Chairs: Malin Rundgren and Hans Flaatten

• Theresa Olasvengen (NO): Timely and adequate allocation of prehospital medical assistance to cardiac arrest patients – how to do it?
• Jacob Hollenberg (SE): How to optimize care for the cardiac arrest patient in the prehospital setting?
• Hans Friberg (SE) and Sten Rubertsson (SE): PRO-CON – Should we transport patients in cardiac arrest to the hospital or stay on scene?
• Lionel Lamhaut (FR): Prehospital ECMO – when and how?

Chair: Luis Romundstad

• Jens Børglum (DK): TAP blockade – what’s new?
• Michael Herrick (USA): Update on regional anesthesia for breast surgery

Chairs: Vibeke Moen and Ulf Schött

• Christian Fenger-Eriksen (DK): When is it safe to do regional anaesthesia?
• Birgitta Romlin (SE): Bleeding in paediatric surgery – case presentations.
• Pär I Johansson (DK): Endotheliopathy in acute critical illness.
• Anna Ågren (SE): When not to simplify haemostasis management. Case presentations.
• Jakob Stensballe (DK): Critical bleeding state of the art

Chairs: Ritva Kiiski-Berggren and Sten Walther

• Reidar Kvåle (NO): The essential prerequisites for any quality register: data quality
• Matti Reinikainen (FIN): How to use quality register data for quality improvement
• Steffen Christensen (DK): Differences between Nordic quality registers
• Carolina Samuelsson (SE): Using quality registers for research

Mikael Bodelsson, Jonas Åkeson, Sigridur Kalman, Martin Holmer

• Søren Pischke: Launch of the new SSAI logo
• Miklós Lipcsey: Scandinavian industry grant

Kathryn Maitland, London (UK): Deconstructing fluid resuscitation in African children: a forensic analysis of the FEAST trial

Chairs: Jan Persson and Jonas Åkeson

• Jan Persson (SE): Analgesia – mechanisms and current practice
• Jonas Åkeson (SE): Anaesthesia – mechanisms and current practice
• Anders Tingström (SE): Mechanisms for therapeutic management of depressive disorders
• Mats Lindström (SE): Clinical use in major depression

Chairs: Martin Holmer and Brian Sites

• Claes Mangelus (SE): The Swedish Perioperative Register (SPOR)
• Rupert Pearse (UK): Using quality registers to improve perioperative outcomes; an international perspective
• Gunnar Enlund (SE): Using SPOR data to improve patient care
• Michelle Chew (SE): Swedish perioperative outcomes research

Chairs: Max Bell and David Piros

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

Chairs: Gunilla Islander and Sten Rubertsson

• Pierre Carli (FR): Experiences from the Paris attacks November 13th 2015 Elkana Keersebilck (BE): Experiences from the Brussels attacks March 22nd 2016 Nina Sjöblom Widfeldt (SE): What should I know about chemical weapons? Sabina Fattah (NO): Major incidents – what can we learn from them?

Introduction by Jonas Åkeson

• Edvard Moser, 2014 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Trondheim (NO): The importance of finding the way

Chairs: Claes Frostell and Elin Björnestad

• Kathryn Maitland (UK): Sepsis management in resource-limited hospitals in Africa

Collaboration with a resource-limited region in Africa: Milestones and challenges. Dar Es Salaam versus Stockholm

• Lars Irestedt (SE): The anaesthesiologist’s perspective Viveka Nordberg (SE): The paediatrician’s perspective

Chairs: Suzanne Odeberg-Wernerman and Sven Erik Gisvold

• Sven Erik Gisvold (NO): Introduction to the concept ”Perioperative”
• Rupert Pearse (UK): Why perioperative medicine? How it changes outcome
• Michelle Chew (SE): How should we do it? Hot topics in perioperative research
• Anna Cedborg (SE): What are we doing about it? Inspiring and implementing change

Chairs: Joseph Cravero and Pertti Suominen

• Torsten Lauritsen (DK): SAFETOTS
• Mathias Johansen (DK): Web-based learning in paediatric anaesthesia – an educational project from ESPA andc SSAI

Chairs: Lars Rasmussen and Theresa Olasvengen

• Torben Wisborg (NO): Trauma Care: Implementing a national program on trauma care in Norway – data, achievements and lessons learned
• Peter Berlac (DK): TEMS – Tactical Emergency Medical Service – is this a new path we need to implement?
• Karl Christian Thies (UK): The European trauma course – the team approach. Why is this the right course for anesthesiologists?

Introduction by Sten Rubertsson

• Rupert Pearse, London (UK): Safe and effective surgery: everyone’s job?