Infections in Intensive Care Medicine and 30 years of Surgical Research

Anniversary Symposium

Professor Ansgar O. Aasen 60 years

Place: Red Auditorium, Rikshospitalet

Moderators: Per Lilleaasen & Jacob E. Wang

09.00 Welcome. Otto A. Smiseth, Chief Heart-Lung Clinic, RH

09.00 Opening

Åge Danielsen, Adm. Dir., Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Helseforetak

John Kjekshus, Vice Chair, Faculty Division RH, Univ. of Oslo

09.20 The host response to Surgery and Trauma

Heinz Redl, Boltzmann's Institute for Traumatology, Vienna, Austria

09.40 Surgical Immunosuppression

Eugen Faist, Grosshadern Hospital, Munich, Germany

10.00 Gender influences the response to Trauma and Sepsis

Irshad H. Chaudry, Center for Surgical Research, Univ. of Alabama, USA

10.20 Coffee break

10.40 The mediator response in Sepsis

Anders Waage, Regionssykehuset i Trondheim

11.00 PPAR- agonists in Shock and Ischemia-reperfusion Injury of the Heart

Christoph Thiemermann, The Willliam Harvey Research Institute, London, UK

11.20 Hypoxia/reoxygenation injury. A 25 year perspective

Ola Didrik Saugstad, Institute of Pediatric Research, RH

11.40 Biological surfaces

Jan L. Svennevig. Department of Cardiac Surgery, RH

12.00 Myocardial remodeling in Heart Failure

Håvard Attramadal, Institute for Surgical Research, RH

12.20 Lunch break

13.20 New imaging modalities methods to quantify myocardial function

Otto A. Smiseth, Institute for Surgical Research, RH

13.40 Acute severe pancreatitis - therapeutic strategies

Reinhold Fugger, Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria

14.00 Latent potential of brain stem cells: Salvation army or legion of evil?

Iver Langmoen, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

14.20 In vitro modeling of liver function: Inhibition of protein synthesis to iNOS

Michael A. West, Northwestern University, Chicago

14:40 Coffee break

15.00 Minimal invasive surgery - improved patient care

Michael A. Rogy, Vienna, Austria

15.20 The challenges in todays Intensive Care Medicine

Einar Hysing, Dept of Anesthesiology and intensive care, RH

15.40 Cellular mechanisms of inhalation anaesthesia

Jon Berg-Johnsen. Department of Neurosurgery, RH

16.00 Detection of prosthetic infections

Lars Nordsletten, Dept. of Orthopaedics, Ullevål sykehus

16.20 How do gram-positive bacteria cause systemic inflammation and sepsis?

Jacob E. Wang, Institute for Surgical Research, RH