Friday, June 11

Assessing TBI and SCI in the ICU

• Advanced monitoring
  Paul Vespa
• Centralizing care of TBI to optimize outcomes: a must or an utopia?
  Peter Andrews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• CPP targeting and autoregulation evaluation in ICU
  David Menon
• Intracranial pressure monitoring
  Giuseppe Citerio, Monza, Italy
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Controversies & conundrums in neurocritical care

• Blood pressure in brain haemorrhage and stroke: how high is too high?
  Giuseppe Citerio, Monza, Italy
• Forget t-PA, it’s all about clot retrieval
  Paul Brennan
• Surgery for cerebral haemorrhage: to clip, coil, or take out the clot?
  Michael O'Sullivan
• Tight glucose control: what’s so special about the brain?
  Nino Stocchetti, Milan, Italy
• Warfarin reversal in trauma and stroke: is time brain?
  Claude Hemphill
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Minimizing ischemic cerebral damage

• Applying evidence to acute ischemic stroke critical care: extended window IV t-PA and decompressive craniectomy
  Paul Vespa
• Resuscitating the brain from global ischemia: hypothermia and beyond
  Peter Andrews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Strategies for improving outcome

• Medical strategies for controlling ICP
  Giuseppe Citerio, Monza, Italy
• Spinal cord injury: update on treatment
  Gavin Lavery, Belfast, United Kingdom
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TBI: State of the Art

• Impact of TBI guidelines on acute management
  Claude Hemphill
• Treatment of TBI: what has changed in the past 20 years
  Nino Stocchetti, Milan, Italy
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Saturday, June 12

Brain Death and Organ Donation

• Brain death – standardisation of diagnosis
  Thomas Bleck, Chicago, USA
• Controversies in maximising organ donation
  Rory Dwyer
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Encephalopathies & Seizures

• Hepatic Encephalopathy
  Thomas Bleck, Chicago, USA
• Seizures in the ICU: diagnosis and treatment
  Tarek Sharshar, Paris, France
• Sepsis-associated encephalopathy
  Tarek Sharshar, Paris, France
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Summary

• What the future holds
  Claude Hemphill
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