WINFOCUS World Symposium

“From blind to sight, from darkness to light”

2nd December 2023

8 credits UEMS EACCME® Europe, United States & Canada
8 credits SSAPM® and SSMI/SGI® Switzerland
9 crediti ECM Age.na.s Italy

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Welcome to WINFOCUS World Symposium 2023

At WINFOCUS, our mission has always been to push the boundaries of ultrasound – educational, clinical, and research all over the world through our shared passion for ultrasound.
This year, we are reverting to a Virtual symposium, the theme will be how ultrasound helps guide the various aspects of clinical procedures and interventions:
What’s new? We are excited to announce two exceptional new sessions, Members and Research choice sessions. The first will have educational content chosen by WINFOCUS members, while the second will set the direction of ultrasound research within WINFOCUS.
Another major component this year is the In-person POW (Point of care Ultrasound)!
There will be something for everyone!

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Endorsed by:

Free attendance offered to their staff and all their crews worldwide

WINFOCUS World Symposium 2023: two events in one

Virtual World Symposium*

(*program subject to changes)

More than 53 lectures, 62 PoCUS experts from over 23 different countries and representing almost every discipline will gather on December 2nd to present the latest concepts in ultrasonography in two broad tracks.

All times are in local time (CEST) click here for the time zone converter

TRACK 1

Fluids, lines and beyond. Something for anyone who has looked after an acutely unwell patient. Also look out for WINFOCUS’s first ever member choice session. What do colleagues think should be the research priorities for the ultrasound community? Followed by speakers/subjects specifically nominated by our community. Stay a while and listen.

830h – 8:40h
WF world symposium Welcome

Keynote Address

9:00h-11:00h

Ultrasound and fluids

Olusanya, Segun

9:00h
Ultrasound and giving fluids
Conway, Hannah


9:15h
Ultrasound and de-resuscitation
Beaubien-Souligny, William


9:30h
Perfusion and congestion – a balancing act
Corradi, Francesco


9:45h
VEXUS – everyone is talking about it. The new IVC?
Olusanya, Segun


10:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: Optimising organ perfusion
Corradi, Francesco

11:00h-13:00h

Lines, drains, and sharp objects

Zawadka, Mateusz

11:00h
It is time for the ultrasound-guided axillary vein access
Czarnik, Tomasz


11:15h
Microskills in ultrasound-guided access
Borgquist, Ola


11:30h
The forgotten landmark techniques
Balan, Cosmin


11:45h
Day-to-day practice in ICU – how to teach?
Fazzini, Brigitta


12:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: Debate – In this day and age,
landmark-based technique is indefensible

13:00h-14:00h

Lunch Break

14:00h-16:00h

POCUS for non-acute diseases

Wong, Adrian

14:00h
Lessons from Radiology – Contrast ultrasound
Yusuff, Timothy


14:15h
Ultrasound for gastric and nutritional assessment
Calatayud, Angel


14:30h
Ultrasound and sleep apnoea
Cortesão, Nuno


14:45h
When do B lines let you down
Baker, Kylie & Kwan, Ben


15:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A

16:00h-17:00h

Research Prioritisation

Goffi, Alberto

16:00h
Infection control in ultrasound department
Mohamed, Muna


16:15h
Utility of point of care diaphragm ultrasound in patients presenting with symptomatic organophosphate poisoning
Jakus Venter


16:30h
Correlation flow – cerebral oxygen metabolism and difference arterio-cerebral venous CO2 in neurocritical patients
Abdo, Anselmo


16:45h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A

17:00h-18:00h

Member’s Choice

Wong, Adrian

17:00h
How to do: transcranial doppler
Galarza, Laura


17:15h
Emergency PoCUS: Techniques to Differentiate Causes of Dyspnea
Frenkel, Oron


17:30h
Ultrasound approach to undifferentiated fever in ICU
D-Costa, Pradeep


17:45h
Pediatric ultrasound: what everyone should know
Speaker (TBC)

18:00h-20:00h

Beyond core, Go Ultra

Noor, Julina

18:00h
The sequence of Multi-organ POCUS in shock
Ha, Young-Rock


18:15h
TCD in acute stroke: predicting successful intervention
Sarwal, Aarti


18:30h
Systematic ultrasound in optimizing physiologically difficult airway
Roslan, Nurul Liana


18:45h
Lung ultrasound – what next?
Mongodi, Silvia


19:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: What next? Advanced skillset

20:00h-20:15h

Closing

TRACK 2

How best to teach? How best to learn. Track 2 tackles these important issues and more. What does the future hold when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning? Also in track 2, very special sessions from our Portuguese and Spanish speaking colleagues.

8:30h – 8:40h
WF world symposium Welcome

Keynote Address

9:00h-11:00h

How we learn and pushing the boundaries of ‘core’ skills

Teng, David

9:00h
Introduction
Teng, David


9:01h
Pediatric POCUS Update
Tay, Ee


9:16h
How we learn?
Nelson, Bret


9:36h
PoCUS Expereince – Delhi, India
Gupta, Dhiren


9:51h
PoCUS Experience – Mexico
Tovar Hirashima, Eva & Mandeep, Dillhon & Reyna, Huerta


10:06h
PoCUS Expereince – England
McCreary, David


10:21h
PoCUS Experience – South East Asia
Yek Kee, Choor


10:36h
Describe the creation and successes of PEPEC
Chicaiza, Henry

11:00h-13:00h

How I use ultrasound in…

Via, Gabriele

11:00h
Cardiogenic shock
Tavazzi, Guido


11:15h
Acute kidney injury
Vieira, Ana Luisa


11:30h
Traumatic brain injury
Bertuetti, Rita


11:45h
Acute respiratory failure
Laursen, Christian


12:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A – How I use ultrasound in…

13:00h-14:00h

Lunch Break

14:00h-16:00h

POCUS procedure revolution: AI leading the way!

Shokoohi, Hamid

14:00h
Nail-the-Needle: AI-guide needle localization in POCUS
Blaivas, Michael


14:15h
Advancements in AI-POCUS: Spine ultrasound and lumbar puncture
Ungi, Tamas


14:30h
AI in point of care Ultrasound. Where are we going?
Goldsmith, Andrew


14:45h
AI-power up: POCUS devices and clinical applications
Shokoohi, Hamid


15:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A

16:00h-17:00h

Ultrasonido en trauma

Umaña, Marco

16:00h
Bloqueo nervioso en trauma
Alvarez, Rodrigo


16:10h
Preguntas y respuestas
Carvajal, Gabriel & Campos Linares, Ricardo & Jara, Fernando Esteban


16:20h
Trauma pulmonar
Rodríguez, Shalim


16:30h
Preguntas y respuestas
Barca, Diego & Garcia, Ivan & Morales, Hernández 


16:40h
Neurotrauma
Urrego, Alejandro


16:50h
Preguntas y respuestas
Cantillano, Mauricio & Ballina, Javier Ruiz

17:00h-18:00h

POCUS POTPURRI

Calderón, Juan Antonio

17:00h
Emergencias ginecobstétricas
Hurtado, Laura


17:20h
Status y desarrollo del POCUS en Latinoamérica
Retamal, José


17:30h
Preguntas y respuestas
Prieto, José Luis & Carvajal, Gabriel


17:40h
Evaluación de la volemia y sobrecarga de fluidos
Yazcitk, Sandoval


17:50h
Preguntas y respuestas
Bravo, Pablo & Alonso, Jose

18:00h
Ecografia no desmame ventilatório
Farani, Marcelo


18:15h
Medição do VTI
Barros, Rui


18:30h
Aspectos práticos do protocolo VEXUS
Souza, Tiago


18:45h
Analgesia regional
Rebelo, Humberto


19:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A

18:00h-20:00h

Portugese Session

Vieira, Ana Luisa & Cortesão, Nuno

20:00h-20:15h

Closing

POW! POCUS One-world Workshops!

On December 3rd, we have organized hands-on ultrasound workshops globally in over 23 countries. In order to maximize PoCUS education accessibility, several of these workshops will be delivered for free in underserved areas of the planet, consistently with WINFOCUS vision and mission. The ultimate goal will be promoting awareness, in the global medical community and in the society at large, of PoCUS and ultrasound practice.

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Vicki Noble

Keynote Address

When Disruptive Technology Becomes Mainstream

Vicki Noble, MD

Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
University Hospitals Cleveland,  OH, USA
Professor, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

Symposium session chairs

53

Lectures

62

Speakers

23

Countries

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WF WC 2022 Endorsing Societies and Organizations

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GLOBAL

  • EMERGENCY
  • African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM)
  • International PoCUS Organization (IPO)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
  • World Wide Radiology

 

ASIA

  • Association of Anaesthetists of Pakistani Origin in UK and Ireland (AAPOUKI)
  • ASTANA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (KSAI)
  • China Medicine Education Association (CMEA)
  • Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound (CCCU)
  • Chinese Critical Care Ultrasound Study Group (CCUSG)
  • College of Emergency Physician Malaysia (CEP)
  • Federation of Anesthesiologist and Reanimatologists(AMU)
  • Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine (HKCEM)
  • Indian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ISCCM)
  • Indonesian Heart Association (IHA)
  • Japanese Society of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (JPOCUS)
  • Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine (JSICM)
  • Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM)
  • Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine (KSCCM)
  • Malaysian Society of Diagnostic Intervention Nephrology (MSDIN)
  • National Scientific Cardiovascular Surgery Center
  • Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine (NSCCM)
  • Pan Arab Congenital Heart Disease Association (PACHDA)
  • Society of Emergency and Critical Care Imaging (SECCI)
  • Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine (TSEM)

 

OCEANIA

  • Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM)
  • Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Groups (EMUGs)

 

MIDDLE EAST

  • Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  • Egyptian Society of Intensive Care and Trauma (ESICT)
  • Soroka Medical Center
  • Pan Arab Congenital Heart Disease Association (PACHDA)

 

EUROPE

  • AREU
  • Associazione Anestesisti Rianimatori Ospedalieri Italiani (AAROI-EMAC)
  • Ateliers d’Echographie en Anesthesie (AEA)
  • Botkin Hospital, Moscow
  • Cardiology Society of Serbia (UKS)
  • Centre hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
  • Collegio dei Professori di Anestesia e Rianimazinoe Italiani (CPAR)
  • CriticalUSG
  • Croatian Pediatric Society
  • Croatian Pediatric Society (CPS)
  • Croatian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
  • Croatian Society of Anesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care
  • Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine (CMA)
  • Croatian Society of Emergency Medicine and Medical Intensive Care (HDHIIM)
  • Croatian Society of Infectious Diseases
  • Croatian Society of Intensive Care Medicine
  • Croatian Society of Internal Medicine
  • Croatian Society of Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation
  • Croatian Society of Pulmonology
  • Czech Society for Intensive Care (CSIM)
  • Czech Society of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine (CSARIM)
  • Danish Society for Emergency Medicine (DASEM)
  • Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound
  • Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound (DUDS)
  • Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin (DGINA)
  • Echocardiographic Society of Serbia (ECHOS)
  • Estonian Society of Anesthesiology (ESA)
  • European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM)
  • European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB)
  • European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM)
  • European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
  • Facoltá USI di Scienze Biomediche (USI)
  • Faculty of Medicine of the University of Maribor (the MF UM)
  • Finnish Society of Anesthesiologists (FSA)
  • Finnish Society of Intensive Care (STHY)
  • Finnish Society of Anaesthesiologists
  • Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)
  • Intensywna.pl
  • Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino
  • Latvian Society of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care
  • Lus Expert
  • POCUS MOSCOW
  • Poland prehospital blog
  • Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM)
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Ultrasonograficzne (PTU)
  • Polskiego Towarzystwa Anestezjologii i Intensywnej Terapii (PTAiIT)
  • Presidenza nazionale Aaroi
  • Romanian Emergency Medicine Physicians (Medevents)
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Reanimation SGAR
  • Schwizerische Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin (SGI/SSMI)
  • Schwizerische Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin (SGUM)
  • Serbian Association of Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists (SAAI)
  • Simulation Center of the Botkin Hospital, Moscow
  • Slovenian Emergency medicine Association (SEMA)
  • Societá Italiana di Anestesia Analgesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva (SIAARTI)
  • Societá Italiana di Anestesia e Rianimazione Neonatale e Pediatrica Italiana (SARNePI)
  • Societá Italiana di Medicina di Emergenza e Urgenza (SIMEU)
  • Société Française d’Anesthésie et de Réanimation (SFAR)
  • Societé Française de Médecine d’Urgence (SFMU)
  • Société Suisse d’Anesthésiologie et de Réanimation SSAR
  • Sono4You Graz group
  • Students’ Society for Emergency Medicine (FAM)
  • Swiss Society for Aaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (SSAPM)
  • The PoCUS Collaboration
  • UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO DE VITORIA (UFV)
  • Università di Pisa
  • University Medical Centre Maribor (UKC)
  • USG & ZRM
  • World Wide Radiology WWR

 

AFRICA

  • Moroccan Association of Anesthesiology, Analgesia and Critical Care (SMAAR)
  • Société Marocaine de Médecine d’Urgence (SMMU)

SOUTH AMERICA

  • Associação Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva – AMIB
  • Asociación Mexicana de Ultrasonido Critico (AMUSCU)
  • Asociación de Terapia Intensiva Rosario (ATIR)
  • Asociacion de Ultrasonografia de Rosario (AUR)
  • Asociación Gualtemalteca de Medicina de Emergencia (AGME)
  • Associação Médica de Rondônia – AMBRO – RO
  • Centro endoscopia Digestiva Rosario CEDIR
  • Centro Universitário Aparecido Carvalho- RO
  • Centro Universitário São Lucas (Afya)- RO
  • Clinica Davila
  • Colegio Mexicano de Medicina Critica (COMMEC)
  • Conselho Regional de Medicina de Rondônia- RO
  • Escuela de Medicina Rural “La Higuera”
  • FAARDIT (Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Radiología, Diagnóstico por Imágenes y Terapia Radiante)
  • Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Rondônia- RO
  • Faculdade de Medicina de Ouro Preto – UFOP
  • Faculdade de Medicina Metropolitana de Rondônia- RO
  • Federacion Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Ultrasonido (FLAUS)
  • Investigación Clínica – Unidad de Terapia Intensiva – LATITUD 0
  • Jefe Del Departamento Nacional de. Emergencias y Trasplantes del Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba
  • Minas Gerais Critical Care Society (SOMITI)
  • Minas Gerais Nephrology Society (SMN)
  • Sociedad Argentina de ultrasonido en Medicina y Biologia (SAUMB)
  • Sociedad Boliviana de Radiología
  • Sociedad Chilena De Medicina de Urgencia (SOCCHIMU)
  • Sociedad Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación (scar)
  • Sociedad Cubana de Cirugía
  • Sociedad Cubana de Medicina Intensiva y Emergencia (SOCUMIE)
  • Sociedad Cubana Pediatria
  • Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Cuidados Intensivos Capítulo Pichincha
  • Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Nefrologia (SEM)
  • Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Medicina Familiar
  • Sociedad Peruana de Medicina Intensiva (SOPEMI)
  • Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina de Família e Comunidade – SBMFC
  • Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia – SBPT
  • Sociedade dos Acadêmicos de Medicina de Minas Gerais – SAMMG
  • Unimed de Porto Velho- RO
  • Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  • Universidad Nacional del Centro
  • YOU&US Centro de treinamento em ultrassonografia point-of-care – YOU&US

 

NORTH AMERICA

  • ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section – American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP US)
  • Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound group (CIMUS)
  • Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society (CPoCUS)
  • Canadian Society for Internal Medicine (CSIM)
  • P2 network
  • Sociedad Paraguaya de Radiología e Imagenología (SPRI)
  • Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
  • Society of Ultrasound in Medical Education (SUSME)

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