Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Agenda

Session 5: Early Actions and Challenges in the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 in the UAE

09:20 | DOH Strategic Stockpile during COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr Yasser Sharif, Acting Section Head Hospital Preparedness, Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE 

Session 6: Arab Health Welcomes the Saudi Critical Care Society

09:50 | Opening address from Saudi Critical Care Society

Dr Fahad Al Hammad, Adult Critical and Neuro Critical Care Consultant, Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, Riyadh, KSA

10:00 | Covid Vaccination and ICU admission - side effects

Dr Aynaa AlSharidi, HIV & Transplant/Oncology Infectious Diseases Specialist, Adult Infectious Diseases Consultant, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

10:30 | Panel: COVID and critical care

Moderator: Dr Yaseen Arabi, Chairman, Intensive Care Department, Medical Director, Respiratory Services, Professor, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, KSA

• Clots and COVID
  Dr Musa Alzahrani, Assistant Professor, Medicine Department, Division of Hematology, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
• ECMO in COVID – when and which one?
  Dr Alyaa ElHazmi, Consultant Intensivist, Director of Adult Critical Care Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs, Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group, Riyadh, KSA
• Therapeutics for COVID-19
  Dr Yaseen Arabi, Chairman, Intensive Care Department, Medical Director, Respiratory Services, Professor, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, KSA
• Panel Q&A with session speakers

11:50 | Digital Break

Session 7: General Critical Care

14:10 | VTE Prophylaxis in trauma
Dr Norah Alsubaie, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Consultant, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, KSA

14:30 | Timing of continuous renal replacement therapy
Dr Mohamed Al Arifi, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Director of Drug and Poison Information Center, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

15:00 | Panel: Trauma and Neurological Emergencies in ICU
Moderator: Dr Ahmed Alburakan, Head of Trauma & ACS unit, Trauma Director, King Saud University Medical Center, President, Surgical Critical Care Society Chapter, Saudi Critical Care Society, Riyadh, KSA

• Refractory seizure
  Dr Bander Al Jafen, Assistant Professor and Consultant Neurologist and Epileptologist, King Khalid University Hospital, Abha, KSA
• Innovation in trauma management
  Dr Ahmed Alburakan, Head of Trauma & ACS unit, Trauma Director, King Saud University Medical Center, President, Surgical Critical Care Society Chapter, Saudi Critical Care Society, Riyadh, KSA
• Panel Q&A with session speakers

16:20 | End of conference