ICS State of the Art 2016: UK critical care, rebooted.new faces • new topics • new formats • catch up on controversies • update your practice • network with your colleagues • meet the speakers

Monday Dec 5thPre-plenary warm-upTED talks in critical care (pop-up stage)Opening plenary:Intensive care: no place for RCTs?Three unfinished revolutions in ICMWhere are all the female intensivists?Main sessions:ACTACC session: managing the heart in ICUCreating the future: learning from MacLaren, Google Deepmind, and space medicinePoint of care USS: from neophyte to ninjaMasterclass: Jean-Louis VincentLunchtime symposia & pop-ups (various)Emergency medicine are from Venus, ICU are from Mars: a tale of two tribes?Recovery & rehab: mapping the journeyCan we stop talking about sepsis yet?Ultrasound masterclassDrinks receptionConcurrent informal sessionsTrainees Pecha Kucha session

Tuesday Dec 6thBreakfast sessions: clinical review of the year: physical rehab, & emerging terror threatsMain sessions:Interventional frontiers: IR, REBOA, VA-ECMOSAM session: learning from acute medicineIvory Tower to Desert IslandCuthbertson/Brett Masterclass: ICU follow-upTeamwork – beyond the usual platitudesThe view from the ICU bed: Alex Lewis’s storyOxygen: COAST, BTS guidelines, and hyperoxiaOral presentations: clinical practiceLunchtime symposia (various)Rise of the machines: new technology in ICULung latest: cell therapies, IFN- β, GM-CSFGlobal challenges in critical careOral presentations: research PICS session: sick kids, transition to adulthood metabolism in critical illnessWho looks after us? Morale, burnout, resilienceDavid Bennett session: Kath Maitland

Wednesday Dec 7thBreakfast sessions: clinical review of the year: Organ donationCancer critical careMain sessions:Nutrition: US and European perspectivesEthics & ICU decision-making: a UK framework“How I would treat…”Clinical trials masterclassThe Cauldron: “ICU is under attack!”Delirium & sedationAirway management in critical careICF Gold Medal presentationsLunchtime symposia (various)Closing plenaryUK researchThe big trials: hot off the pressOngoing researchTranslating to clinical practice

Visit our new website for details of programme, speakers, registration, abstract submission, travel & accommodation (both near the venue, and in central London)

Just some of the UK faculty:

Anna BatchelorNewcastle

Danni BearLondon

Danny BrydenSheffield

Kevin FongLondon

Dan HarveyNottingham

Adam HillMacLaren

Helgi JohannsonLondon

Dominic KingGoogle Deepmind

Justin Kirk-BaileyGuildford

Simon LaingBirmingham

Alex LewisHampshire

Zoë Tieges Edinburgh

International speakers include:

Karin AmreinAustria

Peter BrindleyCanada

Brian CuthbertsonToronto

Jack IwashynaUnited States

Kath MaitlandEast Africa

Louise RoseCanada

Yoanna SkrobikCanada

Arjen SlooterNetherlands

Jean-Louis VincentNetherlands

Steve WebbAustralia

soa.ics.ac.uk 15 CPD points abstract deadline 15 Sepearly bird reg by 03 Oct

Full meeting(day rates available – see website)

Early bird until Oct 03

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Consultant £450/£575 £495/£625Trainee/SASG £390/£520 £445/£565Nurse/AHP £190/£255 £225/£280

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