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FETAL CARDIOLOGYINNOVATION & TECHNOLOGYIQIC LEARNING SESSION AT 7th WCPCSSNEURODEVELOPMENT5th NOMENCLATURE SUMMIT AT 7th WCPCCS

SUBSPECIALTY TRACK SESSIONS

ADMINISTRATIVEADULT CONGENITAL HEART DISEASEAMBULATORYANESTHESIAELECTROPHYSIOLOGYHUMANITARIANIMAGINGINTENSIVE CAREINTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGYNURSINGPERFUSIONPULMONARY HYPERTENSIONRHEUMATICSURGERYTRANSPLANT AND HEART FAILURE

BRIDGING TOGETHER: COMBINATION SUBSPECIALTY TRACKS

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

Surgery, ICU, & Nursing : "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Challenging Cases”
08:00 - 08:30 Case #1 - 2 month old TOF patient with hypercyanotic spells
Team - South America
08:30 - 09:00 Case #2 - 5 month old AVC POD#5 with severe left AVV regurgitation
Team - India
09:00 - 09:30 Case #3 - 3-month-old Tri atresia with NRGV s/p Glenn, POD#0 with severe cyanosis
Team - US
Electrophysiology and General Ambulatory Cardiology
08:00 - 08:15 The evaluation and management of syncope using practice guidelines: Comparing HRS (2015) & ACC (2016) guidelines in the real world.
08:15 - 08:30 PVCs in postoperative congenital heart disease patients, when to worry and when to send to the EP?
08:30 - 08:45 The evaluation of palpitations before the electrophysiologist
08:45 - 09:00 Subtle findings that predict sudden death
09:00 - 09:15 When chest pain is our problem: What are the clues?
09:15 - 09:30 ICDs for the General Cardiologist: What is new that we must know?
Interventional Catheterization & ACHD
08:00 - 08:20 Congenital and Structural Interventions - Limiting the Push or Pushing the Limits. Collaboration is Key!
08:20 - 08:40 Transcatheter left heart valve repair and replacement in ACHD Patients: Looking into the Future
08:40 - 09:00 Interventions in Patients with a Systemic RV: Window Dressing or Real Clinical Benefit?
09:00 - 09:20 Transcatheter Options for Increasing Longevity of the Fontan Circulation
Imaging, Heart Failure & Transplant
08:00 - 08:15 Imaging in the Management of Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy
08:15 - 08:30 Imaging in the Management of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
08:30 - 08:45 Imaging in the Management of Hypertrophic and Restrictive Cardiomyopathies
08:45 - 09:00 Imaging in the Management of HIV Cardiomyopathy
09:00 - 09:15 State of the Art - the Value of Advanced Functional Imaging in the Cardiomyopathies
09:15 - 09:30 Discussion
Imaging & Anatomy
08:00 - 08:24 VSD, or the hole between the ventricles: On reaching consensus in terms of nomenclature
08:24 - 08:48 Double outlet right ventricle: What is so difficult about assigning a great artery to a ventricle?
08:48 - 09:12 Vascular slings: Embryology + 3D imaging = a new understanding of the lesion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

Surgery and Anesthesia
08:00 - 08:30

Debate: Normothermic CPB is safe

  • Pro
  • Con
Perspectives on patient care: Early extubation for infant cardiac surgery
08:30 - 08:50 Anesthesia Perspective
08:50 - 09:10 Surgical Perspective
09:10 - 09:30 Discussion
Interventional Catheterization & Fetal Cardiology
08:00 - 08:20 Imaging for fetal Interventions: What progress have we made over the last decade?
08:20 - 09:00 Defining the Boundaries for A Fetal Interventional Program: Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives
US Perspective
European Perspective
08:40 - 09:00 Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty: Whom should we be referring and what outcomes can we expect?
09:10 - 09:30 Discussion
Electrophysiology & Intensive Care
08:00 - 08:15 When should the cardiac surgeon have to put in pacing wires?
08:15 - 08:30 Why an ICU physician should think like an EP doctor
08:30 - 08:45 Why an EP physician should think like an ICU doctor
Challenging ICU-EP Cases
08:45- 09:00 Challenging bradyarrhythmias
09:00 - 09:15 Challenging Tachyarrhtyhmias
09:15 - 09:30 Discussion
ACHD, PAH, and Heart Failure
08:00 - 08:20 Approaching PAH in unrepaired congenital lesions - "treat and repair”, "repair and treat”, or "don't close”?
08:20 - 08:40 Imaging assessment of ACHD patients in heart failure - can we do better?
08:40 - 09:00 Heart Transplantation in ACHD - the good, the bad and the ugly!
09:00 - 09:20

Adult congenital patients should get priority for organ allocation

  • Pro
  • Con
Nursing & Administration: What is the Role of the Nurse?
08:00 - 08:10 The Role of Nurse in North America
08:10 - 08:20 The Role of in Europe
08:20 - 08:30 The Role of the Nurse in Asia
08:30 - 08:40 The Role of the Nurse in Africa
08:40 - 08:50 What are safe staffing levels and how do we measure them
08:50 - 09:10 Should we devolve less complex procedures to Technicians/Physician Assistants (PS's)/Operating Department Assistants (ODA's)
09:10 - 09:40 Panel Discussion
Ambulatory & Endocarditis/Pericarditis
08:00 - 08:20 New endocarditis guidelines
08:20 - 08:40 Myopericarditis / perimyocarditis
08:40 - 09:00 Hyper-eosinophilic endocarditis and hyper-eosinophilic syndromes
09:00 - 09:20 Acute - chronic pericarditis etiologies and management
09:20 - 09:30 Discussion

BRIDGING TOGETHER: LARGE GROUP PLENARY SESSIONS

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

8:30 - 9:30 OPENING PLENARY
Plenary: Outcomes, Quality, & Transparency "If You Do Not Measure It You Cannot Improve Upon It” A Rapid Fire Session of International Experts
17:15 - 17:30 Honorary Plenary: De Leval
17:30 - 17:38 Overview of Outcomes and Quality
17:38 - 17:46 Nomenclature
17:46 - 17:54 Risk Adjustment
17:54 - 18:02 Surgery - Databases and Quality
18:02 - 18:10 Cardiology - Databases and Quality
18:10 - 18:18 Anesthesia and Critical Care - Databases and Quality
18:18 - 18:26 Integrating Quality from Data
18:26 - 18:34 Measuring Quality in an Environment of Limited Resources
18:34 - 18:42 Assuring and Measuring Quality Nursing
18:42 - 18:50 Lessons Learned from Linking Databases
18:50 - 18:58 Longitudinal Follow-Up
18:58 - 19:06 Transparency
Closing Remarks

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

8:30 - 9:30 Plenary: Jane Sommerville Honorary Lecture
Honorary Plenary: Total Cavopulmonary Connection
17:15 - 17:20 Opening Remarks
17:20 - 17:35 History of Fontan: How did we get here?
17:35 - 17:50 Surveillance of the "well” Fontan
17:50 - 18:05 Delaying the Inevitable: Recognition & Medical Management of Co-Morbidities
18:05 - 18:20 Conversion, VAD, and Transplant, for the Failing Fontan
18:20 - 18:35 Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of the Fontan
18:35 - 19:00 Panel Discussion

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

Plenary: The Past, Present, and Future of Heart Transplantation: 50 Years Beyond Barnard
In honor of Sir Magdi Yacoub
16:00 -16:05 Opening Remarks: Magdi Yacoub
16:05 - 16:25 Optimizing ALL Medical Options When Transplantation Resources are Limited
16:25 - 16:45 The Past - 50 years of Pediatric Heart Transplantation - What Have We Learned?
16:45 - 17:05 The Present - The Age of the VAD and "Bridging” to Transplant
17:05 -17:25 The Future - Tolerance and Regeneration - Will we Need Transplantation 50 Years from Now?

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

Tetralogy of Fallot and Beyond
17:15 - 17:30 Current Outcomes in Older Adults with Tetralogy of Fallot - based upon a surgical and follow-up strategy established 30-70 years ago
17:30 - 17:45 Arrhythmias in Adolescents and Adults with TOF - Current Approach
17:45 - 18:00 Pulmonary Regurgitation - What to do and When?
18:00 - 18:15 The Dilated Aortic Root
18:15 - 18:45 Learning from the Past: Current Approach to the Infant and Child with TOF in 2017
18:45 - 19:00 Genetics - What Do We Know and What's Next?

DEBATES

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

16:00 - 17:00

Debate #1: All asymptomatic WPW Patients Should Undergo a Catheter Based EP Study & Ablation

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #1A: Patients with a Structurally Normal Heart and Frequent PVCs (> 20%) Should Undergo Ablation

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #2: Patients with a Native Coarctation Should Undergo Primary Stent Placement

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #2A: Patients with Moderate Aortic Stenosis Should Be Restricted from Competitive Sports

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #3: Fenestration Should Be Performed in all Fontan Patient

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #3A: Anticoagulation Beyond Aspirin Should Be Offered to all Fontan Patients

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #4: Asymptomatic Athletes with an Anomalous Left Coronary from the Right Facing Sinus Should
Undergo Surgery

  • Pro
  • Con
16:00 - 17:00

Debate #4A: 3 week-old with TOF: surgery vs. transcatheter therapy Surgery

  • Pro
  • Con

FOCUS LEARNING SESSIONS

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

Surgery: Keynote Speaker
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote Speaker
16:30 - 17:00 Keynote Speaker
General Cardiology: Screening for Congenital Heart Disease
16:00 - 16:10 Screening saves lives and improves outcomes
16:10 - 16:20 Screening for CHD in China
16:20 - 16:30 Parental Advocacy for Screening
16:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion
Intensive Care & Anesthesia
16:00 - 16:30 Keynote Speaker ICU: PCICS: As a Global Organization for Change
16:30 - 17:00 Keynote Speaker: Anesthesia Lessons Learned from Neonates & Infants with Univentricular Hearts.
ACC Quality Metric: ACHD Guidelines
16:00 - 16:20 Guidelines for ACHD: What's New!
16:20 - 16:40 Evidence Review in ACHD
16:40 - 17:00 Panel Discussion
Nursing: Safety Comes First!
16:00 - 16:10 Improving Patient Safety Through a Formalized OR to ICU Handoff. Ana Kennedy, Alternate
16:10 - 16:20 Time Out Procedures in the ICU. Louise Callow, MI, USA, Alternate
16:20 - 16:30 The impact of the ECMO Checklist
16:30 - 16:40 Measuring real time risk in critical care
16:40 - 16:50 Inpatient Handoffs
16:50 - 17:00 Medication Reconciliation in the era of EMR
Perfusion: Myocardial Protection
16:00 -16:15 Making heads or tails of pediatric myocardial protection
16:15 - 16:30 Cardioplegia debate: Pedro Del Nido, Custadiol or conventional
16:30 - 16:45 The effect of temperature management during cardiopulmonary bypass on clinical outcome in pediatric patients
16:45 - 17:00 Use of the myocardial protection system for modified ultra-filtration during pediatric cardiac surgery
17:00 - 17:15 Does any of this matter

BACK TO BASIC SYMPOSIUMS

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

07:00 - 08:00 "Wake Up” Back to Basic Breakfast Symposiums
07:00 - 08:00 Hands on Symposium on Exercise
EKGs: Training Session for Pediatric Cardiologists in Conjunction with PACES
07:00 - 07:30 Challenging EKGs and subtle clues at REST not to be missed
07:30 - 08:00 Challenging findings on ambulatory Holters, what to do?
07:00 - 08:00 Ventilator Management
07:00 - 08:00 Waveform interpretation/Hemodynamic Monitoring

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

07:00 - 07:45 "Wake Up” Back to Basic Breakfast Symposiums
Session #1: Hemodynamics
Session #2: Resuscitation
Session #3: Sedation and Anesthesia: Pharmacology & Pearls
07:00 - 07:20 The hemodynamic effects of anesthetic drugs
07:20 - 07:40 Pearls and pitfalls of providing sedation and anesthesia for patients with congenital heart disease
Session #4: Back to the Basics: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)
07:00 - 07:30 Evaluation of the child with pulmonary hypertension
07:30 - 08:00 Treatment of Pediatric PAH

LANDMARK LECTURES

Day 5: 21 July, 2017 Friday

08:30 - 09:00 Pediatric Cardiologist
09:00 - 09:30 Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon
09:30 - 10:00 Nursing Landmark Lecture
10:00 - 10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 Perloff Landmark Lecture for ACHD
11:00 - 11:30 Pediatric Intensive Care/Anesthesia
11:30 - 12:00 Pediatric Interventional Cardiologist
12:00 - 12:30 Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon

WEEK IN REVIEW SESSION

Day 5: 21 July, 2017 Friday

14:00 - 14:12 Imaging
14:12 - 14:24 Catheterization
14:24 - 14:36 General Cardiology
14:36 -14:48 Electrophysiology
14:48 - 15:00 ICU/Anesthesia
15:00 -15:12 Heart Failure/PAH
15:12 - 15:24 Surgery
15:24 - 15:36 ACHD