Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019

Part I. Precision medicine.- Part II. Acute Respiratory Failure - ARDS.- Part III. Extracorporeal Respiratory Support.- Part IV. Cardiac arrest.- Part V. Cardiac Function.- Part VI. Shock.- Part VII. Hemodynamic Monitoring.- Part VIII. Intravenous Fluids.- Part IX. Altered Renal Function.- Part X. The Neurological Patient.- Part XI. Infection and Antibiotics.- Part XII. Sepsis.- Part XIII. Iron Metabolism.- Part XIV. Extremes of Age.- Part XV. Patient Comfort.- Part XVI. Medical Education.

Prof. Vincent is Professor of intensive care at the University of Brussels, and intensivist in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels. He is Past-President of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SIZ), the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), the European Shock Society (ESS), and the International Sepsis Forum (ISF). He is a member of the Royal Medical Academy of Belgium.

Prof. Vincent has signed more than 1000 articles, some 400 book chapters and review articles, 1000 original abstracts, and has edited 102 books. He is co-editor of the "Textbook of Critical Care" (Elsevier Saunders) and the "Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine" (Springer). He is editor-in-chief of "Critical Care", "Current Opinion in Critical Care", and "ICU Management & Practice" and member of the editorial boards of about 30 journals.For 38 years, Prof. Vincent has been chairman of the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the largest international meeting in this field, which gathers more than 6000 participants every year in Brussels.