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1g73Symposiumon Critical CareMedicineandCirculatory Shock The following details have been supplied of a Symposium on Critical Care Medicine and Circulatory Shock to be held on 21-23 February, 1973 at the Los Angeles Hilton Hotel, California, U.S.A. Details for participation are obtainable from the Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education, USC School of Medicine, 2025 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.

MAX HARRY WEIL, M.D., Ph.D. Course Director (Clinical Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Shock Research Unit and the Center for the Critically Ill)

HERBERT SHUBIN, M.D. Course Co-Director (Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director Shock Research Unit and the Center for the Critically Ill)

Visiting Faculty: Eliot Corday, J. Michael Criley, Stanley J. Dudrick, Ben Eiseman, Sydney M. Finegold, Donald C. Harrison, Benjamin M. Kagan, Jack M. Matloff, Morton H. Maxwell, Don H. Nelson, Richard M. Peters, Peter Safer, Mohinder P. Sambhi, David State, H. J. C. Swan, Lawrence L. Weed, Daniel Woolf, Donna Zschoche and 40 members of the faculty of the University of Southern California.

A. Current Advances and Newer Clinical Concepts General Session I: CARDIOVASCULAR

Pulmonary Odema Related to Critical Lowering of Colloid Osmotic Pressure Metabolic Consequences of Myocardial Infarction Reassessment of the Value of Central Venous Pressure Measurements Cardiogenic Shock: Haemodynamic. Metabolic and Respiratory Derangements Aggressive Surgical Management of Cardiogenic Shock Surgery for Acute Complications of Myocardial Infarction: Ruptured Ventricular

Septum, Mitral Insufficiency and Ventricular Tachycardia Cardiac Output: How to Measure It and How Important It Is Electrical Cardioversion : Present Status and Clinical Practice Evaluating the Performance of the Heart Drug Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias Hypertensive Crises and Their Management Interpreting Pulmonary Arterial and Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressures Peripheral Thrombo-embolic Crises: Immediate Management Pulmonary Thrombo-embolism and Fat Embolism

General Session II: FLUID, ELECTROLYTES AND NUTRITION Initial Treatment of Massive Body Burns Choice of Fluids for Volume Repletion Differential Diagnosis of Acute Renal Failure Hyponatraemia and Water Intoxication Parenteral Alimentation : Indications, Methods and Risks

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General Session III: GENERAL EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE Priority for Management of Multiple Injuries The Problem Oriented Record as Applied to Emergency Care Acute Management of Gunshot and/or Stab Wounds of the Chest Acute Management of Gunshot and/or Stab Wounds of the Abdomen Treatment of Bites and Stings of Venomous Animals Cutaneous Manifestations of Life-Threatening Diseases The Problem Oriented Record as Applied to Critical Care Applying Simple Methods for Determining Whether Patients Are Likely to Live

or Die

Gemral Session IV: INFECTI US DISEASE Introduction and Clinical Guidelines Pharmacology of Antimicrobials: Classification of Drugs, Sensitivity, Testing and

Measurement of Blood and Tissue Levels Streptococci : Classification and Clinical Importance Life-Threatening Staphylococcal Infections and Their Management Pseudomonas, Klebsiella and Proteus Bacteroides and Other Anaerobes L-Forms and Their Clinical Significance Tuberculosis : Typical and Atypical Bacterial Endocarditis: Prompt Recognition and Newer Implications for Management

General Session V: METABOLIC AND ENDOCRINE CRISES Thyroid Crisis and Myxoedema Coma Life-Threatening Hyper- and Hypo-calcaemia: Immediate Diagnosis and Manage-

ment Acute Pituitary and/or Adrenal Insufficiency Acute Liver Failure: Recognition and Management Acute Hyperlipidaemic States: Clinical Import and Emergency Treatment

General Session VI: RESPIRA TORT CRISES Pathology of ‘Shock Lung’ The Work of Breathing and Its Implications for Survival of the Patient with Lung

Failure Changes in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Control of Respiration

General Session VII: NEUROLOGICAL AND HAEMATOLOGICAL ASPECTS Management of Acute Convulsive Disorders Diagnosis of Brain Death Sedation and Analgesia for the Critically 111 Transfusion of Blood and Blood Components: Indications and Risks Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Defects in Blood Clotting Intravascular Haemolysis : Differential Diagnosis and Management

B. Methods and Facilities Methdr Session I: GENERAL

Routines of Neurological Monitoring

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Immediate Care of Obstetric and Gynaecological Emergencies Postpartum Evaluation of Neonatal Resuscitation Routine Measurements of Plasma and Urine Osmolality Studies on the Treatment of Bacterial Shock The Paramedic

Methods Session II: NURSING AD MINISTRA TI0.N Physical and Operational Design of Critical Care Centers Personnel Crises in Critical Care Units Human Factors: What Time Do Nurses Spend Doing What? Maintaining Equipment and Supplies Nursing Responsibilities for Maintenance of Equipment Efficiency of Operation Automation of Critical Care: The Nurse’s Role Core Curriculum for Critical Care Nursing In-Service Training for Critical Care

Methods Session III: PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSIDERATIONi Psychiatric Management of the Critically Ill and Injured Economics of Critical Care The Dilemma of the Practising Physician More Issues Pertaining to Critical Care of the Aged and Chronically Infirm Fellowship Training in Critical Care Medicine

Methods Session IV: RESPIRATORY CRISES, LABORATORY Intubation and Airway Management Assisted and Controlled Ventilation Choice of Ventilators Laboratory Tests Crucial to Immediate Care: The “STAT Lab”

Methods Session V: BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Newer Techniques in Inhalation Therapy Practical Use of Computers for Patient Monitoring Fundamentals of Electric and Mechanical Safety in Critical Care Units Automatic Pumps for Infusion of Fluids and Drugs Automated Measurement of Blood Gases and pH Vascular Interface: A Device for Automatic Infusion of Fluids and Withdrawal of

Blood with Catheters Automated Interpretation of Blood Gases and pH Measurements

Methods Session VI: CARDIOVASCULAR CRISES Intra-arterial Catheterization: Methods and Significance of the Measurements Fluid Challenge: Rationale and Methods Chest and Abdominal X-Rays for Routine Emergency Diagnosis Coronary Angiography and Ventriculography as Emergency Procedures after

Acute Myocardial Infarction Selective Angiography for Abdominal Crises

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Angiographic Studies during Crescendo Angina Complications of Central Venous Catheterization Nursing Management of Pacemaker Dependent Patients

Film Programme

Shock: Recognition and Management. The Shock Unit, University of Southern California School of Medicine Introduction to Shock Shock: Cellular Pathophysiology Septic Shock Hypovolaemic Shock Analphylactic Shock Congestive Heart Failure Lung Scanning in Pulmonary Disease Cerebral Angiography in the Management of the Stroke Syndrome Life in the Balance-Principle of CPR in the Coronary Care Unit An Introduction to Nursing in a Coronary Care Unit Prescription for Life Resuscitation in the Operating Room Before the Emergency

United Kingdom ‘973

Intensive Care Society. Meeting, at Whipps Cross Hospital, Whipps Cross Road, London, E.I I, U.K., on 3 March 1973, organized by Dr Gillian Hanson.

United States

Seventh Annual International Symposium on Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (Co-sponsored by Society of Critical Care Medicine), William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 10-12 May, 1973.

Second Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 12-13 May, 1973. Scientists and clinicians who wish to present original work should send one page abstracts to Programme Chairman, Dr William Shoemaker, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, New York.

United Kingdom ‘974

International Conference on Intensive Care, at Imperial College, London, S.W.7. Preliminary announcement of meeting: June, 1974.