2011 Shock Symposium by Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education
This course provides an overview of the identification, diagnosis, and management of the patient in shock and is offered to physicians, residents, fellows, nurses and EMTs.
The course objectives include:
- Identify challenges and strategies in the diagnosis and management of shock.
- Update clinicians on the recent advances and controversies regarding shock management.
- Provide the clinical skills necessary for the management of shock.
- Provide practical training in the use of ultrasound for the shock patient.
Featured speakers this year include:
- Robert Berg who is a pediatric intensivist and head of the American Heart Association's Basic Life Support Guidelines Committee - he will speak on the new 2010 AHA cardiac arrest guidelines.
- Julie Mayglothling (emergency medicine/critical care physician with a special expertise in trauma) will be speaking on the paradigm shift toward non-operative management of trauma.
- Mark Walsh, an emergency physician who created his own mini-anesthesia training program in order to provide anesthesia in Haiti will be discussing the potential usage of I/Os for shock and cardiac arrest patients illustrated by patients he managed in a Cholera outbreak in Haiti. Dr. Walsh will show applications both for ED physicians practicing in the US and for those considering international work.
- Additional speakers include other emergency medicine/critical care physicians (Michael Donnino/Michael Cocchi) who will be speaking on uncommon causes of shock and management of a post-arrest patient.
- Samuel Goldhhaber who is one of the foremost authorities on massive pulmonary embolism.
- Carl Hauser (surgeon) who is introducing a novel concept of the role of mitochondrial injury in shock.
- Nate Shapiro (emergency physician) introducing the concept of microcirculatory dysfunction and monitoring in shock, and many others.
The multi-disciplinary nature of the conference is perhaps best exemplified by a session on massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage in which speakers from emergency medicine, critical care, gastroenterology, interventional radiology, and surgery form an expert panel to tackle tough management questions. For more information please view the attachment below.
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