Scientific Program

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Time	Lecture Title	Presenter
Section I - ICU
8:00-9:00 am	Registration
9:00-9:20 am	Renal Replacement Therapy in the ICU	Dr. Nicholas Sadovnikoff
9:20-9:40 am	AKI, Recent updates	Dr. Kefaya Abdul Malik
9:40-10:00 am	Simple Rules for the Interpretation of Blood Gases	Dr. Nicholas Sadovnikoff
10:00-10:15 am	Coffee Break
10:15-10:35 am	How to ventilate an ICU patient	Dr. Mohammed Bahzad
10:35-10:55 am	Liberation from Mechanical ventilation	Dr. Ali Malek Mohammad
10:55-11:15 am	Traditional One-Lung Ventilation and Acute Lung Injury: Have we been killing patients?	Dr. Philip M. Hartigan
11:15-11:45 am	Round Table (Discussion)
11:45- 2:00 pm	Prayer Time & Break
Section II - Monitoring
2:00-2:20 pm	Sepsis, Recent advances	Dr. Kefaya Abdul Malik
2:20-2:40 pm	Capnography: How to get maximum benefit in clinical practice?	Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali
2:40-3:00 pm	Update on Glycemic Control in the ICU	Dr. Nicholas Sadovnikoff
3:00-3:20 pm	Techniques Surgical Airway	Dr. Orlando Hung
3:20-3:35 pm	Coffee Break
3:35-3:55 pm	Operating Room Efficiency? Is this possible to achieve and how?	Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali
3:55-4:15 pm	Review of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia	Dr. Nicholas Sadovnikoff
4:15-4:35 pm	Coagulation abnormalities made easy	Resident Presentation
4:35-4:55 pm	Round Table (Discussion)
4:55-6:30 pm	Product Presentation by Companies
06:30 pm	Lucky Draw

Time	Lecture Title	Presenter
Section III - Obstetric Anesthesia
8:00-9:00 am	Registration
9:00-9:20 am	How to make your epidurals work for labor Analgesia	Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali
9:20-10:05 am	Failing block in obstetrics: How to prevent or save it?	Dr. Marcel Vercauteren
10:05-10:20 am	Coffee Break
10:20-10:40 am	What is new in Obstetric Anesthesia	Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali
10:45-11:00 am	Round Table (Discussion)
11:00-2:00 pm	Prayer Time & Break
Section IV - Cardio Thoracic Anesthesia
2:00-2:20 pm	Optimizing One-Lung Ventilation for Thoracic Surgery : Update & Review	Dr. Philip M. Hartigan
2:20-2:40 pm	Cardiac patient undergoing non -cardiac surgery	Dr. Abdullah Dashti
2:40-3:00 pm	Selected Lung Isolation Technical Pearls : How to look like an expert.	Dr. Philip M. Hartigan
3:00-3:20 pm	Perioperative Cardiac Events. What works	Resident Presentation
3:20-3:35 pm	Coffee Break
3:35-3:55 pm	Anesthesia for the morbidly Obese	Dr. Ibrahim Hadi
3:55-4:15 pm	Deliberate Hypotension, What is safe?	Dr. Abdul Hussain Al Mejadi
4:15-4:35 pm	Obese Parturient. Anesthetic implications and management	Dr. Bhavani Shankar Kodali
4:35-4:55 pm	Round Table (Discussion)
4:55-6:30 pm	Product Presentation by Companies
6:30 pm	Lucky Draw

Time	Lecture Title	Presenter
Section V - Regional Anesthesia / Airway
8:00-9:00 am	Registration
9:00-9:20 am	Management of patients with a Difficult Airway	Dr. Orlando Hung
9:20-9:40 am	Analgesia during labor: bolus, infusion, PCEA or high-tech PCEA	Dr. Marcel Vercauteren
9:40-10:00 am	Tracheal intubation under vision	Dr. Orlando Hung
10:00-10:15 am	Coffee Break
10:15-10:35 am	150 years after the birth of August Bier	Dr. Marcel Vercauteren
10:35-10:55 am	Non Visual intubation	Dr. Orlando Hung
10:55-11:15 am	Cost-effectiveness of U/S vs. Peripheral Nerve stimulation in Regional Anesthesia	Resident Presentation
11:15-11:45 am	Round Table (Discussion)
11:45- 2:00 pm	Prayer Time & Break
Section VI - Neuro Anesthesia / Neurocritical Care
2:00-2:20 pm	What to do if soon after a neuraxial injection the patient feels numbness in the upper extremity?	Dr. Marcel Vercauteren
2:20-2:40 pm	Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage – Recent Updates	Dr. Yasser B. Abulhasan
2:40-3:00 pm	Post dural puncture headache: is there something new (based on 4 special cases)	Dr. Marcel Vercauteren
3:00-3:20 pm	Awareness during General Anesthesia	Resident Presentation
3:20-3:35 pm	Coffee Break
3:35-3:55 pm	Management of Closed Head Injury	Dr. Nicholas Sadovnikoff
3:55-4:15 pm	Brain and Salt	Dr. Mohammed Shamsah
4:15-4:35 pm	Updates on Hypothermia in Neurocritical Care	Dr. Khalid Shukri
4:35-6:30 pm	Product Presentation by Companies
6:30 pm	Lucky Draw