Recent SIZ meetings
POP-UP Meeting on “Antimicrobial Therapy in Critically Ill Patients”. - February 8th, 2023 - Warwick Hotel, Rue Duquesnoy, 5, 1000 Brussels
The Belgian Society of Intensive Care (SIZ) is proud to announce, in collaboration with the Belgian Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (BVKIM) a POP-UP Meeting on “Antimicrobial Therapy in Critically Ill Patients”.
The meeting will be held on February 8th, 2023 at the Warwick Hotel, Rue Duquesnoy, 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium (walking distance from the Central Station in Brussels)
The program will be as follows:
13:00-14.00 | Walking Lunch |
14.00-14.05 | Opening and Welcome |
14.05-14.35 | Lecture 1: Antibiotic Stewardship in 2022 – David GRIMALDI, ULB, Brussels |
14.50-15.20 | Lecture 2: How pharmacokinetic principles can help – Isabelle SPRIET, UZ Leuven |
15.35-16.05 | Lecture 3: New Antibacterial Drugs – Françoise VAN BAMBEKE, UCL, Louvain |
16.05-16.30 | Coffee Break |
16.30 -17.00 | Lecture 4: The complex interplay of fungal and viral infections – Joost WAUTERS, KU, Leuven |
17.15- 17.45 | Lecture 5: The Dark Side of Antibiotic Therapy – Pieter DEPUYDT, UZ, Gent |
18.00 | Conclusions |
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Target audience is both ICU physicians and ID specialists with a particular interest in critical care medicine.
The participation will be free of charge; however, as there is space only for 70 participants.
Registration
Registration closed, we have reached the limit of 70 participants.
SIZ annual meeting 2022 - June 15th, 2022
Location: Hilton Brussels Grand Place, Carrefour de l’Europe, 1000 Brussels
(in front of Brussels Central train station)
Program of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine
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9:00-9:10 | Welcome and Introduction | Fabio S Taccone | ULB | |
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SESSION 1 – SEPSIS Moderator:Phillipe Jorens |
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9:10-9:40 | Sepsis Guidelines: Can we do better ? | Jean-Louis Vincent | ULB | |
9:40-10:10 | Ongoing Controversies | Nicole Juffermans | AMC Amsterdam | |
10:10-10:40 | New vasoactive drugs | Xavier Wittebole | UCL | |
10:40-11:10 | Can Artificial intelligence help ? | Kirsten Colpaert | UGent | |
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11:10-11:45 | Coffee Break | |||
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Best Abstract Presentations 1-2 Moderator: Phillipe Jorens |
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11:45-12:00 | Post-intensive care syndrome in COVID-19 and Non-COVID survivors. | Aymen Messadaa | ULG | |
12:00-12:15 | Early corticosteroid therapy may increase VA-LRTI in COVID-19 patients | Jean-Baptiste Mesiand | UCL | |
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12:15-13:00 | Lunch | |||
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Best Abstract Presentations 3-4 Moderator: Phillipe Jorens |
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13:00-13:15 | Quantification of lung fibrosis in COVID-19 related and – unrelated ARDS | Ludovic Gerard | UCL | |
13:15-13:30 | The impact of combined PbtO2/ICP-CPP guided-therapy on the outcome of traumatic | Elisa Gouvea Bogossian | ULB | |
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SIZ Award 2022 Moderator: Fabio S Taccone |
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13:30-13:50 | Artificial intelligence for decision support and treatment optimization in patients with brain injury | Giorgia Carra | KULeuven | |
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13:50-14:20 | Coffee Break | |||
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SESSION 2 Moderator: Nathalie Layios & Pieter Depuydt (*) |
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14:20-14:50 | Post-Intensive Care Syndrome | Diego Castanares Zapatero | KCE | |
14:50-15:20 | Post-(ICU) COVID syndrome | Yannick Vande Weygaerde | UGent | |
15:20-15:50 | How to create a post ICU follow-up? | Anne-Françoise Rousseau | ULG | |
15:50-16:20 | A novel approach to PICS | Michel van Genderen | MCE Rotterdam | |
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16:20-16:30 | Best Abstract Award + Closing Remarks | |||
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16:30-17:30 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
General Accreditation (requested)/ * Accreditation Ecthic & Economy (requested)
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SIZ 40th Annual e-Meeting - December 17th, 2020
The SIZ meeting was attended by over 200 people. You can rewatch the symposium through the following link :
ABSTRACTS
PROGRAM
40th ANNUAL e-MEETING OF THE BELGIAN SOCIETY OF INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
“2020, the year of COVID-19”
13h00-13h20 | ICU: A critical resource in the COVID pandemic | Dr. Nina Van Goethem (Sciensano) |
13h20-13h40 | Discussion | |
13h40-14h00 | Antiviral therapy for COVID | Prof Dr Maya Hites (ULB) |
14h00-14h10 | Discussion | |
14h10-14h30 | Anticoagulation management of COVID | Prof. Catherine Lambert (UCL) |
14h30-14h50 | Anti-inflammatory strategies for COVID | Prof. Bart Lambrecht (UGent) |
14h50-15h00 | Discussion | |
15h00-15h20 | Ventilator management of COVID | Prof. Greet Hermans (KUL) |
15h20-15h30 | Discussion | |
15h30-16h00 | Ethics of surge capacity planning | Prof. Pierre-François Laterre (UCL) |
16h00-16h30 | discussion | |
16h30 | SIZ award 2020: “ The long-term footprint of pediatric critical illness” | Dr. An Jacobs (KUL) |
16h45-17h15 | General assembly | Prof. Geert Meyfroidt (SIZ president) |