About this event

  • Date and time Fri 23 Feb 2024 from 8:45am to 6:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Critical Care Medicine

Join this educational event, to gain an overview of contemporary right heart management in intensive care.  During the meeting we will look in-depth and cover assessment via imaging and haemodynamics and interventions with ventilator, medications and mechanical support. Additionally, participants will gain an update on pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension state of the art intensive care management.

Over the course of the meeting our expert speakers will explore and provide insight on the right heart through distinctive lectures, interactive panel discussions and hands-on practical stations. 

This meeting aims to provide participants with an overview of contemporary right heart management in intensive care for primary and secondary pathology. 

By attending the meeting you will, enhance your understanding and gain an overview of

  • Right heart monitoring 
  • Right heart imaging
  • Ventilatory strategies to support the right heart
  • Pharmacological and Mechanical R heart support
  • Pulmonary embolism and Pulmonary hypertension management

 

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We would like to thank our sponsor Inari Medical for their support of this meeting.
Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Session 1

Chairs: Dr Maj Manohasandra, Honorary Treasurer, Critical Care Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Dr Waqas Akhtar, ST12 Registrar in Cardiology and Intensive Care, Guy's & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 

Right heart monitoring

Dr Hakeem Yusuff, Consultant in Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Leicester and Co-Chair, Protecting the Right Ventricle Network (PRORVnet)

Right heart imaging

Dr Richard Fisher, Consultant in Intensive Care, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Committee member, British Society of Echocardiography Education

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break
Right heart protective ventilation and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Dr E Caroline Bullen, Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacological and mechanical right heart support

Dr Alex Rosenberg, Consultant in Intensive Care, Harefield Hospital

Panel discussion
Lunch break

Session 2

Chairs: Dr Aimee Brame, Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Yasser Al-Raweshidy, Consultant in Intensive Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust, Council member, Critical Care section, Royal Society of Medicine

Pulmonary embolism interventional management

Dr Narayan Karunanithy, Consultant Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiologist, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Perioperative pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary endarterectomy surgery

Dr Antonio Rubino, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Interactive session

Interactive case discussion with focus on echo

Dr Julia Graspa, Consultant in Cardiology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Editor in Chief, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) Case Reports

Echo practical demonstration - Transthoracic Echo

Professor Hannah Conway, National FUSIC Heart Lead and Co- Chair, PRORVnet

Interactive case discussion with focus on haemodynamic assessment

Dr Clara Hernandez, Consultant in Intensive Care, Harefield Hospital

Echo practical demonstration - Transoesophageal echo

Dr Gary Lau, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospitals of Leicester and Co-Chair, Protecting the Right Ventricle Network (PRORVnet)

Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

 

Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Thursday 22 February 2023. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

 

Domus - reception

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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