tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, 20–23 March 2001"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, 20–23 March 2001. | Available online http content 5 3 138 Meeting report The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Brussels Belgium 20-23 March 2001 Jonathan Ball and Richard Venn1 Department of Intensive Care St George s Hospital London UK department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Worthing Hospital Worthing West Sussex Correspondence Jonathan Ball Department of Intensive Care St George s Hospital London SW17 0QT UK. Tel 44 0 20 8725 3296 fax 44 0 20 8725 3135 Received 27 March 2001 Revisions requested 30 March 2001 Revisions received 1 April 2001 Accepted 17 April 2001 Published 2 May 2001 Critical Care 2001 5 138-141 2001 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X Abstract The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine was dominated by the results of recent clinical trials in sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS . The promise of extracorporeal liver replacement therapy and noninvasive ventilation were other areas of interest. Ethical issues also received attention. Overall the state of the art lectures pro con debates seminars and tutorials were of a high standard. The meeting was marked by a sense of renewed enthusiasm that positive progress is occurring in intensive care medicine. Keywords ARDS ethics hepatic failure non-invasive ventilation sepsis Introduction This year s symposium was dominated by the results of recent clinical trials. After 10 years of magic bullet trials in sepsis a number of successful therapeutic options are now emerging. In addition recent advances in our understanding of the soup of mediators observed in sepsis offer yet more tantalizing targets for new therapies. In contrast the eagerly awaited results from Italy of the prone positioning trial in ARDS were disheartening. The epidemiology of both sepsis and ARDS and their impact on clinical studies and the future provision of critical care were also hot topics. The era of extracorporeal liver .