Webinar: How Covid-19 Pandemic changed Anaesthesiology Clinical Practice – Lessons Learned

Webinar Scientific Faculty

Scientific Faculty Leader

Prof. Dr. Daniela Ionescu

Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care and Chair of the ESAIC- Scientific Subcommittee 1 (SSC1)- General anaesthesia

Head of Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care I, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Host

Prof. Dr. Daniela Ionescu

Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care and Chair of the ESAIC- Scientific Subcommittee 1 (SSC1)- General anaesthesia

Head of Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care I, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Carolyn Weiniger

Chair of the ESAIC- Scientific Subcommittee 4 (SSC4)- Obstetric Anaesthesiology

Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Prof. Dr. Chiara Robba

Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico San Martino, IRCCS for Oncology and Neuroscience, Genova, Italy

Prof. Dr. Paolo Pelosi

Professor in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, Policlinico San Martino Hospital

University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Scientific Support

Dr. Andrea Kollmann

ESAIC eLearning Chair

Coordinator for Obstetric Anaesthesia, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden

Target Audience:

General Anaesthesiologists, Intensive Care Medicine doctors and Anaesthesiology trainees taking care of COVID patients during pandemic.

This webinar will be open to anyone who wishes to view it, from whichever country they can access it.

Methods to promote adult active learning:

This webinar will include:

a) Polls: to increase interactivity and engagement. Results from polls will lead to discussions points during each lecture.

b) Q&A session at the end of webinar: to answer questions brought up by the host and submitted by the audience (in real time). Questions will be filtered by the scientific support to prioritise relevance.

Learning Aim

· Discuss some of the most important aspects of anesthesia and intensive care in Covid patients

· Debate on what change our practice after Covid.

· Review the most important aspects of noninvasive/invasive ventilation in COVID patients

· Review the most important aspects of care in COVID obstetric patients in delivery room

After Taking Part

This webinar will enable the participants to:

· outline the most important specific aspects of anaesthesia during pandemic

· describe the most important aspects of ventilation in Covid patients

· describe the main aspects of care of obstetric patient with Corona in delivery room

· discuss aspects of wellness of health care professionals during pandemic

· elaborate on administrative and organizational issues in the perioperative medicine during COVID-19 pandemic

Key points

· anaesthesia during pandemic

· organisation of perioperative medicine during pandemic

· non-invasive and invasive ventilation in Covid patients

· obstetric patient with Covid in delivery room

Content

· Anaesthesia before and after the Corona pandemic; we are not the same - Paolo Pelosi

· The obstetric patient with Corona and respiratory symptoms coming to the delivery room - Carolyn Weiniger

· Ventilation concepts; timing might be crucial- noninvasive versus invasive - Chiara Robba

Learning Objectives

Knowledge to be acquired after attending to this Webinar

The participant will be able to:

· discuss clinical anesthesia-related recommendations on treating COVID-19 and suspected COVID-19 patients

· understand the importance of invasive and non invasive ventilation for optimizing outcomes in patients with Covid-19

· explore the role of imaging and in particular lung Computed Tomography for the individualization of treatment in this group of patients

· analyze the indications and timing for non invasive ventilation and the type of devise to use

· understand the optimal timing for initiation of invasive mechanical ventilation to improve patients’ outcome

· discuss the principal ventilator settings and respiratory targets to be set in this population

· understand the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and the effect on pregnancy and to review our knowledge growth over the duration of the pandemic

· discuss perinatal (maternal and neonatal) outcomes of COVID-19 pregnancies

· implement best practices for obstetric anesthesia management of pregnant women with Sars-CoV-2 infection within the multidisciplinary team

Practical skills to be acquired after attending to this Webinar

This webinar will enable participants to:

· review main aspects of personal safety and protective equipment

· elaborate administrative and organizational issues in the perioperative medicine during COVID-19 pandemic

· set up principal ventilator settings and respiratory targets in this population

· know optimal timing for initiation of invasive mechanical ventilation to improve patients’ outcome

Affective skills acquired after attending to this Webinar

The participant is aware of:

· changes of anaesthetic practice during pandemic

· wellness of the health care professionals during and after pandemic

· best decision and optimal time when to initiate mechanical ventilation in Covid patients

This Webinar is supported by MSD.