11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
 
Preliminary Program: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
  Location: Audimax
8:00 am- 9:15 am Session A: Bleeding and Coagulation Management (Part I)
  Moderators: Bruce D. Spiess, USA / David Royston, UK
  Anticoagulation guidelines and complications for the Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist
Rebecca L. Cain, USA
  rFVIIa
Christian von Heymann, Germany
  Indications for antifibrinolytic agents: Lessons learned from the Aprotinin story
Davy C. H. Cheng, Canada
9:15 am- 9:45 am Coffee Break
  Location: Audimax
9:45 am- 11:00 am Session A: Bleeding and Coagulation Management (Part II)
  Moderators: Bruce D. Spiess, USA / David Royston, UK
  Prevention, Diagnosis & Treatment of HIT
Andreas Koster, Germany
  Perioperative coagulation disorders: traditional lab tests vs. point-of-care tests - today and tomorrow
Csilla Jambor, Germany
  Algorithm for coagulation management in Cardiac Anesthesia
Klaus Görlinger, Germany
  Location: Lecture Room 3
8:30 am- 10:30 am Session B: Advances in Coronary Revascularization Surgery and Anesthesia Management
  Moderators: Robert Savage USA / Pascal M. Dohmen, Germany
  Approaches to CAD: PCI, OPCAB and CABG Surgery
David Zvara, USA
  Robotic Coronary Revascularization and Hybrid Procedures
N.N.
  Anesthetic considerations in modern CABG surgery
Stefan G. de Hert, Netherlands
  Risks of stent thrombosis after recent coronary stenting in non-cardiac surgery
Linda Shore-Lesserson , USA
10:30 am- 10:55 am Coffee Break
  Location: Auditorium 1
8:00 am- 10:00 am Session C: Risks, Recovery and Outcome in Cardiac Surgery
  Moderators: Rob Feneck, UK / Jens Scholz, Germany
  Nonbiochemical prognostic risk scores and assessment in Cardiac Surgery
Lee A. Fleisher, USA
  Perioperative risk stratification: value of lab testing, current indicators (troponin) and new biomarkers in evaluation (today and tomorrow)
Miodrag Filipovic, Switzerland
  Gender and Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
Nancy A. Nussmeier, USA
  Cardiac Surgery recovery models: outcomes and resource utilization
Thomas L. Higgins, USA
  Sternal Wound Infection: A Catastrophic Outcome
Robert N. Sladen, USA
10:30 am- 11:00 am Coffee Break
  Location: Lecture Room 3
10:55 am- 13:00 pm Session B: Update in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
  Moderators: James A. DiNardo, USA / Johanna C. Schwarzenberger, USA
  Cerebral outcome after Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest in pediatric cardiac surgery
James A. DiNardo, USA
  What is the best hemostatic treatment for children undergoing cardiac surgery?
Diana Mathioudakis, UK
  Pharmacological treatment in children with Fontan circulation
Ignacio Malagon, Netherlands
  Long term outcome after cardiac surgery for congenital heart defects
Felix Berger, Germany
  Pediatric cardiac surgery without allogeneic blood transfusion, using a miniaturized bypass system in infants
Wolfgang Huebler, Germany
  Location: Audimax
  Sponsored Symposium
11:00 am- 13:00 pm Coagulation management in cardiac anesthesia
  Moderators: Jerrold H. Levy, USA / Christian von Heymann, Germany
  POC diagnostics in cardiac surgery
Alexander Hanke, Germany
  Hemostatic therapy in cardiac surgery
Kenichi Tanaka, USA
  Acquired von Willebrand disease in aortic valve stenosis
Rainer Zotz, Germany
  Impact of fibrinogen concentrate on coagulation management in cardiac surgery
Niels Rahe-Meyer, Germany
  Supported by an educational grant from CSL Behring GmbH
13:00 pm- 14:30 pm Lunch
14:00 pm- 15:30 pm Poster Presentation
   
 
September 14th - 18th, 2008, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany