The European Delirium Association 5th Scientific Congress on Delirium
Thursday 11 and Friday 12 November 2010, Hotel Mercure, Joan Muyskenweg 10, 1096 CJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands (full booking details here)
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Thursday 11 November 2010
09.00 Registration
09.30 Welcome and opening address
Dr Jouko Laurila, President of the European Delirium Association and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
Dr Sophia de Rooij, Head of Geriatric Medicine, Department
of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Session 1
Chairs: Dr Jouko Laurila and
Dr Sophia de Rooij
9.40 Advances in the phenomenology
of delirium: Prof David Meagher
10.00 Presentations from submitted abstracts
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Keynote lecture I: Delirium:
past, present, and future research directions
Prof Sharon Inouye
Parallel session 2A
Chairs: Prof Alasdair
MacLullich and Prof Piet Eikelenboom
12.15 Post
mortem findings in delirium
Dr Barbara van Munster
12.35 Sepsis associated
delirium
Prof Pim van Gool
Parallel session 2B
Chairs: Dr Liesbeth van Gemert and Dr Ralph
Vreeswijk
12.15 Universal delirium screening by nurses in a
medical emergency unit: experience with 2500 patients
Prof Emma Reynish
12.35 Convincing hospital staff that delirium care
needs improvement: lessons learned in implementation
Prof Koen Milisen
13.05 Lunch and poster viewing
Session 3
Chairs: Dr Kees Kalisvaart
and Dr Jan Schieveld
14.00 Keynote lecture
II: Liberating
and animating patients from critical care: saving the injured brain
Prof Wes Ely
15.00 Presentations from submitted abstracts
15.30 Circadian
rhythms and delirium
Dr Sophia de Rooij
15.45 Coffee
Session 4: Parallel workshops A
16.00 - 17.15 [1] Preventing
delirium in care homes: difficulties and solutions
Facilitators: Prof John Young
and Prof Najma Siddiqi
[2] Delirium in palliative care
Facilitators: Dr Meera Agar and
Dr Juliet Spiller
[3] Neuroimaging in delirium
Facilitators:
Dr Karen Ferguson and Dr Stefan Kreisel
[4] Measurement
of the features of delirium
Facilitators: Prof David
Meagher and Dr Jos de Jonghe
[5] Improving
delirium recognition by nurses in day to day clinical practice
Facilitators:
Prof Koen Milisen and Prof Emma Reynish
17.15 Feedback from workshops: Key messages
17.30 Close of day
17.45 Board meeting
19.00 Conference dinner
Friday 12 November 2010
08.30 Registration
09.00 Introduction
to Day 2
Dr Sophia de Rooij, Head of Geriatric Medicine,
Department of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Parallel session 1A
Chairs: Dr Barbara van
Munster and Prof Alasdair MacLullich
09.15 Stress systems
and delirium
Prof Alasdair MacLullich
09.35 Presentations from submitted abstracts
10.25 Round up the usual suspects?
New insights into mechanisms of delirium during dementia using animal models
Dr Colm Cunningham
Parallel session 1B
Chairs: Dr Juliet Spiller
and Dr Meera Agar
09.15 Advances
in the management of delirium in palliative care
Dr Meera Agar
09.35 Presentations from submitted abstracts
10.25 "Nightmare
of my mind" - a personal experience of delirium
Dr Catherine Finnis
10.45 Coffee and poster viewing
Session 2
Chairs: Dr Barbara Kamholz and
Prof Yngve Gustafson
11.15 Keynote lecture III: Routine outcomes
measurement in delirium
Prof Alastair Macdonald
12.15 Delirium
treatment: what's new?
Dr Jouko Laurila
12.35 Outcomes
of delirium
Dr Birgitta Olofsson
12.55 Lunch and poster viewing
Session 3
Chairs: Prof David Meagher and
Dr Jouko Laurila
14.00 Alcohol
withdrawal delirium and alcohol hallucinosis
Prof Michael Soyka
14.20 Delirium
after stroke
Dr John McManus
14.40 Presentations from submitted abstracts
15.25 Coffee and poster viewing
Session 4: Parallel workshops B
16.00 - 17.15
[1] Development
and implementation of delirium guidelines
Facilitators: Prof Sharon
Inouye and Prof Yngve Gustafson
[2] Neuropathological research in delirium
Facilitators: Dr Colm
Cunningham and Dr Barbara van Munster
[3] Delirium tremens
Facilitators: Prof Michael Soyka and (to be confirmed)
[4] Measurement
of the features of delirium
Facilitators: Prof David
Meagher and Dr Jos de Jonghe
[5] Improving delirium recognition by nurses in
day to day clinical practice
Facilitators:
Prof Koen Milisen and Prof Emma Reynish
17:15 Feedback from workshops: key message
17:30 Award for best poster and best presentation