Updates in Critical Care: Tales from the Riverbank 2025

The aim of this meeting is to provide a comprehensive update into critical care, conditions and treatments and the support of ICU

Overview

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK, and our hospitals have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence. The Critical Care Department is one of the largest in the UK, with patients admitted from a range of specialties. As a tertiary referral centre, it is nationally and internationally renowned for its services and advanced therapies.

Aim

The aim of this meeting is to provide a comprehensive update into critical care, conditions and treatments and the support of ICU in delivering specialist care to patients.

Objectives

Latest agenda

8:15am

Registration, tea and coffee

9:00am

Welcome and introduction

  • Natalie Grey, Lead Nurse for Workforce and Education in Critical Care

9:05am

ARDS: An update?

  • Professor Luigi Camporota, Consultant Intensivist

9:45am

Fluid accumulation: Implications and management

  • Professor Marlies Ostermann, Consultant Intensivist

10:20am

Micronutrients through a critical lens

  • Dr Ehsan Ahmadnia, Consultant Intensivist

11:00am

Tea and coffee break

11:30am

Blood purification

  • Dr Francesco Vasques, Consultant Intensivist

12:10pm

Management of refractory septic shock

  • Dr Dan Taylor, Consultant Intensivist

12:50pm

Lunch

2:00pm

The value of occupational therapy across critical care, Acute hospital and community for ICU survivors

  • Stephanie Lim, Occupational Therapist

2:35pm

Withholding and withdrawing ICU support – the role of the MDT

  • Dr Guy Glover, Consultant Intensivist

3:15pm

Tea and coffee break

3:45pm

Empowering ICU Nurses to safely care for the maternal patient

  • Lovely Lobeda, Senior Nurse Educator

4:20pm

Optimal use of blood products in the ICU

  • Dr Duncan Wyncoll, Consultant Intensivist

5:00pm

Close of meeting

Who should attend

This meeting is suitable for critical care nurses, consultants and AHPs

How to book

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