11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
 
Preliminary Program: Monday, September 15, 2008
  Location: Audimax
8:30 am- 16:00 pm Registration
8:30 am- 10:30 am Session A: Advances in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Management
  Moderators: Christina T. Mora Mangano, USA / Uwe Schirmer, Germany
  Advances in the anesthetic management of open Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
George Silvay, USA
  Surgical Aspects of Endovascular Stent Grafting during repair of Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Jörg Tessareck, Germany
  Anesthetic aspects of Endovascular Stent Grafting of Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Christina T. Mora Mangano, USA
  TEE during endovascular aortic stenting
Solomon Aronson, USA
10:30 am- 11:00 am Coffee Break
  Location: Lecture Room 3
8:30 am- 10:30 am Session B: New Aspects in Thoracic Surgery
  Moderators: Nicki M. Dietz, USA / Thomas Hachenberg, Germany
  Lung separation techniques
Javier H. Campos, USA
  Anesthesia in esophagectomy – what is new?
Erin A. Sullivan, USA
  New insights into one lung ventilation?
Peter D. Slinger, Canada
  Airway catastrophies
Scott T. Reeves, USA
10:30 am- 11:00 am Coffee Break
  Location: Audimax
11:00 am- 13:00 pm Session A: Right Heart Failure
  Moderators: Solomon Aronson USA / Uwe Schirmer, Germany
  Introduction: Pathophysiology of right heart failure
Uwe Schirmer, Germany
  Diagnostic and TEE evaluation in Right Heart Failure
Manfred Seeberger, Switzerland
  Pharmacological approach to RVF
Christoph Schmidt, Germany
  Indications for assist devices in RVF
Marc E. Stone, USA
  Location: Auditorium 1
11:00 am- 13:00 pm Session C: Advances in Perioperative Management
  Moderators: Robert N. Sladen, USA / Patrick Colson, France
  Impact of diastolic dysfunction in the perioperative management of Cardiac Surgical patients
George Djaiani, Canada
  Pharmacological effects of anesthetics on diastolic function in the human heart
Fabio Guarracino, Italy
  Optimal analgesia management in Cardiac Surgery
Mark A. Chaney, USA
  Prediction of early and late outcomes among dialysis dependent renal failure patients in contemporary cardiac surgery
Ortrud Vargas Hein, Germany
  Location: Lecture Room 3
  Sponsored Symposium
11:00 am- 13:00 pm The pitfalls of current heparin assays employed during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
  Moderator: E. Thye Yin, USA
  A “new” concept for heparin monitoring in CPB surgery
E. Thye Yin, USA
  Heptest-POC-Hi (HPOCH): A new one-step point-of-care anti-Xa clotting assay for heparin monitoring during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
Peter Hellstern, Germany
  Anticoagulant control in surgery and intensive care medicine
Carl-Erik Dempfle, Germany
  Heptest-POC-Hi assay demonstration. An oppurtunity to try it out yourself.
Tanya Rozin, USA
  This event is supported by a grant from Heptest Laboratories, Inc. / Kappes Laborservice
13:00 pm- 14:30 pm Lunch
14:00 pm- 15:30 pm Poster Presentation
   
 
September 14th - 18th, 2008, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany