Scientific Presentations of the Critical Care Canada Forum 2019
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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Times
Sessions
Speakers
Location
Plenary
Moderators: N Ferguson, A Slutsky
Grand East
8:00-8:15 ICU ROX Trial P Young
8:15-8:20 Editorial Comment L Munshi
Cardiology & Critical Care – Presented by CCCF & CANCARE
Moderators: Y Lamarche, R Arntfield
Sheraton AB
8:30-8:50 Managing Cardiogenic Shock A Combes 
8:50-9:10  Molecular & Metabolomic Insights into Cardiogenic Shock P Lawler 
9:10-9:30 Pediatric Post Cardiac Arrest Care AM Guerguerian 
9:30-9:50
TTM and Prognostication after Cardiac Arrest D Scales
ARDS – VILI
Moderators: J Beitler, K Bosma
Grand East
8:30-8:50 
How to Minimize Driving Pressure & Respiratory Rate M Amato 
8:50-9:10 
Should we focus on Mechanical Power or its Individual Components L Gattinoni 
9:10-9:30 
Spontaneous Breathing and VILI T Yoshida 
9:30-9:50 
The NMBA Story A Slutsky
Brain Injury – TBI
Moderators: J Singh, M Oddo
Grand Centre
8:30-8:45
Invasive Multimodal Monitoring in TBI D Griesdale 
8:45-9:00
Treating Raised ICP in TBP G Brophy 
9:05-9:20
Extracranial Complications of TBI G Citerio 
9:20-9:35
Outcome Prognostication in TBI S Muehlschlegel 
9:35-9:50
Factors Influencing Withdrawal of Life Support in TBI A Turgeon 
Fluids – What Type and How Much?
Moderators: L McIntyre, S Gray 
Grand West
 8:30-8:50 Is it time to abandon saline for critically ill patients? A Cavalcanti 
 8:50-9:10 Balanced versus unbalanced fluids in critically ill children K Menon 
 9:10-9:30 Fluids – another example of less is more? B Rochwerg 
9:30-9:50
Impact of fluid resuscitation – a negative feedback loop S Magder 
Brain Injury II
Moderators: M Chasse, D Griesdale
Grand Centre
10:30-10:50
Worldwide Organization of Neurocritical Care J Suarez
10:50-11:10
Neurocritical Care Protocols – Progress and Pitfalls V McCredie
11:10-11:30
Improving Cerebral Perfusion M Oddo
11:30-11:50
Approach to Neurological Emergencies G Boyd
Cardiac Surgery & Critical Care – Presented by CCCF & CANCARE
Moderators: P Lawler, S Magder
Sheraton AB
 10:30-10:50 Bleeding & Transfusion Targets During & After Cardiac Surgery K Karkouti
 10:50-11:10 RV Failure after Cardiopulmonary Bypass S Magder 
11:10-11:30
Advanced Life Support in the CVICU Y Lamarche 
11:30-11:50
Temporary Circulatory Support after Cardiac Surgery G Singh 
ARDS – PEEP & Recruitment
Moderators: E Goligher, T Yoshida
Grand East
10:30-10:50
Can We Still Justify an Open Lung Approach? A Cavalcanti 
10:50-11:10
PEEP After EPVent-2 & ART – Now What? J Beitler 
11:10-11:30
How Much Recruitability to Expect? M Amato 
11:30-11:50
PEEP in ARDS: An Individualized Physiological Titration L Brochard 
Safety & Error
Moderators: T Stelfox, O Smith
Grand West
10:30-10:50
Care Discontinuity: Harmful or an Opportunity to Improve Care? A Amaral 
10:50-11:10
Too Sick to be in the ICU? Toxic to Healing Environments M Curley 
11:10-11:30
How to Optimize your Performance of Challenging Procedures S Gray 
11:30-11:50
Constructive Error – The Error-Berg C Parshuram / M Gaetani
Deceased Donation Track: New Data Plenary
Moderators: A Baker, S. Muehlschlegel
Grand East
 12:00-12:20 Death Prediction and Physiology After Removal of Therapy S Dhanani 
12:20-12:25   Interpretative Commentary D Griesdale 
Deceased Donation Track: Organ Donation I
Moderator: M Hartwick
Grand East
13:30-14:00   Death and Dying: The Impact of WLSM Procedures and Predicting Time to Death in DCD J Shahin
14:00-14:15   DCD Complexities: Preconference Summary A Healey
HFNO & NIV
Moderators: L Munshi, L Gattinoni
Grand Centre
13:30-13:50
Physiologic Effects and Settings of HFNO in Hypoxic Patients T Mauri 
13:50-14:10
HFNO to Prevent Intubation in HARF A Cavalcanti 
14:10-14:30
Noninvasive Ventilation in ARDS G Bellani 
14:30-14:50
Ventilation and Pulmonary Vascular Injury: The Heart of the Matter S Magder 
Resilience & Recovery
Moderators: A Amaral, R Khadaroo
Grand West
13:30-13:50
Can Emotional Intelligence Save Healthcare? S Dev 
13:50-14:10
Does This Get Any Easier? Work-Life Strategies L Ferrante 
14:10-14:30
When the Family Just Doesn’t Get It: Navigating Disagreements About Prognosis D White 
14:30-14:50
Recovering After Failure: Strategies for Keeping Well S Gray 
International Critical Care
Moderators: A Leligdowicz, G Citerio
Sheraton AB
13:30-13:50
Global Health & Critical Care R Fowler 
13:50-14:10
Clinical Manifestations and Complications of MERS Y Arabi 
14:10-14:30
Scaling Up Global Critical Care – Educational Approaches N Adhikari 
14:30-14:50
What Can We Learn From Working in Humanitarian Settings L Hawryluck 
Ventilation I – Spontaneous Breathing
Moderator: K Barrett
Grand Centre
15:30-15:50
Using the Campbell Diagram at the Bedside E Baedorf Kassis 
15:50-16:10
Monitoring Effort and Drive During Mechanical Ventilation L Brochard 
16:10-16:30
Occurrence and Implications of Pendelluft in Weaning G Bellani
16:30-16:50
New Strategies for Controlling Drive to Minimize P-SILI M Amato 
Focus on Family
Moderators: S Dev, C Parshuram
Grand West
15:30-15:50
What do Families Think of the ICU Environment? S Mehta
 15:50-16:10 Elder-Friendly Care to Improve ICU Survival R Khadaroo 
 16:10-16:30 Involve the Family: Relationships That Sustain Patients, Families and Nurses M Curley 
 16:30-16:50 Supporting Surrogate Decision-Makers in ICUs: Strategies That Work D White 
Deceased Donation Track: Organ Donation II
Moderator: A Healey
Grand East
15:30-15:50
Quality Improvement for Timely Referral of Potential Donors S Zavalkoff 
15:50-16:00
Medical Assistance in Dying – Her Last Project Film Trailer
16:00-16:10
MAID – Today and Tomorrow M Weiss 
16:10-16:20
Why These Cases are Different – Coordinator Perspective E Evans 
16:20-16:30
Family Perspectives on MAID and Donation R Tresidder 
16:30-17:00
Expanding the Donor Pool: Non-Perfused Organ Donation M Cypel 
Clinical Research I
Moderators: F Lamontagne, A Turgeon
Sheraton AB
15:30-15:50
The future for the RCT in a world of real-world evidence M Campbell 
15:50-16:10
Epidemiologic considerations when performing trials in critically ill children N Yehya 
16:10-16:30
Is Bigger Better? Why we need massive trials P Young 
16:30-16:50
Global collaboration in acute care research J Marshall 
Plenary New Data
Moderators: R Fowler, K Burns
Grand East
17:00-17:15
WEAN SAFE G Bellani /J Laffey 
17:15-17:20
Editorial Comment N Ferguson