28th Annual Meeting & Workshops

April 29 - May 3, 2006

Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, California


Program

Friday, April 28, 2006
   
3:00 - 6:00 pm Registration
   
Saturday, April 29, 2006
   
7:00 – 7:30 am Continental Breakfast for Refresher Course
 
7:20 – 7:30 am Welcome & Introductions
James G. Ramsay, MD, President; Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD, Scientific Program Chair
 
7:30 am – 12 noon Refresher Courses
7:30 – 8:10 am Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery: Testing the limits
Peter D. Slinger, MD
 
8:10 – 8:50 am Bayer Lecture: Echocardiography: An update of practice guidelines and quality care
Bijoy Khandheria, MD, FACC, FESC
 
8:50 – 9:30 am Update on Aneurysmal Disease of the Ascending Aorta
John Elefteriades, MD
 
9:30 – 9:50 am Coffee Break
 
9:50 – 10:30 am Hospira Lecture: Surgical Ventricular Restoration for Heart Failure: Historical perspective and current clinical trials
Robert E. Michler, MD
 
10:30 – 11:10 am “The Big Cats” Cardiac Anesthesia Teams: Why cardiac anesthesiologists have become academic leaders
Joel A. Kaplan, MD
 
11:10 – 11:50 am Mitral Valve Repair: What can TEE do?
Steven N. Konstadt, MD, MBA
   
12:00 n – 1:00 pm Lunch on Own
 
1:00 – 1:30 pm Expert Review of Best Abstracts
Moderator: Martin J. London, MD
   
1:00 – 4:00 pm Optional Workshops
Separate Registration Required
 
  • TEE for the Practicing Cardiac Anesthesiologist
  • Pediatric Cardiac Workshop: Jointly presented with the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society (CCAS)
  • The Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Bypass for the Anesthesiologist
   
1:45 – 3:45 pm

Vascular Track Session A: Poster Discussion I – Vascular/Thoracic
Moderators: David J. Cook, MD/Mary Beth Brady, MD

Session B: Poster Discussion II – Cardiac
Moderators: Nancy A. Nussmeier, MD/Albert T.W. Cheung, MD

   
3:45 – 4:15 pm Coffee Break
   
4:15 – 7:15 pm

Optional Workshops
Separate Registration Required

  • Vascular TrackHandheld Ultrasound: The new frontier?
  • Clinical Case Discussions in Advanced Intraoperative Echocardiography
  • Mechanical Assist Devices: Perioperative issues and management
   
 

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