10th Annual UC Davis Pulmonary and Critical Care Conference: State of the Art 2012

Key Topics

• Basic "anatomy" of the ECLS circuit and the team needed to support an ECLS program
• The rational for the use of extracorporeal life support (ECLS)
• Current diagnostic and treatment strategies for infection in the ICU
• Risk and benefits of ECLS, and better identify which patients may benefit from ECLS
• Label recognition of delirium in the ICU
• State-of-the-art in recognition and treatment of sepsis
• Effects of sleep disruption and sedation management in the ICU
• Risk factors for, and implement strategies to improve, delirium in the ICU
• Up to date, evidence based pharmacologic treatment strategies for asthma and COPD
• Evidence and controversy of CT screening for lung cancer
• Patients who might benefit from bronchial thermoplasty for asthma
• Similarities and differences in the pharmacologic treatment of asthma and COPD
• Evidenced based treatment strategies for respiratory infections
• Newly recognized respiratory pathogens

Who should Attend

Nurses, physicians, pharmacists and respiratory therapists.