DAY ONE

40 minutes

Acid-base disturbances: How best to assess in the ED

Dr Lucy Bingham

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Different interpretation methodologies
  • Using blood gas analysis as risk stratification

40 minutes

Venous Gas - All we need?

Dr Luciano Gattinoni

Consultant in ICU and Emergency Medicine

  • The difference between arterial and venous pH, CO2, bicarbonate and lactate
  • How to interpret venous CO2 and lactate

40 minutes

New perspectives on Cardiogenic shock

Dr Alastair Proudfoot

Consultant in Critical Care & Lead for Cardiogenic Shock, Barts Heart Centre, London

  • Medical therapy
  • Mechanical support
  • Role of imaging
  • Fluid balance – getting it right!

50 minutes

Resuscitation end points - how to recognise shock and guide resuscitation in the ED

Dr Martin Dachsel

Consultant in Acute and General Medicine, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust

  • What is shock?
  • What is resuscitation and who needs it?
  • Resuscitation guidelines any updates?
  • Can we change outcomes?
  • How do we assess the adequacy of resuscitation?
  • Lactate clearance

50 minutes

The role of blood and blood products in resuscitation

Dr Rocio Santamaria

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London

  • Should we have a massive transfusion protocol for all significant bleeds?
  • FFP as the first resuscitation fluid in all bleeding patients?
  • 20 mlkg crystalloid then blood?

50 minutes

PE and resuscitation

Dr Michael Trauer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London

  • Point-of-care ultrasound in PE
  • How to interpret RV dilation in different groups and in arrest
  • How to quickly identify DVT (and effectively rule in PE)

60 minutes

Trauma Resus

Dr Michael Obiako

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil

50 minutes

Resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock

Dr Andrew Leitch

Consultant Intensivist and Anaesthetist, Royal London Hospital

  • What is current best practice?
  • What is new since the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines?
  • Lessons from the Covid-19 outbreak.

DAY TWO

50 minutes

Echo guided diagnosis and fluid resuscitation in shock

Dr Michael Trauer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London

  • The role of echo in identifying LV function
  • Echo guided fluid responsiveness.
  • Echo guided assessment of filling pressures

50 minutes

Resuscitation in GI haemorrhage

Dr Bernard Foex

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary

  • Should you use PPIs and Tranexamic acid?
  • What is an adequate Hb?
  • When is an endoscopy needed?

50 minutes

Resuscitation in cardiogenic shock

Dr Bernard Foex

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary

  • Drug treatment: is levosimendan the drug of the future?
  • Mechanical circulatory support: intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation or ventricular assist devices?

60 minutes

Use of fluids in resuscitation of trauma/non-trauma patients?

Professor Tim Harris

Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust

  • Deciding on how much fluid to use in resuscitation.
  • Is there a place for colloids in the ED?
  • Plasmalyte, Saline, Hartmanns or Dextrose – are all crystalloids equal?
  • What is the effect of differing crystalloids on acid-base disturbance?

50 minutes

Abnormal Airways

Dr Orla Lacey

Consultant Anaesthetist, specialising in anaesthesia for head and neck/maxillofacial cancers, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London

  • Rapid assessment and potential interventions beyond routine
  • Real time USS tips for abnormal airway/FONA Assessments, etc..
  • Food for thought: video laryngoscopy instead of direct laryngoscopy as standard approach - the impact on the ED and pre-hospital setting

60 minutes

Regional Approach to the Management of Cardiac arrest

Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa

Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Bart's Health NHS Trust, London

  • Resus bundles
  • The changing landscape of Critical Care
  • Role of ECLS

50 minutes

Toxicology

Dr Laura Hunter

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Clinical Toxicology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London

  • ECLS in poisoning
  • Extra-corporeal removal techniques
  • Hyperthermic toxidromes: hot, bothered and dead
  • Any lessons from Covid-19/Long covid?

20 minutes

Resuscitation of the high-risk anaesthetic patient in the ED

Dr Chris Edge

Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Berkshire Hospital