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Zawya
07-02-2025
- Health
- Zawya
Abu Dhabi's SWAAC ELSO Conference focuses on AI uses in ECMO programme
Several key sessions were held on the second day of the 11th Annual SWAAC ELSO Conference (South & West Asia and African Countries chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization) that is being hosted in Abu Dhabi. The event has drawn over 1,000 international expert researchers and clinicians in the field of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) from within the GCC and around the world. The 3-day-conference, held at the Conrad Hotel, focused today, on the uses of ECMO in patients with heart and or lung failure resulting from trauma, burns, or cancer, and hypoxemia, cancer and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and also newer developments in use of anticoagulation [blood thinners] in ECMO patients as well as how to better rehabilitate patients while they are still on ECMO. The engaging agenda has kept lecture halls fully occupied during all sessions. The conference also held a parallel track today which focused exclusively on the appropriate use and recent developments in the use of ECMO in children. These sessions were also very well attended. In addition, the attendees had an opportunity to review over 60 research posters and oral presentations that were shortlisted from close to 100 received by the Research Committee, based on their methodological rigor or for highlighting novel uses of ECMO or innovations in the use of AI in ECMO. Dr. Umar Khan, Chair of the Research Committee and Consultant Critical Care at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, confirmed that the Committee has selected five outstanding research papers for the conference award. The conference exhibition area also generated considerable interest as the industry stakeholders showcased their latest innovations with broad range of devices and technologies. The Conference is supported by the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi (DoH) and the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and Sheikh Khalifa Medical City. The DoH has formally accredited the conference, designating 22.55 hours for the purpose of continuing medical education and 44 hours for workshops.
Zawya
06-02-2025
- Health
- Zawya
The 11th Annual SWAAC ELSO Conference-2025 kicks-off in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE: The 11th Annual SWAAC ELSO Conference (South West Asia and Africa Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization) commenced in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, with over 1,000 international expert researchers and clinicians in the field of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in attendance. The three-day conference started with a key note address from Dr. Duane Caneva, Advisor to the Executive Director of Center of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre [CEPAR], who gave a comprehensive overview of the DOH vision for the health system as a whole with place of ECMO in it. The opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Rashid Obaid Al Suwaidi, Executive Director of the Health Workforce Sector at the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, Dr. Salama Bin Rafeea, Executive Director for the CEPAR, Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, as well as the leaders of CCAD and SKMC. The chairpersons, Drs Salman Abdulaziz and Vivek Kakar, in their opening remarks, highlighted the role the DOH, Abu Dhabi is playing in leading and coordinating provision of complex care including ECMO, in partnership with the regional stakeholders. "These workshops are specifically designed to instruct participants in catheterisation techniques and address common complications associated with the extracorporeal life support (ECLS) programme," he added. On the first day of the conference, three main sessions focused on research findings in 2024, global and regional updates in ECMO. Sessions also discussed role of ECMO in patients with severe heart failure and monitoring tools in these patients. These expert talks were delivered by Speakers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Netherlands, Canada, India, Australia, United States, Italy, and France. Concurrently with the conference two workshops, one on pediatric ECMO and other on cannulation on ECMO were organized and concluded with excellent feeback from over 50 attendees. On the sidelines of the Conference, a range of devices and technologies in the domain of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, mechanical circulatory support were exhibited. The Conference has received the endorsement of Department of Health, Abu Dhabi, Department of Culture and Tourism , Abu Dhabi. Additionally, the DoH has formally accredited the conference, designating 22.55 hours for the purpose of continuing medical education and 44 hours for workshops.
