We envision ICU Forum Program to be the premier scientific summit and a platform of competitive education among Physicians and Allied Healthcare Professionals by 2022. It aims to foster excellence, systematized communication, and professional collaboration towards a multidisciplinary approach.
We believe that a collective educated knowledge from our experts will bring quality treatment and management to ICU settings. Thus, the ICU Forum commits itself to the administration of extensive medical activities for Physicians and Allied Health Professionals working in the ICU.
The leaders of the Summit pursue to gather top-caliber doctors who deal with adult critically ill patients. The program has been instrumental to healthcare professionals, especially physicians, as it provides comprehensive medical education activities. With ICU Forum, they are now abreast of the latest and evidence-based critical care practices. It has now marked a series of continuing medical education activities geared towards the improvement of healthcare services in the critical care field.
Meanwhile, the first-ever Critical Care Leaders’ Summit was conducted last September 10, 2016, with the theme “Forum on Sepsis and Septic Shock.” It was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Ortigas with one hundred (100) delegates coming from different parts of the country. The ICU forum continues to expand its reach as it opened a convention for Pharmacists in 2018. The forum team was grateful to more than a hundred participants who attended the symposium.
In 2019, the first joint ICU Forum for Nurses and Pharmacists took place in collaboration with Critical Care Medicine of the Philippine Heart Center. It is to address the growing number of interested nurses and pharmacists, along with the increasing demand for critical care-related knowledge that is crucial in the healthcare field.
True to our mission, the ICU Forum has continued its activities despite the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. The advantage of technology has paved the way to even extend its reach to more than 1500 health care providers nationwide. A one-day event has successfully become a series of webinars. The online symposium primarily tackles the relevant interventions and timely topics to further educate the healthcare professionals in addressing the health crisis. It was overwhelming that the various medical experts from well-known health institutions have willingly shared their knowledge.
1st ICU FORUM FOR MDs: FORUM ON SEPSIS AND SEPTIC SHOCK
It was the birth of ICU Forum and the first program designed by the faculty headed by Dr. Luis Martin Habana. A one day event that was attended by almost a hundred Medical Doctors from different specialties around the Philippines. The forum, which has 12 sessions aimed to discuss various topics related to Sepsis and Septic Shock.
1st ICU FORUM FOR NURSES: PATIENT SAFETY AND MONITORING IN THE ICU
The ICU Forum faculty, headed by Dr. Larry King has seen the need to train not just the MD specialty working in the ICU, but also its allied health professionals. It includes the nurses, who are responsible for the continuity of care to critically ill patients when MDs are not around. Thus, the ICU Forum for Nurses was established. It was a whole day program with a series of lectures and workshops aimed to advance the skills of our nurses in dealing with ICU patients.
1st ICU FORUM FOR PHARMACISTS: FUNDAMENTALS OF CRITICAL CARE PHARMACY
With the help of Dr. Emily Aventura, the ICU Forum for Pharmacists was conceptualized, as this field of specialty is considered a critical instrument in managing ICU cases. The one-day clinical pharmacy program was designed by Dr. Aventura’s team, which include lectures and workshop.
ICU Forum 2019
Through the support of Dr. Habana, the ICU Forum has forged partnerships with PHC Critical Care Division to conduct the symposium in the hospital amphitheater. It is to cater to more audiences in the field of ICU. It was also the time when the ICU Forum for Nurses and Pharmacists merged. Mainly, it aims to bridge the gaps of HPCs’ experience in managing critically ill patients through the DUO Program created by Dr. Larry King, and Dr. Emily Aventura Delex, which was also approved by PRC as CPD providers. Hence, all ICU Forums conducted in this year has granted CPD units.
ICU Forum 2020
The ICU forum transcended to a webinar to adapt to the business digitalization and the current impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delex has invested in the ZOOM application bringing the convention to a wider online audience of 3,000 participants. Learning online among health professionals is more accessible as the ICU Forum is being conducted twice a month with experienced Medical Doctor speakers.
