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Resuscitation Symposium 2025

Broadcasting live online: Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 June 2025

This online course is designed for Emergency Physicians, Acute Physicians, Anaesthetists and Intensivists. It is pitched at a level suitable for Consultants and senior trainees in all areas of acute care and focuses on recent advances in resuscitation.

  • Format: Short lectures featuring case scenarios followed by interactive Q&A sessions
  • CPD: Viewers will be asked to evaluate each session and will be provided with a CPD certificate upon completion. This course provides 12 CPD credits.

Wednesday 25 June 2025

10.00 – 10.50

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 updates?
  • Can we change outcomes?
  • How do we assess the adequacy of resuscitation?
  • Lactate clearance

10.50 – 11.40

Airway, hot topics and tips

Dr Orla Lacey

Consultant Anaesthetist, (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

11.40 – 12.00

BREAK

12.00 – 12.40

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

Dr Lucy Bingham

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial NHS Trust

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

12.40 – 13.20

Venous gas: All we need?

Consultant in ICU and Emergency Medicine

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

13.20 – 14.00

LUNCH BREAK

14.00 - 14.50

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?

14.50 - 15.40

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

15.40 – 16.00

BREAK

16.00 - 17.00

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)

Thursday 26 June 2025

09.20 – 10.20

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

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Professor Tim Harris

Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS

  • 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?

10.20 – 10.20

Trauma Resus and Clinical Scenarios

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Dr Michael Obiako

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Wales

11.20 – 11.40

BREAK

11.40 – 12.20

Resuscitation in GI haemorrhage

Dr Bernard Foëx

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?

12.20 – 13.10

LUNCH

13.10 – 14.00

Resuscitation in cardiogenic shock

Dr Bernard Foëx

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?

14.00 – 14.50

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!

14.50 – 15.10

BREAK

15.10 – 16.00

Resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock

Dr Andrew Leitch

Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust

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

16.00 – 17.00

Regional Approach to the Management of Cardiac arrest

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Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa

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

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

About this course

  • Practical focus on both the day to day and more difficult aspects of resuscitation across the acute medical specialities
  • A revised programme covering a range of relevant clinical topics, selected on the basis of recent impact and consequences from COVID-19, past delegates’ feedback and a survey of emergency and acute medicine practitioners and experts.
  • A faculty of experienced specialists in their fields, from different hospitals across the UK, who can pass their expert knowledge to front-line clinicians.
  • Interactive online lectures followed by case scenarios, discussion and Q&A.
  • Contributes to developing effective team management for doctors from a variety of backgrounds who are actively delivering emergency and acute care.

By the end of the course, participants will have:

  • A comprehensive understanding of recent advances in resuscitation medicine and be up to date with new/recent research evidence, and the implications for practice
  • Greater confidence in their clinical practice
  • Identified skills and knowledge gaps, if any, relevant to their practice, and clear ways by which these can be addressed.

An international Faculty, listing experts with years of experience in reporting (and in disseminating skills and practical knowledge to peers) from leading British and American hospitals, namely:

Course director

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Professor Tim Harris

Tim Harris is qualified in intensive care medicine, emergency and pre-hospital medicine in Australia and the UK. He works in these specialties at the Royal London and Newham University Hospitals and London HEMS. He is academic lead for the London School of Emergency Medicine. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and QMUL, London, UK.

Faculty members

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Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa

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

Dr Lucy Bingham

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial NHS Trust

Dr Bernard Foëx

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Feedback from the previous run of this event

  • Excellent course I will attend next year if continue to work in EM.
  • An excellent variety of topics, AND did not have to go to through the stress of travelling to a venue
  • Broad range of topics covered, delivered in a timely manner and with frequent breaks
  • Broad coverage of essential topics – relevant to my practice – top tips/ nuggets of information which
    will improve my clinical management
  • Excellent – great course, Up to date and thought provoking.
  • Fantastic, all the topics very interesting and decisive for Emergency Medicine doctors
  • Excellent, good topic coverage, some areas seemed to be repeated a bit with the cardiogenic shock
    talks; however, still excellent.
  • Excellent, good knowledgeable speakers
  • Excellent platform, Teams was effective platform to use
  • This course was excellent , well organised, wonderful and not much to comment – considering a 2 days
    long course
  • Very good, technical glitches sorted quickly by Informed team.
  • Very educational, tips will be used in my daily practice, great speakers
  • Excellent in everything as always with Informed courses
  • Yes, a few practical tips, but most of all, evidence-based case analysis, use of POCUS in ED, noradrenaline use in ED etc. All good to me.
  • Very good content of the course and quality of speakers and the possibility to attend online
  • Evidence based analysis, Practical use of POCUS, Case based discussions and update (Giving Noradrenaline via peripheral lines ) + advancements -eg ECPR
  • The level of expertise of the lectures, the topics selected and how easy everything ran.
  • This course has given me topics to discuss with the juniors, will be more mindful of using lactate in
    guiding resuscitation efforts
  • Detailed and brought me up to date with so many new achievements
  • An impact almost immediately with managing some situations and also impacts on tackling future
  • I will incorporate into my daily practice definitely.
  • A massive impact! It has been a huge amount of excellent and interesting evidence that I have to
    review to set up all these concepts, thanks for access to the catchup version included
  • Excellent course enhancing my knowledge and capabilities to work as an Emergency Physician at a
    senior level.
  • World class speakers with great insight into the literature. Well organised. Access to presentations
  • Teams, Slido, breaks lecturers, presentations – all quality
  • Timekeeping, Content of talks, very good speakers and attending from home, not expending ££
  • An excellent delivery of slides on hot topics, coverage of important topics seen daily in emergency department
  • Lots on POCUS, wide range of specialists with different perspectives, kept it all very relevant
  • Good coverage of acute care topics Interactive sessions Up to date content
  • Online, excellent speakers. Smooth organisation – well done Informed every year.
  • It will greatly contribute to enhance my daily practice
  • This will improve my management of shock and has inspired me to provide a sepsis update for my
    department/ Trust.
  • This has been a deep up to date impact and it would change my approach and outlook
  • Learned a great deal of practical information to be applicable in the clinical scenario.
  • Refreshed knowledge of the topics covered and I identified quite a few bits I am interested in and am
    going to develop further, especially pocus related

Frequently asked questions

We will contact you by email one week before the course takes place with all the necessary links and joining information.

We will re-send the links the day before the course.

If you have not received an email from us please contact us at webinars@infomedltd.co.uk and we will respond ASAP.

NO. Infomed shall provide you, upon registration a link to stream the course within your web browser, or you can download a small application to run it as a separate window on your computer. If you would prefer a mobile device, we shall also include a link download an app from the Play Store/App Store.

YES! It is very much encouraged. There will be Q&A sessions chaired by Infomed. You can type your questions in the ‘chat’ facility and they will be put to the speakers.

You can find your catch-up in your account page.

At the end of the catch-up page you will find a link to the feedback form, which will generate your CPD certificate when you submit your feedback.

If the catch-up is not visible in your account, please contact us and we will amend your account ASAP.

Using the short videos below, we shall guide you through the process of joining a meeting using Webex.

If joining from your own computer

If you are connecting from your own device then it is likely that you will be able to join via the Webex application.

If joining from a trust/institution computer

However, if you are using a computer that is owned and restricted by your trust, then you may find it easier to join via your web browser. Please see the second video for guidance on this process.

Joining Webex using the application on your PC or Mac

Joining Webex using your web browser

When you connect to a course you should see some introductory slides and hear music.

If you cannot hear any music please check you are connected to the audio.

At the bottom of the webex meeting you may see a button that says “Connect to audio”.

Click this and then select “Use computer for audio” in the pop-up box.

If you have connected by a browser you may need to give your browser access to your microphone in order to connect to the audio.

Click the padlock in the top left of your browser and make sure microphone access is allowed

If this does not resolve your issue please email us or call us on 0204 520 5081

To join an Infomed Online course you simply need an internet connection and a browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari).

You can also connect from a mobile device: Download the Webex Meetings app from your App Store.

To join a course with a smooth experience, your internet connection must be stable, not connected to a VPN and at least 20Mbps download.

Below you can use the tool to run an internet speed test.

You must test from:

  • — the location that you intend the see the course from;
  • — withing the location, if using Wi-Fi, the room or department area that you intend to view the course from to ensure a good signal
  • — if connecting from home, a computer that is not connected to a workplace VPN

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Course benefits

  • Live online access
  • Fee includes 90 days of access with unlimited playback during this time.
  • CPD Certificate of attendance upon completion with 12 CPD points
  • Opportunity to interact, ask questions directly to the faculty.

Course fee

Early bookers rate: £320
(until 7 March 2025)

Normal fee: £350

Fees include VAT

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How to attend this course

This course is hosted online using Teams or Webex. We shall provide you with a joining link and instructions one week before the course begins.

In the meantime, you can checkout our tutorials below. On the course day, we also provide full support and giudance by chat, email and telephone.

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