CONTENTS
Events in 2016
- KEY:
- SKILL LEVEL 1
- SKILL LEVEL 2
- SKILL LEVEL 3
- SKILL LEVEL 4
EACTS provides high quality training courses that are attended by delegates from all over the world.
As an educational institution, our goal is to promote a non-dogmatic learning environment that brings together people, cultures and ideas from around the world, changing lives, and helping to transform through education.
The second session of the new Thoracic Disease Domain webinars will focus on lung volume reduction for emphysema. This primer will cover the investigation, work-up and treatment of patients with hyperinflation secondary to emphysema. An MDT discussion of patient cases will consolidate the session.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1, 2 & 3 – This webinar is aimed at all Skills Levels.
Course Directors
T Batchelor, London
R Milton, Leeds
Thoracic Disease Domain Chair
The EACTS Aortic Forum will be an in-person meeting and will take place from 21-23 June 2023 in Brussels.
Location
Brussels, Belgium
Aortic Forum Taskforce Chair
R De Paulis, Rome
In this session an educational aortic dissection case is presented. All symptoms, patient characteristics and test results are described in detail. Together with the audience, the right treatment decision is discussed.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1 – Residents in training with the course content closely allied to the EBCTS syllabus.
Course Directors
A Zientara, London
C Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Innsbruck
True simulated physical model of endoscopic port-access set-up whereby the operator can train from the basic technique to full complex repairs
*Please note that we a require a minimum of 4 participants for this course to proceed.
Location
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Course Director
Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD, Maastricht
The third session of the brand new Thoracic Disease Domain webinars will focus on simple and complex segmentectomies.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1, 2 & 3 – This webinar is aimed at all Skills Levels.
Course Directors
G Cardillo, Rome
R Milton, Leeds
Thoracic Disease Domain Chair
In this session a complex MCS case is presented. All symptoms, patient characteristics and test results are described in detail. Together with the audience, the right treatment decision is discussed.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1 – Residents in training with the course content closely allied to the EBCTS syllabus.
Course Directors
A Zientara, London
C Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Innsbruck
The third online webinar held by the EACTS Vascular Disease Domain, focusing on cerebral and visceral protection.
Target Audience
Skills Level 3 – Surgeons established in independent practice.
Course Directors
A Zierer, Linz
Cerebral and Visceral Protection Task Force Chair
K Tsagakis, Essen
Vascular Disease Domain Chair
The fourth session of the brand new Thoracic Disease Domain webinars will look at the moving to the other side of the table—transitioning from residency to consultancy and the value of mentorship. From a resident’s point of view but with valuable information to assist those who are mentoring up and coming surgeons.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1, 2 & 3 – This webinar is aimed at all Skills Levels.
Course Directors
N Hussein, Rugby
Residents Committee Chair
F Doerr, Essen
R Milton, Leeds
Thoracic Disease Domain Chair
With this course we offer a full day of Robotic MIDCAB exposure and a day of presentations and hands-on training in a simulation environment. This will be the best preparation for one-on-one training and proctoring to start up a programme at your own centre.
Location
Leuven, Belgium
Target Audience
Skills level 2 – Residents in final years of training and surgeons at the beginning of independent practice.
Course Director
W Oosterlinck, Leuven
Interactive lectures, live-in-a-box cases, keynote presentations
Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Target Audience
Cardiologists, heart failure cardiologists, emergency and ICU specialists (ECLS), cardiac surgeons, perfusionists, heart failure nurses and VAD coordinators, medical industry (cardiac device including ECMO development and production). Pediatric cardiologists and congenital heart disease surgeons
Chairmen
F Gustafsson, Copenhagen; I Netuka, Prague; G Färber, Jena; J Gummert, Bad Oeynhausen and V Falk, Berlin
The curriculum is designed to provide all aspects of the Brussels School approach and techniques on aortic valve reconstructive surgery.
Target Audience
Skills level 3 – Surgeons established in independent practice.
Location
Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Brussels
Course Director
L de Kerchove, Brussels
Fundamentals in Thoracic Surgery: Part 2 is aimed for participants to gain more insight and up-to-date knowledge on different aspects of thoracic surgery.
This course will be hybrid and registration is now open with two fee options!
Target Audience
Skills Level 1 – Residents in training with the course content closely allied to the EBCTS syllabus.
Course Director
M Ibrahim, Rome
2 day interactive lectures, live-in-a-box videos and live surgical cases.
Location
Leipzig, Germany
Target Audience
Cardiac surgeons, Cardiologists, Cardiac anesthesiologists, Perfusionists, Residents and Fellows
Local Course Director
M Borger, Leipzig
The fourth online webinar held by the EACTS Vascular Disease Domain, focusing on endovascular aortic repair.
Target Audience
Skills Level 3 – Surgeons established in independent practice.
Course Directors
M Czerny, Freiburg
Endovascular Aortic Repair Task Force Chair
K Tsagakis, Essen
Vascular Disease Domain Chair
The course is designed to provide the cardiothoracic surgeon in training with didactic teaching and hands on cadaveric surgical training experience under the guidance of a faculty of experienced surgeons. Candidates will also implant left ventricular assist devices, practice cannulation for ECMO and gain practical experience of ex vivo lung perfusion.
Target Audience
Skills Level 2 – Residents in the final years of training and surgeons at the beginning of independent practice.
Course Director
S Clark, Newcastle upon Tyne
The fifth session of the brand new Thoracic Disease Domain webinars will look at State of the Art Surgical Management of Empyema. Looking at the different techniques in the management of empyema, comparing and contrasting best practice.
Target Audience
Skills Level 1, 2 & 3 – This webinar is aimed at all Skills Levels.
Course Directors
E Belcher, Oxford
R Milton, Leeds
Thoracic Disease Domain Chair