Resuscitation Symposium 2026
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- This online course is designed for Emergency Physicians, Acute Physicians, Anaesthetists and Intensivists. It is pitched at a level suitable for Consultants and senior trainees in all areas of acute care and focuses on recent advances in resuscitation.
- Format: Teaching sessions featuring case scenarios followed by interactive Q&A sessions
- CPD: This course provides 12 CPD credits. Delegates will be asked to evaluate each session and will be provided with a CPD certificate upon completion.
DAY ONE
50 minutes
How to recognise shock and guide resuscitation in the ED
Dr Martin Dachsel
Consultant in Acute and General Medicine, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust
- What is shock?
- What is resuscitation and who needs it?
- Resuscitation guidelines updates?
- Can we change outcomes?
- How do we assess the adequacy of resuscitation?
- Lactate clearance
50 minutes
Airway, hot topics and tips
Dr Orla Lacey
Consultant Anaesthetist, (anaesthesia for head and neck/maxillofacial cancers), the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London
- Rapid assessment and potential interventions beyond routine
- Real time USS tips for abnormal airway/FONA Assessments, etc..
- …food for thought: video laryngoscopy instead of direct laryngoscopy as standard approach - the impact on the ED and pre-hospital setting
40 minutes
Acid-base disturbances: How best to assess in the ED
Dr Anu Mitra
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial NHS Trust
- Different interpretation methodologies
- Using blood gas analysis as risk stratification
40 minutes
Venous gas: All we need?
Dr Amy Harris
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- The difference between arterial and venous pH, CO2, bicarbonate and lactate
- How to interpret venous CO2 and lactate
50 minutes
The role of blood and blood products in resuscitation
Dr Rocio Santamaria
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
- Should we have a massive transfusion protocol for all significant bleeds?
- FFP as the first resuscitation fluid in all bleeding patients?
- 20 mlkg crystalloid then blood?
50 minutes
Echo guided diagnosis and fluid resuscitation in shock
Dr Michael Trauer
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
- The role of echo in identifying LV function
- Echo guided fluid responsiveness.
- Echo guided assessment of filling pressures
60 minutes
PE and resuscitation
Dr Michael Trauer
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
- Point-of-care ultrasound in PE
- How to interpret RV dilation in different groups and in arrest
- How to quickly identify DVT (and effectively rule in PE)
DAY TWO
50 minutes
Resuscitation in severe sepsis and septic shock
Dr Andrew Leitch
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust
- What is current best practice?
- What is new since the surviving sepsis campaign guidelines?
- Lessons from the Covid-19 outbreak.
60 minutes
Trauma Resus and Clinical Scenarios
Dr Michael Obiako
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Wales
50 minutes
Resuscitation in GI haemorrhage
Dr Bernard Foëx
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary
- Should you use PPIs and Tranexamic acid?
- What is an adequate Hb?
- When is an endoscopy needed?
50 minutes
Resuscitation in cardiogenic shock
Dr Bernard Foëx
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary
- Drug treatment: is levosimendan the drug of the future?
- Mechanical circulatory support: intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation or ventricular assist devices?
50 minutes
New Perspectives on Cardiogenic Shock
Dr Alastair Proudfoot
Consultant in Critical Care & Lead for Cardiogenic Shock, Barts Heart Centre, London
- Medical therapy
- Mechanical support
- Role of imaging
- Fluid balance – getting it right!
50 minutes
Use of fluids in resuscitation of trauma/non-trauma patients?
Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa
Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust
- Deciding on how much fluid to use in resuscitation.
- Is there a place for colloids in the ED?
- Plasmalyte, Saline, Hartmanns or Dextrose – are all crystalloids equal?
- What is the effect of differing crystalloids on acid-base disturbance?
60 minutes
Regional Approach to the Management of Cardiac arrest
Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa
Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust
- Resus bundles
- The changing landscape of Critical Care
- Role of ECLS
About this course
- Practical focus on both the day to day and more difficult aspects of resuscitation across the acute medical specialities
- A revised programme covering a range of relevant clinical topics, selected on the basis of recent impact and consequences from COVID-19, past delegates’ feedback and a survey of emergency and acute medicine practitioners and experts.
- A faculty of experienced specialists in their fields, from different hospitals across the UK, who can pass their expert knowledge to front-line clinicians.
- Interactive online lectures followed by case scenarios, discussion and Q&A.
- Contributes to developing effective team management for doctors from a variety of backgrounds who are actively delivering emergency and acute care.
By the end of the course, participants will have:
- A comprehensive understanding of recent advances in resuscitation medicine and be up to date with new/recent research evidence, and the implications for practice
- Greater confidence in their clinical practice
- Identified skills and knowledge gaps, if any, relevant to their practice, and clear ways by which these can be addressed.
Course director
Professor Tim Harris
Tim Harris is qualified in intensive care medicine, emergency and pre-hospital medicine in Australia and the UK. He works in these specialties at the Royal London and Newham University Hospitals and London HEMS. He is academic lead for the London School of Emergency Medicine. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Barts Health NHS Trust and QMUL, London, UK.
An international Faculty, listing experts with years of experience in reporting (and in disseminating skills and practical knowledge to peers) from leading British and American hospitals, namely:
Faculty members
Dr Mamoun Abu-Habsa
Consultant in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust
Dr Anu Mitra
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial NHS Trust
Dr Bernard Foëx
Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Critical Care, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Dr Bernard Foex is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care at the Manchester University Hospitals Trust.
Bernard trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine in Manchester, stopping off to do a PhD on the cardiovascular responses to haemorrhage and injury between SHO and Registrar training.
He has a special interest in Biomedical ethics relating to the critically ill.
Dr Martin Dachsel
Consultant in Acute and General Medicine, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust
Martin was appointed consultant in acute and general medicine in Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust in November 2015. He is responsible for managing acutely unwell patients admitted to hospital in the emergency department and acute medical unit (AMU). He is currently clinical lead of acute medicine.
He graduated from Dresden University, Germany in 2001. He moved to the UK in 2003, after completion of his MD in stroke research. He subsequently underwent training in acute medicine and received his higher specialist training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery in October 2015.
His special interests are the assessment of acutely unwell patients with Point of Care Ultrasound, the interface between emergency, acute and intensive care medicine, sepsis diagnosis and treatment and medical education. He has taught ultrasound widely throughout the UK.
Dr Orla Lacey
Consultant Anaesthetist, (anaesthesia for head and neck/maxillofacial cancers), the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London
Martin was appointed consultant in acute and general medicine in Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust in November 2015. He is responsible for managing acutely unwell patients admitted to hospital in the emergency department and acute medical unit (AMU). He is currently clinical lead of acute medicine.
He graduated from Dresden University, Germany in 2001. He moved to the UK in 2003, after completion of his MD in stroke research. He subsequently underwent training in acute medicine and received his higher specialist training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery in October 2015.
His special interests are the assessment of acutely unwell patients with Point of Care Ultrasound, the interface between emergency, acute and intensive care medicine, sepsis diagnosis and treatment and medical education. He has taught ultrasound widely throughout the UK.
Dr Richard Carden
Consultant in ICU and emergency medicine
Dr Rocio Santamaria
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Dr Michael Trauer
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Michael completed medical school in Melbourne in 2003, spent several years working in Australia and then moved to the UK in 2010 to complete a Masters in Viola performance. Michael completed EM training in South London and has been an Emergency Medicine Consultant at St Thomas’ Hospital since 2019.
Michael is passionate about point-of-care ultrasound which has been transformative to him as a diagnostician. He has a Post-graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound from Teesside University and has published several articles on PoCUS topics.
Michael is also passionate about environmental sustainability and believes that healthcare professionals have a crucial role to play in avoiding catastrophic climate breakdown.
Dr Michael Obiako
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Wales
Dr Alastair Proudfoot
Consultant in Critical Care & Lead for Cardiogenic Shock, Barts Heart Centre, London
Alastair is a cardiac intensivist and lead for cardiogenic shock at Barts Heart Centre with a clinical and research interest in Cardiogenic Shock.
He leads the UK Working Group on Cardiogenic Shock and leads the Networks Group of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium Cardiogenic Shock Collaborative.
He also works part time at Berlin Heart / Charite as a clinical scientist in cardiac critical care.
Dr Andrew Leitch
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust
Delegate Feedback from 2026
- The excellence of the speakers, choice of wide-ranging topics, very interactive.
- Evidence-based content, Interactive teaching style, Practical clinical focus.
- Good range, interactive, availability of resources online after.
- Excellent choice of topics, v well organised course.
- Time keeping, relevance of topics, Q&A by participants.
- Topics covered/ way of presenting/ knowledge and experience of the presenting consultants.
- Doing at the comfort of home, excellent speaker, good time keeping.
- Coverage of topics, the length of the talks, time keeping.
- The symposium strengthened guideline-based resuscitation knowledge while enhancing practical, real-world emergency decision-making.
- Broad coverage of most relevant topics for ED clinicians.
- Seamless process of presentations, adequate and prompt communication from co-ordinator when needed, variety of topics.
- The presentations overall were intresting. Giving summary of the study articles. The engagment of the audience. The faculty members also were brilliant.
- Well organised / time-keeping. Interesting topics. Great speakers.
- Will positively influence my clinical decision-making.
- I need to read the surviving sepsis guidelines but will feel more confident working in Resus.
- Increased confidence in doing echo.
- Imporving my daily basis duties for patients care and outcomes like : Planning to learn Airway US, inserting arterial line on CPR patients, enhance my ECHO skills and sepsis.
- I am now aware of the potential impact of arterial lines during CPR on outcomes, the role of antibiotics in sepsis, the increasing value of ultrasound in clinical decision-making, and the ongoing debate around the risks and benefits of TXA in gastrointestinal bleeding.
- A lot of useful clinical caveats and good use of clinical cases. Gave definitive answers to hot topics – eg TXA in GI bleeds. Excellent overview of topics by faculty who are clearly world experts.
- A lot, especially as I am involved in the Lymphoma MDT at my Trust.
Delegate Feedback from 2025
- Excellent update/review—one of the best courses I have had in years. Many thanks!
- A very good coverage of resuscitation topics. Nothing to change or add, a really enjoyable and useful course that I will refer back to.
- We were presented with great content, all well delivered by an expert faculty with clear objectives and good timekeeping—well done again, Infomed!
- Very useful refresher course for all the doctors and healthcare staff working on the frontline.
- No new topics to add, please! The course content was spot-on for everyday use. Courses like this can often drift into token sessions on areas such as drowning, hypothermia, and special circumstances. There is a place for these topics (perhaps a separate course), but this course was really nicely pitched, and the occasional duplication helped reinforce the overall message. Well done to all the speakers and to the Infomed organisers.
- Excellent presentations by quality presenters, with lots of evidence-based information in smooth sessions.
- All lectures were really good—in particular, the ultrasound guide to fluid responsiveness, trauma resuscitation guidelines, sepsis discussion, and cardiogenic shock.
- Having remote access, 90-day playback, last-minute booking, and attending from home—excellent flexibility.
- Lectures had a very good level of content, well supported by polling and interaction.
- Thorough presenters on topical issues, all with up-to-date information.
- Presentations with clear thinking and ideas for innovation—useful for my everyday practice.
- Very good level of content and learning for both revision and new updates, my goal was achieved.
- Lots of consideration of fluid management, including blood products—this was good. I will try to raise awareness about fluid resuscitation.
- New trends and lots of journal references and future ideas. I loved the spaced-out break times in between sessions too.
- This was a quality update and refresher with a good range of topics.—can’t think of anything to add to it.
- Webex platform worked well—responsive to technical issues and easy to use—quite liked it (much better than Teams!).
Delegate Feedback from 2024
- Excellent course I will attend next year if continue to work in EM.
- An excellent variety of topics, AND did not have to go to through the stress of travelling to a venue
- Broad range of topics covered, delivered in a timely manner and with frequent breaks
- Broad coverage of essential topics – relevant to my practice – top tips/ nuggets of information which
will improve my clinical management - Excellent – great course, Up to date and thought provoking.
- Fantastic, all the topics very interesting and decisive for Emergency Medicine doctors
- Excellent, good topic coverage, some areas seemed to be repeated a bit with the cardiogenic shock
talks; however, still excellent. - Excellent, good knowledgeable speakers
- Excellent platform, Teams was effective platform to use
- This course was excellent , well organised, wonderful and not much to comment – considering a 2 days
long course - Very good, technical glitches sorted quickly by Informed team.
- Very educational, tips will be used in my daily practice, great speakers
- Excellent in everything as always with Informed courses
- Yes, a few practical tips, but most of all, evidence-based case analysis, use of POCUS in ED, noradrenaline use in ED etc. All good to me.
- Very good content of the course and quality of speakers and the possibility to attend online
- Evidence based analysis, Practical use of POCUS, Case based discussions and update (Giving Noradrenaline via peripheral lines ) + advancements -eg ECPR
- The level of expertise of the lectures, the topics selected and how easy everything ran.
- This course has given me topics to discuss with the juniors, will be more mindful of using lactate in
guiding resuscitation efforts - Detailed and brought me up to date with so many new achievements
- An impact almost immediately with managing some situations and also impacts on tackling future
- I will incorporate into my daily practice definitely.
- A massive impact! It has been a huge amount of excellent and interesting evidence that I have to
review to set up all these concepts, thanks for access to the catchup version included - Excellent course enhancing my knowledge and capabilities to work as an Emergency Physician at a
senior level. - World class speakers with great insight into the literature. Well organised. Access to presentations
- Teams, Slido, breaks lecturers, presentations – all quality
- Timekeeping, Content of talks, very good speakers and attending from home, not expending ££
- An excellent delivery of slides on hot topics, coverage of important topics seen daily in emergency department
- Lots on POCUS, wide range of specialists with different perspectives, kept it all very relevant
- Good coverage of acute care topics Interactive sessions Up to date content
- Online, excellent speakers. Smooth organisation – well done Informed every year.
- It will greatly contribute to enhance my daily practice
- This will improve my management of shock and has inspired me to provide a sepsis update for my
department/ Trust. - This has been a deep up to date impact and it would change my approach and outlook
- Learned a great deal of practical information to be applicable in the clinical scenario.
- Refreshed knowledge of the topics covered and I identified quite a few bits I am interested in and am
going to develop further, especially pocus related
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Course fee
£295
Fee includes VAT
If you started your course today, you would have access until: Friday 29 January 2027
What's included
- 120 days of access to the on-demand version of the course with unlimited playback
- CPD Certificate of attendance with 12 CPD points
- Opportunity to submit questions directly to the faculty