Key program topics

Written by Administrator. Posted in IFAD 2017

Resuscitation fluids
Maintenance fluids
Replacement fluids
Crystalloids vs colloids
Balanced vs unbalanced
Summary of recent big fluid trials
The 4 D's of fluids therapy (drug - dose - duration - deescalation)
The R.O.S.E. concept (resuscitation - optimisation - stabilisation - evacuation)
The role for albumin
Blood products and substitutes
The microcirculation and the glycocalix
De-resuscitation
Hemorrhagic shock and trauma
Hemodynamic monitoring
Calibrated vs uncalibrated CO
Goal directed therapy
Sepsis definitions
Volumetric vs barometric preload
Organ function monitoring
ARDS definitions
EIT and EVLWI monitoring
Future directions
Perioperative management
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