Baltimore SCCM 2021 Spring Seminar
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Baltimore SCCM Fall Symposium – COVID-19
Happy Thanksgiving! Since there are no lectures this week I felt it would be the right time to post the recent Baltimore SCCM Fall Symposium lectures. We were fortunate to
Hirsch – Brain Injury after Cardiac Arrest: Management, Prognosis, and Controversies
Please welcome back an old friend of Baltimore, Karen G. Hirsch, MD. Dr. Hirsch is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and the Director of Neurocritical Care at the Stanford University Medical Center. She is also one of the guru’s and experts in the field of neuroprognostication after cardiac arrest leading to a multitude of publications and numerous grants. Today we are exceedingly fortunate to have her grace the halls of The University of Maryland to give us a crash course on what we SHOULD be doing for our cardiac arrest patients. I assure you, this is a lecture all of us need to hear!
Tisherman – Acute Abdomen in ICU patients
Today we welcome back Samuel Tisherman, MD, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education and the Director of the Surgical ICU of the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Tisherman recently joined UMMC directly from The University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Director of the Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training Program and program director for the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship. In his 20 years at the University of Pittsburgh he held several other titles, including Associate Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Professor in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, and Director of the Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit. Today we are fortunate to have Dr. Tisherman speak on what he know’s best: the cursed surgical abdomen. Over the next 60 minutes he navigates this unstable mine-field and leaves you with a better understanding of the thought process used before opening someone’s abdomen!
Hsu: Lung US; Reading sonographic tea leaves
Today we are fortunate to welcome Sam Hsu, MD, RDMS, Assistant Professor for the University of Maryland Medical School. Dr. Hsu is the acting Emergency Department Ultrasound Director at one of the UMMC satellite centers her in Baltimore, Mercy Medical Center. He also takes on command of medical student emergency ultrasound education for the medical school. I guess you could say, he lives and breaths ED ultrasound! Today he takes us through his algorithm on how to approach ultrasonography of the lungs. I have attending many lectures on the topic and have even performed lung US research, but this lecture is the best presentation I have ever seen on the topic. You NEED to watch this lecture.
Kon- VA-ECMO for massive pulmonary embolism
Today we welcome Zachary Kon, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU. In addition to acting as the Surgical Director of Pulmonary Hypertension/Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy Program, Dr. Kon also acts as the Surgical Director of the NYU Lung Transplantation Program. In addition to > 70 peer-reviewed publications, he has been invited all over the world as an expert speaker in the field pulmonary embolism therapy. We are fortunate to have him in-house to share his knowledge of what to do when the PE is starting to become overwhelming!
King: Poisonings treated (and caused) by the ICU!
Today we welcome Josh D King, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also serves as the associate program director for the nephrology fellowship program. Dr. King is a rare specimen, with board certifications in both Nephrology and Toxicology he focuses on critical care nephrology, acute treatment of drug overdoses, and addressing acute poisoning and envenomation. In addition to his clinical work, Dr King is a prolific academician, publishing numerous journal articles on the topic of acute care toxicology. Today he was kind enough to travel up Interstate 95 and donate an hour of his time to explain what we HAVE TO KNOW if we plan to work in the modern ICU!
Chung- Critical Care of the Severely Burned
Today with have the distinct pleasure to welcome a mentor of mine and a true expert in the field of critical care, Kevin K Chung, MD, FCCM, FACP, Colonel, Army. After finishing a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Dr. Chung was assigned to the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) where he has served in the capacity of Medical Director of the Burn Intensive Care Unit, Task Area Manager of Clinical Trials in Burns and Trauma, and the Director of Research for the USAISR. We are exceedingly fortunate to have him in town to speak on ICU management of Burns. Dr. Chung is the WORLD EXPERT on this topic. I recommend everyone, no matter your practice, take 60 minutes to appreciate the depth of knowledge passed along in this lecture. Burns don’t just present to burn centers!
Adhikari – Challenge and opportunities for sepsis research in resource-limited settings
Today we have the distinct pleasure to welcome Neill Adhikari, MDCM, M.Sc., one of the world’s experts on critical care management in resource limited settings. Dr Adhikari is currently practicing as an intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto. He also acts as an Associate scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Trauma, Emergency & Critical Care Research Program, at the Sunnybrook Research Institute where he focuses on critical care delivery in low-resource settings. Over his brief academic career Dr. Adhikari has been incredibly prolific in academic production, publishing over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and accepting speaking engagements from around the globe. This afternoon we were fortunate to lure him down from Canada to speak on an exceedingly important topic: how can we address the devastation of sepsis in areas of the world where basic labs and clean water can often be a luxury and not a guarantee?
