Welcome to WINFOCUS World Symposium 2023
We are delighted and excited to announce the 1st WINFOCUS World Symposium (WF WS) on December 2nd, 2023.
In 2021, WINFOCUS organized the first-of-its-kind Virtual Congress with more than 18,800 registered participants from over 120 countries. Last year we replicated and expanded the event with a hybrid World Congress in Antalya, Turkey – combining face-to-face courses and multi-stream, multilingual, virtual sessions connecting colleagues worldwide. With more than 21.200 registered participants and 128 hours of lectures in 11 languages, WINFOCUS broke another record. These summed up to the fantastic Pocus One-world Workshop, through which 69 simultaneous ultrasound PoCUS workshops were conducted on December 3rd in 69 venues worldwide, involving 1544 participants: the largest ever PoCUS workshop organized!
At WINFOCUS, our mission has always been to push the boundaries of ultrasound – educational, clinical, and research. We do this by connecting colleagues from all over the world through our shared passion for ultrasound.
This year, we revert to a virtual symposium and want to celebrate our international community. The theme will be how ultrasound helps guide the various aspects of clinical procedures and interventions:
From blind to vision, from darkness to light
What’s new? We want to increase the interaction and discussion between colleagues. Expect plenty of debates and panel discussions, allowing you to share your thoughts, challenge the experts, and ask complex and thought-provoking questions. It is only through these open discussions that true learning takes place.
We are also excited to announce two exceptional new sessions, Members and Research choice sessions. The first will have educational content chosen by WINFOCUS members, while the second will set the direction of ultrasound research within WINFOCUS.
There will be something for everyone!
We hope you will join us enthusiastically and connect with colleagues worldwide through WINFOCUS World Symposium 2023.
Adrian Wong
WINFOCUS Symposium Chair
WINFOCUS BODs member
Consultant Intensive Care and Anaesthesia
King’s College Hospital
London – UK
Gabriele Via
WINFOCUS Symposium Chair
WINFOCUS Past-President
Senior Consultant
Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care
Istituto Cardiocentro Ticino
Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale
Lugano – SWITZERLAND
Anthony J. Dean
WINFOCUS Symposium Co-Chair
WINFOCUS President
Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Emergency Medicine in Radiology
Division of Emergency Ultrasonography
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA – USA
Scientific committee
Adrian Wong
Chair
London, UK
Segun Olusanya
London, UK
Mateusz Zawadka
Warsaw, POLAND
Hamid Shokoohi
BOSTON, USA
Julina Md Noor
Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Dave Teng
New York, USA
Juan Antonio Calderón González
San Jose, COSTA RICA
Marco Umaña
San Jose, COSTA RICA
Ana Luisa Vieira
Barbacena, BRASIL
Nuno Cortesão
Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Organizing committee
Gabriele Via
Chair
Lugano – SWITZERLAND
Anthony Dean
Co-Chair
Philadelphia, USA
Davide Neri
Co-Chair
Italy, Milan
Cristina Recasens
Co-Chair
Barcelona, Spain
Arif Hussain
Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA
Miguel Montorfano
Rosario, ARGENTINA
Quim Fuster
WF Secretariat
Barcelona, SPAIN
Marina Guzman
WF Secretariat
Barcelona, SPAIN
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Free attendance offered to their staff and all their crews worldwide
WINFOCUS World Symposium 2023: two events in one
Virtual World Symposium*
(*program subject to changes)
More than 53 lectures, 62 PoCUS experts from over 23 different countries and representing almost every discipline will gather on December 2nd to present the latest concepts in ultrasonography in two broad tracks.
All times are in local time (CEST) click here for the time zone converter
TRACK 1
Fluids, lines and beyond. Something for anyone who has looked after an acutely unwell patient. Also look out for WINFOCUS’s first ever member choice session. What do colleagues think should be the research priorities for the ultrasound community? Followed by speakers/subjects specifically nominated by our community. Stay a while and listen.
830h – 8:40h
WF world symposium Welcome
Keynote Address
9:00h-11:00h
Ultrasound and fluids
Olusanya, Segun
9:00h
Ultrasound and giving fluids
Conway, Hannah
9:15h
Ultrasound and de-resuscitation
Beaubien-Souligny, William
9:30h
Perfusion and congestion – a balancing act
Corradi, Francesco
9:45h
VEXUS – everyone is talking about it. The new IVC?
Olusanya, Segun
10:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: Optimising organ perfusion
Corradi, Francesco
11:00h-13:00h
Lines, drains, and sharp objects
Zawadka, Mateusz
11:00h
It is time for the ultrasound-guided axillary vein access
Czarnik, Tomasz
11:15h
Microskills in ultrasound-guided access
Borgquist, Ola
11:30h
The forgotten landmark techniques
Balan, Cosmin
11:45h
Day-to-day practice in ICU – how to teach?
Fazzini, Brigitta
12:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: Debate – In this day and age,
landmark-based technique is indefensible
13:00h-14:00h
Lunch Break
14:00h-16:00h
POCUS for non-acute diseases
Wong, Adrian
14:00h
Lessons from Radiology – Contrast ultrasound
Yusuff, Timothy
14:15h
Ultrasound for gastric and nutritional assessment
Calatayud, Angel
14:30h
Ultrasound and sleep apnoea
Cortesão, Nuno
14:45h
When do B lines let you down
Baker, Kylie & Kwan, Ben
15:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A
16:00h-17:00h
Research Prioritisation
Goffi, Alberto
16:00h
Infection control in ultrasound department
Mohamed, Muna
16:15h
Utility of point of care diaphragm ultrasound in patients presenting with symptomatic organophosphate poisoning
Jakus Venter
16:30h
Correlation flow – cerebral oxygen metabolism and difference arterio-cerebral venous CO2 in neurocritical patients
Abdo, Anselmo
16:45h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A
17:00h-18:00h
Member’s Choice
Wong, Adrian
17:00h
How to do: transcranial doppler
Galarza, Laura
17:15h
Emergency PoCUS: Techniques to Differentiate Causes of Dyspnea
Frenkel, Oron
17:30h
Ultrasound approach to undifferentiated fever in ICU
D-Costa, Pradeep
17:45h
Pediatric ultrasound: what everyone should know
Speaker (TBC)
18:00h-20:00h
Beyond core, Go Ultra
Noor, Julina
18:00h
The sequence of Multi-organ POCUS in shock
Ha, Young-Rock
18:15h
TCD in acute stroke: predicting successful intervention
Sarwal, Aarti
18:30h
Systematic ultrasound in optimizing physiologically difficult airway
Roslan, Nurul Liana
18:45h
Lung ultrasound – what next?
Mongodi, Silvia
19:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A: What next? Advanced skillset
20:00h-20:15h
Closing
TRACK 2
How best to teach? How best to learn. Track 2 tackles these important issues and more. What does the future hold when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning? Also in track 2, very special sessions from our Portuguese and Spanish speaking colleagues.
8:30h – 8:40h
WF world symposium Welcome
Keynote Address
9:00h-11:00h
How we learn and pushing the boundaries of ‘core’ skills
Teng, David
9:00h
Introduction
Teng, David
9:01h
Pediatric POCUS Update
Tay, Ee
9:16h
How we learn?
Nelson, Bret
9:36h
PoCUS Expereince – Delhi, India
Gupta, Dhiren
9:51h
PoCUS Experience – Mexico
Tovar Hirashima, Eva & Mandeep, Dillhon & Reyna, Huerta
10:06h
PoCUS Expereince – England
McCreary, David
10:21h
PoCUS Experience – South East Asia
Yek Kee, Choor
10:36h
Describe the creation and successes of PEPEC
Chicaiza, Henry
11:00h-13:00h
How I use ultrasound in…
Via, Gabriele
11:00h
Cardiogenic shock
Tavazzi, Guido
11:15h
Acute kidney injury
Vieira, Ana Luisa
11:30h
Traumatic brain injury
Bertuetti, Rita
11:45h
Acute respiratory failure
Laursen, Christian
12:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A – How I use ultrasound in…
13:00h-14:00h
Lunch Break
14:00h-16:00h
POCUS procedure revolution: AI leading the way!
Shokoohi, Hamid
14:00h
Nail-the-Needle: AI-guide needle localization in POCUS
Blaivas, Michael
14:15h
Advancements in AI-POCUS: Spine ultrasound and lumbar puncture
Ungi, Tamas
14:30h
AI in point of care Ultrasound. Where are we going?
Goldsmith, Andrew
14:45h
AI-power up: POCUS devices and clinical applications
Shokoohi, Hamid
15:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A
16:00h-17:00h
Ultrasonido en trauma
Umaña, Marco
16:00h
Bloqueo nervioso en trauma
Alvarez, Rodrigo
16:10h
Preguntas y respuestas
Carvajal, Gabriel & Campos Linares, Ricardo & Jara, Fernando Esteban
16:20h
Trauma pulmonar
Rodríguez, Shalim
16:30h
Preguntas y respuestas
Barca, Diego & Garcia, Ivan & Morales, Hernández
16:40h
Neurotrauma
Urrego, Alejandro
16:50h
Preguntas y respuestas
Cantillano, Mauricio & Ballina, Javier Ruiz
17:00h-18:00h
POCUS POTPURRI
Calderón, Juan Antonio
17:00h
Emergencias ginecobstétricas
Hurtado, Laura
17:20h
Status y desarrollo del POCUS en Latinoamérica
Retamal, José
17:30h
Preguntas y respuestas
Prieto, José Luis & Carvajal, Gabriel
17:40h
Evaluación de la volemia y sobrecarga de fluidos
Yazcitk, Sandoval
17:50h
Preguntas y respuestas
Bravo, Pablo & Alonso, Jose
18:00h
Ecografia no desmame ventilatório
Farani, Marcelo
18:15h
Medição do VTI
Barros, Rui
18:30h
Aspectos práticos do protocolo VEXUS
Souza, Tiago
18:45h
Analgesia regional
Rebelo, Humberto
19:00h
LIVE Panel discussion and Q&A
18:00h-20:00h
Portugese Session
Vieira, Ana Luisa & Cortesão, Nuno
20:00h-20:15h
Closing
POW! POCUS One-world Workshops!
On December 3rd, we have organized hands-on ultrasound workshops globally in over 23 countries. In order to maximize PoCUS education accessibility, several of these workshops will be delivered for free in underserved areas of the planet, consistently with WINFOCUS vision and mission. The ultimate goal will be promoting awareness, in the global medical community and in the society at large, of PoCUS and ultrasound practice.
53
Lectures
62
Speakers
23
Countries
Speackers/Moderators
Kylie Baker
Sydney – AUSTRALIA
Cosmin Balan
Bucarest – ROMANIA
Diego Barca
Buenos Aires – ARGENTINA
Rui Barros
Porto- PORTUGAL
Rita Bertuetti
Brescia – ITALY
William Beaubien-Souligny
Montreal – CANADA
Micheal Blaivas
Columbia, SC – USA
Ola Borgquist
Lund – SWEDEN
Pablo Bravo Figueroa
Santiago de Chile – CHILE
Angel Calatayud
Cuauhtémoc – MÉXICO
Juan Antonio Calderón
Monterrey – MEXICO
Rodrigo Álvarez Calderón
Puebla – MEXICO
Luis Campos
Torrelavega – SPAIN
Ricardo Campo
Puertollano – SPAIN
Mauricio Cantillano
San Pedro – HONDURAS
Gabriel Carvajal
San José – COSTA RICA
Francesco Corradi
Pisa – ITALY
Nuno Cortesao
Lisbon – PORTUGAL
Francesco Corradi
Pisa – ITALY
Nuno Cortesao
Lisbon – PORUGAL
Tomasz Czarnik
Warsaw – POLAND
Marcelo Farani
Salvador – BRAZIL
Oron Frenkel
Vancouver – CANADA
Ivan García
Barcelona – SPAIN
Alberto Goffi
Toronto – CANADA
Andrew Goldsmith
Boston. MA – USA
Young-Rock Ha
Seoul – SOUTH KOREA
Edwin Hernández Morales
St. Luis Potosi – MEXICO
Laura Hurtado
Buenos Aires – ARGENTINA
Fernando Esteban Jara
Quito – ECUADOR
Ben Kwan
Sydney – AUSTRALIA
Christian Borbjerg Laursen
Columbia, SC – USA
Robin Lundén
Lund – SWEDEN
Silvia Mongodi
Pavia – ITALY
Julina Noor
Kuala Lumpur – MALAYSIA
Segun Olusanya
London – UK
José Luis Prieto
Santa Cruz – BOLIVIA
Humberto Rebelo
Porto – PORTUGAL
José Retamal
Recoleta – CHILE
Chiara Robba
Genoa – ITALY
Shalim Rodríguez
Lima – PERÚ
Nurul Liana Roslan
Kuala Lumpur – MALAYSIA
Javier Ruiz Ballina
St. Luis Potosi – Mexico
Yazcitk Sandoval
Lima – PERU
Aarti Sarwal
Winston-Salem, NC – USA
Hamid Shokoohi
Boston, MD – USA
Daria Starybrat
Edinburgh, – SCOTLAND
Tiago Souza
Campinas – BRAZIL
David Teng
New York – USA
Marco Vinicio Umaña
San José – Costa Rica
Tamas Ungi
Ontario – CANADA
Alejandro Urrego
Bogotá – COLOMBIA
Gabriele Via
Lugano – SWITZERLAND
Ana Luisa Vieira
Barbacena – BRASIL
Adrian Wong
London – UK
Timothy Yusuff
Bromley – UK
Mateusz Zawadka
Warsaw – Poland