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Thought Leader: The Effective Management of Shock: Moving From Physiology to Guidelines to Precision Medicine and Ultimately Personalized Medicine (Max Harry Weil Honorary Lecture)

Sunday, March 22, 2026
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Central Time
Location: Skyline Ballroom, W375ABC
CE: 0.5

Thought Leader Session

    Thought Leader Moderator(s)

  • Lauren Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, FAAN, FCCM (she/her/hers)

    Ann and Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago

    Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

    • Thought Leader Faculty(s)

  • Michael Pinsky, MD, FAPS, MCCM (he/him/his)

    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania

    Disclosure(s): Baxter: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); BD Ltd: Consultant (Ongoing), Consulting fees or other remuneration (Ongoing); Deltex Ltd: Grant/Research Support (Terminated); Edwards Lifesciences: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); LiDCO: Advisory Board (Ongoing); Masimo: Advisory Board (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Pulsion Ltd: Grant/Research Support (Terminated); Radiometer: Advisory Board (Ongoing); Werfen: Advisory Board (Ongoing)

This session will highlight the concept of circulatory shock as a lifetaking common occurrence with many causes whose care is central to the practice of critical care medicine. The speaker will define cardiopulmonary insufficiency and highlight how critical care has moved from using monitoring to categorized shock etiologies, understanding complications of care, creating the best possible expert guidelines, then moving to more physiologically based precise care, and hopefully in the near future to personalized care. Multiple physiologic and clinical examples will be highlighted, placing present-day care within this context.

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Learning Objectives:

  • Differentiate between guidelines and specific care pathways
  • Describe how physiologically based functional hemodynamic monitoring has allowed for a more precise approach to resuscitation and avoidance of overresuscitation
  • Explore areas of knowledge deficits and the unused available knowledge that can be applied moving from guidelines to precision medicine