IFIMP 2025: Criminal psychology, big data and intensive care medicine

On 9 and 10 April 2025, the Innsbruck Forum for Intensive Care Medicine and Nursing (IFIMP) invites to a professional exchange at the Congress Innsbruck under the motto ‘Intensive Care Medicine - is EVERYTHING possible?’.

New perspectives on intensive care medicine
 

High-calibre contributions such as that of the well-known criminal psychologist Thomas Müller open the congress with a look at decision-making and responsibility in medical grey areas. In the Herbert Benzer Memorial Lecture, complexity researcher Stefan Thurner will analyse how social phenomena such as polarisation and fragmentation influence our understanding of medicine. Finally, Andreas Valentin reflects on the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence in medicine.

Meeting place for intensive care medicine and nursing in Innsbruck
 

The IFIMP is Western Austria's largest intensive care medicine congress and brings together over 400 doctors and nurses from the fields of anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, cardiology and surgery at Congress Innsbruck every year. Barbara Friesenecker, who is responsible for the programme, is looking forward to networking, professional exchange and the top-class and interdisciplinary lectures: "Intensive care medicine stands for medical progress, for working in professional and personal borderline areas and the need to justify difficult decisions ethically like hardly any other field. The lectures at IFIMP 2025 show: It is not only about what is technically feasible, but also about the responsible and conscious use of resources. This is where the IFIMP wants to create a space for dialogue and reflection."

"The fine line": current challenges in intensive care medicine
 

In addition to keynote speeches and specialist presentations, the programme will once again include practical workshops this year - including on bronchoscopy, sonography and ventilation. The programme will be supplemented by focal points on sustainability, paediatric medicine, medication errors, critical infrastructure failure and culturally sensitive and anti-discriminatory care.

Christian Mayerhofer, Managing Director of Congress Messe Innsbruck (CMI), emphasises the importance of the IFIMP for the medical research landscape and expresses his thanks for the valuable cooperation: "The congress, the Innsbruck Forum for Intensive Care Medicine and Nursing, has been addressing highly topical issues every year for over 20 years, offering experts a practical platform at an excellent level and is therefore a flagship for Innsbruck as a scientific location. I would like to thank the Förderverein für intensivmedizinische Fortbildung for the excellent cooperation."

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