Mechanical Ventilation in ObesityPresented by Professor Lorenzo Berra and Dr Roberta Santiago , Harvard Medical School, USA at the Second Egyptian Italian Critical Care Symposium held on 29 December 2022 at the Learning Resource Center, Kasr Al Ainy School of medicine and organized by the Egyptian College of Critical care Physicians ( ECCCP)
Lecture presented by Dr Antonio Pesenti at the Second Egyptian Italian Critical Care Symposium held at Cairo Egypt .
Professor Antonio Pesenti is Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy.
He achieved his medical qualification and board certificate in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine from the University of Milan, cum laude.
After two years (1977-1979) spent as a Visiting Fellow at the NIH (USA) in the Section of Cardiac and Pulmonary Assist Devices, under the direction of Professor T. Kolobow, he came back to Italy subsequently becoming Assistant Professor.
He is the author and/or editor of numerous textbooks and of more than 400 published scientific and educational articles. He is one of the most distinguished researchers in the field of respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation and extra corporeal membrane oxygenation.
His research has always been focused on understanding the pulmonary physiology and management of acute respiratory failure, with an emphasis on mechanical ventilation, ARDS imaging and ECMO.
Attended by key Critical care specialists from Egyptian Universities , the second Egyptian Italian Critical care Symposium took place on 29 December , 2022 at the Learning Resource Center , Kasr Al Ainy , Cairo University .
The symposium is organized by ECCCP in continuation of the Egyptian Italian Critical Care series organized in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Opera Aida last year.
The symposium featured a lecture from Ms Laila Ibrahim from Cairo Opera house highlighting the history of Opera Aida.
Then followed by presentations from Italian faculty as follows:
Regional Ventilation/ Perfusion ratio and VILI
Professor Antonio Pesenti
Professor of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Milan, Italy.
Mechanical Ventilation in Obesity
Professor Lorenzo Berra, Harvard Medical School, USA
Maurizio Cereda, MD, Harvard Medical School, USA
The inaugural edition of the Neurocritical Care Course was conducted on 8 and 9 December 2022 at the Learning Resource Center , Kasr Al Ainy, Cairo University.
The course covered several areas in Neuro critical care science and practice and was delivered by ECCCP faculty together with a panel of eminent experts in the field.
Instructors of the course were:
Dr Mohamed Amin, Dr Ahmed Al Wazeer, Dr Abdelrhman Aboshady, Dr Mohamed Badr, Dr Walid Kamel ,Dr Ola Saeed and Dr Hisham Nafea.
Lectures from the Neuro Critical Care Session at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022
If you would like to receive accredited ACLS and BLS courses then join the courses organized by the Egyptian College of Critical Care Physicians ( ECCCP) scheduled as follows:
Date & Venue: 15 and 16 September 2022 at the Egyptian Medical Syndicate
Course Code: 698
To register , please call : 0100 0903 406- 0100 1676 455
Date & Venue: 23 September 2022 at the Egyptian Medical Syndicate
Course Code: 684
Presentation by Dr Lluis Blanch, Senior Critical Care , Parc Tauli, University of Barcelona , Spain at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022.
Lecture presented by Dr Paolo Pelosi at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022 .
Dr Pelosi is currently Chief Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care and Director of the Specialty School in Anesthesiology at the University of Genoa as well as Head of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit at the IRCCS San Martino-IST Hospital, Genoa, Italy. His activity has been always directed both to the clinical and research field.
The main research interests of Prof. Pelosi have been directed to respiratory physiology during anesthesia and respiratory failure. Prof. Pelosi developed several collaborations with highly scientifically reputed groups in European and Extra-European countries, for research in the field of mechanical ventilation and sepsis in experimental and clinical settings.
Dr Pelosi has participated in the Egyptian Italian Symposium on Critical care Medicine held in December 2021. His lecture was COVID-19 Pneumonia is not a traditional ARDS
Presentation presented by Dr Ricard Ferrer at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022
Professor Ricard Ferrer is Head of the Intensive Care Department at Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona,
Spain. in Barcelona, Spain. He graduated in 1992 from the University of Barcelona, Medical School
and pursued his specialisation in Intensive Care from 1994 to 1998 in the Intensive care Unit of the
Hospital General Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona. He continued his education at the Hôpital
Lariboisière in Paris, France before coming back to Barcelona where he received the Doctor in
Medicine title in 2010 from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
Prof. Ferrer holds several positions at a numerous intensive care societies and he is member of the
steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and since 2010 is deputy of the Systemic
Inflammation and Sepsis section of the ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine). He has
published a number of original articles and review articles in peer reviewed journal in the field of
sepsis and has contributed to the publication of book chapters on sepsis and infection.
Professor Mokhtar, Chairman of ECCCP board of directors was hosted by DMC TV Channel . The program highlighted the efforts made by Professor Mokhtar in establishing the Critical Care Center of Cairo University and its inauguration in March 1982.
ECCCP celebrated the 40th anniversary of the center by organizing the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022 , held on March 2022.
Lecture presented by Dr Lluis Blanch at the Egyptian Critical Care Summit 2022 .
Dr Lluis Blanch, is Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain , Director de l’Institut d’Investigació i Innovació I3PT en Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí.