Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: 8th Annual Toronto Critical Care Medicine Symposium, 30 October–1 . | Critical Care February 2004 Vol 8 No 1 Granton and Granton Meeting report 8th Annual Toronto Critical Care Medicine Symposium 30 October-1 November 2003 Toronto Ontario Canada Jeff Granton1 and John Granton2 1Fellow Critical Care Medicine Programme University of Western Ontario Canada 2Programme Director Critical Care Medicine Programme University of Toronto Canada Correspondence John Granton Published online 2 January 2004 This article is online at http content 8 1 58 Critical Care 2004 8 58-66 DOI cc2429 The eighth annual Toronto Critical Care Symposium was held from 30 October to 1 November 2003 in downtown Toronto Ontario Canada. This symposium is Canada s premier critical care conference and attracts participants from across the country the United States Europe Australia and Asia. The attendance this year was in excess of 900 people and included the disciplines of medicine nursing respiratory therapy and other allied health care professionals. The themes of this year s meeting included sepsis organ donation blood conservation strategies acute lung injury and ethics. In addition many of the plenary addresses reviewed the recent severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS crisis. The discussion surrounding SARS was particularly poignant as Toronto was the North American city most affected by the outbreak. Severe acute respiratory syndrome John Marshall University of Toronto kicked off the meeting with an informative review of the epidemiology of SARS How it got from A to B . The origin of the disease in humans may have developed through contact with animal reservoirs for the virus. Indeed the first affected individuals were food handlers who routinely came into contact with animals such as the Civet Cat that are sold as a delicacy in Chinese markets. The Metropole Hotel in the Kowloon province of Hong Kong has become perhaps one of the most infamous hotels in the world as it is regarded as the source of the index cases for .
