COVID-19 Webinar Series: 1st Episode

This webinar will be hosted on March 26 2020 16:00 – 17:00 CET.

Webinar Scientific Faculty

Scientific Faculty Leader:

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Gama de Abreu

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Host:

Prof. Dr. Ilona Bobek

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Paolo Pelosi 

Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Genoa, Italy

Prof. Dr. Giacomo Grasselli

Coordinator of the network of intensive care units in Lombardy

Intensive Care Unit  “E. Vecla” at the Fondazione IRCCS “Ca’ Granda” – Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, Italy

Dr. Hua Zheng

Department of Anesthesiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

Scientific Support :

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Gama de Abreu

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Target Audience:

All caregivers involved in anesthesia, intensive care and critical emergency medicine, including physicians and non-physicians

Key points of this webinar:

• Treatment of COVID-19 is empirical, but there are multiple approaches
• Experts from the countries with the most experience with such patients
• Colleagues from those countries can help to select the most appropriate approaches

Learning Objectives:
This webinar will enable caregivers of patients with COVID-19 to:

• Identify useful therapy approaches
• Know the value of adjuvant therapies to mechanical ventilation
• Have escalation and de-escalation plans

Practical skills to be acquired after attending this Webinar:
The user can:

• Triage patients according to the severity of symptoms
• Minimize the risk of contamination during intubation and mechanical ventilation
• Apply the most promising respiratory and non-respiratory therapies on time 

Affective skills acquired after attending to this Webinar:
The user is aware of:

• Standard therapy plans
• Safe care procedures
• Value of teamwork
• Optimize care and prevent burnout

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