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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.
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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
  • 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
  • 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?

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
13.20 – 14.00

Break

14.00 – 14.50

The role of blood and blood products in resuscitation

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?

Professor Tim Harris
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care
  • 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 – 11.20

Trauma Resus and Clinical Scenarios

Dr Michael Obiako
Dr Michael Obiako YES Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Wales
11.20 – 11.40

Break

11.40 – 12.30

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?
12.30 – 13.10

Break

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.

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.

Course advisors

Tim Harris
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.

Laura Hunter
Dr Laura Hunter

Dr Laura Hunter is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Toxicology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London. She completed Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training in Merseyside Deanery, prior to her move to London in 2010. Special areas of interest include recreational drug toxicity, Inclusion Health and the development of Routine Blood Borne Virus screening within the Emergency Department.

She trained at King’s College Hospital and was initially a consultant radiologist at Imperial College NHS Trust for 10 years before returning to King’s College Hospital. She has published widely and special interest in imaging post arthroplasty hips.

Faculty members

Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa
Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa

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

Faculty member
Dr Lucy Bingham

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial NHS Trust

Faculty member
Dr Bernard Foëx

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary

Faculty member
Dr Luciano Gattinoni

Dr Gattinoni is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen (Germany).

He invented the “Extracorporeal CO 2 Removal” and promoted the "baby lung" (1980's) and mechanical power concepts (2016). He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia, and Intensive Care, the European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid base disorders. He has published more than 400 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded with the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology.

Faculty member
Dr Orla Lacey

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

Faculty member
Dr Andrew Leitch

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

Faculty member
Dr Michael Obiako

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Glamorgan Hospital - Cwm Taf University Health Board and Ultrasound Lead for the All Wales School of Emergency Medicine

Faculty member
Dr Alastair Proudfoot

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

Faculty member
Dr Rocio Santamaria

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

Faculty member
Dr Michael Trauer

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Delegate feedback from the 2024 run of this course

  • Good topic coverage, some areas seemed to be repeated a bit with the cardiogenic shock talks. However, still excellent.
  • Very good coverage
  • Excellent course, will attend next year if continue to work in EM.
  • Full coverage of topics – however there is overlap of discussions between the speakers
  • good
  • Very Good
  • Fantastic, all the topics very interesting and decisive for Emergency Medicine doctors
  • Broad coverage of essential topics – relevant to my practice – top tips/ nuggets of information which will improve my clinical management
  • Good online learning.
  • Excellent – great course, Up to date and thought provoking.
  • Vast area is covered
  • Very educational, tips will be used in my daily practice, great speakers
  • Excellent in everything as always
  • There was a lot of referral to the ED, which made it seem like perhaps it was aimed more at this area than, say, critical care. I also find it interesting that lots of management refers to how situations are managed in tertiary centres that have access to everything e.g. interventional radiology. There are a lot of Clinicians working in district generals where this is not the case…what then!
  • Broad range of topics covered. Well timed with frequent breaks.
  • Ease of booking, informative sessions, enjoyed practical aspects of slido
  • Good speakers, knowledgeable
  • The variety of topics, did not have to go to through the stress of travelling to a venue, very knowledgeable presenters.
  • Supported by the latest literature.
  • Content of the course and quality of speakers
  • Possibility to attend online
  • Evidence based analysis, Practical use of POCUS, Case based discussions and update (Giving Nor-adrenaline via peripheral lines ) + advancements -eg ECPR
  • Updates on treatment of shock, massive haemorrhage and the field cardiac arrest management procedures.
  • Excellent Updates on Sepsis, Shock and gastro bleeds
  • The level of expertise of the lectures, the topics selected and how easy everything ran.
  • Detailed and brought me up to date with so many new achievements
  • World class speakers with great insight into the literature. Well organised. Access to presentations
  • Timekeeping, Content of talks, Good speakers.
  • Delivery of slides and 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
  • course content, presenters and ease of attending the course..
  • The topics, the quality of presentations and being online.
  • The organisation, the speakers and availability of the source for later reference

    • Delegate feedback from the 2023 run of this course

  • Very good choice of topics and coverage; the topics covered recent advances in Resus and dealing with some awkward cases. this is my second attendance and very good learning every time, I achieve what I expected
  • EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE WITH WEBEX it all seemed to work seamlessly
  • Sessions were really good, the approach, examples, real cases, video and interactivity makes it easier to learn, otherwise would just read a textbook.
  • WebEx is excellent, no problems at all, this platform worked really well
  • I have achieved a lot as a practising anaesthetist and I will be teaching what I learned
  • Excellent lecturing and coverage
  • I enjoyed the overview that this course presented in a wide range of topic with great speakers and very important, the fact we can go back and review the recorded course
  • The content, delivery and pace gave us a very good revision, new ideas, all very good to implement back at work
  • All topics were really hot and delivered by top speakers and an excellent course coordination and support by Infomed
  • GOOD QUALITY TOPICS EXCELLENT PRESENTATION PUNCTUALITY
  • A very good lectures’ content, the calibre of the presenters and their methods of delivery were outstanding
  • This course was about good content, very good presentations, doing it from home; all very good value for money
  • Content, presentations, programme length, pace of talks, excellent speakers, Slido & opportunities to ask questions – and at home!
  • Quality of presentations, catch up service, technical easiness, very well organised and run by Infomed
  • The quality of the content was superb, the presenters were knowledgeable and the presentation was excellent.
  • Excellent topics, great presentation, learning from QA; imminently practical for A&E Doctors
  • I got a few new ideas to go away with, particularly the integration of ultrasound into my routine practice, sure it will make easy to deliver quality service to patients.
  • Learned a few new things ,could use that in my clinical practice, they will help me to manage my patients better
  • It will make me more confident in my practice as I will bring latest updates into my clinical practice; definitely want to learn more TTE

    • Delegate feedback from the 2022 run of this course

  • Very good to have a multi-specialty content with very good speakers, and really good that we attend from home, plus a catch up service included in the price! - ability to watch programme again
  • Fantastic course, nice arrangements, appropriate times for topics and timely breaks
  • A very comprehensive coverage of recent advances in resuscitation, this should continue as an annual event.
  • Good coverage of topics and felt have achieved the target of my learning.
  • Well done, very good selection of topics and quality presenters and well facilitated by Infomed.
  • Very full programme with excellent informative content and quality faculty
  • Very good organisation, quite impressive setup, easy to use Webex especially with Slido for polls and comments.
  • Time keeping was very good, very good quality lectures, very relevant topics
  • Good Infomed organisation, relevant topics, liked Webex and Slido, good Q&A – all good.
  • Thanks it is virtual, being at home is much better and productive than travelling around the country, topics very relevant, time management very good, very well organised, well spaces lectures and breaks.
  • Very experienced and knowledgeable presenters with excellent summaries of the evidence.
  • All topics relevant Emergency Medicine and nicely presented by very knowledgeable lecturers.
  • Excellent informed lectures by leaders in their fields on a wide range of topics on the various aspects of Resus.
  • I am more informed in all the topics covered in this symposium, Thanks.
  • It will make me reflect on all the concepts presented, I will read and complete my understanding of few concepts I still need to dig in with the catch up, I will be a better/ confident practitioner, and a better teacher to my junior colleagues.
  • What I learnt today will change my practice of dealing with GI bleeding
  • Considerable impact on many aspects of my care it will certainly improve my practise.
  • Increase my confidence to use POCUS more often
  • Refreshed my practice and will help me in being more confident treating sepsis, GI bleed.

    • Delegate feedback from the 2021 run of this course

  • Broad range of topics, very good lecturers, watching lectures from home!
  • The expertise of the speakers who were all excellent
  • Good choice of topics, variety of excellent speakers, access from home
  • Excellent speakers with clear delivery and evidence base and recent updates
  • The interactive nature, quality of information, expert clinicians
  • Experienced and excellent speakers plus Infomed organisation was excellent
  • Interactivity, concise presentations for all relevant topics, I think it was done wonderfully.
  • Reasonably priced, well organised and watched it from comfort of home, continue the good work Infomed
  • Good key points to enhance my management of resuscitation in certain patients
  • Good to have access to catch - up lectures
  • I have taken lots of good learning which will have a positive impact on the patients I care for.
    • Medical Team Working On Patient In Emergency Room

    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.

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