Scientific program
The program of the symposium will contain lectures, pro-con debates, round table discussions, case presentations and Meet the Expert sessions.
Sunday, January 26, 2025
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Registration and Welcome Coffee |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Welcome and Introduction Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH | Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT |
| 16:00 - 18:45 | Hemodynamic management in shock Chairs: Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH | Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Effect of clinical trials on the management of septic shock Jukka Takala, Bern, CH |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Optimising blood pressure and flow in high risk surgery Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Can echocardiography identify septic cardiomyopathy? Michelle Chew, Huddinge, SE |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | The future of intelligent hemodynamic resuscitation Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, BE |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | Keynote Lecture Devastating cyber attack in south London Beverley Hunt, London, UK |
| 18:45 - 19:30 | Welcome Reception |
Monday, January 27, 2025
| 08:00 - 10:30 | Vasoactive Drugs Chairs: Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, BE | Jukka Takala, Bern, CH |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Inotropes in the ICU Michelle Chew, Huddinge, SE |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | How to treat arrhytmia in shock Martin Balik, Prague, CZ |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Vasopressors treatment - what's new? Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Decatecholaminisation Martin Balik, Prague, CZ |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Vasopressors: when to start and how? - A debate Moderator: Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, BE Pannelists: Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT | Jukka Takala, Bern, CH | Michelle Chew, Huddinge, SE |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Meet the Expert Session: Use of echocardiography in sepsis Michelle Chew, Huddinge, SE |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Meet the Expert Session: Weaning from mechanical ventilation Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Short Break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Meet the Expert Session: How to deal with immunomodulation in sepsis? Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 16:00 - 18:30 | Non-invasive mechanical ventilation Chairs: Beverley Hunt, London, UK | Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COPD patients: NIV for whom and how long? Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Physiologic effects of High Flow Nasal Cannula and NIV Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Postextubation respiratory support Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Preventing postoperative pulmonary complications Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | High flow nasal oxygen or NIV: which one is your favorite respiratory support device in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure? - An interactive round table discussion Moderator: Peter Suter, Geneva, CH Pannelists: Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT | Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH | Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| from 19:30 | Speakers' Dinner (for invited guests only) |
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
| 08:00 - 10:30 | Mechanical ventilation: New insights Chairs: Peter Suter, Geneva, CH | Jukka Takala, Bern, CH |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Electrical impedance tomography to guide mechanical ventilation Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Advanced respiratory monitoring (except EIT) Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Sigh breaths to enhance protective ventilation Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Diaphragm protective ventilation Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Visualisation tools of lung function, stress and strain: Will they improve mechanical ventilation - An interactive round table discussion Moderator: Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH Pannelists: Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT | Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES | Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH |
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Short Break |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | Industry Flash by ADVITOS: Multi-organ support to reduce oxygen consumption - does it work? Michael Quintel, Göttingen, DE |
| 11:05 - 11:15 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Meet the Expert Session: Quality control in sepsis management Jean-Louis Vincent, Brussels, BE |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Meet the Expert Session: Optimising assisted ventilation settings and monitoring Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Short Break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Meet the Expert Session: Gastrointestinal dysfunction of the ICU patient Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 16:00 - 18:30 | Nutrition and metabolism Chairs: Marlies Ostermann, London, UK | Peter Suter, Geneva, CH |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Micronutrients: from early pharmaco-nutrition to prevention deficiencies Michael Casaer, Leuven, BE |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Gastrointestinal tract and metabolism - what's next? Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Timing of parenteral nutrition in patients at high nutritional risk Michael Casaer, Leuven, BE |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Protein overfeeding in the ICU Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | AI in the ICU today - research only or already a clinical assistant? - A debate Moderator: Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT Pannelists: Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT | Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH | Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
| 08:00 - 10:30 | Sepsis Chairs: Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT | Martin Balik, Prague, CZ |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Phenotyping is the way forward Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Biomarkers to guide antibiotic therapy Jan De Waele, Gent, BE |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Frailty: a multidimensional approach Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Public awareness and medical training improve outcome in sepsis Peter Suter, Geneva, CH |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | The antifungal pre-emptive treatment - A debate Moderator: Jan De Waele, Gent, BE Pannelists: Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT | Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT | Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Meet the Expert Session: Insights of ventilation - perfusion mismatch in ARDS Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Meet the Expert Session: When NOT to give antibiotics? Jan De Waele, Gent, BE |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Short Break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Meet the Expert Session: Understanding spontaneous multiple thrombosis Beverley Hunt, London, UK |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 16:00 - 18:30 | ECMO Chairs: Marlies Ostermann, London, UK | Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Antibiotic dosing in ECMO Jan De Waele, Gent, BE |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | LV-assist for acute myocardial infaction related shock Martin Balik, Prague, CZ |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | ECMO and anticoagulation Beverley Hunt, London, UK |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | The influence of obesity in ECMO patients Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | ECLS and ECMO - use and overuse - A debate Moderator: Jukka Takala, Bern, CH Pannelists: Martin Balik, Prague, CZ | Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH | Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT |
| From 19:15 | Networking Event (for all participants) |
Thursday, January 30, 2025
| 08:00 - 10:30 | Abdomen Chairs: Martin Balik, Prague, CZ | Marlies Ostermann, London, UK |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Controversies of hepatosplanchnic circulation in liver cirrhosis Jukka Takala, Bern, CH |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Diagnosis and management of acute mesenteric ischaemia - can we do better? Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Update on acute pancreatitis Jan De Waele, Gent, BE |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Abdominal trauma Annika Reintam Blaser, Lucerne, CH |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Case presentation: Devastating cerebral fat-emboli syndrome Wilson Abdo, Nijmegen, NL |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Meet the Expert Session: Management of AKI in liver cirrhosis Marlies Ostermann, London, UK |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Meet the Expert Session: Assessment of readiness for feeding in the critical ill patient Michael Casaer, Leuven, BE |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Short Break |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Meet the Expert Session: Practical approach to haemodynamic monitoring Maurizio Cecconi, Milan, IT |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Room Transfer / Short Break |
| 16:00 - 18:30 | AKI Chairs: Beverley Hunt, London, UK | Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Sex as a biological variable in AKI Marlies Ostermann, London, UK |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Subphenotyping for personalised management in AKI Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Impact of climate change on critical care nephrology Marlies Ostermann, London, UK |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | When to stop RRT? Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | 20 years of AKI research: Any new developments impacting patient centred outcomes? - An interactive round table discussion Moderator: Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT Pannelists: Marlies Ostermann, London, UK | Peter Pickkers, Nijmegen, NL | Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH |
Friday, January 31, 2025
| 08:00 - 10:30 | ARDS Chairs: Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT | Jan De Waele, Gent, BE |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Heart-lung interactions in ARDS Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Ventilation-perfusion mismatch in ARDS: marker or mechanism? Tommaso Mauri, Milan, IT |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Weaning from mechanical ventilation in ARDS patients Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | ARDS short and long term prognosis and outcome Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Bedside assessment of recruitability is a must to set the PEEP in ARDS - A pro-con debate Lise Piquilloud Imboden, Lausanne, CH | Oriol Roca, Barcelona, ES |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Closing remarks and Farewell Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, AT | Marco Maggiorini, Zurich, CH |
Speakers
We are pleased to welcome the following speakers to the International Winter Symposium 2025 in Engelberg:
Prof. Martin Balik, MD PhD - Charles University | General University Hospital, Prague, CZ
Prof. Michael Casaer, MD PhD - UZ Leuven | KU Leuven, Leuven, BE
Prof. Maurizio Cecconi, MD PhD - IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, IT
Prof. Michelle Chew, MD PhD - Karolinska University Hospital | Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, SE
Prof. Jan De Waele, MD PhD - Ghent University | Ghent University Hospital, Gent, BE
Prof. Beverley Hunt, OBE - Kings Healthcare Partners, London, UK
Prof. Michael Joannidis, MD - Medical University Innsbruck, Division of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Innsbruck, AT
Prof. em. Marco Maggiorini, MD - University of Zurich, Zurich, CH
Prof. Tommaso Mauri, MD - University of Milan, Milan, IT
Prof. Marlies Ostermann, PhD - Guy's and St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK
Prof. Peter Pickkers, MD - Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Intensive Care, Nijmegen, NL
PD Lise Piquilloud Imboden, MD - CHUV Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, CH
Annika Reintam Blaser, PhD - Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, CH
Prof. Oriol Roca, MD - Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Cap de Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Barcelona, ES
Prof. em. Peter Suter, MD - Université de Genève, Faculté de médecine, Geneva, CH
Prof. em. Jukka Takala, MD - Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern, CH
Prof. Jean-Louis Vincent, MD PhD - Université Libre de Bruxelles | Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, BE