The World Congress of Intensive Care is the official biennial gathering of over 80 critical care societies, from all over the world and across all domains of critical care. Our program includes world class speakers and studies that will have implications for ICU and trauma patients all over the world presented for the very first time. But like no Congress you have seen before is the chance to get up close with Australian wildlife in our trade hall petting zoo.
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Protein C was superior for the prediction of organ dysfunction after 7 days of ICU treatment when compared with other biomarkers of endothelial function, inflammation, and coagulation. C-reactive protein (CRP) and white blood... read more

A concise learning tool designed for residents, nurses, and other ICU professionals, Textbook of Critical Care: Common Problems in the ICU highlights the most common conditions encountered in the ICU – all in a convenient... read more

Underfeeding in critical illness is common and associated with poor outcomes. According to large prospective hospital studies, volume-based feeding (VBF) safely and effectively improves energy and protein delivery to critically... read more

The aim of this study was to explore the possible link between splanchnic circulatory changes and exhaled CH4 in an attempt to recognize intestinal perfusion failure. Methane (CH4) breath test is an established diagnostic... read more

Extending an 8-decade tradition of excellence, Red Book® provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious... read more

The objective of this study was to estimate the inter-rater reliability of critical care nurses performing a pediatric modification of the Glasgow Coma Scale in a contemporary pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). All 274... read more

Although the need to properly assess and monitor the hemodynamic status of a critically ill patient appears self-evident, the plethora of information in the published literature over the past two decades has resulted in complexity... read more

Written “by residents, for residents” and reviewed by expert faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lauren Kahl, MD and Helen K. Hughes, MD, MPH, The Harriet Lane Handbook, 21st Edition, remains your #1 source... read more

In recent years the number of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) cases in neonates has been relatively constant. Future expansion lays in new indications for treatment. Regionalization to high-volume ECMO centers... read more

Circulating postoperative secretoneurin concentrations provide incremental prognostic information to established risk indices in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Preoperative and postoperative secretoneurin concentration... read more

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an increasing medical burden and is independently associated with mortality. AKI is a common comorbidity in the intensive care unit (ICU), with sepsis-associated AKI seen in almost a quarter of... read more

This book provides clinical and electrovectorcardiographic evidence of the existence of left septal fascicular blocks and demonstrates the clinical importance of these blocks in the clinical scenario of acute coronary syndrome.... read more

Intensive care is an interesting specialty. From all the early excitement in the 1970s, passing through two decades of intensive physiological use at the bedside, intensive care landed on the rough ground of modern randomized... read more

The objective of this review is to characterize the risk of bloodstream infection (BSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI) and describe antibiotic use in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) requiring extracorporeal... read more

Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined by sustained intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) > 20 mm Hg with associated organ injury. The condition was first described in 1863, but not significantly discussed until the 1990s.... read more

The ever-increasing trend toward noninvasive monitoring puts echocardiography at the forefront and considerable effort has been made to define its role in this setting. Invasive pressure measurement is the only accurate way... read more

The aim of this book is to identify and shed new light on the main surgical practices involved in acute care and trauma surgery. Adopting an evidence-based approach, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and intensivists illustrate... read more

Sepsis-3 defines organ dysfunction as an increase in the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score by greater than or equal to 2 points. However, some Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score components are not routinely... read more

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients need mechanical ventilation to sustain gas exchange. Animal experiments showed that mechanical ventilation with high volume/plateau pressure and no positive end-expiratory... read more