Congress Pillars
PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Speakers to be confirmed
November 6, Wednesday
LONGEVITY & HEALTHY AGING – GERIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
MORNING SESSION
CHAIR: Sagar GALWANKAR (USA) – Maria Pia RUGGIERI (Italy)
9:00-9:15
John MA (USA) | Geriatric Trauma
9:15-9:30
Francesco FRANCESCHI (Italy) | Acute Pain Treatment In The Elderly
9:30-9:45
Nicola FERRARA (Italy) | Aging: Demographic And Epidemiological Aspects
9:45-10:00
Varsha REDDY JAYAR (India) | Unseen picture behind the curtain (Elderly in Emergency, early detection & Management with preventive Strategies)
10:00-10:15
Fatimah LATEEF (Singapore) | Which Time Zone Are You From? Do They Care About Your Age?
10:15-10:30
Lisa MORENO-WALTON (USA) | COVID-19: The First Five Hundred Cases: An Epidemiological Analysis of Demographics, Co-morbidities and Outcomes which Guided Patient Care at an Urban Safety Net Hospital
10:30-10:45
Adithya SURESH (UK) | Dissecting Aortic Dissection
10:45-11:00 | DISCUSSION
11:00-11:15 BREAK
Keynote Lecture: Tatiana KISSELEVA (USA) | State of the art on Genetic/Epigeneticon Longevity: could we have clinical infos?
Keynote Lecture: Raffaella BOSURGI (UK) | Research to Publication: how to write a research paper
12:15-13:30 | Lunch session & Poster Discussion
AFTERNOON SESSION
CHAIRS: David BRENNER (USA) – Vaishal TOLIA (USA)
13:30 -13:45
Mohamed HANEEF M. (India) | Prevalence and Patterns of Geriatric emergencies in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India: A Comparative Analysis
13:45 – 14:00
Rahul BALASUBRAMANIAN (India) | Substance use disorder among patients Admitted to Emergency department of a Tertiary care hospital in Kerala: A cross sectional study
14:00 – 14:15
Mustafa KEŞAPLI (Turkey) | Training interprofessional teams in geriatric emergency medicine: a modified team-based learning approach
14:15 – 14:30
Boo JOHANSSON (Sweden) | What matters for longevity? Findings and reflections
14:30 -14:45
Alessandro SANDUZZI (Italy) | Should I treat differently Pneumonia in elderly patients?
14:45 -15:00
Sema AYTEN (Turkey) | Evaluation of the nutrition of patients diagnosed with DM and CKD who applied to the hospital from the emergency department
15:00- 15:15
Eran Tal-Or Dr. MOSHE MICHAELSON (Israel) | Emergency departments under chaos of war
15:15- 15:30 DISCUSSION
Keynote Lecture: Josep BRUGADA (Spain) | Should I check for Brugada syndrome in elderly subjects? What do I have to do in this case?
Keynote Lecture: Daniele GIUDICI (UK) | The clinical pharmacist, the acute clinical pharmacist, the critical care pharmacist and the multisciplinary team in the emergency department
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-18:15
ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
EDUCATION IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
MORNING SESSION
CHAIRS: Giovanni RICEVUTI (Italy) – Frank MASSARO (USA)
9:00-9:15
Monika LUTTERS (CH) | Adverse Drug Events in Geriatric Care and The Role of the Emergency Clinical Pharmacist
9:15-9:30
Annalisa GASCO (Italy) | The clinical pharmacists in the emergency department: practitioners who are essential members of your clinical care team
9:30-9:45
Melinda PRESLAND (UK) | End-of-Life in a critical care setting: the crucial role of the critical care pharmacist
9:45-10:00
Frank MASSARO (US) | Improving your practice as a clinical pharmacist in Emergency Medicine and become effective member of a multi-professional team in an emergency medicine department
10:00-10:15
Francesca VENTURINI (Italy) | What (not) is the clinical pharmacy?
10:15-10:30
Emanuela PEILA (Italy) | What a clinical pharmacist in ICU should do
10:30-10:45
Daniele GIUDICI (UK) | Hydration and feeding in the ED: the role and function of the pharmacist
10:45-11:00 DISCUSSION
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-11:45 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
11:45-12:15 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
12:15-13:30. Lunch Session & Poster Discussion
AFTERNOON SESSION
CHAIRS: Pasquale PIGNATELLI (Italy) – AIWI Rehman (Malesya)
13:30-13:45
Francesca WIRTH (Malta) | Clinical Pharmacy Guidelines and Pharmacist-physician collaboration
13:45-14:00
Laura Elena PACIFICI NOJA (Italy) | Management of interventions in international crisis with particular attention to the MDT and MPT interaction
14:00-14:15
Andrea GIAMPIETRI (Italy) | Antidotes: a mortar that binds clinical pharmacists, emergency physicians, toxicologists together
14:15-14:30
Lorenzo GHIADONI (Italy) | Tips and tricks of hypertensive emergency
14:30-14:45
Daniele PASTORI (Italy) | Echocardiography in Emergency
14:45-15:00
Serhat ÖRÜN (Turkey) | Delayed injuries in the emergency department in hospitalised trauma patients
15:00-15:15
A/V
15:15-15:30 DISCUSSION
15:30-16:00 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
16:00-16:30 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-17:30
Frank MASSARO (US) | with collaboration of GIUDICI, LAGHI, VENTURINI, GASCO
Improving Your Practice as a Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency Medicine: INTERACTIVE CLINICAL CASES
17:30-18:15
Mauro GIORDANO (Italy) | with collaboration of GIUDICI, LAGHI, MASSARO, VENTURINI, GASCO
ECG, electrolytes and acid-base alterations: INTERACTIVE CLINICAL CASES
9:00-16:00
NURSES ROLE IN AND OUTSIDE THE EMERGENCY ROOM: HOW CAN WE IMPLEMENT IT?
Programme will be posted soon
Speakers to be confirmed
November 7, Thursday
DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT & BIOMARKERS
MORNING SESSION
9:00-9:15
Swee Han LIM (Singapore) | How to clinch the Acute Coronary Syndrome diagnosis with ECGs- an update
9:15-9:30
Mauro GIORDANO (Italy) | AKI and markers of renal function in the emergency setting
9:30-9:45
Linu SEKHAR (India) | Low risk acs risk stratification in the emergency room – can we do away with Troponins?
9:45-10:00
Ettore CAPOLUONGO (Italy) | Brain injury biomarkers: what’s new?
10:00-10:15
Başar CANDER (Turkey) | Investigation of the importance of HU value in risk classification in patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism
10:15-10:30
Enrico MIRANTE (Italy) | Heparyn induced thrombocitopenia: what’s about?
10:30-10:45
Fatma ÇAKMAK (Turkey) | Investigation of lactate, base deficit and alactic base deficit in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
10:45-11:00 | DISCUSSION
11:00-11:15 BREAK
Keynote Lecture: Mina HUR (South Korea) | Update on sepsis biomarkers: is there value in the emergency room?
Keynote Lecture: Shan LIU Harvard (USA) | The geriatric emergency medicine and the geriatric emergency departments guidelines
12:15-13:30 | Lunch session & Poster Discussion
AFTERNOON SESSION
CHAIRS: Gianluca MORONCINI (Italy) – Lorenzo GHIADONI (Italy)
13:30 -13:45
Kikhmat ANVAROV (Uzbekistan) | Post-hypoxic complications of acute carbon monoxide poisoning during the period of reoxygenation: is there a reperfusion syndrome in target organs?
13:45 – 14:00
Cecilia BECATTINI (Italy) | Management of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department
14:00 – 14:15
Ayşe Buşra YILDIRIM (Turkey) | The effect of the use of new generatin oral anticoagulant on in-hospital adverse events in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding
14:15 – 14:30
Ahmet ÇAĞLAR (Turkey) | High or mid-flow oxygen therapy for primary headache disorders: A randomized controlled study
14:30 -14:45
Mark I. LANGDORF (USA) | ECG Diagnosis of Myocardial Ischemia in the Presence of Bundle Branch Blocks and Pacemakers
14:45 -15:00
Rebecca JEANMONOD (USA) | When to CT the head of older adults? The role of anticoagulant use
15:00- 15:15
Francesca DE MARCO (Italy) | Patient with acquired PTT
15:15- 15:30 DISCUSSION
Keynote Lecture: Salvatore DI SOMMA (Italy) | Prognostic Biomarkers for Acute disease management
Keynote Lecture: Shan LIU (USA) – Daniele GIUDICI (UK) | Geriatric Emergency Medicine: specialized population characteristics, needs, and management by a MDT/MPT doctor and pharmacist
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-18:15
ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
EDUCATION IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
MORNING SESSION
CHAIRS: James VON OPPEN (UK) – Nicola FERRARA (Italy)
9:00-9:15
James VAN OPPEN (UK) | Person-centred geriatric emergency medicine
9:15-9:30
Renzo ROZZINI (Italy) | The Geriatric Canon in the ED
9:30-9:45
Luca LAGHI (UK) | Typical is Atypical: Atypical presentation in the ED
9:45-10:00
Pieter HEEREN (Belgium) | Role and scope of advanced practice nursing in geriatric emergency care
10:00-10:15
Luca LAGHI (UK) | The right management of Delirium and cognitive impairment in the ED with a Muldisciplinary Team
10:15-10:30
Franco LAI (Italy) | Shock in the elderly in the ED: tips and trick
10:30-10:45
Vera HOGERVORST (Netherland) | How to start an acute frailty service in your hospital
10:45-11:00 DISCUSSION
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-11:45 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
11:45-12:15 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
12:15-13:30. Lunch Session & Poster Discussion
AFTERNOON SESSION
CHAIRS: Stefano PERLINI (Italy) – Clara BALSANO (Italy)
13:30-13:45
Marcello COVINO (Italy) | Frailty Assessment in the Emergency Department for Risk Stratification of COVID-19 Patients Aged ≥80 Years
13:45-14:00
Gabriele SAVIOLI (Italy) | Geriatric Population Triage: The CREONTE STUDY
14:00-14:15
Lorenz VAN DER LINDEN (Belgium) | Deprescribing and reconciliation in the ED
14:15-14:30
Christian ZANZA (USA) | Single Breath Counting Test in Acute Respiratory Failure (Stared Trial)
14:30-14:45
Sara KAZIM (Dubai) | Breaking Bad News in the ED
14:45-15:00
Demet ACAR, Turkey | Factors influencing and enhancing the ability of emergency physicians to empathize with patients and their relatives; A Survey Study
15:00- 15:15
Yasin YILDIZ, Turkey | Opinions of Emergency Medicine Physicians on the Subspecialty of Emergency Medicine Critical Care – A pilot survey study
15:15- 15:30 DISCUSSION
15:30-16:00 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
16:00-16:30 KEY NOTE LECTURE in the Auditorium
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-17:30
Gianni BIOLO (Italy) | How to stop missing sepsis diagnosis in the emergency Department: INTERACTIVE CLINICAL CASES
17:30-18:15
Lorenz VAN DER LINDEN (Belgium) | Deprescribing and reconciliation in the ED: INTERACTIVE CLINICAL CASES
9:00-16:00 CRISIS MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
Pia DANIELS (USA)
Programme will be posted soon
16:45-18:15 WACEM ADVISORY BOARD
Speakers to be confirmed
November 8, Friday
TELEMEDICINE, TECHNOLOGY, AI AND TRANSLATION
MORNING SESSION
9:00-9:15
David CARR (Canada) | EM tricks of the trade
9:15-9:30
Prabath NANAYAKKARA (Netherlands) | Research in emergency care (chain): moving forward together…
9:30-9:45
Brad PECKLER (New Zealand) | DIY L & P; Do-it-yourself lumbar puncture model for training and practice
9:45-10:00
Bahadır TAŞLIDERE (Turkey) | Investigation of multiple risk factors in patients brought to the emergency department with cardiopulmonary arrest
10:00-10:15
Lukasz SZAPAK (Poland) | Does dose and timing of adrenalin during OHCA and IHCA make difference?
10:15-10:30
Eva PIOTROVICH (Poland) | Hybryd telemedicine for cardiac riabilitation
10:30-10:45
Behçet AL (Turkey) | Brain tomography results of the out patients presenting to emergency department with headache
10:45-11:00 | DISCUSSION
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-11:30
Manu AYYAN (India) | Frozen plasma in improving coagulopathy in human patients following emotoxic
11:30-11:45
Vimal KHISHNAN S.P. (India) | Online vs. onsite disaster preparedness simulation module for improving knowledge and confidence among medical students, which is more effective?
Keynote Lecture: Vaishal TOLIA (USA) | Telemedicine for high risk seniors at home
12:15-13:30 | Lunch session & Poster Discussion
AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 -13:45
Vijay CHANCAL (India) | Acute pulmonary edema in pregnancy: pathophysiological insights and clinical spotlights
13:45 – 14:00
May NGUYEN (New Zealand) | SCOBY Doo vs the phantom menace. Comparative evaluation of SCOBY-based models and blue phantom for ultrasound-guided intravenous cannulation training: a non-inferiority study
14:00 – 14:15
Pia DANIELS (USA) | Survey evaluation of nursing emergency preparedness training shows lack of staff confidence in CBRNE events
14:15-14:30
Muhammed İkbal ŞAŞMAZ (Turkey) | Right-sided Electrocardiogram usage in the ED. When and in which situations?
14:30-14:45
Mustafa Önder GÖNEN (Turkey) | Breaking the cycle: How physical therapy modalities impact emergency department visits in patients with chronic low back pain
14:45-15:00
Andrea FABBRI (Italy) | What tools for research in emergency medicine?
15:00-15:15
Antonio VOZA (Italy) | Artificial Intelligence in Emergency medicine: use or abuse?
15:15-15:30 DISCUSSION
Keynote Lecture: David BRENNER (USA) | Artificial Intelligence in disease management; is everything clear?
16:30-16:45 BREAK
16:45-18:00
ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
18:00-18:30 | CLOSING REMARKS AND AWARDS
9:00-16:00
ULTRASOUND IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE WORKSHOP
Sanjeev BHOI (India)
Programme will be posted soon
16:30-18:00
DEBATE WITH STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS ON EMERGENCY MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES
Panelists: Francesco FRANCESCHI (Italy), Salvatore DI SOMMA (Italy), Sagar GALWANKAR (USA)
9:00-11:30
FLAME 2024 ‘ON LINE’ – WOMEN LEADERSHIP CONCLAVE
https://www.wacem2024.org/programme/#conclave-2024
13:30-18:15
WORLD CPC COMPETITION
https://www.wacem2024.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WACEM-CPC-RULES-2024.pdf
Swetaly workshop: Future? Gaps and potential collaboration in ageing
Swetaly is organising a pre-conference workshop in Rome on the 5th of November, 10:00-18:00, 2024.
This is the first Swetaly ageing meeting to be organized in Italy. The workshop will include presentations of current ageing research and gaps encouraging collaboration within the Swetaly network.
The meeting is organized in collaboration with Professor Salvatore di Somma, from La Sapienza University of Rome and hosted together with Roma Tre University.
Link for Swetaly workshop information and registration https://link.gu.se/Events/6774/Apply
Women Leadership Conclave 2024
The World Academic Congress of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Pia Daniel
Dr. Zeynep G. Çakır
Dr. Monalisa Muchatuta
Dr. Binita Pradhan
Dr. Samjhana Basnet
Dr. Suman Thakur
Dr. Roshana Shrestha
Dr. Katia Logo
Dr. Siham Azahaf
Dr. Lisa Moreno-Walton
Dr. Fatimah Lateef
Dr. Rebecca Jeanmonod
Dr. Samara Soghoian
Dr. Mai Nguyen
Dr. Nana Afia Nsua Boateng
Dr. Samiddhi Samarakoon
Dr. Wei Jie
Dr. Nazmine Guler
Dr. Viktorya Badtieva
Ms. Young Sun Huh
Prof. Dr. Figen Coşkun