Highlights from the Egyptian Italian Symposium on Critical Care Medicine

Themed : Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Egyptian Italian Symposium on Critical care Medicine was held on 16 December, 2021 at the Grand Nile Tower Hotel at Cairo, Egypt.

The symposium was organized by the Egyptian College of Critical Care Physicians ( ECCCP) and was presided by Professor Sherif Mokhtar.

The symposium hosted the following Italian guest faculty:

Prof. Massimo Loda, Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Pathologist-in-chief at Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA

The role of clinical pathologist in the COVID- 19 pandemic

Prof. Paolo Pelosi, Chief Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Head of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit at IRCCS San Martino-IST , Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Prof. Luca Bigatello, Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, TSUM Tufts Medical Center and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center-Brighton, Massachusetts, USA.

Lectures delivered are: 

• The role of Clinical Pathologists in the COVID- 19 Pandemic, Dr Massimo  Loda
• COVID-19 Pneumonia is not a traditional ARDS, Dr Paolo Pelosi
• Non-invasive Mechanical Ventilation and High- flow Nasal O2 in COVID- 19 Pneumonia, Dr Luca Bigatello

Related lectures from Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Working Group events:

• Non Invasive Respiratory Support for Patients with COVID-19, Dr Dean Hess
• High Respiratory Drive in Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure, Dr Lluis Blanch
• Quantative Imaging to measure Lung Injury Severity in ARDS and COVID-19, Dr Maurizio Cereda 
• Mechanical Ventilation before and during COVID- 19 epidemy, Dr Esteban
• PoCUS in COVID from the Emergency Department to the ICU, Dr Cian McDermott and Dr Catherine Nix 
• ECMO for COVID ARDS, Dr Jacob Gutsche
• Safe and effective delivery of aerosolized medications in the era of COVID-19, Dr Arzu Ari