World Congress of Anaesthesiologists 2021
August 31st, 2021 – online
Satellite symposium: “Extracorporeal life support in contemporary anesthesiology and intensive care”




9:00-9:10 Opening – Daniel Brodie, Jan Belohlavek, Konstanty Szułdrzyński

Session 1 – Current status of ECLS
9:10-9:30 Extracorporeal support in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. - Nick Barrett, London, UK
9:30-9:50 ECMO in cardiac failure – an update. - Roberto Lorusso, Maastricht, The Netherlands
9:50-10:10 e-CPR in OHCA – a new standard? - Jan Belohlavek, Prague, Czechia

Session 2 ECMO in COVID-19
10:20-10:40 Evidence and outcome. - Daniel Brodie, New York, USA
10:40-11:00 Challenges in ECMO for CARDS. - Luigi Camporota, London, UK
11:00-11:20 Who will not benefit from VV ECMO. -  Steffen Weber - Carstens, Berlin, Germany

Session 3 Improving outcome
11:30-11:50 Neurological complications of ECMO. - Roberto Lorusso, Maastricht, The Netherlands
11:50-12:10 Do we need extracorporeal gas exchange to enhance lung protection in ARDS? - Matthieu Schmidt, Paris, France

Session 4 Integration of ECLS into ICU care
12:30-12:50 Mechanical ventilation during ECMO. - Luigi Camporota, London, UK
12:50-13:10 ECMO, proning or both? - Konstanty Szuldrzynski, Warsaw, Poland
13:10-13:30 ECMO and AKI. - Matthias Lubnow

Matthias Lubnow


Senior Physician Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Deputy Head ICU 93, University of Regensburg, Germany
Research interests and publications include coagulation and factors associated with hemolysis during vv and va extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), long term ECMO, eCPR, acute renal failure during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and COVID 19.
, Regensburg, Germany
13:30-13:50 Extracorporeal absorption techniques in ECMO and sepsis. - Stephan Ziegeler, Ibbenbueren,Germany
13:50-14:10 ECLS for surgical procedures. - Marcelo Gama de Abreu

Marcelo Gama de Abreu


Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD, MSc, DESA, PhD is Visiting Professor of Anesthesiology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and Professor of Translational Research in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. He is Staff of the Department of Intensive Care and Resuscitation, and Department of Outcomes Research, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. With more than 1250 publications, Dr. Gama de Abreu has contributed importantly to advance knowledge in anesthesiology and intensive care. During the past 15 years, he conducted and coordinated multiple trials in Europe and the USA, and currently serves as German national coordinator of the PHOENICS trial, which addresses the safety of starches containing solutions in respect to renal function.
, Cleveland, USA
14:10-14:30 ECLS for trauma and accidental hypothermia. - Justyna Swol

Justyna Swol


Justyna Swol, MD PhD is an intensivist with a surgical background, “ecmologist,” and clinician scientist, affiliated with the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Paracelsus Medical University in Nuremberg, Germany where she leads a research group dedicated to artificial lung. Her primary interests include the use of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in trauma patients and enhanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). Dr. Justyna Swol is a member of the Steering Committee of EuroELSO, the European Branch of Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) since 2015 and served as a coordinator for Educational Corner during the EuroELSO conferences. She represented EuroELSO, providing educational and society-related information on social media under her Twitter handle @ECMOdaily. Finally, Dr. Swol founded a working group Simulation and Artificial Intelligence in ECLS, as a collaboration between EuroELSO and ESAO (European Society of Artificial Organs), focused on simulation and artificial intelligence in ECLS. Dr. Swol has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications, including conference abstracts and book chapters. She served for international journals as an Associate Editor for Artificial Organs, an Editorial Board Member for ASAIO, and an invited reviewer for many journals including Artificial Organs, Resuscitation, ASAIO and Perfusion.

Justyna Swol, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, University Hospital of Paracelsus Medical University in Nuremberg, Germany
 
, Nuerenberg, Germany

Session 5 Principles of ECLS
14:40-15:00 Principles of ECLS in respiratory suppor.t - Antonio Pesenti, Milan, Italy
15:00-15:20 Principles of ECLS in circulatory support. - Piotr Suwalski, Warsaw, Poland
15:20-15:40 Cannulation options for ECMO. - Lars Mikael Broman, Stockholm, Sweden
15:40-16:00 Anticoagulation in ECMO. Gennaro Martucci

Gennaro Martucci, M.D.


Dr Gennaro Martucci, MD is a senior anesthesiologist and intensivist at ISMETT in Palermo, a part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center international network. He is currently a PhD fellow at Maastricht University. His main research fields are the coagulation, effects on haematology and patient blood management in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and liver transplantation. He is member of the Italian anaesthesiology society, ESICM and ELSO.
Palermo, Italy
16:00-16:20 Troubleshooting in ECMO. - Nicholas Barrett, London

16:30 Conference closing – Konstanty Szuldrzynski, Nicholas Barrett





 
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