Dr Nicholas Mason
Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital
About this event
- Date and time Thu 1 Apr 2021 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Critical Care Medicine
In this webinar, experts in Critical Care will give you the core knowledge and skills to identify and manage critically ill patients.
Critical Care demands a familiarity with a wide range of pathologies. Lectures will be delivered by leading experts on topics ranging from sepsis to neurological emergencies, and workshops will provide hands-on practical experience to develop confidence and competencies with essential equipment to help manage the sickest patients in the hospital.
This one-day webinar is a beginners guide for managing the critically ill patient for those who are new to Critical Care or interested in pursuing a career in the field.
Lectures include:
What is critically ill and how would I spot it? - Dr Nicholas Mason, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital
Acute Kidney Injury - Dr Marlies Ostermann, Consultant in Nephrology and Intensive Care, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
Non-invasive ventilation – Dr Michelle Ramsay, Consultant in Respiratory and Ventilatory Medicine, Lane Fox Unit St Thomas’ Hospital
Tracheostomy management – Susan McGowan, Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Webinar topics:
- To develop an approach to recognise the critically ill patient.
- To deepen understanding of the central premises in managing the critically ill patient.
- To consolidate physiological principles and how to apply them when treating a critically unwell patient.
- To be able to manage key medical emergencies including septic shock, acute kidney injury and acute neurological conditions.
- To learn and refine essential critical care practical skills including complications.
We would like to thank our sponsor Draeger Medical UK Ltd for their support of this webinar. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.
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Key speakers
Dr Rohit Saha
Critical Care Consultant, Kings College Hospital
Speaker's biography
Dr Rohit Saha is a consultant in intensive care medicine and major trauma at King’s College Hospital. His main interests centre around improving methodology for sepsis/ARDS RCTs, longterm outcomes for survivors of critical illness, and the care of critically ill haematology patients.
Dr Michael Slattery
Consultant Intensive Care Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
Dr Marlies Ostermann
Consultant in Nephrology and Intensive Care, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
Speaker's biography
Dr Marlies Ostermann has a special clinical and research interest in all aspects of acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy. She is Chair of the AKI section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and an active member of the Royal Society Medicine, Intensive Care Society and UK Renal Association.
Dr Michelle Ramsay
Consultant, Respiratory and Ventilatory Medicine, Lane Fox Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Ms Susan McGowan
Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Dr Nishita Desai, Intensive Care Medicine Consultant, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Speaker's biography
Sue McGowan works as a Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. Her clinical input is mostly with ventilator dependent patients on two neurointensive care units. She co-founded and still co-runs the hospitals’ multi-disciplinary Tracheostomy Team in 2001. She is on the committee of the Tracheostomy Clinical Excellence Network and has lectured nationally and internationally on Speech and Language therapy in neurosciences. She is an RCSLT Advisor in Critical Care and has contributed to and co-authored profession-specific and national guidance documents relating to the care of tracheostomy and neuroscience patients. She completed a MSc in Adult Critical Care at Imperial College London in 2005.
Dr Segun Olusanya
London Intensive Care Medicine Trainee
Agenda
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Welcome and introduction
Abdullah Bashir, Trainee Representative, Critical Care Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Session one: The theory
Chaired by: Abdullah Bashir, Trainee Representative, Critical Care Section, Royal Society of Medicine
What is 'critically ill' and how would I spot it?
Dr Nicholas Mason, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Gwent Hospital
Panel discussion
An update on sepsis
Dr Rohit Saha, Critical Care Consultant, Kings College Hospital
Panel discussion
Comfort break
Pre-hospital Care, Trauma, Neurological emergencies
Dr Michael Slattery, Consultant Intensive Care Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
Panel discussion
Acute Kidney Injury
Dr Marlies Ostermann, Consultant in Nephrology and Intensive Care, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
Panel discussion
Lunch break
Session two: The practice
Workshop rotation
Chaired by: Abdullah Bashir, Trainee Representative, Critical Care Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Non-invasive ventilation
Dr Michelle Ramsay, Consultant, Respiratory and Ventilatory Medicine, Lane Fox Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Tracheostomy management
Ms Susan McGowan, Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Dr Nishita Desai, Intensive Care Medicine Consultant, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Ultrasound and management of shock
Dr Segun Olusanya, London Intensive Care Medicine Trainee
Closing remarks
Sponsors
Location
Online
