Annual Conference on Shock (13th) Held in Durango, Colorado on 8-11 June 1990: aReview

摘要

The Shock Society presented the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Shock during June8-11, 1990, in Durango, Colorado. The meeting was attended by about 400 clinical and basic scientists representing numerous biomedical disciplines and clinical speciality areas: a common denominator was a shared major interest in some aspect(s) of shock trauma research. The scientific program comprised over 200 presentations constituting three major symposia, three minisymposia, a young investigators' competition, three workshops, and eleven thematic poster sessions. Emphasis was placed on currently emerging concepts concerning the pathogenesis and management of circulatory shock, sepsis, trauma, ischemia, inflammation, and their multifaceted interactions.