Intensive Care Medicine during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Analysis and Consulting
Online-Seminar
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has challenged intensive care resources worldwide. In some countries, demand outstripped intensive care capacity and prioritisation and rationing decisions led to substantial distress among medical and nursing staff, relatives and caregivers as well as political decision-makers. Moreover, many legal aspects of new guidelines and protocols for these decisions remain untested in court.
Across the world, these challenges played out in distinctly different ways. Leading experts in intensive care medicine from three countries which were severely affected by the pandemic (France, Israel, Italy) will provide insight into the situation in their respective countries and
talk about the integrative management of medical resources during the pandemic. This includes the allocation of scarce equipment for life support.
Their reports and the discussion will touch on themes like guiding principles for prioritisation in intensive care, ethical and legal conflicts, staffing problems as well as communication and interaction with major stakeholders during the crisis. What lessons for the future can be learnt from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic so far?
Program
19:00 Introduction
Dr. Katja Gelinsky
Legal Advisor, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation e.V., Berlin
Professor Dr. Helge Braun
Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks
Professor Dr. med. Christiane Hartog
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Charité Berlin
Chairperson of the Ethics Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
19:15 Reports from Milan, Jerusalem and Paris
Professor Maurizio Cecconi
President of the European Society of Intensiv Care Medicine (ESICM)
Head of the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department at the Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Professor Peter Vernon van Heerden
Director of General Intensive Care Department of Anesthesia,
Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Bertrand Guidet
Director of Medical Intensive Care, University Hospital Saint Antoine, Paris, Member of the French Academy of Medicine, France
19:50 Panel Discussion
Rudolf Henke
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Member of the German Bundestag and its Committee on Health and the Subcommittee on Global Health
Dr. med. Peter Liese
Member of the European Parliament and Health
Spokesperson of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament
Moderators:
Professor Dr. Dr. Michael Beil, Intensive Care, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Katja Gelinsky
20:25 Summarising Analysis
Professor Dr. Claudia Wiesemann
Medical Ethicist, Medical Historian and Head of the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Goettingen University, Germany
