News
The
4th World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency and Critical
Care Medicine comes to a close
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After four days of intercontinental exchanges
of practical and theoretical experience amongst the world’s
greatest critical ultrasound experts, the conference held by Winfocus
(World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound) at
the FIERGS Events Center, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, ended today.
It featured four pre-congress courses and over 80 lectures, bringing
together approximately 500 people in six auditoriums with simultaneous
activities.
During
the closing ceremony Dr. Luca Neri’s lectured on Winfocus
as a humanitarian organization. The Italian physician presented
indices demonstrating that the use of ultrasound in primary
health care dramatically increases the survival rates of critical
patients. He also highlighted Winfocus’s goal of making
ultrasound available to everyone, irrespective of their geographical
location or economic status.
Finally, Dr. Neri and Dr. Fernando Silva, the
president of the conference’s organizing committee, thanked
all delegates for coming to the conference and announced that
the 5th World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency and Critical
Care Medicine will take place in Sydney, Australia, in 2009.
Awards for papers from Brazil, the US and Sweden
Three out of eighteen competing papers were awarded prizes by
Winfocus. The winners are:
1st prize:
"Surgeon-performed ultrasound for diagnosis and management
of the abdômen", de LindeliusA., Sondén A.,
Törngren S., Pettersson H., Adami J.
Karolinska Institutet, Department os Clinical Science and Education,
Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2nd prize:
"Medical students and ultrasound in the ICU: improving
future medical practice", de Missaka H., Costa P.C.T.,
Almeida R.C., Varino P., Araújo A. C., Mendonça
R., Campos G.., alencar F. M., Bevilacqua T.D., Abrantes J.,
Chieppe, F. A., Divan Filho, S.D., Silva P.M., Lima M. A., Sampaio
R., Belizzi D., Lannes R.
ICU – Emergency (UPG) – Hospital Municipal Souza
Aguiar – Universidade Gama Filho Medical School –
Rio de Janeiro – RJ – Brazil
3rd prize:
"Feasibility of correlating the pulse check with focused
echocardiographic assesment in resuscitation during pediatric
cardiac arrest"
James W. Tsung, Michael Blaivas
New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA Northside Hospital-forsyth,
GA, USA
