Pre-Symposium Workshops

11 – 12 AUGUST 2025

Time 0900 – 1700
Venue Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Format Didactic lectures and skills stations
Introduction PIE is a transthoracic Doppler echocardiography course targeting at more experienced or advanced practitioners. This course is particularly useful to:

  1. Practitioners who are already performing basic level echo but would like to advance their skills and apply Doppler echo in their daily examination.
  2. Practitioners who are already performing Doppler echo but want to perfect their Doppler skills or want to learn more about principles of assessments in Doppler measurements.

The course objective is to equip practitioners with the skills to properly assess cardiac function and haemodynamics in patients who are critically ill. There is a well balance of didactic lectures and hands-on practice in this course, and aito fill the “gap” between basic and advanced critical care echo.
Objectives The course covers basic principles and clinical topics, with an emphasis on Doppler assessments.

Topics* may include:

Basic principles:

  1. Revisiting Anatomy and Views in TTE: Probe Navigation
  2. Principles of Doppler
  3. Cardiac Output Measurement
  4. Pulmonary Artery Pressure Estimation
  5. Mean Pressure Gradient and Pressure Half-time
  6. LV Filling Pressures Inference
  7. Dynamic Outflow Obstructions

Clinical topics or cases:

  1. Shock
  2. Shortness of Breath
  3. Cardiac Arrest
  4. Valvular Assessments for Critical Care

*Note that not all topics are offered due to time limitation. Suitable topics will be decided by the local organiser in discussion with the PIE team.
Target Participants While there are no formal prerequisites, participants who have attended a basic level echo course, e.g. RACEplus, and have performed at least 30 basic level TTE studies (or are comfortable to obtain all the basic TTE views), would benefit the most from the course.
Faculty
  • Chew Si Yuan
  • Rita Ibrahim
  • Fong Wee Kim
  • Sandra Hui
  • Lau Yie Hui
  • Stephen Huang
Participants Number 35
Registration Click here to register

12 AUGUST 2025

Time 0815 – 1600
Venue KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) Simulation Center, Singapore
Format Didactic lectures and skills stations
Introduction Airway management in children can be challenging and intimidating even in the hands of an experienced anesthesiologist. The Paediatric Airway Workshop is designed by a team from KKH Paediatric Anesthesiology and Children’s Intensive Care Unit to build on basic airway strategies and teach advanced airway skills that are essential to ensure safe and successful outcomes. Participants who may benefit from this workshop include emergency physicians, paediatricians, intensivists, anesthesiologists and nurses. We hope to achieve the objectives of this course via short lectures and small group discussion by our team of airway experts.
Objectives
  1. Recognise features of a difficult airway, both anatomically and physiologically.
  2. Know how to optimise intubation safety.
  3. Become familiar with the Paediatric Difficult Airway algorithm.
  4. Recognise complications associated with airway interventions and be able to mitigate or respond appropriately.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to secure the airway using surgical methods (FONA) when direct/videolaryngoscopy methods fail.
  6. Demonstrate team leadership and teamwork in a difficult airway scenario.
Target Participants Paediatricians, Emergency Physicians, Intensivists, Anestheiologists
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Josephine Tan
Faculty
  • Cheryl Lin
  • Gene Ong
  • Evangeline Lim
  • Jong Juin Yee
Participants Number 25
Cost per pax Trainee/resident:
SGD 500 – Early Bird Registration (Until 30 June 2025)
SGD 600 – On-site Registration (1 July 2025 onwards)Consultant:
SGD 600 – Early Bird Registration (Until 30 June 2025)
SGD 700 – On-site Registration (1 July 2025 onwards)
Registration Click here to register

13 AUGUST 2025

Time 0830 – 1300
Venue Centre for Advanced Clinical and Surgical Skills (CACS), Changi General Hospital, Singapore
Format
 Didactic lectures and skills stations
Objectives
  1. Recognise features of a difficult airway, both anatomically and physiologically.
  2. Know how to optimise intubation safety.
  3. Become familiar with the Paediatric Difficult Airway algorithm.
  4. Recognise complications associated with airway interventions and be able to mitigate or respond appropriately.
  5. Demonstrate the ability to secure the airway using surgical methods (FONA) when direct/videolaryngoscopy methods fail.
  6. Demonstrate team leadership and teamwork in a difficult airway scenario.
Participants Number 35
Cost per pax SGD 288 – Early Bird Registration (Before 31 May 2025)
SGD 388 – Standard Registration (1 June 2025 onwards)
Registration This workshop is available as an add-on to the Main Symposium. Click here to register.

Session Schedule

Time Agenda Duration
0830 – 0900 Needle Cricothyroidotomy with porcine trachea and conversion to cuffed emergency cricothyrotomy (Melker Cricothyrotomy) 30 mins
0900 – 0930 Surgical Cricothyroidotomy with porcine trachea 30 mins
0930 – 1000 The Challenging Airway: Bleeding Airway 30 mins
1000 – 1030 Low skill fibre-optic intubation with manikin 30 mins
1030 – 1130 1. Oxygenation techniques via needle Cricothyroidotomy (rapid O2, makeshift oxygenation techniques)
2. Airway and Gastric ultrasound		 60 mins
1130 – 1200 VR Bronchoscopy (OrSIM) 30 mins
1200 – 1230 Lung Isolation (Double lumen tube and Bronchial Blocker) 30 mins

Time 0900 – 1800
Venue Singapore EXPO, Meeting Room Level 1, Opal (105 – 106)
Format Didactic with hands-on practical sessions
Introduction This full-day workshop will highlight the differences between acute and chronic ventilation in paediatric and adult populations, the transdisciplinary coordination required to manage each unique Ventilator–Assisted Individual (VAI), ventilator weaning in specific conditions, adjunct therapies and the social/ethical considerations considered in VAI.
Objectives The Chronic Ventilation Workshop, through a combination of didactic and practical sessions, aito:

  1. Explain the differences between acute and chronic ventilation, and multidisciplinary coordination of roles in managing a patient transitioning to chronic ventilation.
  2. Elaborate on how to assess suitability for ventilator rehabilitation at the Ventilator Rehabilitation Unit (VRU), Tan Tock Seng Hospital, with nursing and allied health input.
  3. Demonstrate proper early tracheostomy care, secretion clearance techniques, adjunct therapies such as cough assist, and communication techniques such as leak speech and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
  4. Transitioning complex patients in paediatrics to adulthood.
  5. Discuss ventilator weaning and decannulation in specific conditions including Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Guillain – Barre syndrome, and Critical Illness myopathy.
  6. Financial, ethical and social considerations in paediatric ventilated patients and adult ventilated patients.
Target Participants All Doctors, Nurses, and Allied Health Therapists with a keen interest to get an in-depth look at initiation, management, and discharge planning of individuals requiring Chronic Ventilation.
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Valerie Ng
  • Debra Seow
Faculty
  • Chan Yeow
  • Melinda Lim
  • Cheryl Tan
  • Thong Wen Yi
  • Cristelle Chow
Participants Number 40
Cost per pax SGD 30 – Allied Health
SGD 50 – Physician
Registration This workshop is available as an add-on to the Main Symposium. Click here to register.

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Time 0830 – 1645
Venue Singapore EXPO, Meeting Room Level 2, Topaz Concourse
Introduction This is an introductory 1-day course on Critical Care Ultrasound (CCUS) comprising modules on Lung/Diaphragm Ultrasound, Lower Extremity DVT/Arterial Point of Care Ultrasound, Abdominal/FAST Ultrasound, Venous Excess Score (VEXUS) and Focused Cardiac Ultrasound which will be taught according to the FUSIC curriculum. Participants can register for individual modules.
Objectives To learn how to perform the following CCUS scans:

  1. Lung and Diaphragm Ultrasound Module (1 hour)
  2. Lower extremity DVT and arterial point of care ultrasound Module (50 mins)
  3. Abdominal Ultrasound Module comprising FAST – focused ultrasonography in trauma, renal and abdominal aorta imaging (1 hour)
  4. Venous Excess Score (VExUS) Module (55 mins)
  5. Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Module (1 hour 15 mins)
  6. Putting it all together – Applying CCUS in Shock, Respiratory Failure and Weaning from respiratory failure (Lecture) (30 mins)
Target Participants Novices with little or no prior training in CCUS. The course is open to Junior Physicians, Nursing, Allied Professionals.
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Chew Si Yuan
Faculty
  • Adrian Wong
  • Suneel Ramesh Desai
  • Choo Wee Sen
  • Sandra Hui
  • Lau Yie Hui
  • Tan Rou An
  • Ng Lit Soo
  • Wang Xiqin
  • Peh Wee Ming
Participants number 30
Cost per pax SGD 25 – Per module
SGD 100 – All modules

Session Schedule

Time Agenda Duration Faculty
0830 – 0840 Introduction to learning CCUS and FUSIC 10 mins
0840 – 0855 Introduction to Ultrasound & Knobology (Lecture) 15 mins Chew Si Yuan
0855 – 0915 Lung and Diaphragm Ultrasound (Lecture) 20 mins Chew Si Yuan
0915 – 0955 Lung Ultrasound (Hands-on)
1. First Station: Lung US (pathological case discussions via powerpoint slides will be provided to instructors) (20 mins)
2. Second Station: Diaphragm US (20 mins)		 40 mins All Faculty
0955 – 1000 Break 5 mins
1000 – 1020 Lower Extremity Vascular POCUS Lecture 20 mins Peh Wee Ming and Tan Rou An
1020 – 1050 Lower Extremity Vascular (Hands-on)
1. Part 1: US Lower Extremity DVT (5 point DVT POCUS) (15 mins)
2.  Part 2: US Lower Extremity Arterial scan (Femoral Artery, Popliteal Artery, Dorsalis pedis) (15 mins)		 30 mins All Faculty
1050 – 1100 Break 10 mins
1100 – 1120 Abdomen / FAST Ultrasound (Lecture) 20 mins Adrian Wong
1120 – 1200 Abdomen / FAST Ultrasound (Hands-on)
1. First station: FAST scan (15 mins)
2. Second station: Renal and bladder scan (15 mins)
3. Third station: Abdominal Aorta (10 mins)		 40 mins All Faculty
1200 – 1300 Lunch Break 60 mins
1300 – 1315 VEXUS (Lecture) 15 mins Adrian Wong
1315 – 1355 VEXUS (Hands-on)
1. First station: IVC Subcostal (10 mins)
2. Second station: Portal Vein and Hepatic vein doppler (15 mins)
3. Third station: Renal doppler (15 mins)		 40 mins All Faculty
1355 – 1400 Break 5 mins
1400 – 1445 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (Lecture) 45 mins Suneel
1445 – 1600 Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (Hands on)
1. First station: PLAX view (20 mins)
2. Second station: PSAX view (20 mins)
3. Third station: Subcostal view (20 mins)
4. Fourth station: Apical 4 chamber view (20 mins)
5. Fifth station: Pathology case discussion (10 mins): Pericardial Tamponade, Cardiogenic Shock, Right Heart Failure		 75 mins All Faculty
1600 – 1630 Putting it all together – Applying CCUS in Shock, Respiratory Failure and Weaning from respiratory failure (Lecture) 30 mins Chew Si Yuan
1630 – 1645 Closing Remarks, Question and Answer, Feedback 15 mins Chew Si Yuan

13 – 14 AUGUST 2025

Time 0900 – 1700
Venue Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore
Format The 2-full day course consists of distance learning material, face-to-face lectures, and small group tutorials/skill stations.
Introduction Intensive Care Nephrology workshop is suitable as a refresher for Intensive Care specialists and senior trainees in ICM/ Respiratory Medicine/Renal medicine.

Participants can expect to complete the course with a thorough knowledge of conditions causing AKI, strategies for prevention and detection, supportive and disease specific therapies and renal replacement strategies and troubleshooting. They will be able to then deploy this knowledge in general, acute care and critical care areas.
Objectives
  1. Applied Renal Physiology
  2. Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury
  3. Acute Kidney Injury: Causes, Pathophysiology and Management
  4. Acute Kidney Injury and Sepsis
  5. Rhabdomyolysis
  6. AKI and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
  7. Urinary Tract Infections
  8. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
  9. Intermittent Haemodialysis and SLEDD
  10. Peritoneal Dialysis
  11. Drug Dosing in Renal Failure
Target Participants Intensive Care Specialists and Senior Trainees in ICM/ Respiratory Medicine/ Renal medicine
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Amit Kansal
Faculty
  • Gordon Choi
Participants Number 30
Cost per pax SGD 400
Registration This workshop is available as an add-on to the Main Symposium. Click here to register.

Time 0800 – 1730
Venue KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) Simulation Center, Singapore
Format Lectures and Skill Stations
Introduction The PFCCS course is an in-depth and comprehensive programme aimed at improving paediatric care.  Using the same hands-on, high-quality approach as Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS), this programme focuses intensely on the paediatric population. PFCCS accomplishes these goals by providing a balance of didactic lectures and hands-on skill stations while building on the participant’s basic paediatric knowledge.  Those who have completed Basic Life Support (BCLS) and Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) or their equivalents will benefit from PFCCS, because much of the material covers the transition from initial patient resuscitation to arrival in the intensive care unit.  Some of the unique features of the course include interactive case scenario-based lectures and skill stations specific to critically ill or injured children.

The curriculum is presented as a 2-day series of integrated lectures and didactic in-person skill stations that provide knowledge, guidance for decision making, and limited practice in some clinical procedures.
Objectives The objectives for this course are to:

  1. Prioritise assessment needs for the critically ill or injured infant and children.
  2. Select appropriate diagnostic tests.
  3. Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable paediatric patient.
  4. Recognise and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions.
  5. Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer and prepare the practitioner for completing optimal transfer.
Faculty
  • Loh Tsee Foong
  • Mervin Loi V-Ter
Participants Number 24
Cost per pax Attendees from:
– SGD 950: Low Middle-Income Countries
– SGD 1080: Non-Low Middle-Income Countries:
Registration Click here to register

Session Schedule – Day 1

Time Agenda Duration
0800 – 0815 Introduction 15 mins
0815 – 0900 Assessment of Critically Ill Child 45 mins
0900 – 0915 Break 15 mins
0915 – 1000 Mechanical Ventilation 45 mins
1000 – 1045 Management of Shock 45 mins
1045 – 1245 1. Skill Station – Ventilation
2. Skill Station – Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction		 120 mins
1245 – 1330 Lunch Break for participants 45 mins
1330 – 1415  Transport of Critically Ill Child 45 mins
1415 – 1500 Fluids & Electrolytes 45 mins
1500 – 1515 Break 15 mins
1515 – 1715 1. Skill Station – Radiology / Invasive Devices
2. Skill Station – Transport		 120 mins
1715 – 1730 (Assumed: Closing / Debrief / End of Day Wrap-up) 15 mins

Session Schedule – Day 2

Time Agenda Duration
0815 – 0900 Pediatric Neurologic Emergencies 45 mins
0900 – 0915 Break 15 mins
0915 – 1000 Sedation, Analgesia, Neuromuscular Blockade 45 mins
1000 – 1045 Traumatic Injuries in Children 45 mins
1045 – 1245 1. Skill Station – Sedation
2. Skill Station – Trauma		 120 mins
1245 – 1330 Lunch Break for participants 45 mins
1330 – 1530 1. Skill Station – Simulation Session
2. Integration – Infant / Child		 120 mins
1530 – 1630 Post-Test & Online Evaluation 60 mins
1630 – 1645 Break 15 mins
1645 – 1700 Recap & Summary 15 mins
1700 – 1730 Post Test Review / On-Site Course Evaluation / End of Day 2 30 mins

14 AUGUST 2025

Time 0800 – 1730
Venue Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Format Didactic lectures and skills stations
Introduction This workshop accredited by The College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM) consists of online pre-course Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and interactive lectures on-site, practical skill stations and post-course MCQs. The electronic course manual can be downloaded as an App to conventional electronic media prior to the workshop.
Objectives The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with a basic understanding of critical care echocardiography.
Topics include:
  1. Indications of Transthoracic Echocardiography
  2. Principles of Ultrasound Imaging
  3. Basic Controls (Knobology)
  4. Image Acquisition
  5. Left Heart Assessment
  6. Right Heart Assessment
  7. Pericardial Disease
  8. Haemodynamic Assessment
  9. Artefacts
Participants Number 36
Registration Click here to register

Time 0800 – 1730
Venue Singapore EXPO, Meeting Room Level 1, Opal (105 – 106)
Format This advanced review course will combine didactic lectures, case-based discussions, and interactive sessions to ensure active learning and practical application of critical care concepts.
Introduction The ever-evolving field of Critical Care Medicine requires continuous updates and refinement of clinical skills. This full-day ICU Review Course has been meticulously designed to bridge the knowledge gap, prepare fellows for certification exams, and enhance day-to-day ICU management capabilities. We will explore key topics in mechanical ventilation, trauma management, hemodynamic, neurocritical care, sepsis management, and critical care organisation, among others, through a combination of expert-led lectures and case discussions.
Objectives By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  1. Master Key Ventilatory Strategies:
    • Optimise mechanical ventilation in patients with unique characteristics.
    • Identify and manage ventilator-associated complications and troubleshoot common issues, including patient ventilator asynchronies.
  2. Enhance Trauma Management Skills:
    • Develop a systematic approach to managing trauma-induced shock and head injuries.
    • Achieve a better understand on management of trauma related coagulopathy.
  3. Refine Hemodynamic Monitoring and Management:
    • Implement advanced techniques for hemodynamic monitoring, including the use of pulmonary artery catheters, echo-guided therapy, and dynamic parameters.
    • Optimise the use of mechanical circulatory devices in shock and managing common complications with these devices.
  4. Strengthen Neurocritical Care Knowledge:
    • Provide evidence-based management of patients with acute neurological emergencies (e.g., ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury).
    • Understand advanced monitoring techniques in neurocritical care.
  5. Master Sepsis Management:
    • Apply the latest guidelines and best practices for sepsis bundle implementation, including antimicrobial stewardship.
  6. Critically Appraise ICU Organisation and Workflow:
    • Optimise ICU team management, including communication and leadership.
    • Develop protocols for efficient ICU rounds and patient flow
Target Participants
  • Critical Care Fellows seeking certification or advancement in intensive care medicine
  • Senior Residents in Anesthesiology, Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Internal Medicine
  • Advanced Practitioner Nurses or Critical Care Nurses looking for advanced insights into complex care scenarios
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Sewa Duu Wen
Participants Number 30
Cost per pax SGD 50 – Allied Health
SGD 100 – Physician

Time 0800 – 1800
Venue Singapore EXPO, Meeting Room Level 1, Opal (101 – 104 & 107)
Format Didactic lectures and skills stations
Introduction This workshop is designed for intensive care professionals focused on Ventilator Weaning, Respiratory Muscle Assessment and the Management of Chronic Respiratory Failure. As ICU patients increasingly present with complex respiratory needs, optimising both acute and long-term ventilation strategies is critical to improving patient outcomes and facilitating the transition from hospital-to-home.

Through four key themes – Acute Ventilation, Chronic Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV), Respiratory Management of Neuromuscular Diseases, and the Interdisciplinary Approach to Chronic Respiratory Failure – participants will explore evidence-based strategies for assessing and managing Respiratory Muscle Weakness and utilising Chronic NIV in supporting patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure post-ICU, reducing hospital readmissions, and enhancing quality of life.

Hands-on skills stations will provide practical training in respiratory muscle evaluation, advanced airway clearance techniques, NIV and mouthpiece ventilation setup, titration and troubleshooting. This interactive and interdisciplinary learning experience will equip participants with the essential knowledge and skills to optimise patient care beyond the ICU.
Objectives By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Profile the Difficult-to-Wean patient in the ICU
2. Optimise Ventilator Weaning Strategies
3. Utilise Non-Invasive Ventilatory Strategies to liberate patients from Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Tracheostomy
4. Evaluate and manage Respiratory Muscle Weakness
5. Implement an interdisciplinary approach to Chronic Respiratory Failure
Target Participants Healthcare Professionals including Physicians, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists, and Physiotherapists, who are dedicated to advancing their expertise in ventilator weaning and non-invasive ventilation.
Lead Faculty (Local)
  • Chai Hui Zhong
Faculty
  • Adrian Cheong Kwok Chi
  • Ong Thun How
  • Chan Yeow
  • Rico Omar Maniaul
  • Faridah Hanim Binte Shamsuddin
  • Soh Rui Ya
  • Genevieve Tan
  • Song Pei Rong
  • Guadalupe Cara Viegelmann
  • Tan Yi Hua
  • Huang Ching-Feng
  • Tieh Suat Kee
  • Jade Tay Jin Yu
  • Tan Herng Lee
  • Jocelyn Lim Yi Xiu
  • Timothy Toh
  • Leow Leong Chai
  • Tricia Wu Yue Qing
  • Ng Lit Soo
  • Vimal Palanichamy
  • Nur Izzianie Bte Kamaruddin
  • Winnie Chong
  • Nurul Aini Binte Bari
  • Yong Ming Hui
Participants Number 40
Cost per pax SGD 20 – Student
SGD 30 – Allied Health
SGD 50 – Physicians
Registration This workshop is available as an add-on to the Main Symposium. Click here to register.

Session Schedule

Time Agenda Duration Faculty
0800 – 0805 Introduction and Welcome 5 mins Chai Hui Zhong
0805 – 0820 Plenary Lecture: History of Home Ventilation in Singapore 15 mins Chan Yeow
0820 ­– 0945 Theme 1: Acute Ventilation 85 mins
0820 – 0840 Nuts and Bolts of Non-Invasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure
1. Indications and contraindications of NIV in Acute Respiratory Failure
2. Initial settings and titration
3. Monitoring of the patient on Acute NIV
4. Defining failure of NIV and when to intubate		 20 mins Genevieve Tan
0840 – 0900 Winning at Weaning: Strategies for Difficult-to-Wean Patients
1. Profiling the Difficult-to-Wean patient
2. Ventilatory and Weaning Strategies		 20 mins Timothy Toh
0900 – 0915 Assessing and enhancing Respiratory Muscle Function in the ICU
1. Respiratory Muscle Assessment in the ICU
2. Respiratory Muscle Training – patient selection, monitoring and results
3. Monitoring and results		 15 mins Vimal Palanichamy
0915 – 0930 Weaning the Unweanable
1. Case Discussions		 15 mins Chai Hui Zhong
0930 – 0945 Theme 1: Q&A 15 mins All faculty
0945 – 1000 Break 15 mins
1000 – 1200 Theme 2: Chronic Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) 120 mins
1000 – 1015 Non-Invasive Ventilation: Who, Why, What, How?
1. Indications for Chronic NIV
2. Initial settings for Chronic NIV		 15 mins Chai Hui Zhong
1015 – 1030 Non-Invasive monitoring on NIV: Role of transcutaneous CO2
1. Indications for TcCO2 monitoring
2. Practical aspects
3. Case discussions		 15 mins Faridah Hanim Binte Shamsuddin
1045 – 1105 Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony in NIV
1. Classification, semiology and mechanisms
2. Diagnosing Patient-Ventilator Asynchrony
3. Management strategies		 20 mins Ong Thun How
1105 – 1125 The role of NIV in Complex Respiratory-Sleep Disorders
1. Evaluation of the patient with Complex Respiratory-Sleep Disorders
2. NIV initiation and settings titration		 20 mins Soh Rui Ya
1125 – 1145 NIV in Paediatric Respiratory Failure
1. Overview of Chronic Respiratory Failure in Paediatrics
2. Indications for Chronic NIV
3. NIV initiation and settings titration
4. Transition to adult care		 20 mins Tan Yi Hua
1145 – 1200 Theme 2: Q&A 15 mins All faculty
1200 – 1245 Lunch 45 mins
1245 – 1415 Theme 3: Respiratory Management of Neuromuscular Diseases 90 mins
1245 – 1300 Overview of Neuromuscular Diseases
1. Overview of Neuromuscular Diseases including drug therapies		 15 mins Yong Ming Hui
1300 – 1315 Update on Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Muscular Atrophy
1. Update on Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Muscular Atrophy including drug therapies		 15 mins  Jocelyn Lim Yi Xiu
1315 – 1335 Airway Management of the patient with Neuromuscular Diseases
1. Respiratory Muscle Evaluation in intubated and non-intubated patients
2. Cough Augmentation and Lung Volume Recruitment Strategies
3. Desaturation protocols		 20 mins Nurul Aini Binte Bari
1335 – 1350 Introduction to Mouthpiece Ventilation
1. Identify suitable patient and disease profiles
2. Initiation and titration of mouthpiece ventilation		 15 mins Huang Ching-Feng
1350 – 1400 Avoiding Intubation and Tracheostomy: Pipe Dream or Reality?
1. Case discussions		 10 mins Ng Lit Soo
1400 – 1415 Theme 3: Q&A 15 mins All faculty
1415 – 1430 Break 15 mins
1430 – 1545 Theme 4: Interdisciplinary Management of Chronic Respiratory Failure 75 mins
1430 – 1440 The role of the Occupational Therapist in NIV Management
1. Identify patients who will benefit from Occupational Therapist referral and assessment
2. Home modifications and equipment		 10 mins Tieh Suat Kee
1440 – 1450 Assessment of speech and swallowing in patients on chronic ventilation
1. Swallowing assessment in patients with Chronic NIV
2. Communication strategies
3. Use of Mouthpiece Ventilation to augment speech and swallowing		 10 mins Winnie Chong
1450 – 1505 Rehabilitation of the patient with Chronic Respiratory Failure: Is there a role?
1. Assessing rehabilitation potential
2. Rehabilitation strategies
3. Maintaining function		 15 mins Vimal Palanichamy & Tieh Suat Kee
1505 – 1525 Multidisciplinary care of the Paediatric patient with Chronic Respiratory Failure
1. Ventilatory strategies in Paediatric patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure
2. Management of NIV and tracheostomy in Paediatric patients
3. Transition from hospital-to-home		 20 mins Guadalupe Cara Viegelmann
1525 – 1545 End of Life Care
1. Role of Supportive Care in patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure
2. Home and community support services
3. Withdrawal of ventilatory support		 20 mins Adrian Cheong Kwok Chi
1545 – 1600 Theme 4: Q&A 15 mins All faculty
1600 – 1800 Practical Skills Stations
1. Station 1: Mask fitting (Acute and Chronic) – SDU KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Respiratory Therapists
2. Station 2: Ventilator settings and download interpretation – SGH Respiratory Therapists, Ong Thun How, Chai Hui Zhong
3. Station 3: Mouthpiece Ventilation – SGH Respiratory Therapists, Timothy Toh, Leow Leong Chai
4. Station 4: Pulmonary function testing in Neuromuscular Disorders – SGH Physiotherapists		 120 mins Multiple Facilitators

Easmed

Easmed has been dedicated to advancing patient care through innovative and minimally invasive healthcare solutions. With a strong presence across Southeast Asia, we collaborate closely with healthcare professionals to bring cutting-edge medical technologies to market.

Our portfolio spans a wide range of specialties, including ENT, sleep, urology, and critical care, focused on improving clinical outcomes and enhancing the patient journey.

Backed by a team of passionate and knowledgeable professionals, Easmed provides more than just products; we offer comprehensive support through clinical education, technical expertise, and long-term partnership.

For more information, please visit: https://www.easmed.com/

Lowenstein Medical

The willingness to provide service, a pronounced customer proximity, and innovative strength in the development of new medical technologies are the decisive factors that have made Lowenstein Medical a leading medical technology company.

Lowenstein Medical is considered a pioneer and market leader for medical products in the hospital, homecare, and diagnostic sectors. Innovative technology, ergonomic design, and creative user interfaces characterise high-end systeand enable optimal support for the user in every situation. The success of “Made in Germany” products is based on excellent ideas, many years of experience, foresight, and innovation.

Since Reinhard Lowenstein joined the company in 1986, their core competence has been in the field of neonatology. Today’s core competencies were developed from our expertise and knowledge of neonatology.

In the Hospital division, Lowenstein Medical offers ventilation solutions specially for newborns, anesthesia equipment, and intensive care ventilators for adults as well as children. In addition, the Homecare division was developed, which equips patients with supplies who require medical aids in their home environment. These aids are mainly used for the treatment of lung diseases or sleep-related respiratory disorders. The third and final division is Diagnostics, which aito develop and market innovative products for the diagnosis of sleep-related breathing disorders.

Lowenstein Medical is there for you, from the initial diagnosis to hospitalisation to surgery or homecare. Our focus is on service – in all areas.

For more information, please visit www.loewensteinmedical.com

Philips

Philips is a health technology company focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation –

from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Applying advanced technologies and deep clinical and consumer insights, Philips partners with customers to deliver integrated solutions that help provide improved patient experience, better health outcomes, improved staff experience, and lower cost of care.

For more information, please visit www.usa.philips.com/healthcare/patient-monitoring

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Asia Pacific Intensive Care Symposium (APICS) 2025
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Singapore 339411

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