Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2016

Part I. Infections and antibiotics.- Interpreting Procalcitoninat the Bedside.- Reducing Antibiotic Use in the ICU: A Time-based Approach to RationalAntimicrobial Use.- Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Severe Influenza Infection.-Critically Ill Patients with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection.-Part II. Sepsis.- Immunomodulation: The Future for Sepsis?.- Norepinephrine in SepticShock: Five Reasons to Initiate it Early.- Myths and Facts Regarding Lactate inSepsis.- Part III. Renal issues.- Creatinine-based Definitions: From Baseline Creatinineto Serum Creatinine Correction in Intensive Care.- The Detrimental Cross-talk betweenSepsis and AKI: New Pathogenic Mechanisms, Early Biomarkers and Targeted Therapies.-Timing of Acute Renal Replacement Therapy.- (Multiple) Organ Support Therapy beyondAKI.- Part IV. Fluid therapy.- Crystalloid Fluid Therapy.- Balanced Crystalloidsfor Septic Shock Resuscitation.- Part V. Bleeding.- EmergencyReversal Strategies for Anticoagulants and Anti-platelet Agents.- Part VI. Cardiovascularsystem.- Bedside Myocardial Perfusion Assessment with Echocardiography Contrast.-Pathophysiological Determinants of Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Septic Shock.-Cardiovascular Response to ECMO.- Mechanical Circulatory Support in the New Era:An Overview.- Part VII. Cardiac arrest.- Cardiac arrest in the Elderly:Epidemiology and Outcome.- Regional Systems of Care: The Final Link in the "Chainof Survival" Concept for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest.- Cardiac ArrestCenters.- Part VIII. Oxygenation and respiratory failure.- High-flow NasalCannula Oxygen Therapy: Physiological Effects and Clinical Data.- The PotentialValue of Monitoring the Oxygen Reserve Index in Patients Receiving Oxygen.- VariableVentilation from Bench to Bedside.- Monitoring Respiratory Effort by Means ofthe Electrical Activity of the Diaphragm.- Dissipated Energy is a Key Mediatorof VILI: Rationale for using Low Driving Pressures.- Corticosteroidsas Adjunctive Therapy in

Dr Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the Universityof Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at ErasmeUniversity Hospital in Brussels. He is President of the World Federation ofSocieties of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and aPast-President of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), theEuropean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society(ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the RoyalMedical Academy of Belgium.

Dr. Vincent has signed more than 850 originalarticles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 930 original abstracts,and has edited 99 books. He is co-editor of the Textbook of Critical Care(Elsevier Saunders, 7th Edition) and the "Encyclopedia of IntensiveCare Medicine" (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care","Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management"and member of the editorial boards of about 30journals. For 36 years, Dr Vincent has been chairman of theInternational Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largestinternational meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participantsevery year in Brussels.

He has received several awards, including the DistinguishedInvestigator Award of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the CollegeMedalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians He is a recipient ofthe "Society Medal" (lifetime award) of the European Society of IntensiveCare Medicine and has received the prestigious Belgian scientific award of theFRS-FNRS (Prix Scientifique Joseph Maisin-Sciences biomédicales cliniques).