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Guidelines Webinar: EACTS/STS/AATS Guidelines on Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support in Adult Cardiac Surgery

An exclusive webinar introducing the new joint EACTS/STS/AATS Guidelines on temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) in adult cardiac surgery. Through real-world case discussions, step-by-step clinical algorithms, and expert commentary, this interactive session will bring the latest evidence-based recommendations to life.

Event Information

  • Webinar Moderator

    C Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Innsbruck

  • Chairs
    G Whitman, Baltimore
    R John, Minneapolis
    E Potapov, Berlin
  • Case Presenters

    A Shaffer, Minnesota
    Z Tučanová, Prague
    L Stein, Newark

  • Webinar Format

    Virtual meeting
    Interactive lectures and videos

  • Target Audience

    Cardiac surgeons; heart failure and interventional cardiologists; anaesthesiologists; intensivists; perfusionists; and MDTs caring for high-risk adult cardiac surgery patients. Especially relevant for teams managing advanced heart failure, cardiogenic shock, or structural heart disease where temporary MCS may be required across pre-operative, intra-operative, and ICU phases (bridge-to-surgery, bridge-to-recovery, bridge-to-transplant).

  • Course Fee

    EACTS Members: FREE
    Non Members: FREE

    EACTS terms and conditions.

Summary

TimeChapter
00:00Welcome and Introductions
Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Innsbruck
05:00Case 1: Cardiogenic Shock Patient rescued by mAFP and Bridged to BTT LVAD
Z Tučanová, Prague
15:56Case 1: Discussion
E Potapov & all
37:49Case 2: Temporary mechanical circulatory support in shock with mixed etiology
Louis Stein, Newark
47:36Case 2: Discussion
R John & all
01:09:24Closing remarks

Guest Speakers

Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü is an Austrian board-certified cardiac surgeon and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Evgenij Potapov is consultant senior surgeon and co-chairman of the MCS programme in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the German Heart Centre, Berlin. He completed is medical training at Free University, Berlin in 1996 and his PhD in Cardiac Surgery at Humboldt University, Berlin in 2009. His main research interests are in heart failure, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation.

Ranjit John is a General Surgeon and a Thoracic Surgeon in Minneapolis, Minnesota.