THANKS FOR ATTENDING THIS YEARS’ CONFERENCE
HICC CARDIOVASCULAR WORKSHOP FINAL HANDOUT
This is the FINAL programme for the 2019 Hi Impact Critical Care Conference:
CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE
Western Anaesthesia Society, Saolta Critical Care & Sepsis, NUIG, Galway Critical Care
Hi Impact Critical Care Main Conference
November 8th 2019 – Clayton Hotel Galway
High Impact Critical Care Conference – Cardiovascular 2019
November 8th 2019
Programme
MORNING SESSION
07.00 Registration opens – Coffee/ Tea Available
07.30 – 09.00 Workshop (fully interactive session.)
Pre-Conference Workshop Cardiovascular Monitoring (Hi Impact)
Faculty: Pat Neligan, Mike Scully, Christine Sheehan, Aoife Brennan, Jacob Gutsche, Vinod Sudhir
(ECGs, CVP Traces, PAC numbers and Traces, Arterial Line Traces, Fluid Responsiveness, Echos)
Session 1 Cardiovascular Infections
09.15-09.40 Infectious Endocarditis and How to Diagnose and Manage it – Dr. Una Ní Riain
09.40-10.00 Weird Cardiovascular Infections – Dr. Helen Tuite
Coffee
Session 2: Cardiogenic Shock
10.30 -11.00 Pressors and inotropes Cardiogenic Shock – Dr Leo Kevin
11.00 – 11.30 Advances in Valvular Surgery and the Critical Care Consequences Dr Michael Scully
Short Break
Session 3 Advances in Cardiovascular & Cardiopulmonary Medicine
11.45- 12.30 Extracorporeal Life Support– Prof. Jacob Gutsche
12.30- 13.00 Controversies in Critical Care Cardiology – Prof. Bill McEvoy
LUNCH (Included in registration)
AFTERNOON SESSION
Session 4: Galway Soapbox (Hi Impact)
Hang around to hear the afternoon rants!
14.15 -14.30 The patient needs an angio and the creatinine is high!
-Dr Bairbre McNicholas
14.30 -14.45 The Baby is Blue, What Do I do? Dr Michael Callaghan
15.00—15.15 Why we need to change our approach to Critical Care Clinical
Trials? Prof. John G. Laffey
15.15 – 15.30 Nobody’s Looking at the Numbers !– Christine Sheehan ANP
15.30 – 15.45 Ten Ways of Identifying a Good Modern ICU Practice
– Dr Patrick Neligan
16.00 – Finish
14.45 – 15.00 When is a BAL not a BAL? Dr Brian Harte
15.15 – 15.30 Nobody’s Looking at the Numbers – Christine Sheehan ANP
15.30 – 15.45 Evidence Schmevidence – Prof. Patrick Neligan
16.00 – Finish
SPEAKERS
Dr. Una Ní Riain is a consultant microbiologist at Galway University Hospitals
Dr Helen Tuite is a consultant physician specializing in Infectious Diseases at Galway University Hospitals (UHG)
Dr Leo Kevin is a consultant in anaesthesia (inc. cardiac anaesthesia) & intensive care at UHG
Dr Michael Scully is a consultant in anaesthesia (inc. cardiac anaesthesia) & intensive care at UHG and senior lecturer in anaesthesia and critical care at NUI Galway (NUIG)
Prof. Jacob Gutsche is a Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Prof Bill McEvoy is a consultant cardiologist at UHG and Professor of preventive cardiology at NUIG
Dr Bairbre McNicholas is a consultant in intensive care medicine, special interest in nephrology, at UHG
Dr Brian Harte is a consultant in anaesthesia (inc. thoracic anaesthesia) & intensive care at UHG
Prof. John Laffey is a consultant in anaesthesia & intensive care at UHG, Professor of Anaesthesia and Vice Dean of Research at NUI Galway
Christine Sheehan is a nurse practitioner (outreach and so much more) at UHG
Prof Pat Neligan is a consultant in anaesthesia & intensive care at UHG, ICU medical director and PP Professor at NUI Galway (NUIG)
Dr Vinod Sudhir is a consultant in anaesthesia & intensive care at UHG and Portiuncula Hospital (ICU medical director)
Dr Aoife Brennan is an ICU fellow at UHG
