Pre-Congress Courses
Biomarkers in Acute Settings
This course will discuss the use of biomarkers in emergency medicine in different situations, including shortness of breath, acute chest pain, acute kidney injury and trauma, and sepsis. Faculty will present from their own knowledge base, evidence based medicine, and interactive sessions with cases reports.
BIOMARKERS IN ACUTE SETTINGS
| INTRODUCTION LECTURE | |
| 9:00 - 9:30: | How to analyse the performances of biomarkers (sensitivity, specificity, NVP, PPV, ROC curves) and use it for the decision making? Dr Heikki HANAKKEN, Harvard, Boston |
| ACUTE DYSPNEA (PR ALEXANDRE MEBAZAA, DR SAÏD LARIBI, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, PARIS, FRANCE) | |
| 9:30 - 10:00: | Clinique case: Dyspnea in the ER |
| 10:00 - 10:30: | Acute heart failure: updates in 2011 |
| 10:30 - 11:00: | Biomarkers in acute dyspnea |
| Pause | |
| SEPSIS (Prof Salvatore Di Somma, University Hospital, Roma, Italy) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00: | Clinical case: ex : Meningitidis or severe sepsis |
| 12:00 - 12:30: | Biomarkers in sepsis (PCT, CRP, lactates…) |
| Lunch | |
| CORONARY SYNDROME : (PROF ABDELOUAHAB BELLOU, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, RENNES, FRANCE) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30: | Clinical case |
| 14:30 - 15:00: | Coronary syndrome : updates in 2011 |
| 15:00 - 15:30: | Biomarkers in coronary syndrome |
| Pause | |
| PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PROF GIANFRANCO AGNELLI, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, PERUGIA, ITALY) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30: | Clinical case |
| 16:30 - 17:00: | Updates in Pulmonary Embolism |
| 17:00 - 17:30: | Biomarkers in Pulmonary Embolism |
