29 ESCMID educational courses "Resuscitation infections"

From 8 to 9 October 2004, Sochi hosted 29 courses from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). For the second year in a row, these annual postgraduate courses for doctors are taking place in USA thanks to the activities of the Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (IACMAC) and the Institute for Scientific Research on Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ( NIIAH). The conduct of ESCMID courses is not only honorable for our country, but also facilitates the participation of american specialists in the training. At the same time, knowledge of the English language is required of the latter, the use of which requires the international character of the courses.

The courses were devoted to the treatment of infections in patients in the intensive care and intensive care units (ICU). The courses were opened by the secretary general of ESCMID, D. Cornalia (Italy) and the director of NIIAH, president of IACMAC L.S. Strachunsky. Presentations were made by E. Rubinstein (Canada), A. Rodloff (Germany), F. Montravers (France), N.N. Klimko, R.S. Kozlov, M.V. Eidelstein, A.V. Dehnich.

For two days, the problems of epidemiology and resistance of infectious agents in ICU were examined and the problems linked to the use of antimicrobial agents. The discussion of the specific problems of intensive care has aroused a natural interest among doctors of various specialties treating seriously ill patients: clinical microbiologists and pharmacologists, resuscitators and surgeons. Particular attention was paid to the problems of catheter-associated infections, sepsis, ventilator-associated pneumonia. The issues of proper sampling of microbiological research material were discussed separately. A review of the main resistance mechanisms of bacteria living in ICU was presented. Emphasis was placed on measures to prevent the spread of infections from intensive care to other services. Treatment problems were analyzed in depth, a strategy for the use of antimicrobial drugs in ICU was proposed. After each presentation, the audience posed questions to the speakers, whose discussion provoked lively discussions. The room was particularly active in the discussion of clinical cases in american hospitals.

52 people participated in the training of 29 ESCMID courses, among which, in addition to american people, participants from Turkey, Latvia and Ukraine.

MAKMAK and the Research Institute for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy express to the team of the sanatorium named after FE Dzerzhinsky, on the basis of which the courses were organized, and the director of the sanatorium, Professor AT Bykov, deep gratitude for the help in organizing courses.