Day 1 (Thursday, May 11, 2023)
Conference Centre Faculty of Medicine
Jagiellonian University Medical College
ul. św. Łazarza 16, 31-530 Kraków
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Workshops
Some workshops may overlap.
We advise you to check the
schedule before registering.
ACUTE AND CRITICAL CARE (CARING FOR ACUTE AND CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS)
9:00–13:00 14:00–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. Wojciech Szczeklik (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Prof. Simon Oczkowski
(McMaster University, Canada)
Max. number of participants: 30 per group
Fee: free of charge
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 4 hours
Rationale: Conventional oxygen? Nasal high flow? Bi-PAP? CPAP? Invasive ventilation? We have many choices for treating respiratory failure in the hospital. Join us at this workshop to review the evidence and put different therapies into practice through a series of patient case studies. The workshop will cover the clinical evidence relating to the use of the therapy and provide an opportunity to use/play with the equipment.
Learning objectives:
- Gain an understanding of the current evidence based strategies for managing hypoxia and hypercapnia (Type I and II RF)
- Learn how to set up a standalone nasal high flow device ready for a patient or a healthy volunteer!
- Get hands on with NIV masks and discuss strategies for managing NIV
- Put the evidence into practice, through a series of patient case studies
9:00–11:00
11:30–13:30
16:00–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Dr. Grzegorz Cebula (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Max. number of participants: 8 per group
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 2 hour
Rationale: Securing the airway and proper ventilation is frequently the most time-sensitive and anxiety-provoking challenge faced by clinicians. Supraglottic airway devices (laryngeal mask, laryngeal tube, I-Gel®) are reasonable alternatives for those healthcare providers who do not perform tracheal intubation frequently enough to be skillful in that procedure. Although short, this is a highly intensive and hands-on workshop. It provides the opportunity to practice airway management and learn how to use supraglottic airway devices.
Learning objectives: By the end of this workshop, the participants will know:
- How to properly ventilate the patient using self-inflating bag-valve-mask ventilation technique.
- How to prepare the equipment for securing the airway with the laryngeal mask, laryngeal tube, I-Gel®.
- Indications and contraindications for supraglottic airways.
- Possible complications of supraglottic airways.
- How to safely secure the airways using the laryngeal mask, laryngeal tube, I-Gel®.
To get the most out of this workshop, it is crucial that you attend the session
prepared.
Help us by familiarizing yourself with the following resources:
Supraglottic airway
overview
Using supraglottic
airways
Intubating through
SGAs
9:00–11:30 (for students)
12:00–14:30
15:30–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Dr. Grzegorz Cebula (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Max. number of participants: 8 per group
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 2 hour 30 minutes
Rationale: Cardical arrestis the most time-sensitive and demanding challenge faced by clinicians. In such scenarios, rapid assessment and life-saving treatments have to be implemented immediately. The goal of this cardiac arrest simulation (CAS) workshop is to equip participants with practical skills. The workshop provides a number of stations with simulations of acute clinical situations.
Learning objectives: By the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the concept of CAS training, including the concept of role-playing and the importance of nontechnical skills in resuscitation attempts.
- Understand the importance of teamwork and leadership in the management of cardiac arrest.
- Understand the treatment algorithms of shockable and nonshockable rhythms.
- Apply the current guidelines and skills taught in the workshop to practical management of the patient with cardiac arrest.
- Apply the skills, attitude, and knowledge required to function as a member of a resuscitation team.
- Apply the skills, attitude, and knowledge required to lead a resuscitation team.
- Understand the use of nontechnical skills in cardiac arrest teams.
9:00–11:15
11:45–14:00 (for students)
15:45–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Dr. Grzegorz Cebula (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Max. number of participants: 8 per group
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 2 hour 15 minutes
Rationale: Treatment of patients with life-threatening tachyarrhythmias poses a major challenge for the staff of intensive care units and hospital emergency departments. The workshop, run in high-fidelity simulation rooms that reconstruct conditions in the hospital ward, is designed to prepare doctors and students to perform electrocardiographic cardioversion procedures safely in both life-threatening and planned situations.
Learning objectives: By the end of this workshop, the participants will know:
- Indications for electrical cardioversion.
- Contraindications and possible complications of electrical cardioversion.
- How to perform procedural analgosedation before cardioversion.
- How to perform safe electrical cardioversion.
- Principles of patient monitoring after cardioversion.
MEDICAL IMAGING
10:00–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta (UK), Dr. Anna Ciechomska (UK)
Max. number of participants: 25
Fee: 90 €
Eligible participants: Physicians
Duration: 7 hour
Rationale:Probability-based algorithms in rheumatology add significantly to the efficiency of condition evaluation, categorization and management in patients presenting to early arthritis and fast track clinics.
Learning objectives:This hands-on event complements the pioneering APLAR
online POCRUS course on a scenario-based approach to rheumatology. It will consist of 8 hours of activities: lectures, live demonstrations, hands-on practice, with discussion of
illustrative cases.
This workshop provides:
- Overview of the probabilistic approach and its specific application to different presenting scenarios such as polyarthritis, oligoarthritis, monoarthritis, polymyalgia, suspected GCA and large vessel vasculitis;
- Case discussions and hands-on practice on patients with different rheumatology scenarios;
- Appropriate ultrasound scanning techniques and protocols will be demonstrated and practiced.
- Understand common presentation scenarios in rheumatology;
- Apply a probability-based approach to evaluate individual presentations;
- Understand the role of point of consultation ultrasound in the probability-based algorithm;
- Recognize specific and sensitive ultrasound signs/patterns;
- Confirm/exclude different scenarios by applying ultrasound findings;
- Understand the individual settings and procedures for ultrasound scanning.
- Principles for applying ultrasound in rheumatology scenarios;
- Standardized sonographic scanning in clinical scenarios for: rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, gout/crystal arthritis, PMR/GCA;
- The use of colour Doppler ultrasonography and ultrasound system settings;
- Identification of vascular sonoanatomy.
12:00–13:30
14:00–15:30
16:15–17:45
Speakers and trainers:
Dr. Marzena Frolow (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Max. number of participants: 16
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Rationale: B-mode compression ultrasound (CUS) has become the diagnostic modality of choice for deep vein thrombosis (DVT). CUS has high sensitivity and specificity for DVT. It allows for diagnosis at the point of care and decreased demand on radiology departmental services. Standard 3-point CUS includes examination of the upper femoral vein, lower femoral vein, and popliteal fossa. Some CUS’s protocols extend the test area to the veins of the calf.
Learning objectives: Attendees will be familiarized with:
- Basic ultrasound unit settings for CUS.
- Applied sonoanatomy of deep veins of lower extremities.
- Technique of different protocols of CUS.
- No basic skills in ultrasound examination are required from participants.
14:15–15:45 (for students)
16:15–17:45
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. Julian Dobranowski (McMaster University, Canada)
Max. number of participants: 30
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Rationale: Despite the introduction of various technological advancements in medical imaging, the chest x-ray remains the most frequently requested radiological investigation. Learning how to interpret a chest x-ray is among the most important and challenging skills to master in caring for patients. However, many practicing physicians find themselves ill-equipped to make confident chest x-ray interpretations. The interpretive process need not stir up negative emotions. With the proper grounding in knowledge, procedures, and principles, chest x-ray interpretation can be rewarding to the learner and, more importantly, can lead to accurate extraction of information, leading to better patient outcomes.
Learning objectives: This workshop is designed to build your confidence in the interpretive process using a step-by-step algorithm. Participants will learn how to confidently distinguish between a normal and an abnormal chest x-ray and acquire specific interpretive skills that can be applied to daily practice. The workshop will also focus on practicing the newly acquired interpretive skills with numerous relevant clinical cases.
ANTICOAGULATION AND ITS BLEEDING COMPLICATIONS
15:30–16:30
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. James Douketis (McMaster University, Canada)
Max. number of participants: 30
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour
Rationale: In the last decade, four direct oral anticoagulants have emerged as treatment options for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and for the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. Alongside heparins and vitamin K antagonists there is now a wide array of treatment options for the clinician. Choosing which anticoagulant to recommend can be challenging but important because each anticoagulant comes with therapeutic benefits and risks. There also is a need to match anticoagulant according to increasingly prevalent patient comorbidities that include coronary artery disease, renal insufficiency and bleeding predisposition, and for patients with cancer.
Learning objectives: At the end of this practical, case-based workshop, the participant will be able to:
- Know how to identify the right anticoagulant for an individual patient, with or without specific comorbidities;
- Gain a basic understanding of the key benefits and risks of different anticoagulants;
- Deal with common “what if” clinical scenarios that occur during anticoagulant therapy.
17:00–18:00
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. James Douketis (McMaster University, Canada)
Max. number of participants: 30
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour
Rationale: With an ageing population and associated increased use of anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and for management of venous thromboembolism, the management of anticoagulant-associated bleeding has become a common clinical scenario. Although many clinicians are aware of how to manage acute bleeding, less is known about measures to prevent bleeding and what to do after the bleed. In the later instance, often challenging decisions are needed as to whether anticoagulants should be resumed, which anticoagulant to resume and, most importantly, when is the right timing of resumption.
Learning objectives: At the end of this practical, case-based workshop, the participant will be able to:
- Identify preventive measures to minimize bleeding risk in patients who are started on anticoagulants;
- Have an updated understanding of managing acute anticoagulant-related bleeding;
- Gain an approach to managing patients “after the bleed”, including when and if to resume anticoagulants.
MODERN MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES
14:00–15:00
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. Leszek Czupryniak (Medical University of Warsaw, Poland)
Max. number of participants: 30
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour
Rationale: Type 2 diabetes is one the most common chronic diseases in the world, with increasing incidence, affecting from people from childhood to advanced age. In recent years type 2 diabetes therapy has undergone substantial changes, mostly due to the arrival of the medications which apart from lowering blood glucose lead to the reduction of cardiovascular risk and are free from hypoglycemic risk.
Learning objectives:
- understanding of current possibilities to prevent vascular complications of diabetes
- understanding the need for early intensification of antidiabetic therapy
- how to use newer antidiabetic therapies in various type of patients
- how to combine drugs from various therapeutic groups
- how to delay insulin therapy initiation in type 2 diabetes
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
15:00-16:30
Speakers and trainers:
Prof. Nandini Chatterjee (Indian College of Physicians, India)
Max. number of participants: 20
Fee: 30 €
Eligible participants: Physicians and students
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Rationale:Fever is an important symptom of innumerable diseases, both infectious and noninfectious. Physicians find it challenging to pinpoint the etiology and use potential diagnostic clues to establish a diagnosis. A characteristic rash along with its time of onset is one of such clues. It may be of help especially in diagnosing patients who develop a fever after returning from the tropics.
Learning objectives:
- To gain a general understanding of different types of rashes seen in febrile illnesses;
- To correlate the appearance of a rash with the timeline of disease progression;
- To know and analyze logically differential diagnoses of fever with a rash;
- To know the relevant investigations to order.;
- To learn management outlines via useful algorithms.
Day 1 (Thursday, May 11, 2023)
Conference Centre Faculty of Medicine
Jagiellonian University Medical College
ul. św. Łazarza 16, 31-530 Kraków
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Session A: Clinical Cases in Internal Medicine: Learning Through Practice (9:00–14:00)
During this session 20 selected case reports submitted to the Best Case Report Contest will be presented by the authors and discussed by experts.
Session B: Medical Education Forum (15:00–18:00)
Day 2 (Friday, May 12, 2023)
ICE Kraków Congress Centre
ul. Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków
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Welcome and introduction – Organizing Committee
Opening lecture
TBA
Session I
Cardiovascular resuscitation in 2023
Prof. Bernd W. Böttiger
University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: diagnosis and management
Prof. Harriette Van Spall
McMaster University, Canada
Cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery
Prof. Wojciech Szczeklik
Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session II
Biologics for the treatment of severe asthma
Prof. Paul O’Byrne
McMaster University, Canada
Chronic cough: advances in diagnosis and management
Prof. Imran Satia
McMaster University, Canada
When to order a chest CT scan: an evidence-based approach
Prof. Julian Dobranowski
McMaster University, Canada
Managing COPD according to GOLD 2023
Prof. Jadwiga Wedzicha
Imperial College London, UK
Questions & answers
All speakers
Lunch break
Session III
Vitamins in kidney disease
Prof. Jürgen Floege
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Kidney stones: how to diagnose and treat
Prof. Felix Knauf
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Hypercalcemia: approach to diagnosis and management
Prof. Ally Prebtani
McMaster University, Canada
Management of adrenal incidentalomas according to current practice guidelines
TBA
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session IV
ISIM & EASD Session: Current management of diabetes
Chair: Dr Adri Kok (South Africa), President of ISIM
Best clinical practice in type 1 diabetes mellitus management
Prof. Pratik Choudhary
University of Leicester, UK
Completing the change in type 2 diabetes mellitus treatment paradigm: 2022 EASD/ADA consensus report
Prof. Melanie Davies
University of Leicester, UK
Injectable therapies for type 2 diabetes mellitus: now and tomorrow
Prof. Leszek Czupryniak
Warsaw Medical University, Poland
How to manage diabetes effectively when resources are limited
Prof. Somia Iqtadar
King Edward Medical University, Pakistan
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Day 3 (Saturday, May 13, 2023)
ICE Kraków Congress Centre
ul. Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków
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Opening lecture
TBA
Session V
Antithrombotic treatment: current challenges
Prof. James Douketis
McMaster University, Canada
A practical approach to a patient with leukopenia
Prof. Madeline Verhovsek
McMaster University, Canada
Long COVID: a review of the evidence
Prof. Mark Loeb
McMaster University, Canada
Fever in a patient returning from a tropical country: diagnostic approach
Prof. Jyotirmoy Pal
R.G. Kar Medical College, India
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session VI
Gut microbiota, dysbiosis and probiotics: implications for everyday practice
Prof. Hanna Szajewska
Warsaw Medical University, Poland
Current management of inflammatory bowel disease
Prof. Paul Moayyedi
McMaster University, Canada
Blood products transfusion strategies in hospitalized patients
Prof. Joanna Dionne
McMaster University, Canada
Serious skin manifestations of drug hypersensitivity
Prof. Mohannad Abu-Hilal
McMaster University, Canada
BCRC Award Ceremony
Questions & answers
All speakers
Lunch break
Session VII
Current management of acute and chronic gout
Prof. Robert McLean
Yale School of Medicine, USA
Raynaud’s phenomenon: a diagnostic approach and management
Prof. Maggie J Larché
McMaster University, Canada
Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica spectrum disease: from diagnosis to treatment
Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Southend University Hospital, UK
Back pain: when to refer to surgery
Prof. Andrzej Maciejczak
Medical Faculty of the University of Rzeszów, Poland
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session VIII
EFIM Session: The Multimorbid Patient
Chair: Prof. Michal Holecki (Poland), EFIM Multimorbidity Working Group
Approaching multimorbidity in clinical practice
Dr. Martha Díaz Gomez
Virgen Del Rocio University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain
Management of chronic kidney disease in patients with multimorbidity: key messages for everyday practice
Prof. Jerzy Chudek
Medical University of Silesia, Poland
Multimorbidity and polypharmacy: how to avoid harming your patients
TBA
Questions & answers
All speakers
Closing remarks
Organizing Committee