Friday, 12 July 2025
0730h
Registration
 
  Peridot 202 - 205
0900 - 1020h Plenary session 1 Intensive care in 2013 and beyond (Chairperson: Michael O’LEARY)
0900h Opening ceremony
Jonathan TAN (Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore))
Michael O'LEARY (Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society)
0920h Plenary lecture 1
Is intensive care the same the world over?
Jean-Daniel CHICHE
Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Paris Descartes University MICU,
Hôpital Cochin, Paris & Research Director, Cochin Institute
0950h Plenary lecture 2
Building the evidence based of critical care: global collaboration in investigator-led acute care research
John MARSHALL
Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, & Surgeon and Intensivist, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
 
1020h
Tea break
1050 - 1220h Plenary session 2 Intensive care in Asia and beyond (Chairperson: Jonathan TAN)
1050h Plenary lecture 3
What we have learnt through the MOSAICS study and the A3CT Group
Younsuck KOH
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine & Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea
1120h Plenary lecture 4
Coordinating intensive care in large countries: lessons from China
Bin DU
Director, Medical ICU, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
1150h Plenary lecture 5
Physician - heal thyself! Surviving SARS and ARDS. A 10 year retrospective
Kang Hoe LEE
Pulmonology (Respiratory Medicine), Parkway Gleneagles Hospital
 
  Peridot 202 & 203 Peridot 204 & 205
1250 – 1350h
Mobile Critical Care Ventilation
Alan GARNER
Sponsored by:

Principle and Perspective of Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infection:
Surgical and Non-Surgical Management

Stephan G MORAN
Sponsored by:
1400 - 1540h Symposium 1: Nutrition (Chairperson: Jason PHUA) Symposium 2: Quality Improvement in the ICU (Chairperson: Kenneth CHAN)
1400h Early nutritional support in the ICU
Michael O'LEARY
Bundles: do they work?
Charles GOMERSALL
1420h The role of glutamine and antioxidants in the ICU: results of the REDOXS study
Daren HEYLAND
Clinical practice guidelines - evidence-based, consensus based or expert opinion? When should a recommendation change practice?
Craig FRENCH
1440h Lipids in TPN
Jonathan TAN
Safety and quality - Are we on the right track?
Steven WEBB
1500h Please doctor don't let me starve to death ... the role of TPN in palliative care
Manoj Saxena
Telemedicine in ICU
Jeffrey LIPMAN
1520h Discussion Discussion
 
1540h Tea break
 
1610 - 1750h Symposium 3: Blood (Chairperson: Ian SEPPELT) Symposium 4: End of Life Care in the ICU (Chairperson: Shay MCGUINNESS)
1610h Transfusion triggers in the ICU: where are we now
Kenneth CHAN
Advance care planning
Daren HEYLAND
1630h Transfusion triggers in brain injury
Jonathan TAN
Denial of ICU admission
Charles GOMERSALL
1650h Alternatives to transfusion - EPO, iron - what is their role in the ICU
Craig FRENCH
Palliative care models in the ICU
Angeline SEAH
1710h Blood Conservation in the ICU
Amartya MUKHOPADHYAY
End-of-Life care in Asian intensive care units
Younsuck KOH
1730h
Discussion
Discussion
 
 
Saturday, 13 July 2025
0700h
Registration
0740 – 0825h
Nasal High Flow with Optiflow; Putting Research into Practice
Shay MCGUNNESS & Rachael PARKE
Sponsored by:

(Peridot 202 & 203)
Peridot 202 & 203
Peridot 204 & 205
0830 - 1010h Symposium 5: Resources and Education (Chairperson: Thomas LEW) Symposium 6: The Multidisciplinary ICU (Chairperson: Manoj SAXENA)
0830h Use of a clinical database to enhance health care delivery in critical care: the UK experience
Kathy ROWAN
The role of the ICU nurse
Poh Choo TAN
0850h Challenges in setting up a multidisciplinary critical care service in a tertiary hospital: a Singapore experience
Fun Gee CHEN
The role of the respiratory therapist
John DAVIES
0910h Education and training the next generation
Shi LOO
The role of the ICU pharmacist
Winnie LEE
0930h Simulation in critical care
Jansen KOH
The role of the ICU physiotherapist
Carol HODGSON
0950h Discussion Discussion
1010h Tea Break
1040h - 1220h Symposium 7: Haemodynamics (Chairperson: Yeow CHAN) Symposium 8: Rethinking the ICU Patient (Chairperson: Jason PHUA)
1040h Haemodynamic monitoring in the ICU
Christoph HOFER
Metaphor as syndrome: the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in 2013
John MARSHALL
1100h Echocardiography in the ICU
Ian SEPPELT
Genetic predisposition to sepsis/pneumonia/ARDS
Jean-Daniel CHICHE
1120h The evidence for the use of vasopressors in critically Ill patients
John MYBURGH
The physiological 'sweet spot' and how we will learn to hit it
Steven WEBB
1140h Cardiogenic shock
Shay MCGUINNESS
Fever in sepsis: better to be hot than cool?
Manoj SAXENA
1200h Discussion Discussion
  Peridot 202 & 203 Peridot 204 & 205
1240 – 1340h
Optimizing nutrition delivery in the critically ill (The role of PN supplementation)
Daren HEYLAND
Sponsored by:

Regional ventilation monitoring - transforming from research towards clinical application
Toru KOTANI
Sponsored by:
1350 - 1530h Symposium 9: Fluids (Chairperson: Jonathan TAN) Symposium 10: The ABCDE Approach (Chairperson: Jeffrey LIPMAN)
1350h Resuscitation and deresuscitation of the critically Ill patient
John MARSHALL
Sedation in the ICU
Claudia CHENG
1410h Saline, acidosis and AKI: is It time to rethink fluid resuscitation?
John KELLUM
Up and coming drugs for pain, agitation, and delirium
Simeon TANG
1430h Hydroxyethyl starch for fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients
John MYBURGH
Early mobilisation in the ICU - safety, feasibility and beyond
Carol HODGSON
1450h Fluid overload in critically ill patients: chicken or egg?
Bin DU
How to extubate a patient with neuromuscular weakness
Yeow CHAN
1510h Discussion Discussion
 
1530h
Tea break
 
1600 - 1740h Symposium 11: Acute Kidney Injury (Chairperson: John MYBURGH) Symposium 12: Beyond the Patient in the ICU (Chairperson: Steven WEBB)
1600h AKI: what is in the name?
Bin DU
Mortality in ICU patients: good enough?
Jason PHUA
1620h Kidney attack: overview of acute kidney injury management
John KELLUM
The ICU liaison team
Kay Choong SEE
1640h Timing of renal replacement therapy
Shay MCGUINNESS
Long term outcomes of ICU survivors
Carol HOGDSON
1700h Dose of renal replacement therapy: - does it still matter?
Gerald CHUA
Caring for the ICU patient's family
Shin Yi NG
1720h Discussion Discussion
 
Sunday, 14 July 2025
0700h
Registration
0740 – 0825h
KDIGO AKI Guideline: Implications for clinical practice Renal recovery after AKI: Clinical and health economic considerations
John KELLUM
Sponsored by:

(Peridot 202 & 203)
Peridot 202 & 203
Peridot 204 & 205
0830 - 1010h Symposium 13: Infectious Diseases in the ICU (Chairperson: Kenneth CHAN) Symposium 14: Ventilation and Beyond (Chairperson: Michael O’LEARY)
0830h Why ICU antibiotic dosing is different
Jeffrey LIPMAN
Patient-ventilator dyssynchrony
Kenneth TAN
0850h Gut microbiology and the importance of Gut Microflora in critical illness
Ian SEPPELT
Beyond conventional ventilation
Neil MACINTYRE
0910h Infection control in the ICU
Claudia CHENG
Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCOR)
Graeme MACLAREN
0930h Fungal infections in the ICU
Li Min LING
Mechanical ventilation: does practice make perfect?
Kathy ROWAN
0950h Discussion Discussion
1010h
Tea Break
1040 - 1220h Symposium 15: Severe sepsis (Chairperson: Yeow CHAN) Symposium 16: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (Chairperson: Craig FRENCH)
1040h What works and what doesn't work in Sepsis?
Michael O'LEARY
The Berlin definition of 2012
Gerald CHUA
1100h Host-Microbial interactions in critical illness
John Marshall
Stress and strain in ARDS
Neil MACINTYRE
1120h Blood purification for Sepsis - just a pretty idea?
John KELLUM
HFO in severe ARDS
Jean-Daniel CHICHE
1140h Why we need the definitive trial on steroids
John MYBURGH
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Graeme MACLAREN
1200h Discussion Discussion