The Hospitalist and the Resuscitationist May 2020

Last year was great, all thanks going to our awesome faculty, and this year, we’re planning on taking it yet to another level. We’ve added some new faculty members who’ll be bringing some interesting perspectives, and there will be a pervasive theme across the two days to really get everyone’s understanding and management of the oft-overlooked venous/right side of things, woven in among the other key topics that last year’s attendees and the scientific committee chose. This is a clear evolution in clinical practice that, paired with POCUS, is really a game changer across a wide range of pathologies. Expect to leave from these two days with at least one extra notch on your belt.

The importance of careful fluid resuscitation has been gaining attention in the last years – take for instance the great work being done by Manu Malbrain at IFAD (International Fluid Academy) who just had their symposium. Treating fluids like the drugs that they are should be our goal.

In addition we have picked a number of important topics, with the idea to share knowledge and practical skills at therapeutic decision points, or else to bring attention to bleeding-edge topics that, though not widespread today, hold promise for further fine-tuning of resuscitation. One in particular is the use of the pulmonary artery catheter, whose use, though having fallen out of mainstream favour, persisted in many areas where clinicians were able to properly use this powerful monitoring tool. We feel it is poised to make a comeback among high-level resuscitationists. For some, it may be a matter of refreshing and re-polishing, and for the new generation, a good time to learn.

PRE-CONFERENCE COURSES!

There’s 4 of them, all on May 20th:

The Hospitalist Course (full day)
The Resuscitationist’s Toolbox (half day AM)
Resus TEE (full day)
Jiu-Jitsu for MDs (half day PM)
So, some slight structural adjustments. The Hospitalist angle now gets a pre-conference course, focusing on very practical, applied and critically important topics for the ward patients, including solid POCUS workshops to get some hands-on work on and great participant to faculty ratios. For the full programme of The Hospitalist Course see here