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SESSION 1: Risks and Outcomes

• CV Anaesthesia Fellowship Training – is a “Tight Curriculum” really necessary? – Manfred Seeberger, Switzerland
• CV Anaesthesia Training in a Developing Country –  Angela Ongewe, Kenya / Isaac Adembesa, Kenya
• Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: Developing World vs Developed World  – Bruce Biccard, SA.  PDF of the slides also available here.

SESSION 2: “The African Cardiac Big Five”

• Trauma of the Heart – Adriaan Myburgh, SA
• Tuberculosis and the Heart – Mutyaba / Ntusi, SA
• HIV and the Heart – Mpiko Ntsekhe, SA
• Pre-eclampsia and the Heart – Robert Dyer, SA
• Rheumatic Heart Disease, Epidemiology in the Developing World – Liesl Zühlke, SA

SESSION 3: Blood and Perfusion

• Best Practice 2018: Management of Anaemia & Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery – Ravi Gill, UK
• Perioperative Anaemia, EPO and Iron: Is there a place for EPO and Iron? – Joost Van der Maaten, The Netherlands
•  Blood Conservation and Cell Savers: The Future – Arno Nierich, The Netherlands
• If things go wrong – Pump Accidents & CPB Safety – Ravi Gill, UK

SESSION 4:  The Lung and Thoracic Anaesthesia

• Oxygen – the most commonly used drug. How best to use it?  – Bodil Steen Rasmussen, Denmark
• Prehabilitation and Enhanced Recovery of Thoracic Surgical Patients  – Donna Greenhalgh, UK
• Endoscopic Tracheobronchial Interventions – Ross Hofmeyr, SA.  Presentation slides also available here.

SESSION 5: Cardiovascular intensive care, transplant and extracorporeal mechanical support

• Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Support of the “Delicate Heart” – Justiaan Swanevelder, SA.  PDF available here.
• Mechanical Circulatory Support/Extracorporeal Life Support: Should it be available in every Cardiothoracic Centre? – Andy Roscoe, UK
•  Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Place in a Developing Country? – David Thomson, SA
• ECMO in Lung Transplantation: Success and Failures – Greg Calligaro, SA/Tim Pennel, SA
• The Transplant Patient for Non-transplant Surgery – Adriaan Van Rensburg, Canada

SESSION 6: Cardiovascular Practice – New Advances

• Pathologies of the Aorta – Arno Nierich, The Netherlands
• Advanced Aortic Valve Surgery: Repair and Preserve – Piroze Davierwala, Germany
• Anaesthetic Considerations for Open Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm Repair – Yianni Augoustides, USA
• Value of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist in the Electrophysiology Laboratory – Nkosinathi Mdladla, SA
• Fast-tracking Cardiac Surgical Patients – Easy in the Developed World – Edwin Turton, SA
• Fast-tracking Cardiac Surgical Patients is possible and advisable in the Developing World – Henning Du Toit, Namibia
• Recent Highlights in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiology: Implications for us all – Yianni Augoustides, USA

SESSION 7: Valvular Heart Disease – Advances

• Valvular Heart Disease: At the Interface of 1st and 3rd World – The Future – Peter Zilla, SA
• MV regurgitation: Repair or Replace? – Stanton Shernan, USA
• Echocardiography for Harpoon Beating-heart Mitral Valve Repair Surgery – Paul Diprose, UK
• Hybrid Cardiac Catheter Laboratory, Procedures and Interdisciplinary Interaction – Douglas Shook, USA

SESSION 8: Valvular Heart Disease – Decision Making

• Anaesthesia and Intraoperative Management of the TAVI Patient  – Charles Nyman, USA
• Do you need to be a High Risk Surgical Candidate to be a TAVI Candidate? – Chirojit Mukherjee, Germany
• Minimally invasive AVR in the current era of aortic valve therapies – Jacques Scherman, SA