11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Scientific Program: Thursday, September 18, 2008
	Location: Lecture Hall C 01, bcc, Alexanderplatz
11:00 am- 13:00 pm	Closing Ceremony
	Moderators: Hugo Van Aken, Germany / Hermann Kuppe, Germany
	Past, Present and Future of Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesia Davy C.H. Cheng, Canada
	Perioperative Cardiac Pharmacology: Today and Tomorrow (Perioperative beta-adrenergic blockade, ACEI, Inotropic agents, Statins, Postoperative ASA and Clopidogrel) Pascal Colson, France
	Ageing populations - Another challenge in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia David L. Reich, USA
	Ageing populations – Challenges and influences on the development of cardiothoracic / cardiac surgery in the future Pascal M. Dohmen, Germany
	Location: Lecture Hall B 09, bcc, Alexanderplatz
15:45 pm- 17:45 pm	Optimizing Cerebral Oxygen Delivery
	Moderators: B. Chen, USA
	Introduction: Absolute Cerebral Oximetry Guides Early Recognition/Treatment of Cerebral Desaturation B. Chen, USA
	Application of Absolute Cerebral Oximetry in Cardiac surgery G. W. Fischer, USA
	Optimizing Cerebral Oxygen Delivery in ARDS and ECMO Patients Vera von Dossow, Germany
	Significant Decrease of Cerebral Oxygen Saturation during Single Lung Ventilation Thomas M. Hemmerling, Canada
	Supported by an educational grant from Casmed - CAS Medical Systems, Inc.
	Location: Lecture Hall B 07/08, bcc, Alexanderplatz
17:30 pm- 18:50 pm	Current aspects of antibiotic therapy of blood stream infections
	Moderators: D. Adam, Germany
	Update on antibiotic therapy of nosocomial bacteremia and sepsis K.F. Bodemann, Germany
	Infective Endocarditis: Current aspects of diagnosis, an-timicrobial therapy and management of complications D. Schmitt, Germany
	Deep surgical site infection due to Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Impact of daptomycin P.M. Dohmen, Germany
	LFISHing in biofilms A. Moter, Germany
	Supported by an educational grant from Novartis Pharma GmbH.
	Location: Lecture Hall CO 1, bcc, Alexanderplatz
	Memorial Lecture
13:00 pm- 14:00 pm	Jean Henley Memorial Lecture
	Introduction: Klaus Eyrich, Germany / K. Falke, Germany
	Title: Perioperative Renal Protection: What is the Evidence?
	Speaker: Robert N. Sladen, New York/USA
	Professor and Vice-Chair of Anesthesiology, Chief Division of Critical Care, Director Cardiothoracic and Surgical ICU, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York Chair, SCA International Committee

	This lectureship honors the American anesthesiologist Dr. Jean Emily Henley. Jean Henley was born on December 3, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the only child of Eugene Henry Heller from Hungary and Helen Esther Goodman from Germany who both immigrated to the United States where her father changed his name to Henley while she was still a child. She obtained her BA at Vassar and Barnard Colleges and went to Paris in the early 1930´s to study sculpture. In New York she studied medicine and graduated in 1940 at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. After completion of a residency in internal medicine she voluntarily joined the army in 1944. In 1947 she began her residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, which she completed two years later. Instead of becoming a faculty member at Columbia, she travelled to Switzerland and took up an invitation from Maria Daelen to come to Wiesbaden, Germany. Initially she wanted to visit Germany for just for a few days, (her visa was valid for only ten days) but eventually she stayed there for two years as a visiting physician in Gießen, Frankfurt, Marburg, Wiesbaden, Tübingen, Berlin, Heidenheim, Hamburg and Heidelberg. She used anesthesia machines from the US Army and developed her own machine. In 1950 she wrote the first modern anesthesia textbook published after World War II in Germany: Einführung in die Praxis der modernen Inhalations narkose, published by Gruyter Verlag, Berlin. It had 13 editions until 1991 with a circulation of more than 15,000. She introduced practices that are still in use today: For example she included on the back of the anesthesia chart an extensive and detailed checklist for both preoperative assessment and postoperative complications. Upon her return to the United States she became chair and associate professor at the Francis Delafield Hospital in New York till her retirement in 1972. In 1981 she became an honorary member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, DGAI). She died on August 19, 1994 in Shelburne, Vermont.
14:00 pm- 15:00 pm	Farewell Reception

September 14th - 18th, 2008, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany