DAY1

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• Timely and adequate allocation of prehospital medical assistance to cardiac arrest patients – how to do it? Theresa Olasvengen
• How to optimize care for the cardiac arrest patient in the prehospital setting? Jacob Hollenberg
• PRO: Should we transport patients in cardiac arrest to the hospital or stay on scene? Sten Rubertsson
• CON: Should we transport patients in cardiac arrest to the hospital or stay on scene? Hans Friberg
• Prehospital ECMO – when and how? Lionel Lamhaut

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• TAP blockade – what’s new? Jens Børglum
• Update on regional anaesthesia for breast surgery Michael Herrick

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• When is it safe to do regional anaesthesia? Christian Fenger-Eriksen
• Bleeding in paediatric surgery – case presentations Birgitta Romlin
• When not to simplify haemostasis management – case presentations Anna Ågren
• Critical bleeding – state of the art Jakob Stensballe

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• The essential prerequisites for any quality register: data quality Reidar Kvåle
• How to use quality register data for quality improvement Matti Reinikainen
• Differences between Nordic quality registers Steffen Christensen
• Using quality registers for research Carolina Samuelsson

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• Deconstructing fluid resuscitation in African children – a forensic analysis of the FEAST trial Kathryn Maitland

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• Ketamine analgesia – current practice and emerging concepts Jan Persson
• Ketamine anaesthesia – mechanisms and current practice Jonas Åkeson
• Ketamine – clinical use in major depression Mats Lindström

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• The Swedish Perioperative Register (SPOR) Claes Magelus
• Using quality registers to improve perioperative outcomes – an international perspective Rubert Pearse
• Using SPOR data to improve patient care Gunnar Enlund

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• Long time survival and morbidity after CRRT Claire Rimes-Stigare
• Postoperative AKI Max Bell
• Earlier vs later CRRT Johan Mårtensson
• The RRT catheter – placement comes first Miklós Lipcsey
• Phosphate and magnesium ions in critical illness Marcus Broman

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• Experiences from the Paris attacks Nov 13th 2015 Pierre Carli
• Experiences from the Brussels attacks March 22nd 2016 Elkana Keersebilck
• What should I know about chemical weapons? Nina Sjöblom Widfeldt
• Major incidents – what can we learn from them? Sabina Fattah

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• Sepsis management in ressource-limited hospitals in Africa Kathryn Maitland
• Collaboration with a ressource-limited region in Africa – the anaesthesiologist’s perspective Lars Irestedt
• Collaboration with a ressource-limited region in Africa – the paediatricians’s perspective Viveka Nordberg

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• Safe and effective surgery – everyone’s job? Rubert Pearse

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• Introduction to the concept “Perioperative” Sven Erik Gisvold
• Why perioperative medicine? How it changes outcome Rubert Pearse
• What are we doing about it? Inspiring and implementing change Anna Cedborg

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• SAFETOTS Torsten Lauritsen
• Web-based learning in paediatric anaesthesia – an educational project from ESPA and SSAI Mathias Johansen

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• Trauma care – implementing a national programme on trauma care in Norway Torben Wisborg
• Tactical Emergency Medical Service (TEMS) – is this a new path we need to implement? Peter Anthony Berlac

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DAY2

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• Introduction Christian Rylander
• Multiple interventions in the ICU – are they worthwhile? Janet Froulund Jensen
• ICU delirium – critical factors and liberation bundles Pratik Pandharipande
• Can we identify vulnerable ICU patients in need of support after ICU discharge? Anna Milton
• What you get is what you ask for – a specific follow-up questionnaire Johan Malmgren

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• Evidence based leadership – teaming, what does that mean? Carl Savage
• Implementing perioperative pathways in emergency surgery in the elderly Nicolai Bang Foss

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• Promoting patient safety outside the operating or intensive care room Sven Erik Gisvold
• Reducing hospital mortality by systematic early warning scoring Gitte Bunkenborg
• Medical emergency teams – do they matter? Andreas Hvarfner

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• The challenge of new party drugs Kai Knudsen
• The American opioid crisis Brian Sites
• How to relax before and after rapid sequence induction Malin Johnsson Fagerlund
• Current and future paediatric use of ultra-long acting local anaesthetics Joseph Cravero

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• Transpulmonary driving pressure determined by a PEEP step – a new simple method for separating lung and chest wall mechanics Ola Stenqvist
• The new PEEP step method for transpulmonary pressure – too good to be true? Paolo Pelosi
• Protective ventilation, the way I do it Anders Larsson

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• Big data vs the RCT Derek Angus

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• Post-discharge pain management in out-patient surgery. Old problem, new solutions Anil Gupta
• Post-discharge issues beyond pain in out-patient surgery Johan Raeder
• PRO: Should definition of day surgery be extended to 24 hours admission? Johan Ræder
• CON: Should definition of day surgery be extended to 24 hours admission? Anil Gupta

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• Graduate teaching and training of urgent bedside management Owain Thomas
• What should a severely deteriorated patient expect form a junior doctor? Peter Svensson
• Undergraduate teaching, training and examination of urgent bedside management Jonas Åkeson

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• Alcohol and treatment in the ICU Johanna Hästbacka
• Nonsedation – experimental or routine? Palle Toft
• Antibiotics – the right dose, to the right patient, right now! Fredrik Sjövall

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• Basic science of fluid therapy Robert Hahn
• Is there evidence for any fluid therapy in the critically ill? Anders Perner
• Is there a place for colloids in resuscitation of the critically ill? Peter Bentzer

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• The role of the anaesthesiologist in ERAS Narinder Rawal
• The role of the ERAS society Olle Ljungqvist

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• What are the optimal paO2 and paCO2 targets during and after cardiac arrest? Markus Skrifvars
• Prolonged or deeper cooling after cardiac arrest Hans Kirkegaard
• Lessons from the TTM trial and planning for the next Niklas Nielsen

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• A professor’s view on patient safety Hans Rutberg

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• The SSAI pain educational programme through 15 years Niels-Henrik Jensen
• Acute pain after surgery – lessons learned from the last decade Stephan Schug
• Perioperative opioid treatment – the crucial importance of timing Audun Stubhaug
• Acute neuropathic pain Stephan Schug

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• General or regional anaesthesia in orthopaedic surgery Andreas Harsten

[/accordion-item] [accordion-item title=”Clinical research – from idea to publication to implementation”]

• How to conduct high-quality clinical research? Anders Perner
• Challenges in clinical research Niklas Nielsen
• Why are most clinical research findings not spectacular? Morten Hylander Møller
• Does clinical research help me take care of my patient? Derek Angus

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• Intraoperative determinants of postoperative decline in renal function Peter Noordzij
• Fluids at the PACU – the easy way out? Max Bell
• Diuresis – facts, fiction and future Mareike Körber

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DAY3

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• Challenging clinical trials: Why doesn’t early goal-directed therapy work? Derek Angus
• Does the anaesthesiologist make a difference? A tricky example with a retracted article Andrew Klein
• Spins, lies and truths – obsevational data in medicine and anesthesiology Brian Sites

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• Should we abandon succinylcholine and pentothal in GA Caesarean delivery Antti Väänänen
• What, is any, is the place for fast track in Caesarean delivery? Ulla Bang
• Post Caesarean analgesia – an update Kim Ekelund

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• Physiology and pathophysiology of ARDS and conventional ventilator therapy Jon Henrik Laake
• Adjuvant therapy and advanced mechanical ventilation Steen Christensen
• VV-ECMO – indications and concerns Jacob Greisen

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• Prehospital Echo Per Bredmose
• New monitoring techniques to assess composition of aleolar gas Emilie Krite Svanberg

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• Reflexions by the first SSAI president – Looking back, ahead and around Sten Lindahl
• ACTA lecture: Anaesthesia in women and women in anaesthesia Else Tønnesen

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• Anaesthesia to liver transplanted patients and patients with liver disease Anna Januszkiewicz
• Update on GUCH for anaesthesiologists Ulf Thilén

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• Is perioperative screening for OSAS needed? Malin Johnsson Fagerlund
• Perioperative treatment of sleep apnoea Karl Franklin

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• Should we use a high oxygen fraction to decrease surgical site infection rate? Christian Meyhoff

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• Sepsis-3 Derek Angus
• Cooling of sepsis patients Morten Bestle
• New diagnostic tools in sepsis Adam Linder
• Coagulopathy in sepsis – the do’s and don’ts Nicole Juffermans

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• Remifentanil in labour analgesia – where are we in 2017 Vegard Dahl
• Fibrinogen, haemostasis and postpartum haemorrhage Ove Karlsson
• Hyponatraemia complicating labour – implications for mother and fetus Vibeke Moen

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• Young brains and anaesthesia – how big are the risks? Pia Glatz
• Chronic postoperative surgical pain in children Ulla Caverius
• Big data in paediatric anaesthesiology Joseph Cravero

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• Prevention of AKI in infants undergoing CHD surgery – an RCT Elin Tholacius
• Haemodynamic management in liver surgery Lena Sand Bown
• Right atrial pressure as backpressure for venous return Per Möller
• The SUP-ICU score Søren Marker

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• Anaesthesia for endovascular treatment in acute ischaemic stroke Mads Rasmussen
• No ventilation – yet full oxygenation Åse Lödenius
• Does anaesthesia promote development of dementia? Christina Eintrei
• Pre-operative fasting – to be or not to be? Peter Frykholm

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• The SSAI ICM programme – present and future perspectives Gisli Sigurdsson
• How did my participation in the SSAI ICM programme affect my professional career? Christian Rylander

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• Needle phobia Allan Cyna
• Emergence agitation David Costi

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