WEBINARS – ANTIMICROBIALS: WHEN, WHAT & HOW

Dear all,

Indian College of Critical Care Medicine (ICCM), the academic wing of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine has successfully organized webinars since 2012. Our earlier webinars are now available for viewing through our website www.isccm.org.

The first two webinars in 2015 held in April 2015 and May 2015 on Ultrasound in Critical Care and Obstetric Critical Care respectively were well appreciated. Almost 1000 centers logged in and several of them had several participants benefiting from the programs. We are now pleased to announce a 3rd Webinar in a series of Webinars in 2015. This third program will focus on “ANTIMICROBIALS: WHEN, WHAT & HOW?” Dr N Ramakrishnan will coordinate and moderate the program which will be webcast from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.

Moderator:Dr N Ramakrishnan
Faculty:
Dr N Ramakrishnan
Dr Ram Gopalakrishnan
Dr Arun Kumar Menon
Dr D. Suresh Kumar
Dr Ashwin K Mani
Dr N. Sridhar
Dr Ram E Rajagopalan

Topics:
Overview & Introduction
Practical aspects of Antimicrobial therapy: PK/PD Principals
Epidemiology & treatment of Gram Positive Infections
Epidemiology & treatment of MDR Gram Negative Infections
Antifungal Therapy: Indications & Choices
Dilemmas in managing culture negative sepsis
Reconsidering empiric antibiotic therapy in an era of resistance
Discussion

Please plan to join us on June 27, 2015 (Saturday) from 2 pm to 5 pm. We are confident that this program will be of value for all practicing Intensivists, teachers and students. We will send the links for the webcast closer to the date of the program.

We request you to mark your calendar for future webinars
· July 25, 2015 (Saturday) – Tropical infections (Coordinator: Dr Dhruva Chaudhry)