History of Colors of Sepsis - 9th year
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Dear colleagues, dear friends
Anniversaries are always a reason to pause and look back. So, on behalf of the organizers of the 10th Sepsis and MODS Postgraduate Course, allow me to take on this role.
Please accept the organizers' apologies in advance for the lengthy preparation of the DVD proceedings of the course, which is closely related to our effort to provide everyone who gets their hands on the proceedings as much information as possible about the event. All activities were subordinated to it. It retreated from the previous "art" composition and the emphasis was on the content side of the collection. Therefore, a form of presentation imitating a web page was also chosen, in which it is easier to navigate. Lectures with a sound track are a traditional part of the proceedings, although part of them could not be "sound-tracked" due to inevitable organizational changes during the last day of the course. What is new is the addition of a video recording to the introductory lecture and, for the first time this year, the ISBN identification of the proceedings. We believe that you will like the new form of course presentation.
Dear colleagues, just in a short memory, allow me to return to this year's course. Everything commendable has already been said by my speakers, so I have only two observations left. The first is the further increase in the number of participants in the course, which although pleasant this year, made us "wrinkles". It is related to the capacity options of the Atom Hotel, which was a challenge for us to find a way out so that the number of people interested in participating did not have to be limited and at the same time we did not have to leave the premises of the Atom Hotel. The only, albeit untested, solution was to extend the course to four days. Let us believe that this change will fulfill its purpose.
The second observation was Professor Trupel's lecture, which took place in the main hall on Wednesday afternoon. Although it states well-known facts about the dangerous increase in bacterial resistance in intensive care units, at the end of the presentation there was an important Challenge for the Czech-Slovak Forum for Sepsis (CSFS). Its content is the necessity of an organized solution to these problems. As Prof. Trupl said "...let's put our heads together and try to solve it somehow". I personally perceive this Challenge also in a broader context. Five years have passed since the foundation of the CSFS, and it is clear that the first major task, which was the interdisciplinary (and also societal) promotion of the importance of severe sepsis, has been successfully completed by this forum. A great platform has been created on which many things can be addressed and resolved. So let's try to get started!
Dear colleagues, in conclusion, allow me to cordially invite you to the tenth year of our course. It will be a jubilee year and, it seems, also the year of the beginning of a new era of CSFS existence.
Roman Kula
Dear friends, colleagues
Already several times after returning from a postgraduate course held in Ostrava, which is dedicated to the issue of sepsis and multi-organ failure, I realized one basic insight - quality. Even the 9th year did not disappoint in this regard and only confirmed the undoubtedly increasing quality of the symposium and the very closely related interest of the professional public with a wide representation of various specialties. The quality of the presentations, the structure of the symposium, the foreign participants and the high attendance only underline the high professional quality. Currently, it is possible to consider the Ostrava symposium as one of the highest quality professional meetings organized for intensivists in the Czech Republic. It can clearly have the label of a small Czech Brussels in the context of the European concept of intensive medicine, which emphasizes interdisciplinary cooperation. I wish the organizers that the enthusiasm and care with which they prepare these meetings will not run out.
Ivan Novak
Dear friends of intensive care medicine
The 9th year of the postgraduate course "Sepsis and multiorgan failure" once again exceeded expectations. This was mainly reflected in the growing number of participants. The facility, where the event was held only with full capacity, managed the event perfectly. The main reason for the traditional interest was certainly the high-quality educational program, which presented a cross-section of the entire intensive care medicine with individual subdisciplines. It has become a tradition for postgraduate presentations to be augmented by meetings with experts and engaging pro-con discussions. Information was supplemented by high-quality company symposia. The wide "pool" of hundreds of lecturers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia was expanded by top lecturers from abroad. The collection of presentation materials in electronic form becomes part of the database of every good intensivist every year. Let the same happen with the presented set of lectures from the 9th PG course.
Jozef Firment