Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine continues to grow every year, with in excess of 4000 attendees. With six parallel sessions for four frenetic days, it covers all. | Critical Care June 2002 Vol 6 No 3 Ball et al. Meeting report 22nd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Brussels Belgium 19-22 March 2002 Jonathan Ball1 Richard Venn2 Gareth Williams3 and Lui Forni4 Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine Department of Anaesthesia Intensive Care St George s Hospital Medical School University of London UK 2Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Worthing Hospital UK 3Clinical Research Fellow Intensive Therapy Unit St George s Hospital London UK 4Consultant in Renal Medicine and Intensive Care Worthing Hospital UK Correspondence Jonathan Ball jball@ Published online 30 April 2002 Critical Care 2002 6 264-270 2002 BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine continues to grow every year with in excess of 4000 attendees. With six parallel sessions for four frenetic days it covers all aspects of critical care from a variety of perspectives. This year as in previous years the symposium was marred only by the perennial problems of overcrowding and audiovisual glitches. The organisers to their credit had attempted to counter the problems with use of lecture rooms beyond the congress centre. Sadly however many sessions remained oversubscribed. Web casting of lectures to second venues has successfully been employed elsewhere and would greatly enhance this already pre-eminent international critical care symposium. Opening session As is traditional the exuberant and charismatic Jean Louis Vincent Brussels Belgium opened this year s meeting espousing The great step forward . His personal tour through the events of the past 12 months focused on the first Hippocratic tenet first do no harm . Iatrogenic injury was his major theme be it by the use of excessive tidal volume 1 excessive sedation 2 3 delayed resuscitation 4 poor glycaemic control 5 inadequate renal replacement 6 or failure to cool the brain post anoxic injury 7
