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Welcome from Chairman
Dear Colleague,
We would like to invite you to join us for the upcoming 21st International
Conference on Advances in Critical Care Nephrology - AKI & CRRT 2016.
The CRRT Conference continues to provide a comprehensive coverage of the rapidly
developing field of Critical Care Nephrology and CRRT. It highlights the recent
advances in our understanding of pathophysiology of critical illness, acute
kidney injury, emerging strategies in the management of sepsis, multiorgan failure,
development and use of biomarkers, technical advances in CRRT and the appropriate
utilization of these techniques. This year's program presents exciting new developments
and evidence for assessing critically ill patients, pathophysiology of liver
dysfunction and AKI. A mix of invited lectures,
controversies, interactive workshops, tutorials, poster sessions and panel discussions
are planned to continue the tradition of multidisciplinary interactions..
Again this year we are offering a Pre-Conference AKI Symposium titled
Changing Paradigms in Acute Kidney Injury: From Mechanism to Management. The
workshop will provide a comprehensive review of the most recent developments
in the field and include the proceedings from the 14th ADQI conference on harmonizing
basic and clinical research in AKI. We hope that this course will provide participants
an opportunity to interact with experts in the field and emerge with a better
understanding of this rapidly evolving area.
2016 Conference Topic Highlights:
• Meet The Expert Sessions
Interact and Learn from Experts on How to Evaluate and Manage ICU Patients
with Difficult Clinical Problems
• Organ Dysfunction in the Critically Ill Patient
Emerging Concepts in Organ Cross-talk, Sepsis, Microcirculation and Oxidative
Stress, Infections
• Raising Awareness of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
The ISN AKI 0by25 initiative Global Snapshot of AKI, the Global Burden of
Disease, Strategies for Raising Awareness and Providing Tools for Education
and Training, Creating Infrastructure for Dialysis in Resource Poor Countries
• Controversies in Management of the Critically Ill Patient
EGDT for AKI Care, Antibiotic Nephrotoxicity, Mobilizing the Critically
Ill Patient, RRT for End Stage Liver Disease, Sedation and the Kidney
• Challenges and Controversies in Renal Support & CRRT
When to Start and Stop, Fluid Management, Citrate Anticoagulation, RRT for
Liver Support and Heart Failure, Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics, Quality Measures
• Biomarkers for Management of Critically Ill Patients
Risk Stratification, Surveillance, Diagnosis, Targeted Intervention and
Prognosis
• Special Sessions for Nurses and Allied Personnel
Skills Assessment, Hands-on Workshops on CRRT, Plasma Exchange and Peritoneal
Dialysis, Establishing Quality Metrics for RRT in AKI
• Special Pre and Post Conference Workshops
New this year are two dedicated hands-on workshops Practice Based
Learning in CRRT that will use simulations to train partcipants on
setting up and delivering CRRT. The PD for AKI workshop will
utilize training tools to allow partcipants to learn how to place catheters
for PD and implement PD as a therapy for AKI. Interactive workshops on plasma
exchange and hybrid sorbent therapies provide additional opportunities for learning
As always, we are working to provide the right environment to foster learning
and mutually beneficial communications and collaborations. We hope that you
will join us to share your knowledge and experience as it is through multidisciplinary
interactions that we will gain a better understanding of critical illness and
it is only through our collective efforts that we will improve the lives of
our patients. We look forward to welcoming you to San Diego for the 21st time.
Ravindra L Mehta, MBBS MD DM FACP FRCP(UK)
Chairman, Organizing Committee
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