Special Interest Sessions
The course faculty will present more than 300 talks in plenary sessions as well as small group and subspecialty breakout sessions, covering all areas necessary for comprehensive care of your patients and their families. In the conference program the plenary and special interest sessions are color-coded to help you easily identify relevant speaker topics and breakout sessions.
Plenary Sessions
Plenary sessions are designed to meet the needs of all those who care for neonates, children and young adults with cardiovascular disease. Sessions are broad in scope and presented by a multidisciplinary faculty.
Updates on Congenital Heart Surgery and Pediatric Perfusion
These sessions will focus on state-of-the-art surgical therapy and perioperative support for the neonate, infant and child with congenital heart disease. Surgeons, anesthesiologists and perfusionists will discuss controversies in management and new modes of treatment.
Special Topics in Cardiovascular Nursing
A course-long track, including a special preconference on the principles of perioperative care, will highlight contemporary issues facing nurses caring for neonates, infants, children and young adults with heart disease. Sessions will encompass all aspects of pediatric cardiovascular nursing, from the bedside through long-term follow-up. Special sessions will focus on advanced practice nursing, nursing research and nursing administration.
Ambulatory and General Pediatric Cardiology
Throughout the meeting, breakout sessions will focus on important issues for outpatients with heart disease and the practitioners who care for them. Featured sessions will include acquired heart disease in children, legal and ethical issues, long-term outcomes, electrophysiology and pulmonary hypertension.
Cardiac Intensive Care
An international, multidisciplinary faculty has been assembled to review current management, controversies in care and new research in cardiac intensive care and cardiac anesthesia. Featured breakout sessions will supplement the plenary sessions on late-breaking clinical trials, and will include mechanical support of the failing circulation, new methods of invasive and non-invasive monitoring, new technology and infection control. PCICS members are entitled to a $50 discount.
Special Track for Residents, Fellows and Junior Faculty, Including a Pre- and Post-conference Seminar
Expanding a very popular feature in previous years, a special track is planned for trainees and junior faculty early in their careers to provide guidance on career choices, financial security, work-life balance and other practical guidelines for long-term success in cardiovascular medicine. Cardiology 2010 provides an excellent opportunity to network and interact with practitioners in training or early in their careers.
Administrative Topics in Cardiovascular Disease
Increasingly complex guidelines, hospital requirements and government mandates have changed the landscape of providing care for children with heart disease. Throughout the conference, hospital administrators and nursing and physician leaders will discuss challenges and solutions to these complex problems.
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