The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM)

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM) is organized by The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM) and will be held from Mar 06 - 08, 2020 at Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

JSICM has been promoting various innovations in recent years. As part of those initiatives, have established the “Committee on the Future of Annual Meetings” to pursue reforms to the meetings, which are the main pillar of JSICM. As Chairman of the committee, I am promoting the planning and execution of the Meeting as one of the achievements of the committee. The joint planning structure involving the program committee and the President is one of the outcomes of the innovations.

With the progress in intensive care medicine, short-term prognosis has improved remarkably in recent years. However, it has become clear that many survivors of serious conditions have been facing difficulties in rehabilitation. In light of such circumstances, we have founded the “Committee of Intensive Care and Early Rehabilitation” and the “Exploratory Committee for PICS Measures and Improvement of Quality of Life,” which have begun their operations. These activities are actually my lifework. I have also incorporated my thinking that “future intensive care must target rehabilitation after lifesaving measures” into the theme of this Meeting. Furthermore, I have contributed to the drafting of a number of practice guidelines, including for sepsis, in the past years. I feel that there are many existing issues with conventional RCTs that make it a challenge to generate true evidence, especially in the field of intensive care.

Recently, there have been developments in research and statistical measures to classify syndromes that are not a homogeneous disease, such as ARDS and sepsis, into subphenotypes to make profitable use of precision medicine. In this regard, we are planning to have discussions by clinicians, researchers, and statisticians from Western countries and Japan at the Meeting.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.