Talia Ben-Jacob, MD

Moderator
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University,
Cooper University Hospital
Camden, New Jersey

Ashish K. Khanna, MD, FCCP, FCCM

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Dr. Ashish Khanna will discuss the optimal target blood pressure for patients undergoing resuscitation. His talk will include a review of the literature to assess whether a higher blood pressure target MAP target of 80-90 is better than the standard MAP target of > 65 in critically ill patients. In addition, he will describe important adverse effects in untreated hypotension.

Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Dr. Kunal Karamchandani will describe the utility of using microcirculation monitors to guide ongoing resuscitation and will review the evidence for and against using markers of macro-circulation to determine successful end organ perfusion.

Mark Nunnally, MD, FCCM

New York University Langone Medical Center

Dr. Mark Nunnally will detail recent revisions to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, highlighting controversies and evolving paradigms. Most importantly, he will underscore areas in the published guidelines that represent key features of sepsis management that have not changed, even though our understanding has changed, highlighting key differences and reasoning for these differences.