As usual this Course is directed towards cardiac anaesthesiologist, perfusionists, cardiac surgeons, intensivists, and will admit a limited number (150) of participants, in order to maintain its didactic profile. Official language is English.
The structure of the Course is based on two and a half days of lectures, with a wide space dedicated to questions and answers, interactive sessions, workshops and practical sessions.
Throughout the whole course, there will be many interactive sessions with electronic voting system (INTERACT with the INTERCEPT).
On day 1 we will start with the Opening Lecture  “Towards new concepts in outcome measurement” by Sam Nashef. The father of the EuroSCORE and the New EuroSCORE, dr. Nashef is the perfect lecturer for opening an Outcome Meeting. Than the focus will continue on transfusions and coagulation. Last year we were focused on thrombin generation; as a natural consequence, this year we will go a step forward, concentrating on all the factors that contribute to clot strength and stability after thrombin generation. Session I will address Clot Firmess, and Session 2 the puzzle of Bleeding and Bleeding definition.
The focus on coagulation will continue on day 2 with the Coagulation Clinic, where the experts of the Faculty will present clinical cases to be debated with the audience.
Session III will be totally dedicated to ECMO in adult and pediatric patients, with an Interactive “problem solving” session. The impact of various comorbidities on outcome will be the topic of Session IV, with specific respect to kidney and AKI after cardiac surgery.
Session V is an ambitious one: how can we define the efficacy of a treatment in terms of outcome? Which tools are available? Three outstanding clinical statisticians will try to clear out the clouds on RCTs, propensity-score adjusted studies, and  retrospective studies. After a guest lecture from Dave Royston, the day will close with 3 workshops, respectively focused on thromboelastography, hemostatic drugs monitoring, and NIRS.
Finally, on day 3, Session VI will be dedicated to new developments in CPB monitoring techniques. The closing  session VII is a bit of a surprise: almost “esoteric”, it explores the role of the “unexplorable” in the determination of outcome: will, religion, beliefs and others.
The course will end with an interactive session with questions related to the topics treated during the course. Answers will be ranked and the best 3 participants will be awarded.
The Course is accredited at a National level for medical doctors and perfusionists (ECM), at a European level by the EBAC (CME), and received 8 points as an accredited course by the European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (EBCP).

Here below, You can download the Preliminary Programme.

• Full program

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