Cath Lab Basics '09

Cath Lab Basics 2010

Agenda

8:00–9:00 am
Registration / Breakfast

9:00–9:10 am
Welcome

9:10–9:50 am
Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

9:50–10:30 am
The Great Access Debate (Radial vs. Femoral)

10:30–10:45 am
Break / Exhibits

10:45–11:30 am
High Risk PCI and Ventricular Support

11:30–1:00 pm
Lunch and Learn with Live Hands-on Demonstrations (exhibitors)

1:00–1:40 pm
Mitral Stenosis and Valvuloplasty

1:40–2:30 pm
Atrial Septal Defect Closure

2:30–3:30 pm
Complication Potpourri

3:30 pm
Question & Answer

Specific Topics to Be Addressed in Cases

Topic #1:  Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

  • Drug eluting stents vs. Bare metal stents
  • CABG vs. PCI
  • Discussion of the SYNTAX trial
  • Discuss of the FAME trial
  • Value of Fractional Flow Reserve
  • Value of Intravascular Ultrasound

Topic #2:  The Great Access Debate

  • Radial access technique, advantages, disadvantages
  • Femoral access technique, advantages, disadvantages
  • Complications of radial access
  • Complications of femoral access

Topic #3:  High Risk PCI and Ventricular Support

  • High risk PCI defined
  • Intra-aortic balloon pump – indications, contraindications, benefits, and complications
  • Impella - indications, contraindications, benefits, and complications
  • TandemHeart - indications, contraindications, benefits, and complications

Topic #4:  Mitral Stenosis and Vavuloplasty

  • Hemodynamic assessment of mitral stenosis
  • Transeptal puncture technique
  • Optimal candidates for valvuloplasty
  • Inoue Balloon orientation and set-up
  • Mitral valvuloplasty – technique and complications

Topic #5:  Atrial Septal Defect Closure

  • Indications for catheterization with ASD
  • Assessment of intracardiac shunts in the cath lab
  • Calculation of a Qp:Qs ratio
  • Pulmonary hypertension – diagnostic criteria and implications
  • Technique of ASD closure, including discussion of available closure devices
  • Complications of closure

Topic #6:  Complication Potpurri

  • Recognition and management of complications in the lab during diagnostic and    interventional cases
Cath Lab Basics 2009