Pre-Conference Workshops

14 August 2024, Wednesday

Workshop Title Paediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (PFCCS)
Date 14 & 15 August 2024
Time 0800 – 1730
Venue KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
100 Bukit Timah Road
Women’s Tower, Level 2 Simulation Centre
Singapore 229899
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 provides knowledge, guidance for decision making, and limited practice in some clinical procedures.
Objectives The objectives for this course are to:

  • Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill or injured infant and child.
  • Select appropriate diagnostic tests.
  • Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable paediatric patient.
  • Recognize and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions, with a focus on the first 72 hours of critical illness.
  • Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer and prepare the practitioner for completing optimal transfer.
Target Participants Doctors and nurses who are involved in the care and stabilization of critically ill children
Participants Number 11
Faculty Prof Loh Tsee Foong, PFCCS Course Director, Senior Consultant
Dr Mervin Loi V-Ter, PFCCS Course Co-Director, Consultant
Cost per pax SGD 1,080 (APICS delegates)
SGD 950 (LMIC APICS delegates)

15 August 2024, Thursday

Workshop Title BASIC Transthoracic Echocardiography (BASIC-TTE)

The registration is open only to APICS 2024 conference registrants.
Date 15 August 2024, Thursday
Time 0800 – 1730
Venue Level 4 EDTC block, SIMTAC, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Synopsis The aim of the course is to provide participants with a basic understanding of point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography. Our course consists of online pre-course multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and interactive lectures on site, practical skill stations and a post-course MCQs. The electronic course manual can be downloaded as an App to conventional electronic media prior to the course.

This course has been approved/ accredited by the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM).
Topics
  • Indications of transthoracic echocardiography
  • Principles of Ultrasound Imaging
  • Basic Controls (Knobology)
  • Image Acquisition
  • Left Heart Assessment
  • Right Heart Assessment
  • Pericardial Disease
  • Haemodynamic Assessment
  • Artefacts
Faculty Singapore
Dr LAU Yie Hui, Senior Consultant, AICPM, TTSH
Dr FONG Wee Kim, Senior Consultant, AICPM, TTSH
Dr XU Hui Ying, Senior Consultant, RCCM, TTSH
Dr Ruth CHEN Weixian, Consultant, Cardiology, WH
Dr Nicolas LIM Yao-Han, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, WH
Dr TAN Joo Hor, Associate Consultant, Cardiology, TTSH
Dr CHEW Si Yuan, Consultant, Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, SGH
Dr CHOO Wee-Sen, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, NTFGH
Dr TAN Rou An, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, NTFGH

Hong Kong
Dr Gordon CHOI, Consultant and Head of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Targeted Number of Participants 36
Registration Fee (after 9% GST)

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 SGD 600 for non-specialist
SGD 654 for specialist
SGD 436 for trainees from U+LMIC (Upper and Lower-Middle-Income Countries) [Limited Seats]

Workshop Title Paediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (PFCCS)
Date 14 & 15 August 2024
Time 0800 – 1730
Venue KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
100 Bukit Timah Road
Women’s Tower, Level 2 Simulation Centre
Singapore 229899
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 provides knowledge, guidance for decision making, and limited practice in some clinical procedures.
Objectives The objectives for this course are to:

  • Prioritize assessment needs for the critically ill or injured infant and child.
  • Select appropriate diagnostic tests.
  • Identify and respond to significant changes in the unstable paediatric patient.
  • Recognize and initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions, with a focus on the first 72 hours of critical illness.
  • Determine the need for expert consultation and/or patient transfer and prepare the practitioner for completing optimal transfer.
Target Participants Doctors and nurses who are involved in the care and stabilization of critically ill children
Participants Number 11
Faculty Prof Loh Tsee Foong, PFCCS Course Director, Senior Consultant
Dr Mervin Loi V-Ter, PFCCS Course Co-Director, Consultant
Cost per pax SGD 1,080 (APICS delegates)
SGD 950 (LMIC APICS delegates)

Workshop Title Chronic Ventilation Workshop
Date 15 August 2024, Thursday
Time 0900 – 1800
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Introduction This full – day workshop will highlight the differences between acute and chronic ventilation, the transdisciplinary coordination required to manage each unique ventilator – assisted individual, differences in practice between various international groups, ventilator weaning in specific conditions, adjunct therapies, and sleep – disordered breathing in chronic ventilation users.
Objectives The Chronic Ventilation Workshop, through a combination of didactic and practical sessions, aims to:

  • Explain the differences between acute and chronic ventilation, and multidisciplinary coordination of roles in managing a patient transitioning to chronic ventilation
  • Elaborate on how to assess suitability for ventilator rehabilitation at the Ventilator Rehabilitation Unit (VRU), Tan Tock Seng Hospital, with nursing input
  • 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)
  • Discuss differences in practice of chronic ventilation in various countries (UK, Canada and Singapore) learnt from fellowship attachments
  • Discuss ventilator weaning and decannulation in specific conditions including spinal cord injury (SCI), Guillain – Barre syndrome, and Critical Illness myopathy
  • Explain sleep – disordered breathing in chronic ventilation users
  • Run through difficult conversations in progressive neuromuscular diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Advance Care Planning (ACP)
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.
Participants Number 30
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Valerie Ng and Dr Debra Seow
Faculty Dr Genevieve Tan
Dr Chai Hui Zhong
Dr Wee Jiayan
Dr Lim Jiayan
Dr Ravi Cuttilan
Dr Chan Yeow
Melinda Lim (ST)
Cheryl Tan (PT)

Speakers
Mr Gacula Levi
Mr Lo Tun-Yi
Cost Per Pax SGD 50 Physician
SGD 30 Allied Health

16 August 2024, Friday

Workshop Title The “Intensive” Critical Care Review Workshop
Date 16 August 2024, Friday
Time 0900 – 1800
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Introduction The Intensive Care Unit host a variety of critical illness. A clinician working in the ICU needs to be able to recognize, understand the principles, and manage the different presentations of critical illness. The complexities have exponentially increase together with new knowledge and literature data, making the ICU environment an even faster paced arena when compared to just a few years ago. Competencies will need to be honed together with clinical reasoning skills.
Objectives
  • Able to discuss on ventilator management in patients with critical illness.
  • Able to discuss the monitoring and subsequent management of hemodynamic abnormalities in the Intensive Care Unit.
  • Able to manage patients with neurosurgical emergencies from the viewpoint of an intensivist.
  • Able to manage cardiac emergencies from the viewpoint of an intensivist.
  • Able to discuss the management of toxidromes presenting to the Intensive Care Unit.
Target Participants Intensivists, clinician nurses, advanced practice nurses and medical doctors working in the ICU
Participants Number 30
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Puah Ser Hon
Cost Per Pax SGD 50 Physician
SGD 30 Allied Health

Workshop Title Intensive Care Emergencies in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Date 16 August 2024, Friday
Time 0900 – 1300
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Introduction The focus of this workshop is on delivery of knowledge related to resuscitation of post cardiac surgery patients, the differences to standard ALS and teaching how to perform a resternotomy in a team
Objectives At the end of the workshop the participants will be able to;

  • Understand normal and abnormal progression of patients following cardiac surgery
  • Understand and discuss the differences between resuscitation of cardiothoracic and non-cardiothoracic patients
  • Correctly use the emergency resternotomy equipment
  • Perform a resternotomy on a manikin in a team including internal cardiac massage and defibrillation.
Target Participants Intensivists, clinician nurses, advanced practice nurses and medical doctors working in the ICU
Participants Number 20
Lead Faculty Dr Christian Karcher, Amy Rogers
Cost Per Pax SGD 50 Physician
SGD 30 Allied Health

Workshop Title Advanced Airway Course FOR Nurses and Respiratory Therapists
Date 16 August 2024, Friday
Time 0830 – 1700
Venue Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Introduction This course is designed to give Critical Care Nurses and Respiratory therapists an approach to management of the upper airway.
The Airway Nurse/RT has a unique role, working together with the Airway Doctor, in preparing, planning, anticipating problems and troubleshooting when they arise. The Airway Nurse is very much an equal partner in airway management.Commonly reported airway events in Critical Care include difficult and failed intubation and tracheostomy related problems. Themes associated with airway disasters include failure to identify high risk airways and failure of advanced airway skills and rescue techniques. In most airway incidents there is an element of failure in non-technical skills such as with communication and performance under stress.The focus of this course will be to develop expertise in rescue techniques and decision making in a crisis situation. Case studies will be used to illustrate situational awareness and decision making.
Objectives The Course will cover:

  • Video laryngoscopy
  • Laryngeal mask airways as a rescue device
  • Front of neck airway (Cricothrotomy)
  • Tracheostomy related problems
  • Situational awareness and decision making
  • Graded assertiveness
  • Intubation planning, and preparation
  • Anticipated and unanticipated difficult intubation
  • Identifying and managing Oesophageal intubation
  • FAQs
Target Participants The course is intended for nurses/ RT working in Critical Care Areas, ICU, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesia
Participants Number 36
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Amit Kansal (NTFGH)
Faculty Dr John Copland (Australia)
Cost per pax (Inclusive of 9% GST) SGD 200 Direct / Non-NUHS Fee
SGD 150 APICS 2024 Delegate / NUHS Fee
SGD 100 LMIC APICS 2024 Delegate Fee

Title Critical Care POCUS Workshop
Date 16th August 2024, Friday
Time 1300 – 1700
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Synopsis The aim of the course is to introduce novices to diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound of the lungs and for lower limb deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The content closely follows the FUSIC program and serves as a starting point for those interested in embarking on the training program.
Topics
  • Lung ultrasound
  • Lower limb deep vein thrombosis
Programme 13:00-13:15 introduction to POCUS, basic knobology
13:15-13:45 lung ultrasound lecture
13:45- 14:45 hands on (3 stations, round robin style)

1. Diagnostic lung US on healthy volunteers (20min)
2. Case discussion of lung US pathology (20min)
3. Ultrasound guided pleural catheter insertion (20min)

14:45-15:00 tea break
15:00-15:30 DVT ultrasound lecture
15:30-16:30 hands on
16:30-17:00 Q+A, introduction to FUSIC
Faculty Singapore
Dr LAU Yie Hui, Senior Consultant, AICPM, TTSH
Dr FONG Wee Kim, Senior Consultant, AICPM, TTSH
Dr XU Hui Ying, Senior Consultant, RCCM, TTSH
Dr Ruth CHEN Weixian, Consultant, Cardiology, WH
Dr Nicolas LIM Yao-Han, Consultant, Emergency Medicine, WH
Dr TAN Joo Hor, Associate Consultant, Cardiology, TTSH
Dr CHEW Si Yuan, Consultant, Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, SGH
Dr CHOO Wee-Sen, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, NTFGH
Dr TAN Rou An, Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, NTFGH
Targeted number of participants 32
Cost Per Pax SGD 50

In-Conference Workshops

18 August 2024, Sunday

Workshop Title Critical Care Nephrology
Date 18 August 2024, Sunday
Time 1100 – 1230
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Introduction TBA
Objectives TBA
Target Participants Intensivists
Trainees managing renal replacement therapy in the ICU
Critical care nurses
Nephrologist
Participants Number 30
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Manish Kaushik, Singapore General Hospital
Cost Per Pax SGD 20

Workshop Title Acute Dialysis for the Critically Ill
Date 18 August 2024, Sunday
Time 1300 – 1500
Venue Suntec Convention Centre
Objectives This 1-hour interactive session will focus on principles of acute dialysis in the critically ill. The discussion will include timing of dialysis initiation, dialysis modality, prescription, and dialysis in specific clinical scenarios.
Target Participants ICM Trainees, Junior Intensivists, Advance Practicing Nurses in ICU, Senior Residents
Participants Number 30
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Manish Kaushik

Workshop Title Epicardial Pacing and Pacemaker Troubleshooting
Date 18 August 2024, Sunday
Time 1530 – 1700
Venue Suntec Convention Centre, Level 3, Room TBA
Introduction Epicardial pacing post cardiac surgery is an important factor in maintaining adequate haemodynamics in the post operative period. Troubleshooting common pacing problems effectively requires knowledge of all pacing issues which could potentially be encountered and the actions required to maintain patient safety. Participants will have tactile experience with epicardial pacing box manipulation whilst connected to a simulator.
Objectives The focus of this mini workshop is on the delivery of knowledge related to common epicardial pacing issues encountered in post operative Cardiothoracic patients. On completion of this workshop participants will be able to
– Discuss and understand Pacing box safety
– Discuss common pacing problems and how they can affect patient safety and stability
– Identify these problems on a patient monitor
– Correctly manipulate a pacing box to resume safe pacing
Target Participants Critical Care Doctors
Critical Care Nurses
Respiratory Therapists
Participants Number 20
Lead Faculty TBA
Cost Per Pax SGD 20

Post Conference Workshops

20 August 2024, Tuesday

Workshop Title Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS)
Date 20 August 2024, Tuesday
Time 0800 – 1730
Venue Theatrette, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
Introduction Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) aims to improve patient care and outcomes during the critical first hours following neurological emergencies. ENLS promotes a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach using a consistent set of protocols, practical checklists, decision points, and suggested communication to use during patient management. This course covers 14 protocols developed by Neurocritical Care Society.
Objectives
  1. Understand the specific clinical needs of patients in the early phases of neurological and neurosurgical emergencies
  2. Meet these needs by standardising the management using ENLS protocols
  3. Use of checklists to address important clinical points
  4. Use of checklists to improve handovers
  5. General Critical Care (e.g. airway and ventilation, pharmacotherapy)
Target Participants All doctors, nurses, EMTs, pharmacists and allied health staff who manage patients during acute neurological and neurosurgical emergencies.
Lead Faculty (Local) Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Dr WONG Yu-Lin, Senior Consultant and Intensivist
Dr CHONG Shang Yee, Senior Consultant
Dr CHEW Mei Fang, Consultant and Intensivist
LIU Qingna, Nurse Clinician, Neuro ICU

National Neuroscience Institute (NNI)
Dr YU Wai-Yung, Senior Consultant, Neuroradiology Interventionist
Dr Joanna Pearly TI, Senior Consultant, Neuroradiology Interventionist
Course Fee & Registration

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 SGD 350 Residents and MOS
SGD 400 Nurses and Allied Health
SGD 600 Specialists as registered with SMC or equivalent professional bodyThe registration can only be confirmed upon payment.

Workshop Title Advanced Airway Course for Critical Care
Date 20 & 21 August 2024, Tuesday & Wednesday
Time 0830 – 1700
Venue Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Format Lectures and Hands-on sessions with breakout
Introduction A 2-day Advanced Airway Course suitable for senior trainees in Intensive Care & Respiratory Medicine / Anaesthesia / Emergency Department and as a refresher for intensivists, anesthetists, and emergency physicians, consisting of a combination of lectures, small group tutorials, case-based discussion and skills stations.
Objectives

The Course will cover:

  • Direct and indirect laryngoscopy (video laryngoscopy)
  • Laryngeal mask airways
  • Double lumen tube intubation
  • Bronchoscopy and fibre-optic intubation
  • Tracheostomy/Cricothyrotomy
  • Endotracheal tube exchange
  • Intubation planning, airway assessment
  • Anticipated and unanticipated difficult intubation
  • Acute upper airway obstruction
Target Participants Senior trainees and Consultants in Intensive Care & Respiratory Medicine / Anaesthesia / Emergency Department
Participants Number 24
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Amit Kansal
Faculty Dr Christian Karcher (Australia)
Cost per pax SGD 350 Early Bird Rate
SGD 400 Regular Rate

21 August 2024, Wednesday

Workshop Title Advanced Airway Course for Critical Care
Date 20 & 21 August 2024, Tuesday & Wednesday
Time 0830 – 1700
Venue Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Format Lectures and Hands-on sessions with breakout
Introduction A 2-day Advanced Airway Course suitable for senior trainees in Intensive Care & Respiratory Medicine / Anaesthesia / Emergency Department and as a refresher for intensivists, anesthetists, and emergency physicians, consisting of a combination of lectures, small group tutorials, case-based discussion and skills stations.
Objectives

The Course will cover:

  • Direct and indirect laryngoscopy (video laryngoscopy)
  • Laryngeal mask airways
  • Double lumen tube intubation
  • Bronchoscopy and fibre-optic intubation
  • Tracheostomy/Cricothyrotomy
  • Endotracheal tube exchange
  • Intubation planning, airway assessment
  • Anticipated and unanticipated difficult intubation
  • Acute upper airway obstruction
Target Participants Senior trainees and Consultants in Intensive Care & Respiratory Medicine / Anaesthesia / Emergency Department
Participants Number 24
Lead Faculty (Local) Dr Amit Kansal
Faculty Dr Christian Karcher (Australia)
Cost per pax SGD 350 Early Bird Rate
SGD 400 Regular Rate