Surgical Aspects of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation
- 12 – 13 Sep 2024
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- In Person
Event Information
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Date/Duration
12 September – 13 September 2024 (2 day course)
- Location
- Course Director
S Clark, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Course Format
In-person meeting
Interactive lectures
Interactive device and technology demonstrations
Hands-on cadaveric operative sessions- Course Fee
EACTS Member: €865
Non-Member: €965Registration fees include all sessions, breaks, lunch and dinner on Thursday 12 September.
Kindly note due to the nature of this course, registration is limited to 15 delegates
- Target Audience
Skills Level 2 – Residents in the final years of training and surgeons at the beginning of independent practice.
EACTS Academy terms and conditions.
Course Information
This course provides cardiothoracic surgeons in training or anyone wishing to enhance their experience with didactic teaching, hands on cadaveric operative experience and practical demonstrations in the surgical techniques and skills needed in heart and lung transplantation, short term and durable mechanical assist devices and ex vivo organ perfusion.
Delegates will have the opportunity to undertake cardiac and lung transplantation in human cadavers under the guidance of a faculty of experienced surgeons. Candidates will also implant left ventricular assist devices, practice cannulation for ECMO and Impella and gain practical experience of ex vivo lung perfusion. Many technologies and devices are also demonstrated in small group teaching sessions.
This is an intensive two day course of lectures, debate and practical hands on surgical practice and opportunity.
Learning Objectives
- Understanding of selection of patients for heart and lung transplantation, technical aspects of the surgery and clinical outcomes
- Donor organ selection criteria and retrieval including the use of machine perfusion systems
- Understanding the application of short term mechanical circulatory support and hands on practice of implantation of devices such as ECMO and Impella
- Understanding the role of durable mechanical assist devices and practice of implantation of devices in human cadavers
- Practicing the technique of heart and lung transplantation in human cadavers
- Practicing the technique of ex vivo lung perfusion
Course Programme
08:15 Welcome and introduction 08:25 Recipient selection and outcomes of cardiac transplantation 08:40 Donor organ evaluation and retrieval 09:10 Machine Perfusion for heart preservation 09:50 Technical aspects of cardiac transplantation 10:10 Break 10:30 Cadaver lab – Cardiac transplantation 12:45 Lunch 13:15 Durable ventricular assist devices – An overview 13:35 Technical aspects of LVAD implantation 14:00 Cadaver lab – LVAD and RVAD implantation and Demonstration of devices 15:15 Break 15:30 Cadaver lab – LVAD and RVAD implantation and Demonstration of devices 16:45 Short term mechanical assist – Indications and Devices (Demonstration of devices) 17:45 Summary and closing comments 08:30 ECMO – Demonstration of circuit 09:30 Cadaver lab – ECMO and short term mechanical assist cannulation and implantation 10:30 Break 10:45 Recipient selection and outcomes for lung transplantation 11:10 Technical aspects of single and bilateral lung transplantation 11:40 The multidisciplinary transplant assessment meeting – case discussions 12:30 Lunch 13:00 Cadaver lab – Lung transplantation 15:30 Break 15:45 Ex vivo lung perfusion 16:00 EVLP Demonstration 1 16:45 Question and answer session/Additional Cadaver lab experience 17:15 EVLP demonstration 2 17:30 Closing comments and questions Programme subject to change.
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