Kuwait 1st Extra-Corporeal Life Support Congress

January 2021, Four Seasons, Kuwait City, Kuwait

“Towards excellence in Extracorporeal therapies”

Endorsed ECMONet / ELSO / SWAAC ELSO

 

The aim is to form an advisory board to inform the “K-ECLS program”, a Kuwait-wide ECLS program that will encompass pediatric and adult cardiac and respiratory ECLS with the mission to centralize ECLS services”

Audience:

Physicians (intensivists, Respirologists, Cardiologists, Anesthetists, Paediatric Intensivists, Emergency physicians, Internists, Acute care surgeons), Nurses, Respiratory therapists, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Dietitians and other members of the interprofessional team.

Courses and Workshops:

  • Adult ECLS - simulation and case-discussion.
  • Pediatric ECLS - basics, practical approach and simulation.
  • Cannulation - which cannula, which site, manage bleeding, changing strategies.
  • Interprofessional - daily management (care, dressing ...etc.), mobilization/physiotherapy.
  • Perfusion - priming, trouble shooting, emergencies.
  • Transport

Congress topics

  • Veno-Venous Extra-Corporeal Life Support (VV-ECLS)
  • Veno-Arterial Extra-Corporeal Life Support (VA-ECLS)
  • Bridge to lung/heart transplantation
  • Extra-Corporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal (ECCO2R)
  • Paediatric ECLS
  • ECLS research and collaboration
  • Running an ECLS program
  • ECLS for the following indications
  • ECLS practical aspects

Round table debate

“Regionalized ECLS care - forming a gulf core group”
and joining ECMONet / advancing local research.

 
 

International Speakers

Dr. Daniel Brodie

USA (Columbia)

Dr. Eddy Fan

Canada (UHN)

Dr. Lorenzo Del Sorbo

Canada (UHN)

Dr. Gail Annich

Canada (Sickkids)

Dr. Alan Combes

France (Le pitie-salpetiere)

Dr. Matthew Schmidt

France (Le pitie-salpetiere)

Dr. Matteo Di Nardo

Italy (Bambino Gesu - Rome)

Dr. Marco Ranieri

Italy (Bologna)

Dr. Bishoy Zakhary

USA (NYU)

Dr. Mark Ogino

USA

 
 

Gulf ECLS programs leaders

Yaseen Arabi

KSA

Alyaa El-Hazmi

KSA

Ibrahim Fawzy Hassan

Qatar

Said Al Hanshi

Oman

Mark Duthie

UAE

Nazar Bukamal

Bahrain

All the Kuwaiti stakeholders involved in ECLS