IFA Talks

IFA Talks

I am Jean-Louis Vincent, a professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Brussels. My talk was on fluid responsiveness — how we can predict a patient's response to fluid administration using indices like pulse pressure variation or stroke volume variation. There are limitations to this approach: the patient must be sedated, and there shouldn't be major arrhythmias. In many cases, we still have to administer fluids, but we can use a fluid challenge approach, considering the type of fluid, rate of infusion, and specific objectives and limits. Ultimately, we often have to try and...

IFA Talks

I am Jan Bakker from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, and I'm talking about lactate and fluid resuscitation in my presentation. It's clear that fluid resuscitation is associated with significant decreases in lactate levels, especially in the early phase in critically ill and surgical patients. Preventing increases in lactate within the normal range is important to reduce the risk of multiple organ failure and death in these patients.

IFA Talks

I am Jules Wendon from King's College Hospital in London. I was talking today about the role of albumin. Albumin seems to have a significant benefit in the management of patients with liver disease. Essentially, there are different roles for albumin. It has a role in liver disease, without question, particularly in the prevention of hepatorenal failure. More interestingly, it also has marked inflammatory and anti-inflammatory capacity, and I think increasingly we will see a role for albumin in sepsis, where it seems to have a beneficial effect in terms of outcomes and mortality, as shown...

IFA Talks

I am Manu Malbrain, co-founder and President of the International Fluid Academy and I gave a talk about fluid management and avoiding fluid overload. If you give too much fluids and the patient gets peripheral edema, that is not a cosmetic issue, but it's bad medicine. We must avoid it.