11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

11th International Congress of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Workshops: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
	Location: Audimax
14:00 pm- 16:00 pm	Workshop 5: Point of Care Coagulation
	Moderators: Linda Shore Lesserson, USA
	ROTEM Klaus Görlinger, Germany
	Thromboelastography Bruce D. Spiess, USA
	Platelet function monitoring Marc E. Stone, USA
	Hepcon Andreas Koster, Germany
	Multiplate Csilla Jambor, Switzerland
	Hands-on Demonstration Stations (Registrants will rotate through each station)
	ROTEM TEG Hepcon Verify Now Platelet Works Multiplate
	20 mins each at each station - participants will rotate to each station and stay for 20 minutes while industry representatives and physicians assist in teaching the use of the device
	Location: Lecture Room 3
14:00 pm- 18:00 pm	Workshop 6: Extracorporeal Lung Assist: Lung Protective Ventilation in ARDS Patients
	Moderators: Steffen Weber-Carstens, Germany / Maria Deja, Germany
	Introduction Steffen Weber-Carstens, Germany
	Modern techniques of extracorporeal lung support Christian Lojewski, Germany
	Algorithms for extracorporeal lung support in respiratory failure: a case study Maria Deja, Germany
	How to ventilate patients on extracoporeal lung support Steffen Weber-Carstens, Germany
	Location: Research Center
	Hands-on: Experiments in anesthized pigs
	Experiment I: Conventional MV and vv-ECMO Maria Deja, Germany
	Experiment II: Conventional MV and av-iLA Vera von Dossow, Germany
	Experiment III: Application of HFOV in a lung model Christian Lojewski, Germany
	Location: Auditorium 1/2
14:00 pm- 17:00 pm	Workshop 7: Hands-on TEE - Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography Workshop
	Moderators: Joachim Erb, Germany / Eric Sloth, Denmark / Michael Weidenbach, Germany
	Small workshop groups where practical use of TEE in Cardiac Surgery will be tought

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