The Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine (
)
was founded in December 19, 1980 as an organization to support the efforts
of clinicians in their practice and development of critical care medicine
in Korea. Professor HJ Lee, MD (internist) attended the meeting of the
foundation of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine
(WPACCM) which was held in the Tokyo in July 26th, 1980. The motivation
of foundation of the
had been derived from foundation of WPACCM. Executive board members
of the
have been composed of president, vice president and chairman of boards
of trustee, secretary general, treasurer, scientific and publication,
insurance, public relation and auditor. The first President and Chairman
of Boards of trustee were Prof. WS Kim (Anesthesiologist) and HJ Lee,
MD (Internist). Seventeen members of anesthesiologists, internists and
surgeons were the members for the foundation of
in December 19, 1980 and the number of the members have expanded to
462 in 2005.
The scientific meetings have been held once in November and since 1988
with three times of refresher course lectures every year. From 2005
the Annul Congress of the
will be held at the end of April or early May once a year. The titles
of the scientific meetings have been focused on organization of ICU
and intensive and critical care medicine, cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation,
sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction, acute lung injury and acute respiratory
distress syndrome, transplantation, myocardial infarction and cardiogenic
shock, tissue oxygenation, neurological emergency as status epilepsy
and hypoxic injury and others.
The Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine has been published twice
since 1986. At the end of June, 2005 the first number of the volume
20, 2005 Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine (KJCCM) will be published.
Korean-Japanese Joint Congress between Korean Society of Critical
Care Medicine()
and Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine(JSICM):
The first joint Congress of the Korean-Japanese Intensivist in conjunction
with the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the
had been held on April 7-8, 2001 in Seoul, Korea. At the Congress, Professor
Ikuto Yoshiya, M.D., the past President of Japanese Society of Intensive
Care Medicine, and Professor Shin Ok Koh, the Chairman of Boards of
trustee of the ,
spoke about Japanese and Korean history of critical care medicine during
plenary session. Iqbal Mustafa, M.D., the former President of WPACCM,
and many renowned Korean and Japanese multidisciplinary faculty members
have jointed and shared their experiences on patient care as well as
"cutting edge" knowledge in the field. The second, third and
fourth Joint congress of Korean- Japanese Intensivist had been held
every other year alternately in Okayama, Japan in 2002 and Seoul, Korea
in 2003 and Fukuoka, Japan in 2004. The organizing committee of the
and JSICM have made the agreement of intersociety alliance and had had
a ceremony and signed on it at the fourth Joint Meeting in Fukuoka,
Japan. The 5th joint Congress of Korean Japanese Intensivist will be
held in Seoul, Korea on April 29-30, 2005 and Prof Sung Su Chung will
the Organizing Chairman. The organizing chairperson of the Joint Congress
of the first, second and third and fourth meeting were Prof Shin Ok
Koh, Prof Masahisa Hirakawa, and Prof Prof Hee Koo Yoo and Prof Tsuyoshi
Maekawa.
The 13th Congress of Western Pacific Association of Critical Care
Medicine (WPACCM) (www.wpaccm2004.org):
The foundation of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine
(WPACCM) was done in the Tokyo in July 26th, 1980. The Executive Committee
members of the WPACCM at foundation were composed of President. Dr Quintin
J Gomez (Philippine General Hospital) Vice President, Dr Radha Krishna
(Dept of Anesthesia and ICU General hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia),
Secretary General, Dr Nobuo Nishimura(Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical
Care Medicine Nippon Medical School, Japan) and Treasure, Dr RC Wright
(Director of Resuscitation St Vincent Hospital Sydney Australia). At
Council meeting on August 14-16, 2004 in Bali Indonesia, the Indian
Society of Critical Care Medicine as the representative of India was
recruited as the new member country and the name of the Western Pacific
Association of Critical Care Medicine (WPACCM) was changed to the Asia
Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (APACCM).
The Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine had hosted the 13th Congress
of the WPACCM (www.wpaccm2004.org) in conjunction with the 24th Annual
Congress of the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine on Jun 10-13,
2004 in Seoul, Korea. The 13th Congress of the WPACCM was focused on
the "Mutual Understanding and Development in the WPACCM".
The 1002 attendants enjoyed the scientific programs and social programs.
The Scientific programs provided a strong content covering agonizing
subjects in our daily practice and covered the depth and breadth of
critical care. More than 120 invited speakers, very excellent specialists
have been recruited from the region as well as afar. Aside from the
insightful and informative scientific programs the daily tour program
and fantastic and interesting social programs included Gala Light on
a cruise boat has been organized on Han River on June 12, 2004.
World Federation Societies of the Intensive and Critical Care Medicine
(WFSICCM), www.world-critical-care.org;
Since the foundation of the World Federation Societies of the Intensive
and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM), the Korean Society of the Critical
Care Medicine ()
had been one of the member societies of WFSICCM as the representative
for Korea. The President and Secretary General of
have been elected every two year and contact person and mailing address
of the
changed every time and communication lost between
and WFSICCM followed by deprivation of membership eligibility of WFSICCM.
The membership application of the
had been submitted again and accepted in General Assembly of the 8th
World Congress of the WFSICCM in Sydney 2001 with registration of eligibility.
The 2004 annual membership fee of
have been paid with Form A and lists of
permanent members in September 22, 2004 to Liz Taylor; Council Administrator,
WFSICCM Tel: + 44 (0)118 970 1204 Fax: + 44 (0) 118 970 1204; liz@world-critical-care.org
The WFISCCM administration have planed to link with website of the member
societies to give the information of the member Society meeting schedule
already. They will also distribute the official Journal of the WFSICCM
to members. Professor Shin Ok Koh, MD, the former Chairmen of the Executive
Committee of
(1999-2001) has been designated in Board meeting of 2003
as the representative of
communicating with WFSICCM. The 9th Congress of the WFSICCM will be
held on August 27-31, 2005 in Buenos Aires Argentina and the President
of the
and two Korean colleagues have been invited as guest speakers.
The future plans of the :
The standard of the ICU and guideline for critical care will be defined.
The fee for ICU care in Korea is too low and should be raised and graded
by the medical manpower of nurse and intensivists and the ratios of
medical facilities supplied. The training and education for the intensivists
and certificate them as an independent specialty for critical care medicine
will be a subject of concern of the .
We, ,
have submitted our plans in an official document to the Ministry of
Health and Welfare on July 1, 2000. The
have organized committee for textbook for critical care medicine in
Korean and will be published at the December 2005.
