Friends in critical care,

The Cape Western Branch of the Critical Care Society is pleased to announce a meeting taking place between 22 and 24 November 2024 – Moving Forward.

Following two very successful meetings held at the BOE building in the Waterfront in 2013 and 2017 the Cape Western Branch has once again decided to take up the reins in hosting an end of year critical care meeting. There has been a gap in quality critical care meetings in Cape Town since the branch last hosted the National Congress at the Century City venue in 2019 prior to COVID.

We have decided on the University of Cape Town Academic Conferencing centre (The Graduate School of Business) in the Waterfront as the venue for our meeting. This is currently a premier conferencing venue in the Waterfront precinct and is likely to prove attractive to trade and delegates alike. The meeting will run from Friday to Sunday and include a dedicated day of workshops.

Half day Workshops on 22 November include:

• Neuromonitoring in critical care
• Indirect Calorimetry for the critically ill patient
• Haemodynamic monitoring for the ICU nurse
• Nutrition in critical care, Lifelong learning course from the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• Ultrasound in critical care
• Paediatric Workshop – Intubation and mechanical ventilation troubleshooting

The following topics to be covered in the Conference:

• Going green in ICU!
• Antimicrobial resistance – the new Pandemic
• Electrical impedance tomography in ventilation
• New Paediatric ARDS guidelines
• Volatile Sedation in critical care
• Should all nurses be ICU trained?
• Nursing handover tool
• Family centred care
• Artificial Intelligence
• Critical Care Pub Quiz!!

We extend an invitation to you to join us in what promises to be a very successful meeting.
With warmest wishes and kind regards