

5:40 PM

Day 2 wrap it up

Mechanical Systems

6:30 PM

WSACS general assembly

7:30 PM

Dinner

Day 3; Saturday June 17

Room 1

Room 2

Surgical Treatment of IAH/ACS

Nursing Issues in IAH/ACS

8:00 AM

Decompresive Laparotomy

Recognition

8:20 AM

Minimally Invasive Fasciotmies for IAH/ACS

Prevention

8:40 AM

Laparoscopic Approaches to decompress for IAH/ACS

Ari Leppaniemi Interventions

9:00 AM

Discussion

Discussion

Acute Intestinal Distress Syndrome

Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

9:05 AM

Introduction to the Concept of "AIDS"

What do you mean by "loss of domain"

9:15 AM

Gut Mucosal injury from IAH

Predicting those at risk of severe IAH/ACS in the setting of AWR and futility

9:25 AM

Blood-bourne versus lymphatic mediated systemic manifestations of gut ischemia

Intra-operative physiology of massive AWR: The surgeons perspective

9:35 AM

Disconnecting the Gut from the Systemic Inflammatory Response

Intra-operative physiology of massive AWR: The intensivists perspective

9:45 AM

Discussion

Discussion

10:00 AM

Coffee break

10:30 AM

Free papers

Pregnancy and IAH/ACS

Practical Dilemas in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

11:35 AM

IAP and it's potential role in diseases of pregnancy

Overview of advanced surgical techniques to avoid IAH/ACS in AWR

11:45 AM

The Microbiome and diseases of pregnancy

Overview of adjunctive techniques to avoid IAH/ACS in AWR

11:55 AM

Maternal positioning and it's potential role in intra-abdominal pressure

When is it safe and in whom to extubatre after AWR

12:05 PM

Discussion

Discussion

12:20 PM

Lunch break

The future needs and goals in studying IAH/ACS

1:00 PM

Prevention

plenary

1:10 PM

Futility

plenary

1:20 PM

Economics

plenary

1:30 PM

Relevance of Our Society

plenary

1:40 PM

Longevity of Our Society

plenary

1:50 PM

The Next Meeting

New President

plenary