Program
The 2021 World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care is committed to deliver high-quality scientific content that adapted to the needs of critical care professionals during these unprecedented times.
OUR COMMITMENT
We are committed to the principles of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. We are aiming for 50% of the speakers as females or other genders aside from males. We will make every effort to assure each session represents at least 2 different health professionals from 2 different continents. To improve the inclusive nature of the meeting we are exploring the ability to many of the scientific sessions.
THEME & TRACKS
The scientific program will be structured around the Congress theme, Caring Intensively, under the following tracks:
CARING ABOUT THE PATHOGENS +
- Developing a Covid vaccine
- Donation and transplantation in a pandemic
- Sepsis in the tropics
- Organ donation
- Long term care and chronic vents
- AMS in ICU/abx allergy delabelling
- Understanding how medications contribute to clinical deterioration and use during MET/RRT calls
CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS +
- Defining and determining death
- Vulnerable groups care
- ReMap Cap
- The ethics of a limited resource
- When you don't have enough ventilators
- When the drug supplies are limited
- T cell function
- Stopping the virus replication
- The impact of high-intensity rehab during Covid-19 associated ICU on post ICU functional outcomes
- Translating COVID-19 evidence to maximize PT impact and augment public health response
- SCCM/iSRRS guidelines
- LOVIT trial
- Diabetes
- Vulnerable/marginalized/those with mental health issues
- Donation/World Brain Death
- Best Practices for Critically Ill Patients
- PT perceptions of implementing evidence-based protocol in ICU
- Active music therapy intervention in ICU
- Optimal protein supplementation and early exercise to attenuate sarcopenia in MV patients
- Patient experiences of early mobilization, rehab, and recovery after critical illness
- Alternative and augmentative communication in ICU
- ICU Survivorship
- Transitions in Care
- OT evaluating cognition with LVAD use to determine ability to manage LVAD at home (*unsure if this project will be at a place to present by Sept. 2021)
- Inspiratory muscle tranining for acute and chronic resp conditions and for patients with weaning failure
- Multidisciplinary approach to post-ICU trach weaning and impact of dedicated team on decannulation rates
- ICU to home transitions - PICS
- PT treatment approaches for ICU survivors after hospital d/c
CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS' FAMILY +
- Impact of reduced visiting
- Family perspectives on End of life care
- Communications with family members
- Preventing harm/listening
- Gaps in ED recognition of sepsis
- Patient/family activation
- EoL practices
CARING IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES +
- The Bali Bombings
- The Humboldt Bus Crash
- 10 years after the Tsunami
CARING THROUGH INNOVATION +
- Restarting organs before and after death
- Virtual follow-up with COVID patients
- Hacking COVID in the ICU: the good and the bad
- Delirium post-Covid
- eutrophil extracellular traps and immunothrombosis
- AI in Critical Care Medicine
- AI in TBI
- CCCTG where are we going
- ANZICS the next large trial
- Saudia Arabia
- Chinese CCTC
- BricNET
CARING FOR OURSELVES +
- Wellness and resilience in the team
- Impact of COVID on the team
- Leadership, mindfulness, burnout
- ED-ICU collaboration
- Early Resuscitation
CARING FOR THE SYSTEM +
- Prehospital systems
- Gender equity, Racial equity
- Diversity in Critical Care Trials
- Indigenous Health: What can the Critical Care Community learn
- In-hospital care improves discharge survival
CARING AROUND THE WORLD +
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Please check back for more speaker announcements in the coming months!
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Claudio Martin Professor, Attending Physician London Health Science Centre |
Alison Fox-Robichaud Professor, Physician McMaster University and |
Sarah Crowe Nurse Practitioner Surrey Memorial Hospital |
Frederick D'Aragon Assistant Professor, Anesthesiologist Université de Sherbrooke |
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
The WCICC 2021 programme will be very different than in previous years. For the first time, we are expended our content and engagement beyond the traditional 4 days conference format. The majority of our programme will be available for both in-person and digital participants.
We are pleased to share with you the Provisional Programme At the Glance below.
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September 5 | September 6 | September 7 | September 8 | September 9 | September 10 | September 11 |
Pre-Congress Programme | Pre-Congress Meetings & Workshops |
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September 12 | September 13 | September 14 | September 15 | September 16 | September 17 | September 18 |
Early Bird Session | Early Bird Session | Early Bird Session | Early Bird Session | Post-Congress Meetings & Activities |
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Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | Lunch Break | |||
Sponsored Symposia |
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Poster Presentation |
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Welcome Reception |
Plenary | Plenary | Closing Plenary | |||
Faculty Dinner (invite only) |
Party Night |
Please refer to the website for the most up to date version of the programme.
Please note that the programme is subject to change without notice.