Wednesday, August 31

11:30 – 14:00 European Shock Society Council Meeting
14:00 – 14:05

Welcome and Introduction

14:05 – 15:30 SYMPOSIUM
Novel therapeutic strategies for sepsis
Chairs: Chris Thiemermann (UK), Soheyl Bahrami (Austria)

14:05 – 14:30

Current management of severe sepsis and septic shock or severe sepsis: What is really evidence-based?
Jean-Louis Vincent (Belgium)
14:30 – 15:30 Free Communications 1
14:30 – 14:45 Neutrophil CD64 is useful in the diagnosis of sepsis in critically ill adult patients (Dimoula A.)
14:45 – 15:00 Clinical value of suPAR in patients with septic shock (Donadello K.)
15:00 – 15:15 Administration of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) improves outcomes in septic shock (He X.)
15:15 – 15:30 Measurement of the Lactate to Pyruvate ratio in critically ill patients with hyperlactatemia (Homerin A.)
15:30 – 15:45 Do chronic inflammation and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs reduce themortality in sepsis? (Lösche W.)
15:45 – 16:00 IGM enriched immunoglobulin solution reduces monocyte LPS induced TNF-alpha production from healthy probands in vitro and from early septic patients ex vivo (Spittler A.)
16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 – 19:00 ETCO-European Shock Society Joint Session
Modifying ischemia-reperfusion injury for graft survival

Chairs: Helder Mota-Filipe (Portugal), J. Catharina Duvigneau (Austria)
16:30 – 16:50 Opportunities to enhance organ viability
Rui Maio (Portugal)
16:50 – 17:10 Non-erythropoietic analogues of EPO for the therapy of Acute Kidney Injury
Nimesh Patel (UK)
17:10 – 17:30

Liver ischemia and reperfusion injury: from bedside to bench… and back
Bruno Sepodes (Portugal)

17:30 – 19:00 Free Communications 2
17:30 – 17:45 Protective effects of a non-anticoagulant heparin-like polysaccharide derivative on cerebral and myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury (Collino M.)
17:45 – 18:00 Beneficial and deleterious effects of nitrite in liver cells subjected to hypoxia/reoxygenation (Dungel P.)
18:00 – 18:15 Systemic neutrophil responses to ischemia reperfusion, hypothermia and tissue damage in a human cardiopulmonary model (Groeneveld K.)
18:15 – 18:30 Mitochondrial respiration in porcine renal IR injury (Matallo J.)
18:30 – 18:45 Carbamylated EPO-fusion protein and recombinant human EPO during porcine kidney I/R injury (Simon F.)
18:45 – 19:00

Restrictive and full reperfusion differentially affect organ damage following hemorrhagic traumatic shock (Zifko A.)

20:00

Welcome Cocktail