34th Intensive Care + Intensive Care Symposium

34th Intensive Care + Intensive Care Symposium is organized by Scientific association for the promotion of clinically applied research in intensive care medicine / Wissenschaftlicher Verein zur Förderung der klinisch angewendeten Forschung in der Intensivmedizin (WIVIM), Congress Bremen and will be held from Feb 14 - 16, 2024 at Congress Centrum Bremen, Bremen, Germany.

Description:
Over the last 30 years, the Intensive Care + Intensive Care Symposium has developed into one of the most important platforms for further training and interdisciplinary exchange in Germany. Due to the dynamic change in intensive therapy, which constantly pushes nursing staff and medical staff to their limits, highly qualified further training is extremely important in order to keep up with the high demands of specialist knowledge, tasks and activities.

The symposium combines seven thematic pillars under one roof: anesthesia, intensive care medicine, intensive care, hospital management + perspective, master class, modern campus and emergency medicine

The main topics of each pillar can be found in the graphic. By clicking on a desired column you can go directly to the list of the subject area.

Intensive Care Medicine:

• Analgesic sedation/pain therapy
• Ventilation: basics, pathophysiology and evidence
• Ethics in times of limited resources, ethics in everyday care
• Key points of infectiology
• Monitoring
• Organ function and organ replacement
• Sepsis - prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy
• Special clinical pictures
• The Clinical Year in Review
• New technologies in intensive care medicine
• Interdisciplinary pediatric intensive care and pediatric emergency medicine
• Palliative medicine in intensive care medicine and intensive care
• Quality of life after intensive care medicine
• Data management/error management
• “Lewandowski's Magical Mystery Lectures”
• The “Anesthesiological Literary Quartet”
• Highlights of 2023

Intensive Care:

• Special anesthesia and intensive care
• Multiprofessional care and emergency care
• Current legal issues in different settings
• Personnel measurement and professional policy discourse
• Technology & Care – Looking into the future
• Out-of-hospital intensive care
• Ventilation – current questions and aspects
• News from nursing research and nursing science
• Current challenges for personnel development and personnel management
• Intensive care and ethics: Live independently, die independently
• Development and future of the nursing profession (nursing education, management, science, politics)
• What skills do nursing professionals need? New educational aspects?!
• Workshops: Basal Stimulation, Kinaesthetics, AACN Synergy Model

Anesthesia:

• Perioperative monitoring
• Anesthesia and outcome
• Anesthesia in gynecology and obstetrics
• Regional anesthesia
  Pediatric anesthesia
• Case conference: How would you have decided?
• Patient Blood Management
• Perioperative volume management
• Targeted therapy concepts
• Coagulation management
• The ecological footprint of volatile anesthetics
• Sustainability and patient safety in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine

Emergency Medicine:

• Increasingly invasive – challenges for the team
• Rescue chain rethought
• Emergency room and emergency services – seam or predetermined breaking point
• Research in emergency medicine – hot out of the press
• Old, but always new – children’s emergencies
• Case studies – what do we learn from them?
• Polytrauma – have we been good so far?
• More and more and more - that's no longer possible - emergency services rethought in 2030

Hospital Management + perspective:

• Status of the hospital reform 2023 - consequences for intensive care medicine; What impact do changes in level have on anesthesia and intensive care?
• How can collaboration between medical and nursing managers succeed?
• Performance development after the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison 2019 versus 2022/2023; Causes?
• Workshop for intensive care personnel requirements

Masterclass:

• Current professional policy developments in the field of intensive care medicine
• Our ICU: Magnet for nursing staff
• What does sustainability mean in the intensive care unit?
• Telemedicine currently
• Evidence-based anti-infective management
• Patient integrity in the intensive care unit
• Triage in the intensive care unit: medical, legal and ethical aspects

Modern Campus:

• Patient safety and team development
• Advanced Life Support
• Pediatric emergencies
• Breaking Bad News
• learn to teach