Good morning again, everyone. So first off, my name is Andre Holder. I'm a faculty and intensivist at Emory University in Atlanta. So I'm one of the organizers among many of this Congress, of this pre-conference session, rather. So first off, I want to thank all of you for attending. We have an absolutely great turnout. I think it blew our expectations through the roof. So thank you for attending. And we hope that you'll find this as enjoyable as we did in creating it. So first off, I just wanted to briefly orient you to the concept of current concepts. So think of this as an extension to the FCCS course. So the focus is not to talk about the basics of critical care. It's really to enhance our understanding of more recent literature in cutting-edge topics, as well as talk about things that may be a little controversial. And some points of contention within the critical care community. So that's really going to be our focus for the content that you'll see today, and also in the content that you'll see online, as well as in other platforms. So this really is, just like SCCM, a multidisciplinary endeavor. And so various disciplines and specialties were involved in creating this content. And just as the audience, your participation and your group are just as diverse as the people who created it. So it's really designed for everyone who practices in critical care, regardless of your specific discipline or area. So a couple other things that I wanted to mention. How many of you have actually participated in current concepts before? Anyone? OK, so maybe about a third of you. So we have revamped the format a bit, just to try to make it a little more engaging for everyone. So you will notice, if you see the agenda, we're going to have a case that threads throughout each of the lectures during the course of this day. And really, the idea is to try to reinforce some of the concepts that you may hear about during the lecture, and then also touch back on it immediately afterwards, and then introduce you to the next idea, and sort of as a primer. And hopefully, it might be a topic of conversation as well in between the lectures. Now, that is not to say that you are not allowed or able to move around and use the facilities or grab a snack in the back. Please do so. This is not meant to be an all-day affair. And there are also plenty of breaks in between. But really, we wanted to try to engage people, those of you who are interested in doing so, in between the lectures as consistently as possible, while still allowing some time for folks to do what they need to do. So I also wanted to just emphasize, hopefully, I'm not sure if you ever has everyone received the current concepts book yet. I believe you get that after the course is complete. But there's also a lot of other content that's available that we've, again, that we've introduced during the course of this year. Besides the book, there's also podcasts that is on the SCCM podcast that's available on all podcasting platforms. We've actually incorporated a series of current concepts talks on the SCCM podcasting platform. You'll also see us posting about this stuff on Twitter, as well as we encourage you all to do the same during the course of the day. If there's a topic that excites you, or something that engages you, or something that you think is generally stimulating and you'd like to share with your social network community, please, by all means, do so. So we also have prerecorded webinars, which will be available after the current concepts course to try to reinforce some of the concepts and also to try to expand on some of the things that you might have heard during the talk through the day. So I encourage all of you to please check out all of those various forms of content and those various platforms once you're done with the day. So with that said, I'd like to actually start a little bit early if we can. So first, I want to introduce, so you'll notice that we have case, lecture, case, lecture, case, lecture, and so on. And then we have a panel discussion. And those are the chunks of time. There are four of those things, four of that in that format. That happens four times throughout the day with breaks in between. So what I will do is introduce all of the speakers before each of those chunks of time so that we can go seamlessly from the case to the lectures. So is everyone ready? Are you ready to engage? All right, I need a lively audience. I need to hear you guys. Excellent. So I know it's early in the morning on a Saturday. Most of us don't want to be here at this early in the morning. But hopefully, the content will engage you enough that you'll be stimulated and be excited to attend. So without further ado, I'm going to introduce the first three speakers. So first is going to be Dr. Julie Valenzuela. So she is a dual board-certified general surgeon and also surgical critical care board-certified. She completed her internship at Walter Reed, then became a Naval flight surgeon, actually was deployed to Afghanistan. After she returned, she completed her general surgery residency at Rutgers in New Jersey and did a two-year acute care surgery fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She specializes in management of patients with severe injury, emergency general surgery conditions, and surgical critical care with particular interest in global health, trauma system development, and provision of trauma care in low-resource settings. Dr. Valenzuela is an active member and fellow of multiple surgical organizations, including the ACS, American College of Surgeons, as well as EAST, the Eastern Association for Surgery and Trauma. So that will be your first speaker. She'll be talking about key principles in trauma patient care in the ICU. The next speaker at 9 o'clock will be Nassim Motayar. So she was at University of Rochester, assistant professor there. Nassim, remind me, are you at MGH? MGH? MGH now, recently moved there. And she's very passionate about sepsis, septic shock, resuscitation, hemorrhage, ARDS, RV failure, and pretty much all of the things that most of us would be interested in. However, she's going to be speaking specifically today about hemostatic resuscitation for traumatic and non-traumatic hemorrhage. And then the third speaker is going to be Brett Hogan. And Mr. Hogan is an acute care nurse practitioner at the University of Rochester, also interested in toxidromes, which is what he'll be speaking about today. So without further ado, I'll bring up Dr. Vila.

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