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47th ANNUAL USC WEIL SYMPOSIUM ON CRITICAL CARE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE

May 17 through 21, 2009
Westin Mission Hills, Rancho Mirage, California

Confirmed faculty and lectures - UPDATED 8/21/08

PRE-COURSE

Sunday, May 17, 2009 -- Pre-course Workshops on Practical Methods and Techniques

Participants may attend one all-day workshop (ACLS) or two half-day workshops. Pre-registration required.

ACLS (full-day workshop)
Max Harry Weil, MD, Mike Potter, EMT-P, Mike Jacobs, EMT-P, Wanchun Tang, MD, William T. Browne, MD

Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation with Emphasis on Non-invasive Ventilation (half-day workshop)
Dean R. Hess, PhD and Edgar Jimenez, MD

Techniques of Renal Replacement Therapy (half-day workshop)
Kevin K. Chung, MD

Percutaneous Placement of Gastrostomies and Guidelines for Enteral Feeding (half-day workshop)
D. J. Green, MD, and others (USC Trauma Team)

Critical Care Ultrasound including Facilitation of Vascular Catheterizations
Philip D. Lumb, MB

SYMPOSIUM

Monday through Thursday, May 18-21, 2009

Mark J. Alberts, MD

1. Evaluation of Dysphagia in the Critically Ill
2. Carotid Endarterectomy vs Carotid Stenting - What Do the Data Tell Us?
3. New Data on Clopidogrel vs Aspirin and Extended-release Dipyridamole for Secondary Stroke Prevention

Jose Besso, MD

1. Acute Pancreatitis
2. Management of the Hepato-renal Syndrome
3. Priorities in the Management of Head Trauma
4. Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism

William T. Browne, MD
Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Pre-course Workshop - ACLS (full-day workshop)
With Max Harry Weil, MD, Mike Potter, EMT-P, Mike Jacobs, EMT-P, and Wanchun Tang, MD

Monday through Thursday, May 18-21:

1. Case Studies on Liver Failure
2. Management of Electrolyte Emergencies
3. Case Studies on Acid Base Disorders
4. Management of Immunological Crises with Plasmaphoresis and Immunoglobulins
5. Management of the Severely Obese Critically Ill
6. Special Considerations in the Care of the Critically Ill Geriatric Patient

Kevin K. Chung, MD

1. Pre-Course - Techniques of Renal Replacement Therapy
2. Immediate Management of Acute Renal Failure
3. Serious Burn Injuries: Continuing Fluid, Electrolyte, Antimicrobial and Nutritional Management
4. Initial Management of Massive Burn Injuries
5. Burn Associated Injuries to the Airway and Lungs

Susan E. Dantoni, MD

1. Obstetrical Emergencies
2. Management of the Acutely Ill Obstetrical Patient

Jay L. Falk, MD

1. Acute Pulmonary Edema
2. Drowning
3. Emergency Department Management of Chest Pain.
4. Case Studies on Malpractice - I
5. Case Studies on Malpractice - II

Nora F. Goldschlager, MD

1. Management of Acute and Chronic Atrial Fibrillation
2. Implanted Devices for Managing Chronic Heart Failure
3. Pitfalls in the ECG Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction
4. Syncope
5. Pacemaker Emergencies

D. J. Green, MD

1. Pre-Course: Percutaneous Placement of Gastrostomies and Guidelines for Enteral Feeding (half-day workshop) and others (USC Trauma Team)

Dean R. Hess, PhD

1. Pre-Course: Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation with Emphasis on Non-invasive Ventilation (with Edgar Jimenez)
2. Approach to Mechanical Ventilation: First Do No Harm
3. Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
4. Ventilation and Ventilator Modes for ARDS: What Do We Really Need in a Ventilator?

John B. Holcomb, MD

1. Combining Red Cells with Plasma and Platelets for Management of Hemorrhagic Shock
2. Lessons Learned from the War in Iraq: Experiences with Civilian Mass Casualties
3. "Decision Assist"- Algorithms to Facilitate Triage of Traumatically Injured
4. Factor VII: Current Evidence of its Hemostatic Role
5. Meet the Professor

Michael Jacobs, EMT-P
Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Pre-course Workshop - ACLS (full-day workshop)
with Max Harry Weil, MD, William T. Browne, MD, Mike Potter, EMT-P, and Wanchun Tang, MD

Edgar J. Jimenez, MD

1. Pre-Course - Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation with Emphasis on Non-invasive Ventilation (with Dean Hess)
2. Case Studies on Management of COPD
3. Case Studies on Abdominal Compartment Syndromes
4. Nutrition: Prescription for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
5. ARDS - Recent Advances
6. Polyneuropathy of the Critically Ill

Mitchell M. Levy, MD

1. Addressing the Impact of Critical Care Practitioners
2. End of Life Care
3. Increasing the Efficiency in the Delivery of Critical Care Services
4. Facilitating Bedside Implementation of Newer Discoveries: The Challenge of Knowledge Transfer
5. Clinical Information Systems: Transition to Computerized Patient Data Management

Philip D. Lumb, MB

1. Pre-Course: Critical Care Ultrasound including Facilitation of Vascular Catheterizations
2. Additional lecture(s)

Dennis G. Maki, MD

1. Evidence-Based Prevention and Management of Line Sepsis
2. Control of Antimicrobial Resistance
3. The New Plague: Clostridium difficile
4. The Threat of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
5. Rational Anti-infective Therapy for Life threatening Infection
6. Prevention of Healthcare-Related Pneumonia

Peter J. Papadakos, MD

1. Management of Pulmonary Hypertension
2. ICU Delirium and Its Management
3. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Joseph E. Parrillo, MD

1. Severe Heart Failure
2. Acute Coronary Syndromes: Diagnosis and Management
3. Cardiogenic Shock
4. Pericardial Disease. Tamponade and Constriction
5. Septic Shock: Where We Have Come From

Mike Potter, EMT-P

Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Pre-course Workshop - ACLS (full-day workshop) With Max Harry Weil, MD, William T. Browne, MD, Mike Jacobs, EMT-P, and Wanchun Tang, MD

Eric C. Rackow, MD

1. Quality and Safety Initiatives: A Brave New World
2. Critical Care in the Elderly: Continuity of Intensive Care from Hospital to Home
3. Pharmacologic Support of the Failing Circulation
4. Meet the Professor: Critical Care in the Elderly

Emanuel P. Rivers, MD, MPH

1. Goal Directed Therapy Revisited
2. Hemodynamic Optimization for Management of Shock States
   I: Concepts Relating to Etiology and Mechanisms
3. Hemodynamic Optimization for Management of Shock States
   II: Methods of Management
4. Organizing and Instituting Programs for Management of Sepsis.

Kandis K. Rivers, MD

1. Urinary Tract Obstruction Complicated by Systemic Infection
2. Complications of Urethral Catheterizations
3. Robotic Methods for Urological Surgery and Their Complications

Charles L. Sprung, MD

1. End of Life Decision Making in the ICU
2. Limiting Duration Rather than Withdrawing, Mechanical Ventilation in the Terminally Ill. The Israeli Experience.
3. Direct Emergency Department Admissions vs. In-hospital Transfer of Patients to the ICU
4. Do Elderly Critically Ill Patients Really Benefit from ICU Management?
5. Is there a Rationale for the Administration of Corticosteroids during Management of Septic Shock?

Ian G. Stiell, MD

1. Aggressive Emergency Department Management of Atrial Fibrillation: The Ottawa Protocol
2. Rapidly Excluding Injuries to the Cervical Spine after Traumatic Injuries
3. Sunsetting Prehospital Endotracheal Intubation
4. Meet the Professor - Organization of Emergency Departments

David A. Talan, MD

1. Managing Circulatory Shock on Arrival in the Emergency Department
2. MRSA in the Emergency and Critical Care Setting
3. Case Studies on Malpractice in the Emergency Department with Special Reference to Community Acquired Infection
4. Prophylactic Antibiotics

Wanchun Tang, MD
Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Pre-course Workshop - ACLS (full-day workshop)
With Max Harry Weil, MD, William T. Browne, MD, Mike Potter, EMT-P,and Mike Jacobs, EMT-P

Monday through Thursday, May 18-21, 2008

1. Anticipated Major Changes of 2010 AHA Guidelines of CPR
2. Next Generation of Bedside Monitoring: Tissue PCO2 and Microcirculation
3. The Role of Hypothermia in the Management of CPR

Jean-Louis Vincent, MD

1. Revisiting Routines of Cardiorespiratory and Metabolic Patient Monitoring
2. Volume Repletion and Fluid Challenge
3. Mechanisms of Circulatory Shock with Special Reference to the Microcirculation
4. Foregoing Life Support: The European Perspective
5. Anemia and Blood Transfusion
6. Predictors of Outcomes in the Critically Ill

Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD
Sunday, May 17, 2009 - Pre-course Workshop - ACLS (full-day workshop) With William T. Browne, MD, Mike Potter, EMT-P, Mike Jacobs, EMT-P, and Wanchun Tang, MD

1. Transitioning to Non-invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring
2. Bedside Diagnosis and Management of Septic Shock
3. The Clinical Uses of Capnography

Janice L Zimmerman, MD

1. Hyperglycemia and Hypoglycemia Mechanisms and Implications for Management
2. Non-invasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
3. Update on Intoxication Caused by Abuse of Drugs
4. Unexpected Pearls Gained from Routine Cases
5. Interpretation of Routine Laboratory Measurements and Their Implication for Management

FACULTY

Course Organizing Committee

Max Harry Weil, MD, PhD
Distinguished University Professor
Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine
Rancho Mirage, California
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago, Illinois
Research Professor of Surgery and Clinical Anesthesiology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Allan V. Abbott, MD
Professor of Family Medicine
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Continuing Medical Education
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

William T. Browne, MD Course Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jay L. Falk, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
Academic Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Chief Academic Medical Officer
Orlando Regional Healthcare System
Orlando, Florida

Eric C. Rackow, MD
Professor of Medicine
New York University Medical Center
New York, New York

Wanchun Tang, MD
Professor and President
Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine
Rancho Mirage, California
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Faculty

Mark J. Alberts, MD
Professor of Neurology
Director, Stroke Program
Feingold School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois

Jose Besso, MD
Department of Intensive Care
Hospital Centra Medico de Caracas
Caracas, Venezuela

Kevin K. Chung, MD
Medical Intensivist, Burn Center
US Army Institute of Surgical Research
San Antonio, Texas

Susan E. Dantoni, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, New York
Fingerlakes Women's Health, PLLC
Pittsford, New York

Nora F. Goldschlager, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, California

D. J. Green, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Navy Trauma Training Center
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, California

Dean R. Hess, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

John B. Holcomb, MD
COL, MC, US Army
Trauma Consultant for the Surgeon General
Commander, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Michael Jacobs, EMT-P
Director of Education
San Francisco Paramedic Association
San Francisco, California
Emergency Medical Services Advisor, City of Berkeley Fire Department
Berkeley, California

Edgar J. Jimenez, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Florida and Florida State University
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Orlando Regional Medical Center
Orlando, Florida

Mitchell M. Levy, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, MICU
Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island

Philip D. Lumb, M.B.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Dennis G. Maki, MD
Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine
Head, Section of Infectious Diseases
Attending Physician, Center for Trauma and Life Support
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Madison, Wisconsin

Peter J. Papadakos, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Neurosurgery
Director, Division of Critical Care Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, New York

Joseph E. Parrillo, MD
Professor of Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Chief of Medicine
Director of the Cooper Heart Institute
Camden, New Jersey

Emanuel P. Rivers, MD, MPH
Vice Chairman and Director of Research
Department of Emergency Medicine
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Kandis K. Rivers, MD
Private Practice in Urology
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Charles L. Sprung, MD
Professor of Medicine
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Director, General Intensive Care Unit
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel

Ian G. Stiell, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David A. Talan, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of Californian, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD
Head, Department of Intensive Care
Erasme University Hospital
Free University of Brussels
Brussels, Belgium

Janice L. Zimmerman, MD
Head, Critical Care Division and Director, MICU
The Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas