4-6 February 2023
Grand Hyatt Hotel Kuwait
Welcome Note
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the Council of Anaesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Ministry of Health, Kuwait, I am honored to invite you to the Kuwait 10th Critical Care Conference & Kuwait 1st Extracorporeal Life Support Congress held between 4th to 6th of February 2023 in Grand Hyatt Hotel Kuwait.
This long awaited important meeting is a great opportunity for all healthcare providers of patient with critical illness, in Kuwait and across the region, to connect with world-renowned professionals. We have all been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past couple of years but we persevered and were able to come out stronger as a community. This conference and congress were planned for April and October 2020 respectively, but we had to postpone it several times to assure that we could gather and meet in person to learn first-hand from these esteemed colleges in the field of Critical care and Extracorporeal life support. We hope that conferences like these can foster collaborations with regards to education and research with our global colleagues.
The Scientific Committee have prepared an agenda encompassing the most up-to-date, evidence-based developments in Critical Care Medicine and Extracorporeal Life Support featuring an outstanding global faculty. The event offers state-of-the-art Critical Care Medicine continuing medical education (CME) opportunities providing cutting-edge information in healthcare delivery, clinical practice, medical research, and quality improvement. The pre-conference workshops allow attendees to hone skills, gain competence and professional growth that may be immediately applied to individual practice and system improvement. An exhibition will be held in relation to Critical Care Medicine and Extracorporeal Life Support supported by sponsors from countries around the globe providing an opportunity to experience the latest medical technologies available in critical care medicine.
We chose to seek excellence in Critical Care Medicine and Extracorporeal Life Support and benefit from our past experiences and towards transforming Critical Care regionally in the coming years with focus on Education, Research and Digital transformation of our services to benefit our patients and clinical teams alike.
We look forward to welcoming you to Kuwait.
Yours Sincerely,
Conference chairperson
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Fares, MCBhB, MRCP UK, FRCPC, ABIM
Chair, Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
Director, Kuwait Extracorporeal Life Support Program
Al-Amiri Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait
Conference chairperson
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Fares, MCBhB, MRCP UK, FRCPC, ABIM
Chair, Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Medicine
Director, Kuwait Extracorporeal Life Support Program
Al-Amiri Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait
Target Audience
- Physicians (intensivist, Anesthesiologists, Emergency physicians, Internists, Acute care surgeons)
- Critical Care Nurses
- Interprofessional Team including respiratory therapist, Physiotherapist, clinical nutritionist, clinical pharmacist, Speech and language pathologists, and Perfusionists.
Pre-conference Workshops
Introduction to Critical Care ultrasound
8:00-13:00, 4 February, 2023, Grand Hyatt Hotel Workshop Room
Mechanical ventilation - understanding the basics and patient-ventilator interactions
8:00-13:00, 4 February, 2023, Grand Hyatt Hotel Workshop Room
In-FACT research course
8:00-13:00, 4 February, 2023, Grand Hyatt Hotel Workshop Room
ECLS for respiratory failure
8:00-13:00, 4 February, 2023, Grand Hyatt Hotel Workshop Room
ECLS for cardiac failure
8:00-13:00, 4 February, 2023, Grand Hyatt Hotel Workshop Room