Scientific Program

The scientific program is under construction..however, APCC 2009 conference scientific program is mentioned hereunder:

• Critical Care Controversies in the AF Patient: Common sense and Practical Pearls.
• Clinical Focus- Venous Thromboembolism In The Critically Ill- Consensus Guidelines.
• How Do You Mend A Broken Heart? Update In Heart Failure.
• Mechanical assist devices for acute cardiac emergencies.
• The cardio-renal syndrome-Extracorporeal therapy for cardio-renal syndromes.
• Tough Arrythmia ECGs!-Made Easy.
• Cruising the Cardiology Literature: Recent Articles That Will Change Your Practice.

• Emerging Infections In The ICU-Is VAP Still The Volcano In The ICU?
• The Best and evidence based ventilatory management in ARDS.
• New Modes Of Ventilation
• Where Do They Fit, When Do I Use Them- HFOV & APRV: Fast Vs Slow.Is NAVA the future.
• Kidney Protective Ventilation? Interactions Between Lung And Kidney.
• Monitoring Pulmonary Mechanics: What's In and What's Out-Lung Imaging Update and Interestating Cases.
• Early Tracheostomy Is Good: PRO –CON DEBATE.
• Alternative strategies for oxygenation and CO2-removal.
• Ventilating the patient with TBI: Protective ventilation should be used.
• Mechanical ventilation in ARDS: Should one size fit all?
  • PaO₂: How low can you go?
  • Critical tissue PO₂
  • What happens at altitude?
• Airway management in the ICU-Is ASA Scoring and Protocol useful in Critical Care?
• The Unexpected Difficult Airway: How to Avoid It and How to Manage It -Pearls-Literature Update.

• Update On Tropical Infectious Disease in India-Dengue and Viral Haemorrhagic Fever,Malaria and the Mysterious ones.
• Challenging Cases in Critical Care-Pemphigus,Ricketssia.
• Infectious Disease Jeopardy.

• Advances in neuro-critical care.
• The Brain Was Okay Until... Cerebral Dysfunction in Non-Neurological Illness.
• Discovering More About Basic Science Brain Injury- Therapeutic Hypothermia - To Cool or Not To Cool?
• Year In Review: Neurology for Critical Care Specialists.
• Monitoring-driven treatment could improve outcome in severe brain damage- pro con.
• Should neurointensive care and Cardiac Critical Care patients be managed in Specialised units-pro- con.

• Coagulation management of the bleeding patient in the ICU.
• Can You Stop Bleeding Please?

Non-transfusion strategies in Management life-threatening hemorrhage- 5 Ps Trexamemic acid, Prothrombin Complex Concentrates -What Next- Recombinant Factor VII Therapy In Acute Hemorrhage.

• Night Club Parties in Metros-The New Indian Overdoses –Who Cares.
• ABCD OF CRITICAL CARE TOXICOLOGY-Top 10 Mistakes.
• Toxicology Jeopardy.

• Issues that Changed the Face of Critical Care.
• Nurses Are From Saturn, Physicians Are From Jupiter, Hospital Administrators Are From Mars: How Can We Speak the Same Language.

• Hemodynamic Monitoring: ECHO,PULSE CONTOUR OR PA CATHETER - Key Points, Controversies and Recommendations.
• How does hemodynamic monitoring really guide therapy.
• Transthoracic Echocardiography for Hemodynamic Assessment in Critical Illness.
• Early Hemodynamic Optimization in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: What is the Evidence?

• Critical Care Controversies in the AF Patient: Common sense and Practical Pearls.
• Clinical Focus- Venous Thromboembolism In The Critically Ill- Consensus Guidelines.
• How Do You Mend A Broken Heart? Update In Heart Failure.
• Mechanical assist devices for acute cardiac emergencies.
• The cardio-renal syndrome-Extracorporeal therapy for cardio-renal syndromes.
• Tough Arrythmia ECGs!-Made Easy.
• Cruising the Cardiology Literature: Recent Articles That Will Change Your Practice.

• Not All Islands Are The Same - Pharmacotherapy In Special ICU Population -Elderly,Morbidly Obese, The long term ICU patient, The immunosuppressed patientand Pregnant.

• Gastrointestinal Controversies.
• Liver encephalopathy -Optimum Management Albumin dialysis with and without MARSor Prometheus?

• Post Pyloric Feeding Should Be The Standard In The ICU-pro con.
• The Impact of Nutrition On Outcomes In Critical Care-Implementation of Clinical Practice Guidelines In Critical Care Setting. Time to Narrow the GAP.
• Death or life by TPN…..the final chapter? Therapy Your Patient Can't Live Without .Current Nutrition Controversies in Critical Care.

• The Shifting Sands Of Tight Glucose Control.
• Tight Glycemic Control Is Still Relevant-pro.
• Tight Glycemic Control May Not Be Helpful-con.
• How Should Blood Glucose Be Measured.

• Year In Review: Internal Medicine for Critical Care Specialists.
• Year In Review: Pharmacotherapy in Critical Care.
• The Top Critical Care Articles of 2009.
• PHARMACOKINETICS AND IATROGENIC DRUG TOXICITY IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.

• Trauma Update 2009-Hot Topics.

• CRRT Versus IHD-Pro Con Debate.
• Critical Care Medicine Should be an Autonomous Speciality-pro-con.
• Intracranial pressure CPP and autoregulation.
• Local oxygen delivery.
• Temperature-Hypothermia hype: Is it worth it? ... Glycemia
• Electrolyte disturbances Hyperkalemia, hypokalemia dangerous?
• Echocardiography in the assessment and monitoring of the critically ill patient.
• The challenge of aeromedical transport.