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Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium

Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Introduction
09:00  to  09:10
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Advanced life support update
09:10  to  09:35

Q1: What are the current key controversies? 
Q2: What changed in the new ERC guidelines?
Q3: What are the practical implications?

Q1: What are the current key controversies? 
Q2: What changed in the new ERC guidelines?
Q3: What are the practical implications?

Speaker:
Dr Jasmeet Soar. Bristol, UK.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Ultrasound in cardiac arrest
09:35  to  10:00

Q1: Does it live up to to the hype?
Q2: Problems and promises
Q3: Why are we so slow to progress?

Q1: Does it live up to to the hype?
Q2: Problems and promises
Q3: Why are we so slow to progress?

Speaker:
Dr Jim Connolly. Newcastle, UK.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Physiology-guided ALS
10:00  to  10:25

Q1: What is physiology-guided CPR?
Q2: What are the optimal targets?
Q3: How to deliver CPR in highly monitored environments?

Q1: What is physiology-guided CPR?
Q2: What are the optimal targets?
Q3: How to deliver CPR in highly monitored environments?

Speaker:
Professor Jerry Nolan. Bath, UK.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Theuputic aortic catheterization during cardiac arrest
10:25  to  11:00

Q1: Why insert an aortic catheter during CPR?
Q2: How to adjust CPR?
Q3: What is the optimal dose and route for adrenaline?

Q1: Why insert an aortic catheter during CPR?
Q2: How to adjust CPR?
Q3: What is the optimal dose and route for adrenaline?

Speaker:
Professor Jim Manning. USA.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Morning Coffee Break
11:00  to  11:25
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Paediatric resuscitation update
11:25  to  11:45

Q1: What's new?
Q2: What's obvious?
Q3: Why does (and should) it differ from adults?

Q1: What's new?
Q2: What's obvious?
Q3: Why does (and should) it differ from adults?

Speaker:
Professor Patrick Van de Voorde. Ghent, Belgium.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Prolonged resuscitation - not always futile
11:50  to  12:20

Pushing the boundaries: When the system beats the odds

Pushing the boundaries: When the system beats the odds

 

Speaker:
Dr Andre Roslin. Oslo, Norway.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Peter Baskett Lecture: Ventilation during CPR
12:30  to  13:00
Speaker:
Theresa Olasveegen. Norway.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Lunch Break
13:00  to  14:00
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
European Guidelines on ECPR
14:00  to  14:25

Q1: Which patients should be considered for ECPR?
Q2: Should we start ECPR prehospital?
Q3: How do we wean from ECPR?

Q1: Which patients should be considered for ECPR?
Q2: Should we start ECPR prehospital?
Q3: How do we wean from ECPR?

Speaker:
Dr Nicholas Barrett. London, UK.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Temperature control during ECPR
14:25  to  14:50

Q1: Should patients be cooled during ECPR
Q2: What is the optimal target temperature?
Q3: What is the strategy for rewarming

Q1: Should patients be cooled during ECPR
Q2: What is the optimal target temperature?
Q3: What is the strategy for rewarming

Speaker:
Professor Alice Hutin. Paris, France.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Does REBOA have arole outside of trauma?
14:50  to  15:15

Q1: What uses are described?
Q2: Are there any benefits in medical cardiac arrest?
Q3: What are the outcomes after use of REBOA for cardiac arrest?

 

Q1: What uses are described?
Q2: Are there any benefits in medical cardiac arrest?
Q3: What are the outcomes after use of REBOA for cardiac arrest?

 

Speaker:
Associate Professor Zaffer Qasim. Philadelphia, USA.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:15  to  15:45
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Prognostication after cardiac arrest
15:45  to  16:10

Q1: Should we use biomarkers?
Q2: Is there a role for continuous EEG?
Q3: What is the value in prognosticating a good outcome?

Q1: Should we use biomarkers?
Q2: Is there a role for continuous EEG?
Q3: What is the value in prognosticating a good outcome?

Speaker:
Professor Marion Moseby-Knappe. Lund, Sweden.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Survivorship
16:10  to  16:35

Q1: What are the long-term outcomes after cardiac arrest?
Q2: What form should rehabilitation take?

Q1: What are the long-term outcomes after cardiac arrest?
Q2: What form should rehabilitation take?

Speaker:
Professor Thomas Keeble. Anglia Ruskin, UK.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
The effect of CPR on co-survivors
16:20  to  16:45

Q1: What do we know about effects on bystanders?
Q2: What research has been completed?
Q3: How might this benefit future resuscitation?

Q1: What do we know about effects on bystanders?
Q2: What research has been completed?
Q3: How might this benefit future resuscitation?

Speaker:
Anna Moe Øvstebø. Stavanger, Norway.
Tuesday 8th December: Day 1 - Cardiac Arrest Symposium
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – a vision for the future
16:45  to  17:15

Speaking Online from New York

Speaking Online from New York

Speaker:
Professor Lance Becker. New York, USA.

 

Tuesday 8th December 2026

Cardiac Arrest Symposium

 

Wednesday 9th December 2026

Pre-hospital Care Conference

Delivered in partnership with the

Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

Thursday 10th December 2026

Trauma Conference (Trauma 1)

Friday 11th December 2026

Trauma Conference (Trauma 2)

The London Trauma Conference has been approved for 24 CPD points by Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

(6 points per conference day).

The London Trauma Conference will return

Tuesday 8th - Friday 11th December 2026