18-March-2025
Gold Hall
OPENING
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Jan De Waele
Moderator:  Hayley B Gershengorn
8:30 Welcome
Fabio S Taccone
8:45 Report of the Round Table conference - Consciousness disorders in the ICU
Giuseppe Citerio
Yelena Bodien
9:05 Decisions to withhold or withdraw life support after acute brain injury
Shaurya Taran
9:20 Inhaled sedation in the acute respiratory distress syndrome: the SESAR trial
Matthieu Jabaudon
9:35 Optimal vasopressin initiation in septic shock
Romain Pirracchio
9:50 Max Harry Weil lecture: blood lactate levels: past, present and future
Jan Bakker
10:10 Pathways to mortality in critical illness
Edward Schenck
IMPROVING SEPSIS MANAGEMENT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Lieuwe  Bos
Moderator:  Katharina Busl
11:00 Antibiotic therapy: how urgent?
Mervyn Singer
11:15 Timing of source control may be more important than antibiotics
Massimo Antonelli
11:30 Metabolic resuscitation
Ari Moskowitz
11:45 AI decision support
Matthieu Komorowski
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
MECHANICAL VENTILATION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Laurent Brochard
Moderator:  Patricia Rocco
14:00 A low tidal volume in all patients?
Daniel Talmor
14:15 Using physiology for personalized mechanical ventilation
Niall  Ferguson
14:30 Monitoring respiratory effort and lung-distending pressure
Jose Dianti
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Detecting muscle fatigue using surface electromyography
Oriol Roca
15:15 P0.1 and Pocc during pressure support ventilation
Rinaldo Bellomo
15:30 Electrical stimulation to preserve expiratory muscle function
Leo Heunks
15:45 Discussion
 
16:00 Ultrasound to guide ventilator settings
Paul Elbers
16:15 Ventilator-associated brain injury (VABI)
Martin Dres
16:30 Ventilator-associated cardiac injury (VACI)
Michel  Slama
16:45 Discussion
 
17:00 Ventilator-associated increased risk of thrombosis
Nicole Juffermans
17:15 Ventilator-associated kidney injury (VAKI)
Peter Pickkers
17:30 Discussion
 
PLENARY LECTURE
17:40 Detecting consciousness in unconscious patients
Yelena Bodien
Copper Hall
INDIVIDUALIZING BLOOD PRESSURE
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Jean-Louis Teboul
Moderator:  Sheila N Myatra
11:00 In cardiogenic shock
Alexander Vlaar
11:10 In septic shock
Daniel  De Backer
11:20 In stroke
Raimund Helbok
11:30 After cardiac arrest
Markus Skrifvars
11:40 In traumatic brain injury
Geert  Meyfroidt
11:50 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Michael Reade
Moderator:  Raimund Helbok
14:00 How to save two lives in pregnancy
Deepak Kumar Gupta
14:15 Moving towards phenotyping
Giuseppe Citerio
14:30 Hemostatic failure as a modifiable risk factor
Marc  Maegele
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Transfusion in TBI: beyond the hemoglobin targets.
Elisa Gouvea Bogossian
15:15 Mechanical ventilation
Chiara Robba
15:30 How cardiac function is affected
Katharina Busl
15:45 Discussion
 
16:00 Is sedation protective or harmful?
Geert  Meyfroidt
16:15 Long term outcomes: limits of the Glasgow Outcome Scale
Antoine Roquilly
16:30 Can statins have a role?
Alexis Turgeon
16:45 Discussion
 
17:00 Early prognostication
Pierre Bouzat
17:15 Making treatment limitation decisions
Victoria Metaxa
17:30 Prolonged altered consciousness: extubation vs. tracheostomy?
Sarah Wahlster
17:45 Discussion
 
Silver Hall
PRONE POSITION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Michael R Pinsky
Moderator:  Audrey De Jong
11:00 Guiding using EIT
Marcelo Amato
11:15 Hemodynamic effects
Xavier Monnet
11:30 In spontaneously ventilating patients
Luigi Camporota
11:45 Should we abandon it during VV ECMO
Matthieu Schmidt
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – ICU APPLICATIONS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Elie Azoulay
Moderator:  Ari Ercole
14:00 Medical imaging
Azra Bihorac
14:15 Natural language processing
Rinaldo Bellomo
14:30 Integrating AI into clinical practice
Matthieu Komorowski
14:45 AI for hemodynamic assessment
Frederic Michard
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 Reinforcement learning
Paul Elbers
15:30 Medical education
Massimiliano Greco
15:45 Writing ICU diaries by AI?
Peter Nydahl
16:00 Ethical challenges
Michelle N Gong
16:15 Discussion
 
MIND THE GUT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Ari Moskowitz
Moderator:  Ashish K Khanna
16:30 Prevention of stress ulcer bleeding – still a place?
Annika  Reintam Blaser
16:45 Probiotics to prevent VAP
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
17:00 Can we score the degree of GI dysfunction?
Annika  Reintam Blaser
17:15 The importance of the gut microbiome in critical illness
Lioudmila Karnatovskaia
17:30 Acute-on-chronic liver failure
Julia  Wendon
17:45 Discussion
 
100 Hall
ENDOTHELIAL PROTECTION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Peter Pickkers
Moderator:  Djillali Annane
11:00 Endothelial cell dysfunction in sepsis
Tom van der Poll
11:15 Interactions between immune, endothelial, and hemostasis dysfunctions
Massimo Girardis
11:30 Pharmacological options
Ricard Ferrer
11:45 Hemoadsorption in hyper-inflammation
Zsolt Molnar
12:00 Plasma administration for endotheliopathy?
Nicole Juffermans
12:15 Discussion
 
12:30 Lunch break
 
RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Melanie Meersch-Dini
Moderator:  Tomoko Fujii
14:00 When to start
Stéphane Gaudry
14:15 Regional citrate anticoagulation
Ashita Tolwani
14:30 How to minimize ´´dialytrauma´´
Emily J See
14:45 Dosing: is less more?
Marlies Ostermann
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 AI prediction of hypotension and dialysis dosing
Raghavan Murugan
15:30 Antibiotic and antifungal dosing
Patrick Honoré
15:45 Should we care about micronutrients?
Michaël Casaer
16:00 Discussion
 
16:10 Influence of various techniques on cardiac output
Rinaldo Bellomo
16:25 Does my patient care what renal support I offer?
Lui Forni
16:40 When to stop RRT?
Peter Pickkers
16:55 Let´s go green
Raghavan Murugan
17:10 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
17:30 Can we throw away anti-embolic stockings?
Beverley Hunt
Panoramic Room
IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Christopher Seymour
Moderator:  Ari Ercole
11:00 When to suspect cardiac arrest may be due to SAH
Markus Skrifvars
11:15 Do we still need arterial blood gases?
Tomoko Fujii
11:30 Early prediction of ARDS
Daniel Talmor
11:45 Patient admission: will data science help… or hinder?
Paul Elbers
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
SEPSIS: BACK TO MECHANISTICS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Liesbet De Bus
Moderator:  Bruno François
14:00 The host response in sepsis: what can we learn from proteomics?
Tom van der Poll
14:15 Excessive production of interferon-gamma in some patients
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
14:30 Circulating NET levels
Djillali Annane
14:45 Sepsis in transplant patients: what is different?
Andre Kalil
15:00 Sepsis in the immunocompromised: not as bad as anticipated.
Thierry Calandra
15:15 Discussion
 
15:25 Chronic alcohol and sepsis: molecular and cellular insights
Craig M Coopersmith
15:40 Neuroinflammation
Peter Pickkers
15:55 Caspases: arbiters of life and death
John C Marshall
16:10 Sepsis-induced coagulopathy
Julie Helms
16:25 Sepsis-related gut leakage
Craig M Coopersmith
16:40 Discussion
 
16:50 The causes of septic myocardial dysfunction
Armand  Mekontso Dessap
17:05 Cholesterol and sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy
Mervyn Singer
17:20 Temperature management
Frank van Haren
17:35 Organ function after sepsis: is it hibernation?
Christopher Seymour
17:50 Discussion
 
The Arc Room
SEIZURES
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Elisa Gouvea Bogossian
Moderator:  Marek Mirski
11:00 AI-guided diagnosis
Michel Van Putten
11:15 Seizures in the ICU: when (not) to treat?
Jan Claassen
11:30 Pharmacologic options
Cherylee WJ Chang
11:45 New-onset refractory status epilepticus: novel options
Nicolas Gaspard
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Arthur van Zanten
14:00 A green ICU
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
Jan De Waele
Nicole Hunfeld
Ricard Ferrer
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Jean-Louis Teboul
14:55 When to measure cardiac output
Bernd Saugel
Daniel  De Backer
Jan Bakker
Xavier Monnet
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Jeremy Beitler
15:50 PEEP titration based on oxygenation
Daniel Talmor [PRO]
Marcelo Amato [CON]
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Julie Helms
16:25 Prolonged peripheral infusion of vasopressors
Hayley B Gershengorn [PRO]
Jacques  Duranteau [CON]
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Paul Elbers
17:00 How data science will transform critical care
Azra Bihorac
Greg Martin
Leo Anthony Celi
Vitaly Herasevich
Demo box 1
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:00 Management of pelvic fracture
Jacques  Duranteau
Marc  Maegele
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:45 Priorities in source control
Jan De Waele
Massimo Antonelli
HANDS-ON
13:35 Automated pupillometry
Pierre Bouzat
MEET THE EXPERTS
14:25 Human errors
Axel Nierhaus
Katarzyna Kotfis
DEMONSTRATION
15:05 Chest ultrasound in acute respiratory failure
Paul H Mayo
DEMONSTRATION
15:45 Monitoring spontaneous breathing in ARDS
Massimo Antonelli
Niall  Ferguson
MEET THE EXPERTS
16:30 Lessons learned from recent trials in critical care nutrition
Christian Stoppe
Jean-Charles  Preiser
Demo box 2
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:00 Moral distress
Jan Bakker
Katarzyna Kotfis
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:45 Perioperative hemodynamic management
Bernd Saugel
Michelle Chew
MEET THE EXPERTS
13:45 Assessment of vascular tone at the bedside
Jean-Louis Teboul
Michael R Pinsky
DEMONSTRATION
14:25 EIT For Intrathoracic Emergencies
Baldassare Ferro
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
15:05 How to decrease complications of intubation
Audrey De Jong
Marek Mirski
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
15:45 Infectious complications during ECMO
Giacomo Grasselli
Ricard Ferrer
DEMONSTRATION
16:25 Weaning from ECMO
Luigi Camporota
Demo box 3
DEMONSTRATION
11:00 Vascular access for RRT
Patrick Honoré
Thomas Rimmelé
DEMONSTRATION
11:45 High flow nasal oxygen
Elie Azoulay
Martin Dres
DEMONSTRATION
14:00 Patient-ventilator interactions
Lise  Piquilloud
Martin Dres
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
16:15 The ARDS patient with right heart failure
Michelle Chew
Xavier Monnet
Demo box 4
DEMONSTRATION
11:00 New therapies for complicated intra-abdominal infections
Giacomo Grasselli
DEMONSTRATION
11:40 NIRS application in the ICU
Marlies Ostermann
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
14:00 Update on thromboprophylaxis
Julie Helms
Katharina Busl
SIMULATION SESSION
14:45 Assessing lung recruitability: how to do it at the bedside
Discussant: Marcelo Amato
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
15:30 Brain death
Giuseppe Citerio
Sarah Wahlster
HANDS-ON
16:15 EEG fundamentals in critical care
Mathias Gelderblom
ePoster Area 1
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Maya  Hites
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 12]
Poster jury: Antoni  Torres
Poster jury: Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
Poster jury: Jan De Waele
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Massimo Girardis
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 13]
Poster jury: Antoine Roquilly
Poster jury: Liesbet De Bus
Poster jury: Ricard Ferrer
ePoster Area 2
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Elisabeth De Waele
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 6]
Poster jury: Arthur van Zanten
Poster jury: Christian Stoppe
Poster jury: Michaël Casaer
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Julia  Wendon
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 7]
Poster jury: Annika  Reintam Blaser
Poster jury: Ary Serpa Neto
Poster jury: Jan Gunst
Poster jury: Lioudmila Karnatovskaia
ePoster Area 3
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Thomas Rimmelé
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 8]
Poster jury: Ashita Tolwani
Poster jury: Melanie Meersch-Dini
Poster jury: Raghavan Murugan
Poster jury: Rinaldo Bellomo
Poster jury: Tomoko Fujii
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Marlies Ostermann
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 9]
Poster jury: Emily J See
Poster jury: Lui Forni
Poster jury: Patrick Honoré
Poster jury: Stéphane Gaudry
ePoster Area 4
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Luigi Camporota
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 10]
Poster jury: Francesca Collino
Poster jury: Leo Heunks
Poster jury: Raimund Helbok
Poster jury: Sarah Wahlster
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  John J Marini
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 11]
Poster jury: Armand  Mekontso Dessap
Poster jury: Audrey De Jong
Poster jury: Junlai Zhao
Poster jury: Paul H Mayo
Poster jury: Tommaso  Mauri
19-March-2025
Gold Hall
ARDS MANAGEMENT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Luigi Camporota
Moderator:  Niall  Ferguson
8:30 Do new criteria make much difference?
Carolyn S Calfee
8:40 Arterial PaO2 or SpO2?
Tomoko Fujii
8:50 Same evidence, different recommendations
Giacomo Grasselli
9:00 Does this patient have hemodynamic pulmonary edema or ARDS
Paul H Mayo
9:10 Discussion
 
9:20 Lung morphology guided mechanical ventilation
Lieuwe  Bos
9:30 Respiratory failure with lymphopenia: a new syndrome?
Manu Shankar–Hari
9:40 Non-resolving ARDS
Massimo Antonelli
9:50 Discussion
 
FLUID RESUSCITATION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Stéphane Gaudry
Moderator:  Lise  Piquilloud
10:00 Liberal vs. ´´restrictive´´ is outdated!
Daniel  De Backer
10:15 Should we predict fluid responsiveness in everyone?
Sheila N Myatra
Xavier Monnet
10:30 How can echocardiography guide fluid challenges?
Michelle Chew
10:45 Discussion
 
11:00 Venous congestion, volume intolerance, and the VExUS score.
Paul H Mayo
11:15 Venous congestion can be present in fluid responsive patients
Jan Bakker
11:30 In the presence of right ventricular dysfunction
Jean-Louis Teboul
11:45 Limitations of dynamic parameters to detect cardiovascular insufficiency
Michael R Pinsky
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
VASOPRESSOR CHOICES
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Craig M Coopersmith
Moderator:  Jean-Louis Teboul
14:00 More fluid or vasopressors?
Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot
14:15 What are the options?
Daniel  De Backer
14:30 Microvascular effects of vasopressors
Jacques  Duranteau
14:45 Discussion
 
14:55 Postoperative vasopressor use
Lui Forni
15:10 Norepinephrine vs. vasopressin for a vasopressor challenge in septic shock
Jan Bakker
15:25 The importance of the renin-angiotensin system
Filippo Annoni
15:40 Renin as a useful best biomarker?
Emily J See
15:55 Discussion
 
16:10 Angiotensin II: effects on the vital organs
Rinaldo Bellomo
16:25 Angiotensin II in renal failure
Peter Pickkers
16:40 Angiotensin II: for which patients?
Massimo Girardis
16:55 Still a place for metaraminol?
Ary Serpa Neto
17:10 The emerging interest for venous vasopressors
Ashish K Khanna
17:25 Discussion
 
PLENARY LECTURE
17:40 Cardiogenic shock: from vasoactive drugs to mechanical circulatory support
Jason Katz
Copper Hall
PROGRESS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Azra Bihorac
Moderator:  Hayley B Gershengorn
8:30 What do we want the machine to learn?
Edward Schenck
8:45 Challenges of moving from predictive to actionable AI
Matthieu Komorowski
9:00 Beyond ChatGPT: making large language models work for you
Paul Elbers
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 How it will improve clinical practice and research
Sharon Einav
9:45 How to create an effective intelligent clinical decision support tool
Michael R Pinsky
10:00 Your ICU can become a clinical AI validation center
Paul Elbers
10:15 Discussion
 
10:30 Are the models ready for prime time?
Leo Anthony Celi
10:45 How to evaluate health information technologies and AI algorithms.
Vitaly Herasevich
11:00 When is validation sufficient for clinical use?
Geert  Meyfroidt
11:15 Discussion
 
11:30 Making digital work: safe implementation of new technologies in the ICU
Ari Ercole
11:45 Ethical challenges
Michelle N Gong
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
PATIENT-VENTILATOR DYSSYNCHRONY
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Massimo Antonelli
Moderator:  Leo Heunks
14:00 Dyssynchrony can be good
Laurent Brochard
14:15 Dyssynchrony can be bad
Jose Dianti
14:30 Impact of post inspiratory diaphragm loading
Niall  Ferguson
14:45 AI-assisted waveform analysis
Massimiliano Greco
15:00 Discussion
 
STANDARD PRESENTATION
Moderator:  Laurent Brochard
Moderator:  Arnaud Thille
15:15 What we can learn from animal models
Patricia Rocco
15:30 Mechanical power from theory to practice
Francesca Collino
15:45 Discussion
 
16:00 Amplified tissue stress in ARDS - a bit of stress may be good
John J Marini
16:15 Driving pressure or mechanical power?
Daniel Talmor
16:30 Mechanical power, driving pressure or….?
Gustavo Cortes Puentes
16:45 Discussion
 
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Hayley B Gershengorn
17:05 Improving communication with the patient
Katarzyna Kotfis
Lioudmila Karnatovskaia
Peter Nydahl
Sumera Ahmad
Silver Hall
SHOCK: FOCUS ON THE PATIENT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Armand  Mekontso Dessap
Moderator:  Julia  Wendon
8:30 What is shock?
Jean-Louis Vincent
8:45 Different from altered tissue perfusion?
Matthias Hilty
9:00 Do we need to use the word ´refractory`vasopressor?
Ashish K Khanna
9:15 Can you manage without a monitoring device?
Xavier Monnet
9:30 Echocardiography in shock: all we really need?
Michelle Chew
9:45 Discussion
 
9:55 Integration of variables to individualize hemodynamic support
Zsolt Molnar
10:10 How cardiovascular agents affect the peripheral circulation
Jan Bakker
10:25 The concept of microcirculatory reserve
Matthias Hilty
10:40 Should we target tissue perfusion pressure?
Michael R Pinsky
10:55 Discussion
 
EARLY USE OF VASOPRESSIN
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Ashita Tolwani
Moderator:  Elisabeth De Waele
11:05 Vasopressin in traumatic hemorrhagic shock
Jacques  Duranteau
11:20 Vasopressin as a first line agent
Rinaldo Bellomo
11:35 Is the early administration of vasopressin so important?
Giacomo Grasselli
11:50 My practical approach
Arthur van Zanten
12:05 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
RENAL PROTECTION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Marlies Ostermann
Moderator:  Michel  Slama
14:00 Pathophysiology of sepsis-associated renal dysfunction
Emily J See
14:15 Immune profile of patients who develop renal failure
Thomas Rimmelé
14:30 How renal failure could be prevented
Melanie Meersch-Dini
14:45 A protective role of albumin administration?
Yahya Shehabi
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 How to best manage the cardiorenal syndrome
Ashita Tolwani
15:30 An established place for amino acids?
Rinaldo Bellomo
15:45 A place for bicarbonate?
Lui Forni
16:00 A place for SGLT inhibitors?
Peter Pickkers
16:15 Discussion
 
16:30 How to improve medullary oxygenation during vasodilatory shock
Patrick Honoré
16:45 Impact of vasopressors on renal circulation and kidney function
Jacques  Duranteau
17:00 Why would renal failure increase the risk of dying?
Matthieu Legrand
17:15 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
17:30 Rhabdomyolysis
Lui Forni
100 Hall
SUBPHENOTYPING
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Thierry Calandra
Moderator:  Tom van der Poll
8:30 The solution to heterogeneity?
Christopher Seymour
8:45 Current phenotypes seldom highlight treatable biological mechanisms
Manu Shankar–Hari
9:00 Using vital signs to phenotype patients with sepsis
Craig M Coopersmith
9:15 New insights into inflammatory phenotypes
Carolyn S Calfee
9:30 Discussion
 
9:45 Functional endotyping in sepsis
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
10:00 Exploring unique phenotypes in cardiogenic shock
Jason Katz
10:15 The often overlooked clinical trajectory of acute illness
Michelle N Gong
10:30 Discussion
 
THE COMATOSE PATIENT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Katharina Busl
Moderator:  Yelena Bodien
10:45 Is this patient conscious ?
Jan Claassen
11:00 Surrogate decisions
Sarah Wahlster
11:15 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
11:35 Inhaled medications
Michael Reade
12:15 Lunch break
 
NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Julia  Wendon
Moderator:  Frank van Haren
14:00 Nutrition should be adapted to the inflammatory state
Annika  Reintam Blaser
14:15 Lab variables to detect readiness for feeding
Michaël Casaer
14:30 Should be different in specific populations
Christian Stoppe
14:45 What about burns?
Michaël Casaer
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 Effects of parenteral nutrition on liver function
Elisabeth De Waele
15:30 High-dose amino acids: drug or poison?
Jan Gunst
15:45 Ketones as super-fuel?
Jan Gunst
16:00 Discussion
 
16:10 Break
 
TUTORIAL
16:20 Complex airway management
Sheila N Myatra
TUTORIAL
16:55 Bayesian statistics made simple (and easy)
Ari Ercole
TUTORIAL
17:30 Refeeding syndrome in ICU patients
Arthur van Zanten
Panoramic Room
INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Marek Mirski
Moderator:  Geert  Meyfroidt
8:30 Options for non-invasive assessment of intracranial pressure: modalities
Cherylee WJ Chang
8:45 Place of automated pupillometry
Elisa Gouvea Bogossian
9:00 ICP waveform analysis
Fabio S Taccone
9:15 Limitations of non-invasive assessment
Pierre Bouzat
9:30 Discussion
 
9:45 Multimodal neuromonitoring
Raimund Helbok
10:00 Continuous hyperosmolar therapy
Antoine Roquilly
10:15 How to manage the patient with concurrent ARDS
Sarah Wahlster
10:30 Discussion
 
10:45 Break
 
MY SEVEN RECOMMENDATIONS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Victoria Metaxa
Moderator:  John C Marshall
11:00 How to avoid complications around endotracheal
Sheila N Myatra
11:10 What to avoid during MV for ARDS
Marcelo Amato
11:20 How to improve writing a scientific article
Elie Azoulay
11:30 How to avoid errors
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
11:40 How to talk to the media on scientific findings
Craig M Coopersmith
11:50 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE & DELAYED CEREBRAL INJURY
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Fabio S Taccone
Moderator:  Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
14:00 Medical management of DCI
Chiara Robba
14:15 Role of cerebral ultrasound
Baldassare Ferro
14:30 Vasospasm or DCI: which is the main target?
Giuseppe Citerio
14:45 Any evidence for increasing MAP?
Elisa Gouvea Bogossian
15:00 General critical care management
Katharina Busl
15:15 Discussion
 
AFTER CARDIAC ARREST
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Sharon Einav
Moderator:  Michelle N Gong
15:30 Optimal mechanical ventilation
Chiara Robba
15:45 Interaction between sedation, temperature and blood pressure
Michael Reade
16:00 Prognostic evaluation
Cherylee WJ Chang
16:15 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
16:35 Acute pancreatitis
Jan De Waele
TUTORIAL
17:05 Acute sickle cell disease
Armand  Mekontso Dessap
TUTORIAL
17:35 The elderly critically ill patient
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
The Arc Room
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Axel Nierhaus
8:30 High antibiotic dosing in the ICU patient
Liesbet De Bus [PRO]
Mervyn Singer [CON]
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Greg Martin
9:05 Achieving gender equity in critical care
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
Jeremy Beitler
Katarzyna Kotfis
Marlies Ostermann
TUTORIAL
10:00 Toxidromes
Mervyn Singer
TUTORIAL
10:35 Autoimmune encephalitis
Raimund Helbok
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Audrey De Jong
11:10 Continuous beta-lactam administration is better than intermittent
Fabio S Taccone [CON]
Paul Elbers [PRO]
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Ricard Ferrer
11:45 Hemoadsorption is beneficial in septic shock
Peter Pickkers [CON]
Zsolt Molnar [PRO]
TUTORIAL
12:15 Lunch break
 
IMMUNOMODULATION IN SEPSIS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Carolyn S Calfee
Moderator:  Liesbet De Bus
13:45 Neutrophils in host response and organ dysfunction
Michael Bauer
14:00 Application of tolerance, damage, and resistance concepts
Christopher Seymour
14:15 Immune effects of commonly used medications
Massimo Girardis
14:30 Discussion
 
14:40 When to consider immunoglobulins
Axel Nierhaus
14:55 Personalized immunotherapy
Tom van der Poll
15:10 Biomarkers for adjunctive therapies
Thierry Calandra
15:25 Discussion
 
15:35 The time for precision has come
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
15:50 How to get better at selecting patients
Antoine Roquilly
16:05 The dangers of prolonged immunosuppressive therapies
Bruno François
16:20 What can sepsis learn from rheumatology
John C Marshall
16:35 Discussion
 
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Ari Moskowitz
16:45 Should ECMO be centralized?
Daniel  De Backer [CON]
Giacomo Grasselli [PRO]
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Jan Bakker
17:20 Monitoring the microcirculation: is the story over?
Daniel  De Backer
Jacques  Duranteau
Matthias Hilty
Nicole Juffermans
Demo box 1
MEET THE EXPERTS
9:30 Innovative trial designs
Alexis Turgeon
Djillali Annane
MEET THE EXPERTS
10:15 Therapeutic drug monitoring
Fabio S Taccone
Jan De Waele
HANDS-ON
11:00 EEG fundamentals in critical care
Mathias Gelderblom
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:45 Environmental sustainability/ let’s go green!
Jan De Waele
Nicole Hunfeld
MEET THE EXPERTS
13:45 How to recognize citrate accumulation
Patrick Honoré
DEMONSTRATION
14:25 Measurement and utility of mean systemic filling pressure
Paul H Mayo
Xavier Monnet
MEET THE EXPERTS
15:05 Empowering women in intensive care
Hayley B Gershengorn
Katarzyna Kotfis
MEET THE EXPERTS
15:45 How AI will change our specialties
Azra Bihorac
Vitaly Herasevich
MEET THE EXPERTS
16:30 How I treat: chest trauma
Marc  Maegele
Michael Reade
Demo box 2
MEET THE EXPERTS
9:30 CO2 and the brain
Chiara Robba
Markus Skrifvars
MEET THE EXPERTS
10:15 When and how to shift to pressure support ventilation?
Leo Heunks
Oriol Roca
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:00 Intracranial hemorrhage
Cherylee WJ Chang
Giuseppe Citerio
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
11:45 Corticosteroids work in sepsis and ARDS: but for whom?
Lennie Derde
Stephen M Pastores
DEMONSTRATION
13:45 Can we use EIT to diagnose pulmonary embolism
Junlai Zhao
MEET THE EXPERTS
14:25 General anesthetic review for the non-anetshesiologist
Bernd Saugel
Marek Mirski
CASE DISCUSSION
15:05 Thrombocytopenia
Beverley Hunt
DEMONSTRATION
15:45 Assessing preload responsiveness with the ventilator
Michael R Pinsky
Xavier Monnet
MEET THE EXPERTS
16:25 When to transfuse a patient with acute brain injury
Alexis Turgeon
Fabio S Taccone
Demo box 3
DEMONSTRATION
14:00 How to best apply hemodialysis in critically-ill patients
Raghavan Murugan
Stéphane Gaudry
DEMONSTRATION
14:45 Using etCO2 during CPR
Markus Skrifvars
Pierre Bouzat
DEMONSTRATION
15:30 Phrenic nerve stimulation in acute respiratory failure
Martin Dres
Niall  Ferguson
DEMONSTRATION
16:15 Measurement of esophageal pressure
Lise  Piquilloud
Luigi Camporota
Demo box 4
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
9:30 Ultrafiltration by CRRT: how fast?
Emily J See
Raghavan Murugan
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
10:15 Antibiotic de-escalation
Liesbet De Bus
Maya  Hites
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
11:00 Lung protective ventilation
John J Marini
Jose Dianti
CASE DISCUSSION
11:45 Rash and fever
Andre Kalil
Marlies Ostermann
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
14:00 ARDS of unknown origin
Elie Azoulay
Giacomo Grasselli
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
14:45 Toxicities of CAR-T cell therapies: what an intensivist should know
Stephen M Pastores
Victoria Metaxa
CASE DISCUSSION
15:30 Fever upon returning from the tropics
Maya  Hites
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
16:15 Diaphragm dysfunction in ICU patients
Jose Dianti
Leo Heunks
ePoster Area 1
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Laurent Brochard
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 14]
Poster jury: Gustavo Cortes Puentes
Poster jury: Lieuwe  Bos
Poster jury: Lise  Piquilloud
Poster jury: Martin Dres
Poster jury: Peter Nydahl
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Massimo Antonelli
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 15]
Poster jury: Giacomo Grasselli
Poster jury: Joanna L Stollings
Poster jury: Jose Dianti
Poster jury: Oriol Roca
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Marcelo Amato
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 16]
Poster jury: Arnaud Thille
Poster jury: Daniel Talmor
Poster jury: Mathias Gelderblom
Poster jury: Niall  Ferguson
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Jeremy Beitler
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 17]
Poster jury: Luregn Schlapbach
Poster jury: Matthieu Legrand
Poster jury: Nicole Juffermans
Poster jury: Patricia Rocco
ePoster Area 2
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Yahya Shehabi
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 18]
Poster jury: Frank van Haren
Poster jury: Frederic Michard
Poster jury: Nicole Hunfeld
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Michel  Slama
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 21]
Poster jury: Ari Moskowitz
Poster jury: Baldassare Ferro
Poster jury: Michelle N Gong
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Sheila N Myatra
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 22]
Poster jury: Bernd Saugel
Poster jury: Matthias Hilty
Poster jury: Michael R Pinsky
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 23]
Poster jury: Greg Martin
Poster jury: Jason Katz
Poster jury: Matthieu Schmidt
Poster jury: Michelle Chew
ePoster Area 3
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Beverley Hunt
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 19]
Poster jury: Alexander Vlaar
Poster jury: Dietmar Fries
Poster jury: Julie Helms
Poster jury: Niels Rahe-Meyer
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Markus Skrifvars
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 24]
Poster jury: Ashish K Khanna
Poster jury: Jan Bakker
Poster jury: Jean-Louis Teboul
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Mervyn Singer
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 25]
Poster jury: Axel Nierhaus
Poster jury: Christopher Seymour
Poster jury: Djillali Annane
Poster jury: Greet Van den Berghe
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Gabriella Bottari
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 26]
Poster jury: Craig M Coopersmith
Poster jury: Stephen M Pastores
Poster jury: Tom van der Poll
ePoster Area 4
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Michael Reade
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 20]
Poster jury: Jacques  Duranteau
Poster jury: Katharina Busl
Poster jury: Marc  Maegele
Poster jury: Yelena Bodien
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Bruno François
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 27]
Poster jury: Andre Kalil
Poster jury: Carolyn S Calfee
Poster jury: Peter Pickkers
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Edward Schenck
14:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 28]
Poster jury: Manu Shankar–Hari
Poster jury: Massimiliano Greco
Poster jury: Zsolt Molnar
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Paul Elbers
15:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 29]
Poster jury: Andrew  Shorr
Poster jury: Lennie Derde
Poster jury: Thierry Calandra
20-March-2025
Gold Hall
ECMO
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Jeremy Beitler
Moderator:  Peter Pickkers
8:30 Value of screening CT
Luigi Camporota
8:45 Veno-pulmonary configuration to help the right heart
Armand  Mekontso Dessap
9:00 Setting PEEP
Matthieu Schmidt
9:15 Discussion
 
9:25 Role of contact phase activation in bleeding
Julie Helms
9:40 Liberal transfusions?
Alexander Vlaar
9:55 End-tidal to arterial PCO2 ratio as a guide to weaning
Luigi Camporota
10:10 What´s next: early extubation and mobilization
Niall  Ferguson
10:25 Discussion
 
10:35 Left ventricular venting in VA-ECMO: what are the options?
Matthieu Schmidt
10:50 Unloading in VA ECMO
Alexander Vlaar
11:05 What happened to ECCO2R?
Luigi Camporota
11:20 How I use ECCO2R today
Matthias Hilty
11:35 Discussion
 
PLENARY LECTURE
11:50 The stress response in critical illness
Mervyn Singer
12:15 Lunch break
 
HOW I IMAGINE THE FUTURE
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Zsolt Molnar
Moderator:  Christian Stoppe
14:00 Wearable technologies
Massimiliano Greco
14:15 Bedside screens
Frederic Michard
14:30 Smart alerts
Vitaly Herasevich
14:45 Autonomous diagnosis and treatment of circulatory shock
Michael R Pinsky
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 How we´ll treat sepsis
Lennie Derde
15:30 How we´ll treat ARDS
Patricia Rocco
15:45 Precision medicine with phenotypes
Carolyn S Calfee
16:00 The ventilator of tomorrow
John J Marini
16:15 Discussion
 
16:30 The renal support of tomorrow
Thomas Rimmelé
16:45 The neurological management of tomorrow
Ari Ercole
17:00 How we´ll train doctors
Azra Bihorac
17:15 Discussion
 
PLENARY LECTURE
17:35 Evolving meaningful patient centered outcomes
Sumera Ahmad
Copper Hall
TRANSFUSION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot
Moderator:  Beverley Hunt
8:30 350 years of blood transfusion
Mervyn Singer
8:45 A place for pre-hospital transfusion?
Jacques  Duranteau
9:00 ScvO2 monitoring to guide to decisions?
Zsolt Molnar
9:15 Transfusion in brain injury: after the HEMOTION and SAHaRA Trial
Alexis Turgeon
9:30 Discussion
 
9:40 Transfusion in brain injury: after the TRAIN Trial
Fabio S Taccone
9:55 Anti-inflammatory therapies to correct anemia?
Nicole Juffermans
10:10 Pulmonary complications after blood transfusion
Alexander Vlaar
10:25 Let us consider a whole blood transfusion program
Michael Reade
10:40 Discussion
 
LIBERATION FROM MECHANICAL VENTILATION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Ary Serpa Neto
Moderator:  Francesca Collino
10:50 Current guidelines
Lise  Piquilloud
11:05 Weaning strategies affect outcome
Oriol Roca
11:20 Watch the CVP during a trial
Jan Bakker
11:35 When diuretics may help
Martin Dres
11:50 How to prevent reintubation
Arnaud Thille
12:05 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
SEVERE BLEEDING
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Alexander Vlaar
Moderator:  Nicole Juffermans
14:00 What the guidelines say
Niels Rahe-Meyer
14:15 Tranexamic acid (TXA) for all?
Marc  Maegele
14:30 All you need to know about tranexamic acid?
Beverley Hunt
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Any role for coagulation factor concentrate?
Pierre Bouzat
15:15 Lyophilized plasma
Jacques  Duranteau
15:30 You should use frozen & cold-stored platelets
Michael Reade
15:45 Discussion
 
16:00 Break
 
EARLY MOBILIZATION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Christopher Seymour
Moderator:  Chiara Robba
16:10 How much muscle wasting in the ICU?
Jan Bakker
16:25 How to reduce the use of restraints
Hayley B Gershengorn
16:40 Optimal mobilization
Ary Serpa Neto
16:55 Humanizing critical care rehabilitation
Peter Nydahl
17:10 Discussion
 
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Antoni  Torres
17:30 Less is more in the ICU
Daniel  De Backer [CON]
Greg Martin [PRO]
Silver Hall
BLOOD PURIFICATION
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Manu Shankar–Hari
Moderator:  Ashita Tolwani
8:30 Blood purification in sepsis: where do we stand?
Gabriella Bottari
8:45 Plasma exchange in sepsis?
Julia  Wendon
9:00 Match the patient phenotype to the device
Ricard Ferrer
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 Hemoadsorption for non-infectious indications
Zsolt Molnar
9:45 Still a place in liver failure?
Massimo Girardis
10:00 Are we getting it right?
Lui Forni
10:15 Discussion
 
10:30 Break
 
ICU CHALLENGES
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Azra Bihorac
Moderator:  Ricard Ferrer
10:40 Opportunities and obstacles in critical care cardiology
Jason Katz
10:55 A big department of critical care?
Axel Nierhaus
11:10 Equity in patient care
Katarzyna Kotfis
11:25 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
11:45 Shock resuscitation in children
Luregn Schlapbach
12:15 Lunch break
 
ULTRAFILTRATION FOR FLUID REMOVAL
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Lui Forni
Moderator:  Michelle N Gong
14:00 Hypervolemia vs. congestion?
Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot
14:15 Let us start by defining cardiovascular stabilization
Michael R Pinsky
14:30 What are the options?
Stéphane Gaudry
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 How fast?
Raghavan Murugan
15:15 New guidelines
Marlies Ostermann
15:30 Discussion
 
15:45 Break
 
PRESENTATION OF THE SPECIAL CRITICAL CARE ISSUE OF THE BLUE JOURNAL
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Laurent Brochard
16:00 Presentation of the Special Critical Care issue of the Blue journal
 
100 Hall
UPDATE ON SEPSIS BIOMARKERS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Carolyn S Calfee
Moderator:  Massimiliano Greco
8:30 Novel biomarkers
Andrew  Shorr
8:45 Biomarkers to guide antibiotic therapy
Jan De Waele
9:00 Pancreatic Stone Protein (PSP)
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 From ER to late ICU: which biomarker?
Bruno François
9:45 New rapid molecular techniques in suspected pneumonia
Thierry Calandra
10:00 H3.1. for early recognition of sepsis
Djillali Annane
10:15 Nucleic acid amplification tests combined with host response factors
Marek Mirski
10:30 Discussion
 
10:45 Look at the kinetics
Zsolt Molnar
11:00 NETosis as an important predictor for organ dysfunction
Lieuwe  Bos
11:15 Liquid biopsy?
Edward Schenck
11:30 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
11:45 Basics of EEG
Jan Claassen
12:15 Lunch break
 
ANOTHER LOOK AT CORTICOSTEROIDS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Martin Dres
Moderator:  Paul Elbers
14:00 Update on CIRCI
Greet Van den Berghe
14:15 Corticosteroids for ARDS: timing, type, dosing, and duration…
Stephen M Pastores
14:30 Guided by phenotype?
Carolyn S Calfee
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Extrapolating evidence from pneumonia to ARDS is a bad idea
Manu Shankar–Hari
15:15 Could corticosteroid administration be guided by metabolomics?
Djillali Annane
15:30 Discussion
 
15:45 Break
 
TUTORIAL
16:05 Automated pupillometry
Fabio S Taccone
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Ricard Ferrer
16:45 We care too much about blood pressure
Ashish K Khanna [CON]
Matthieu Legrand [PRO]
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Jason Katz
17:25 eCPR
Fabio S Taccone [PRO]
Markus Skrifvars [CON]
Panoramic Room
SEVERE PNEUMONIA
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Djillali Annane
Moderator:  Lennie Derde
8:30 Inhaled amikacin to prevent VAP: are you convinced?
Antoni  Torres
8:45 Is BAL better than tracheal aspirate?
Massimo Antonelli
9:00 Hospital-acquired pneumonia: importance of lung microbiome
Antoine Roquilly
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 Addition of clarithromycin for all?
Evangelos Giamarellos–Bourboulis
9:45 Addition of enriched IgM in some?
Antoni  Torres
10:00 Respiratory viral infections in immunocompromised patients
Elie Azoulay
10:15 Opportunistic pulmonary infections in immunocompetent patients
Lieuwe  Bos
10:30 Discussion
 
10:45 Break
 
TUTORIAL
11:00 Critical care in pregnancy
Sharon Einav
TUTORIAL
11:40 Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
12:15 Lunch break
 
CLINICAL TRIALS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Marcelo Amato
Moderator:  John C Marshall
14:00 We should reinvent the way we do clinical trials
Lennie Derde
14:15 Nutritional interventions should focus on long term outcomes
Jean-Charles  Preiser
14:30 Target trial emulation
Edward Schenck
14:45 Comparative effectiveness research
Giuseppe Citerio
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 Adaptive platform trial design
Jose Dianti
15:30 Should adult ICU trials enroll pediatric patients?
Luregn Schlapbach
15:45 How the conduct of RCTs will be affected by AI
Leo Anthony Celi
16:00 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
16:20 Acute liver failure
Julia  Wendon
TUTORIAL
16:55 Neuromuscular blockade
Marek Mirski
MEET THE EXPERTS
17:30 Status epilepticus
Jan Claassen
Nicolas Gaspard
The Arc Room
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Marlies Ostermann
8:30 VA ECMO should be used in severe cardiogenic shock
Alexander Vlaar [CON]
Daniel  De Backer [MAYBE]
Jason Katz [PRO]
TUTORIAL
9:15 Capnography and dead space 
Francesca Collino
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Xavier Monnet
9:50 Early hemodynamic resuscitation of septic shock
Daniel  De Backer
Emily J See
Jean-Louis Teboul
Michelle Chew
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Elie Azoulay
10:40 We need to identify patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Giacomo Grasselli
Mervyn Singer
Nicole Juffermans
Victoria Metaxa
ROUND TABLE
Moderator:  Jean-Charles  Preiser
11:30 Personalized nutrition
Annika  Reintam Blaser
Arthur van Zanten
Christian Stoppe
Michaël Casaer
12:15 Lunch break
 
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Cherylee WJ Chang
Moderator:  Katarzyna Kotfis
14:00 Assessing the burden
Elie Azoulay
14:15 Family engagement
Jean-Louis Vincent
14:30 How to support
Karin Amrein
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Other tools
Tomoko Fujii
15:15 Post-intensive care syndrome in family members
Frank van Haren
15:30 How to manage violence
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
15:45 Discussion
 
16:00 Break
 
METABOLIC SUPPORT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Mervyn Singer
Moderator:  Julie Helms
16:15 Studying glucose metabolism to evaluate possible harm of parenteral nutrition
Jan Gunst
16:30 Real-time assessment of insulin sensitivity
Jean-Charles  Preiser
16:45 Discussion
 
17:00 Vitamin D in some patients?
Karin Amrein
17:15 Vitamin K in some patients?
Arthur van Zanten
17:30 Vitamin C in some patients?
Manu Shankar–Hari
17:45 Discussion
 
Demo box 1
MEET THE EXPERTS
9:30 How I feed my patient
Arthur van Zanten
Elisabeth De Waele
Jan Gunst
MEET THE EXPERTS
10:15 Sleep in the ICU
Arnaud Thille
Jan Claassen
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:00 ICU pharmacology at the bedside
Nicole Hunfeld
Paul Elbers
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:45 Antimicrobial stewardship
Jan De Waele
Maya  Hites
HANDS-ON
13:35 Automated pupillometry
Giuseppe Citerio
MEET THE EXPERTS
14:25 Viral infections in the ICU
Andrew  Shorr
Maya  Hites
MEET THE EXPERTS
15:05 Communicating with lay press
Elie Azoulay
Geert  Meyfroidt
MEET THE EXPERTS
15:45 Practical tips for good communication in the ICU
Sumera Ahmad
Victoria Metaxa
MEET THE EXPERTS
16:30 Keys to successful rounds
Craig M Coopersmith
Elie Azoulay
Demo box 2
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
9:30 Postextubation management of the obese patient
Audrey De Jong
Oriol Roca
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
10:15 Massive bleeding
Niels Rahe-Meyer
Pierre Bouzat
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
11:00 Always combine antibiotics to treat Gram-negative infection?
Liesbet De Bus
Thierry Calandra
DEMONSTRATION
Moderator:  Tommaso  Mauri
11:45 Role of the interface in the efficacy of highflow nasal cannula
Laurent Brochard
DEMONSTRATION
13:45 Targeted coagulation management with POC testing
Dietmar Fries
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
14:25 Non-resolving ARDS
Lieuwe  Bos
Massimo Antonelli
CASE DISCUSSION
15:05 Pulmonary embolism: from heparin to ECMO
Luigi Camporota
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
15:50 Selecting the right patient for beta-blockade
Daniel  De Backer
Michel  Slama
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
16:25 My strategy for weaning from mechanical ventilation
Arnaud Thille
Lise  Piquilloud
Demo box 3
DEMONSTRATION
9:30 Bedside monitoring of the severity of acute lung damage
John J Marini
Leo Heunks
DEMONSTRATION
10:15 Echocardiography for evaluation of left atrial pressure and diastolic function
Michel  Slama
Paul H Mayo
DEMONSTRATION
14:00 Assessment of LV and RV strain in shock  states
Michel  Slama
Michelle Chew
DEMONSTRATION
14:45 Monitoring the lung during mechanical ventilation
Niall  Ferguson
DEMONSTRATION
15:30 Helmet non-invasive ventilation
Arnaud Thille
Massimo Antonelli
DEMONSTRATION
16:15 Airway pressure release ventilation
Luigi Camporota
Demo box 4
MEET THE EXPERTS
9:30 Which outcome really matters for patients and family?
Matthieu Legrand
Sumera Ahmad
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
10:15 How to safely start de-escalation of fluid therapy
Marlies Ostermann
Stéphane Gaudry
CASE DISCUSSION
11:00 A patient with refractory intracranial hypertension
Geert  Meyfroidt
Michael Reade
DEMONSTRATION
11:45 Viscoelastic testing for trauma-induced coagulopathy
Marc  Maegele
Nicole Juffermans
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
14:00 How to use sepsis biomarkers
Gabriella Bottari
Jan De Waele
CASE DISCUSSION
14:45 VV ECMO in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis
Annika  Reintam Blaser
Matthieu Schmidt
CASE DISCUSSION
15:30 Infectious endocarditis
Maya  Hites
CLINICAL CHALLENGES
16:15 Optimal use of blood products in cardiac surgery
Bernd Saugel
Rinaldo Bellomo
Demo box 5
DEMONSTRATION
9:30 Waveforms in the ICU: more than meets the eye
Ari Ercole
Michael R Pinsky
DEMONSTRATION
10:15 Electrical impedance tomography
Laurent Brochard
Marcelo Amato
DEMONSTRATION
11:00 Practical aspects of RRT
Lui Forni
Thomas Rimmelé
DEMONSTRATION
11:45 Cardiac output monitoring
Bernd Saugel
Xavier Monnet
DEMONSTRATION
14:00 Intra-abdominal hypertension
Annika  Reintam Blaser
Craig M Coopersmith
DEMONSTRATION
14:45 How to ventilate a patient with asthma
Giacomo Grasselli
Gustavo Cortes Puentes
DEMONSTRATION
15:30 Fluid responsiveness
Xavier Monnet
DEMONSTRATION
16:15 How continuous monitoring in the wards help to decrease ICU admissions
Frederic Michard
ePoster Area 1
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Chiara Robba
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 1]
Poster jury: Alexis Turgeon
Poster jury: Jan Claassen
Poster jury: Pierre Bouzat
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Giuseppe Citerio
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 2]
Poster jury: Cherylee WJ Chang
Poster jury: Deepak Kumar Gupta
Poster jury: Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
Poster jury: Nicolas Gaspard
ePoster Area 2
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Leo Anthony Celi
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 3]
Poster jury: Elie Azoulay
Poster jury: John C Marshall
Poster jury: Katarzyna Kotfis
Poster jury: Sharon Einav
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Hayley B Gershengorn
11:00 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 4]
Poster jury: Azra Bihorac
Poster jury: Sumera Ahmad
Poster jury: Victoria Metaxa
Poster jury: Vitaly Herasevich
ePoster Area 3
POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster leader:  Karin Amrein
9:30 POSTER PRESENTATION [Session 5]
Poster jury: Ari Ercole
Poster jury: Geert  Meyfroidt
Poster jury: Marek Mirski
Poster jury: Matthieu Komorowski
21-March-2025
Gold Hall
OPTIMIZING ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Andre Kalil
Moderator:  Edward Schenck
8:30 Novel antibiotics
Andrew  Shorr
8:45 Combination therapy for Gram-negative infections: why, when, how and to whom?
Thierry Calandra
9:00 For carbapenem resistant bacteria
Maya  Hites
9:15 Prolonged infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics: now the rule?
Jan De Waele
9:30 Discussion
 
9:45 Optimal doses to treat obese patients
Maya  Hites
10:00 When to stop antibiotics in severe CAP
Antoni  Torres
10:15 When to stop: answers from data science
Paul Elbers
10:30 Nobody is using SDD: do we need more trials?
Lennie Derde
10:45 Discussion
 
POSTER AWARDS
[Standard presentation]
11:00 POSTER AWARDS
Xavier Monnet
FUNGAL INFECTIONS
[Standard presentation]
11:15 Septic shock due to Candida
Elie Azoulay
11:30 Prognostic value of serial (1,3)-ß-D-glucan measurements
Massimo Antonelli
11:45 Personalize antifungal treatment duration
Thierry Calandra
12:00 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
CPR
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Michel  Slama
Moderator:  Fabio S Taccone
13:45 New guidelines for perioperative cardiac arrest
Sharon Einav
14:00 Intravenous or intraosseus access?
Markus Skrifvars
14:15 Controversies in airway management.
Ari Moskowitz
14:30 Discussion
 
14:45 Cardiac synchronized mechanical ventilation?
Markus Skrifvars
15:00 Quality improvement for In-hospital cardiac arrest
Ari Moskowitz
15:15 A role for administration of ketone bodies?
Filippo Annoni
15:30 Discussion
 
Copper Hall
RESPIRATORY MANAGEMENT OF ARDS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Giacomo Grasselli
Moderator:  Oriol Roca
8:30 How the PEEP level matters in spontaneously breathing ARDS patients
Massimo Antonelli
8:45 Oxygenation, lung disease, or body mass?
Marcelo Amato
9:00 How to optimize PEEP at the bedside
Lise  Piquilloud
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 Personalized mechanical ventilation
Patricia Rocco
9:45 How to distinguish recruitable and non-recruitable lungs
Laurent Brochard
10:00 Nebulized heparin?
Frank van Haren
10:15 Discussion
 
12:15 Lunch break
 
TRANSLATING CLINICAL TRIALS INTO PRACTICE
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Ary Serpa Neto
Moderator:  Edward Schenck
13:45 Patient care beyond the guidelines
Greg Martin
14:00 How should we implement a probability of benefit
Michelle N Gong
14:15 Bundles: what works and what doesn´t?
Andre Kalil
14:30 Discussion
 
14:45 Optimal timing of interventions in critical care
Edward Schenck
15:00 Balancing benefits, risks and costs
Sharon Einav
15:15 Discussion
 
Silver Hall
SEDATION ANALGESIA AND DELIRIUM
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Hayley B Gershengorn
Moderator:  Ari Moskowitz
8:30 Sedation is still overused
Jean-Louis Vincent
8:45 Current place of dexmedetomidine
Yahya Shehabi
9:00 Sedation and sleep: similarities and differences
Laurent Brochard
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 We use opiates too liberally
Jeremy Beitler
9:45 Fentanyl or morphine?
Ary Serpa Neto
10:00 Hallucinations in critically ill patients
Ary Serpa Neto
10:15 Discussion
 
10:30 Pharmacological prevention of delirium
Yahya Shehabi
10:45 The place of antipsychotics
Joanna L Stollings
11:00 Communication with patients in delirium
Peter Nydahl
11:15 Stimulating brain activity during sedation
Martin Dres
11:30 Discussion
 
PLENARY LECTURE
11:45 Lessons learned from the war in Ukraine
Michael Reade
12:15 Lunch break
 
NON-INVASIVE RESPIRATORY SUPPORT
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Arnaud Thille
Moderator:  Massimo Antonelli
13:45 The importance of Pendelluft
Marcelo Amato
14:00 HFNO in obstructive respiratory disorders
Laurent Brochard
14:15 Modulating brain activity with HFNO
Martin Dres
14:30 Discussion
 
14:45 Flow titration during HFNO at the bedside
Oriol Roca
15:00 Machine learning to predict failure
Paul Elbers
15:15 Let us put it all together
Lise  Piquilloud
15:30 Preoxygenation for intubation
 
15:45 Discussion
 
100 Hall
CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Daniel Talmor
Moderator:  Stephen M Pastores
8:30 When is it (un)safe to give a beta-blocking agent?
Pierre-Grégoire  Guinot
8:45 Managing beta blockers for heart failure in the acutely ill
Christopher Seymour
9:00 Low cardiac output syndrome re-imagined: a pediatric perspective 
Luregn Schlapbach
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 Assessing coronary flow by echocardiography
Michel  Slama
9:45 Perioperative cardiac biomarkers: absolute necessity or unnecessary expense?
Michelle Chew
10:00 Advances in heart transplantation and durable mechanical circulatory support
Jason Katz
10:15 Discussion
 
PRO-CON DEBATE
Moderator:  Melanie Meersch-Dini
10:35 Devices to better manage fever in the neuro patient
Fabio S Taccone [PRO]
Markus Skrifvars [CON]
TUTORIAL
11:10 Hypoactive delirium
Katarzyna Kotfis
TUTORIAL
11:45 Care of the transgender patient
Gustavo Cortes Puentes
12:15 Lunch break
 
AFTER ICU
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Luregn Schlapbach
Moderator:  Geert  Meyfroidt
13:45 What happens to the patient?
Melanie Meersch-Dini
14:00 Update on PICS
Joanna L Stollings
14:15 Improving post-ICU nutrition
Arthur van Zanten
14:30 Parenteral nutrition at time of discharge
Frank van Haren
14:45 Discussion
 
15:00 Long term outcomes after renal failure
Stéphane Gaudry
15:15 Susceptibility to osteoporosis
Karin Amrein
15:30 Susceptibility to cancer and cardiovascular diseases in sepsis survivors
Antoine Roquilly
15:45 Discussion
 
Panoramic Room
CURRENT ISSUES IN RENAL FAILURE
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Raghavan Murugan
Moderator:  Thomas Rimmelé
8:30 What we´ve learned in recent years
Tomoko Fujii
8:45 Understanding oliguria
Matthieu Legrand
9:00 Which vasopressor to improve renal outcomes?
Stéphane Gaudry
9:15 Discussion
 
9:30 Hepatorenal syndrome: what is new
Marlies Ostermann
9:45 The best way to monitor renal function
Lui Forni
10:00 How AI will help
Marlies Ostermann
10:15 Discussion
 
TUTORIAL
10:30 Post-operative care of the neurosurgical patient
Gloria Rodriguez-Vega
TUTORIAL
11:05 Dyspnea in the critically ill
Leo Heunks
TUTORIAL
11:45 Hepatic encephalopathy
Julia  Wendon
12:20 Lunch break
 
WORKING TOGETHER
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Greet Van den Berghe
Moderator:  Andrew  Shorr
13:45 Managing mental health issues
Elie Azoulay
14:00 The risk of being in an ICU
Daniel Talmor
14:15 Uncovering patients from anonymity
Sumera Ahmad
14:30 Patient-to-staff ratios
Hayley B Gershengorn
14:45 How to manage work-life balance
Karin Amrein
15:00 Discussion
 
15:15 Physician well-being and resilience
Greg Martin
15:30 Burnout and PICS: common factors?
Lioudmila Karnatovskaia
15:45 Managing cardiogenic shock with a team-based approach
Jason Katz
16:00 Why we need ICU pharmacy services
Nicole Hunfeld
16:15 Do we also need ICU doulas?
Lioudmila Karnatovskaia
16:30 Discussion
 
The Arc Room
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
[Standard presentation]
Moderator:  Karin Amrein
Moderator:  Michelle N Gong
8:30 Improving health equity
Jeremy Beitler
8:45 Do we need national guidelines?
Djillali Annane
9:00 Let´s make intensive care global and sustainable
Armand  Mekontso Dessap
9:15 Why was COVID-19 ICU mortality higher in Eastern Europe than in the West?
Zsolt Molnar
9:30 Discussion
 
9:50 Variations in sepsis management
Sheila N Myatra
10:05 Variations in brain death criteria
Cherylee WJ Chang
10:20 Variations in organ donation
Deepak Kumar Gupta
10:35 International collaboration in clinical research programs
Michael Reade
10:50 Discussion
 
11:10 Global collaboration in pediatric ICU trials
Luregn Schlapbach
11:25 International collaboration through platform trials
John C Marshall
11:40 How climate change will affect us everywhere
Marlies Ostermann
11:55 Discussion
 
Demo box 1
HANDS-ON
9:30 Automated pupillometry
Fabio S Taccone
DEMONSTRATION
10:20 PATIENT-VENTILATOR DYSSYNCHRONY
Gustavo Cortes Puentes
Laurent Brochard
Demo box 5
DEMONSTRATION
9:30 Indirect calorimetry to guide nutritional support
Arthur van Zanten
Elisabeth De Waele
DEMONSTRATION
10:15 Mechanical power
Francesca Collino
Luigi Camporota
MEET THE EXPERTS
11:00 Optimal glucose control
Jan Gunst
Jean-Charles  Preiser
SIMULATION SESSION
11:45 Managing the transition from control ventilation to spontaneous ventilation
Discussant: Marcelo Amato