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Day 1 (20 April 2026)

0800 - 0900 Registration
0900 - 0930 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 1
Chair: LEE Jan Hau
My Life in Global Health
Kathryn MAITLAND
0930 - 1010 Opening Ceremony
1010 - 1050 Coffee Break / Exhibition
1100 - 1130 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 2
Chair: TAN Hon Liang
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure - Any Novel Therapies Superior to Frusemide?
CHEN Horng Haur
1130 - 1200 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 3
Chair: Sean LOH
Exploring New Data: MIND USA and ABCDEF Bundle to Advance Care of the Injured Brain
Wes ELY
1200 - 1250
Lunch / Exhibition (Sentosa Hall)
A session with Dana Edelson:
Integrating Sepsis Screening with EWS
Dana Edelson
1300 - 1440
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 1
LMIC – Improving Outcomes 		(Orchard Hall)
Symposium 2
Research 		(Changi Hall)
Symposium 3
ICU Administration 		(Sentosa Hall)
Symposium 4
Paediatrics Track – Brain/Trauma 		MasterClasses Room Meet the Expert Room
Chair: Neill ADHIKARI

GASTRO - Aggressive vs Slow IV Rehydration
Kathryn MAITLAND

Less is more in intensive care: perspectives from resource limited countries
Younsuck KOH

Severity of illness scores in LMICs: does predicting mortality prevent mortality?
Elisabeth RIVIELLO

What dictates recognition of critical illness in acute care in Sri Lanka? - a multicenter, qualitative study of health workers perspectives
Abi BEANE

Panel Discussion: Improving ICU Care in LMIC - What Needs to be Done?
Abi BEANE / Younsuck KOH / Kathryn MAITLAND / Elisabeth RIVIELLO 		Chair: Joanna STOLLINGS

Rapid Diagnostics in ICU
Andrew MORRIS

Causal inference in observational studies
Eddy FAN

ICNARC - Leveraging on Databases for ICU Research
Kathy ROWAN

Data Linkage Methods
Kelly THOMPSON 		Chair: Alvin NG

Don’t Panic – It’s a Disaster!
Dianne STEPHENS

Enhancing resilience in medical staff
Charlie CORKE

Are there enough critical care beds in Asia?
Jason PHUA

Women in Critical Care Leadership
Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD 		Chair: Jacqueline ONG

Sedation in PICU: What is New?
Corrine BALIT

Protecting the brain in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – what works and what doesn’t?
MOK Yee Hui

Factor concentrates in traumatic/surgical bleeding
Christopher KING

Neuromonitoring in PICU
Anusha GANESHALINGAM

Panel Discussion / Q&A;: Neurocritical care
Jacqueline ONG
Corrine BALIT
MOK Yee Hui
Christopher KING
Anusha GANESHALINGAM 		Ventilator Workshop
Niall FERGUSON
SEE Kay Choong(1350 – 1440) 		Chair: Andrew LI

Meet the Expert: Sedation and Delirium
Wes ELY
(1300 – 1340)
1440 - 1520
Coffee Break / Exhibition Meet the Expert
Chair: Sean LOH
Best of SG-ANZICS Adults Abstracts Session
1530 - 1710
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 5
Sepsis		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 6
Ethics / Palliative		 (Changi Hall)
Symposium 7
Ultrasound		 (Sentosa Hall)
Symposium 8
Paediatrics Track - Heart		 MasterClasses Room Meet the Expert Room
Chair: Jason PHUA

Immune dysfunction in Sepsis
Andrew MORRIS

Epidemiology and Outcomes in Sepsis
Kathy ROWAN

Evidence-based management of sepsis and septic shock
Bram ROCHWERG

Sepsis: From Bench to Bedside to Systems Improvement
Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD 		Chair: Alvin NG

End of Life in the ICU - finding the 'Why'
Wes ELY

Problems withdrawing intensive care - difficult families or difficult doctors?
Charlie CORKE

What we have learned through a surveillance on end-of-life cares in Asian ICUs
Younsuck KOH

Ethics/Pall: End of Life Care: Resetting Family and Physicians’ Expectations
Dominique PIQUETTE 		Chair: FONG Wee Kim

POCUS - The death of chest and abdominal plain films?
Adrian WONG

How to build an ICU ultrasound service
Martin ZAMMERT

Critical Care Ultrasound – look beyond the heart!
CHIA Yew Woon

Echocardiography in the ICU - Clinically Useful or Just Pretty Images
CHEN Horng Haur 		Chair: Anusha GANESHALINGAM

Challenging arrhythmias in PICU
TAN Teng Hong

VA ECMO in septic shock - saving lives or wasting time?
Felix OBERENDER

Ventilation on ECMO
Jacqueline ONG

Improving neurodevelopmental outcomes in children undergoing congenital heart surgery
Johnny MILLAR

Panel Discussion / Q&A;: ECMO
Anusha GANESHALINGAM
TAN Teng Hong
Felix OBERENDER
Jacqueline ONG
Johnny MILLAR
Corrine BALIT 		Ventilator Workshop
(1620 – 1710) 		Chair: Andrew LI

Meet the Expert
Liver Failure
Julia WENDON
(1530 – 1610)

Day 2 (21 April 2026)

0730 - 0820
Breakfast Symposium by:
(Changi Hall)
Chair: Matthew Edward COVE
Augmenting Adsorptive Blood Purification in Severe Sepsis and Septic AKI
TAN Ham Khim
Blood Purification in Critically ill Patient – Hong Kong Experience
Gloria TANG
Supported by: 		(Sentosa Hall)
Chair: Sarah YONG
Challenging Gram-Negative Infections in the ICU – what’s new?
Asok KURUP

Supported by:
0830 - 0900 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 4
Chair: Alvin NG
Setting up the Pakistan Registry of Intensive Care (PRICE) - Challenges and Experiences
Madiha HASHMI
0900 - 0930 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 5
Chair: Jonathan TAN
ECMO for ARDS - What Now and What Next?
Eddy FAN
0940 - 1120
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 9
Sedation / Delirium		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 10
LMIC - Education		 (Changi Hall)
Symposium 11
CVS/CTVS		 (Sentosa Hall)
Symposium 12
Paediatrics Track – Lung		 MasterClasses Room Meet the Expert Room
Chair: Jonathan TAN

Overview of PADIS Guidelines
Bram ROCHWERG

Sedation and Delirium – Practical Considerations and Putting Data into Practice in 2019
Wes ELY

Sedation: Considerations in Neurocritical Care
Victoria MCCREDIE

The Drive to THRIVE: Strategies to Prevent and Treat Post Intensive Care Syndrome
Joanna STOLLINGS 		Chair: TAN Hon Liang

Setting up a CCM Fellowship in Ethiopia
Neill ADHIKARI

Establishing CCM Education in Pakistan
Madiha HASHMI

CCM Education in Rwanda - If at first you don't succeed...
Elisabeth RIVIELLO

SG-ANZICS Challenge Award:
Setting up of "Intensive Care Services in Eastern India"
Swagata TRIPATHY

Panel discussion
Neill ADHIKARI / Madiha HASHMI / Elisabeth RIVIELLO / TAN Hon Liang / Swagata TRIPATHY 		Chair: Ramanathan K

Broken Heart Syndrome - Does it exist clinically, aside from Melodramatic Movies?
CHEN Horng Haur

Pulmonary HTN - What's New in Pathobiology and Treatment
John GRANTON

What a non-cardiologist needs to know about managing the ICU patient with an LVAD
Martin ZAMMERT

ECPR - Making it Work
Gee Young SUH 		Chair: Johnny MILLAR

Debate: NIV vs HFNC. Which to use, when?
Ira CHEIFETZ, Andreas SCHIEBLER

How I manage cardiac complications in acute lung disease
Simon ERICKSON

High-Flow from spontaneous breathing to apnoeic oxygenation/THRIVE (Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange)
Andreas SCHIEBLER 		Ultrasound Workshop
CHIA Yew Woon
LAU Yie Hui
Alvin TEO
(1020 – 1120) 		Chair: Andrew LI

Meet the Expert: Rational TBI management in the context of negative trials: Medicine based evidence
David MENON
(0940 – 1020)
1120 - 1150
Coffee Break / Exhibition Meet the Expert Room
Best of SG-ANZICS Adults Abstracts Session
1150 – 1330
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 13
Respiratory Failure / Ventilation		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 14
Neurocritical Care		 (Changi Hall)
Symposium 15
Nursing / Allied Health		 (Sentosa Hall)
Symposium 16
Progressive PICU care
Chair: Matthew Edward COVE

How to approach a patient with ARDS: Prevention, Plan, Prudence
Younsuck KOH

High-flow nasal cannula – the Singapore experience
Andrew LI

Monitoring and Improving Diaphragm Function During Mechanical Ventilation
Niall FERGUSON

Role of High-flow Nasal Oxygen therapy for patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure
Jean-Pierre FRAT 		Chair: Jonathan TAN

Understanding the outcome impacts of TBI on individuals, families and society
David MENON

Mechanical Ventilation After Acute Brain Injuries
Jeff SINGH

Standardized management protocols in neurocritical care: progress and pitfalls
Victoria MCCREDIE

Optimising Neurological Outcomes after Cardiac Arrest
Takashi TAGAMI 		Chair: Chan Yeow

The ICU Pharmacist: A Clinician and a Researcher?
Joanna STOLLINGS

Critical Care Nurses- their Unique Role in Improving the Quality of Recovery for Patients
Abi BEANE

The ICU Nurse Clinician - The Challenges, Triumphs and Opportunities
Peter LAI

Dieticians in the ICU - Changing the Status Quo
Emma RIDLEY 		Chair: MOK Yee Hui

Body mass, composition and outcomes in critically ill children
ONG Chengsi

Physiotherapy Management in the Children's Intensive Care- The Singapore Experience
Parveen KAUR

Considerations in Therapeutic Drug monitoring for critically ill children
TAN Wei Wei

How to save the end of life – goal-directed withdrawal of intensive care
Felix OBERENDER

Panel Discussion
MOK Yee Hui
ONG Chengsi
Parveen KAUR
Felix OBERENDER
Lucy LUM
1330 - 1410 Lunch/Exhibition
1410 - 1550
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 17
AKI / Fluids		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 18
Education		 (Changi Hall)
Symposium 19
Bleeding / Transfusion 		(Sentosa Hall)
Symposium 20
Paediatric / Research		 MasterClasses Room
Chair: Andrew LI

RRT for AKI - What and When to STARRT?
Neill ADHIKARI

Getting SMART about SALT-ED and Colloid Solutions
Bram ROCHWERG

Recognizing Predictable Kidney Injury in the Critically Ill
Ross FREEBAIRN

Resuscitation Fluids - Considerations in Microcirculation
Tony YEH 		Chair: Sarah YONG

Virtual Reality and Team Training in ICU Education
Francesca RUBULOTTA

Competency Based Medical Education in Critical Care Medicine: The Canadian Journey
Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD

Education: Continuing Professional Education in Critical Care: Known and Unknown
Dominique PIQUETTE

Employing Simulations in ICU Education
Peter LAI 		Chair: Angelly MARTINEZ

NOACS and reversal
Christopher KING

TRACT: Transfusion threshold in children in Africa
Kathryn MAITLAND

FEISTY Trial - Fibrinogen Concentrates in Trauma
Andrew SEMARK

The ROTEM / TEG is normal - why is my patient still bleeding?
Klaus GORLINGER 		Chair: LEE Jan Hau

Why we still need a HFOV trial in pediatrics?
Ira CHEIFEITZ

Research in PICU: Why is it so difficult?
Simon ERICKSON

Pros and cons of database/registry studies
Johnny MILLER

Best of SG-ANZICS Paediatrics Abstracts Sessions

Panel discussion/Q&A;: Do's and don'ts of setting up a PICU network and database
Ira CHEIFEITZ
Simon ERICKSON
Kathy ROWAN
LEE Jan Hau
Johnny MILLER 		Ultrasound Workshop
CHIA Yew Woon
LAU Yie Hui
Alvin TEO
(1410 – 1510)
1550 - 1620 Coffee Break / Exhibition
1620 – 1800
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 21
ECLS		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 22
Hemodynamics		 (Changi Hall)
Symposium 23
Trauma / Disasters		 (Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 24
Paediatrics Track – Fluid / Infection
Chair: Melvin TAY

Nuts and Bolts of VV ECMO
Eddy FAN

Extra-Corporeal Life Support – How the Ventilator & Circuit Interact
Niall FERGUSON

ECMO for ARDS – The Korean Experience
Gee Young SUH

Recent advances in ECMO: Microcirculation and Inflammatory Response
Tony YEH 		Chair: SEE Kay Choong

Inotropic agents and vasopressor strategies for the management of cardiogenic shock: Flogging a dead Horse?
CHEN Horng Haur

Resuscitation – time to rethink targets?
CHIA Yew Woon

Temporary mechanical circulatory support in the ICU
Martin ZAMMERT

Transpulmonary thermodilution system: What, why and how?
Takashi TAGAMI 		Chair: Klaus GORLINGER

Blast Injury – the 21st Century Trauma Challenge
Diana STEPHENS

Disasters - Real experiences from Pakistan
Madiha HASHMI

Liver Trauma
Julia WENDON

Traumatic Coagulopathy
Andrew SEMARK 		Chair: Simon ERICKSON

Challenges in determining the epidemiology of pediatric severe sepsis and septic shock
LEE Jan Hau

Fluid therapy post-FEAST
Kathryn MAITLAND

Current therapies in critical Pertussis
Anusha GANESHALINGAM

Critical care for the child with severe dengue
Lucy LUM

Panel discussion/Q&A;: what is the bottom line for fluid bolus therapy?
Kathryn MAITLAND, Simon ERICKSON, LEE Jan Hau, Lucy LUM
1830 - 2200 SG-ANZICS GALA Dinner

Day 3 (22 April 2026)

0830 - 1010
(Esplanade Hall)
Symposium 25
Organ Donation / Transplant		 (Orchard Hall)
Symposium 26
Nutrition / Rehabilitation 		(Changi Hall)
Symposium 27
Technology in ICU
Chair: FONG Wee Kim

Updates in Lung transplant - Ex- vivo lung repair and perioperative support
John GRANTON

Optimizing Organ Donation: A perspective across different systems
Jeff SINGH

Liver Transplant
Julia WENDON

Brainstem Death and Organ Donation - Variations in European Practice
David MENON 		Chair: Angelly MARTINEZ

Setting up ICU rehabilitation program : Samsung Medical Center Experience
Gee Young SUH

Nutrition in Rehab
Jonathan TAN

Optimising Nutrition in Surgical ICU Patients
Madiha HASHMI

Energy requirements in ICU: Lessons from the TARGET trial
Emma RIDLEY 		Chair: David KU

Poor quality of care drives poor outcomes in LMICs - how technology can help
Abi BEANE

Improving the care of acute brain injury with data
Victoria MCCREDIE

Swipe left (not right), start learning!
Adrian WONG
1010 - 1050 Coffee Break/Exhibition
1100 - 1130 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 6
Chair: Victoria MCCREDIE
Precision medicine and comparative effectiveness research in TBI: Insights from CENTER-TBI and InTBIR
David MENON
1130 - 1200 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 7
Chair: Sarah YONG
Adjunctive corticosteroid treatment in critically ill patients with septic shock (ADRENAL): Cost-effectiveness analysis
Kelly THOMPSON
1200 - 1230 (Esplanade Hall)
Plenary Lecture 8
Chair: Jason PHUA
The ICU of the Future
Niall FERGUSON

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