Scientific Presentations of the Critical Care Canada Forum 2018
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2018

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Times
Sessions
Speakers
Location
7:00-16:00 REGISTRATION OPEN 
Concourse
7:00-8:00
Coffee & Tea Served Vide Foyer
CCCF-CMPA Breakfast Session: Contentious Requests for Advanced Therapies
Moderators: K Bosma, S Lapinsky
7:00-8:00 Case Presentation and Facilitated Panel Discussion
Panelists: A Fox-Robichaud, N Needham-Nethercott, R Sibbald, D Boivin
Plenary Address – DCD
Moderators: S Keenan, M Hartwick
Grand EAST
8:00-8:25 Trust & Integrity of the Deceased Donation System S Shemie
8:25-8:30 Questions & Discussion
Organ Donation II
Moderators: M Hartwick, S Keenan
Grand EAST
8:30-8:45 Canadian Guidelines for Donor Management I Ball
8:45-9:00 Results of the Canada-DONATE Cohort Study M Meade
9:00-9:10 Questions & Discussion
9:10-9:30 Engaging Decision Makers and Family in Organ Donation A Sarti
9:30-9:50 Canadian Intensivist Attitudes to Deceased Donation M Chasse & M Weiss
9:50-10:00 Questions & Discussion
Mechanical Ventilation I
Moderators: K Bosma, M Schultz
Grand CENTRE
8:30-8:50 Patient ventilator dyssynchrony L Brochard
8:50-9:10 Sedation and ventilator asynchrony Y Skrobik
9:10-9:30 Ventilation in Severe Airflow Obstruction N Meyer
9:30-9:50 How to optimize timing of extubation A Seely
9:50-10:00 Discussion
Rehab and Mobilization
Moderators: B Cuthbertson, M Kho
Grand WEST
8:30-8:50 Rehabilitation: Before, During and After ICU M Herridge
8:50-9:10 ICU Mobility — what have we learned and what’s next? T Hough
9:10-9:30 Early mobilization during ECMO: do we have data? D Brodie
9:30-9:50 Physical function after ICU C Hodgson
9:50-10:00 Discussion
Controversies in Antimicrobial Management – CCCF / CCIDN
Moderators: W Sigl, A Gordon
Sheraton AB
8:30-8:50 Combination Therapy is Best A. Kumar
8:50-9:10 Combination Therapy is Bust M Klompas
9:10-9:30 Empiric Therapy for Suspected Severe S. aureus Infection S Qureshi
9:30-9:50 Empiric Therapy for Suspected Fungal Sepsis C Rotstein
9:50-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:30 BREAK
Organ Donation – DCD
Moderators: J Singh, A Kramer
Grand EAST
10:30-10:50 Uncontrolled DCD: The Spanish Experience Á Ruiz
10:50-11:10 E-CPR for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest B Grunau
11:10-11:30 In-Situ v Ex-Vivo Regional Perfusion for Abdominal Organs Á Ruiz
11:50-12:00 Discussion
ARDS & VILI
Moderators: E Fan, M Shankar-Hari
Grand CENTRE
10:30-10:35 Oral Abstract: Driving Pressure during Spontaneous Ventilation A Grassi
10:40-11:00 Cardiac Impact on VILI B Kavanagh
11:05-11:25 Phenotyping of ARDS and nonARDS patients M Schultz
11:30-11:50 ARDS Subphenotypes: Differential Treatment Responses C Calfee
11:50-12:00 Discussion
Shock & Resuscitation – The AC Bryan Physiology Symposium
Moderators: C Dos Santos, K Walley
Grand West
10:30-10:50 Relative adrenal insufficieny in the ICU: fact or fiction? G Van den Berghe
10:50-11:10 Lactate: The Myths P Marik
11:10-11:30 Does pH matter? S Magder
11:30-11:50 Fluid is a drug and we don’t know the dose J Fraser
11:50-12:00 Discussion
Acute Care Hematology & More…
Moderators: D ScalesS Lapinsky
Sheraton AB
10:30-10:50 Thrombotic Microangiopathies in the ICU E Azoulay
10:50-11:10 Bleeding Prevention in the ICU D Cook
11:10-11:15 Oral Abstract: NIRS and Microvascular Hemoglobin A Mendelson
11:20-11:40 Red Cell Transfusions in the PICU – When, What & How Much M Tucci
11:50-11:50 HELLP! Caring for the critically ill pregnant patient S Lapinsky
11:50-12:00 Discussion
12:00 Innovation and Hospital Automation D Menawat
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
PLENARY SYMPOSIUM – What is Value-Based Health Care in Canada?
Chairs: K Walley, A Brown
Perspectives from Opinion Leaders
Grand EAST
13:00-13:15 CEO, Medtronic Canada N Fraser
13:15-13:30 President & CEO, Alberta Health Systems V Yiu
13:30-13:45 Health and Public Policy Journalist and Author A Picard
13:45-14:00 President & CEO, British Columbia Academic Health Sciences Network T Noseworthy
14:00-14:30 Questions and Panel Discussion
14:30-15:00 BREAK
Critical Care Systems – The WJ Sibbald Symposium
Moderators: R Fowler, D Klein
Grand EAST
15:00-15:20 Demand and Strain on Critical Care Units E Wilcox
15:20-15:40 Improving transfers from ward to ICU K Rowan
15:40-16:00 Improving transfers from ICU to ward T Stelfox
16:00-16:20 De-adoption: the new quality improvement G Rubenfeld
16:20-16:30 Discussion
Brain Injury – Monitoring & Prognostication
Moderators: V McCredie, M Chasse
Grand CENTRE
15:00-15:05 Oral Abstract: Non-invasive Personalized Cerebral Perfusion K Lee
15:10-15:15 Oral Abstract: Quantitative EEG S Ganesan
15:20-15:40 Neurological prognostication in the intensive care unit G Boyd
15:40-16:00 Impairment and recovery of consciousness J Claassen
16:00-16:20 Should we be measuring brain oxygenation? A Turgeon
16:20-16:30 Discussion
ECCO2R
Moderators: A Combes, K Barrett
Grand WEST
15:00-15:20 ECCO2R for COPD: the era of RCTs is coming D Brodie
15:20-15:40 ECCO2R for Ultra-protective Ventilation E Fan
15:40-16:00 ECCO2R may have beneficial effects on the RV A Vieillard-Baron
16:00-16:20 What’s next for ECCO2R A Combes
16:20-16:30 Discussion
What’s New In Critical Care ID – CCCF / CCIDN
Moderators: A Kumar, S Qureshi
Sheraton AB
15:00-15:25 What’s New in Antimicrobials? W Sligl
15:25-15:50 What’s New in Source Control? J Marshall
15:50-16:15 What’s New in Diagnostics? A Kumar
16:15-16:30 Discussion
Plenary Address – Burnout & Resilience
Moderators: M Herridge, C Parshuram
Grand EAST
16:30-17:00 Burnout, Physician Mental Health and Medical Culture S Dev
17:00-17:15 Questions and Discussion