• FRIDAY, 20 JUNE, 2014

    VENUE: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Pilsoņu iela 13, Rīga
    15th building, 0 floor, Conference Hall

    09:30 – 09:40    Welcome   
    Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC,
    President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
    Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology   
                              Dins Smits, Chairperson of the Board,
    Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital 

    09:40 – 10:20   CABG vs PCI in 2014: The surgeon’s perspective
    David P. Taggart
    Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery University of Oxford

     

    VENUE: PAULS STRADINS CLINICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Pilsoņu iela 13, Rīga
    15th building courtyard, Conference Tent

    10:20 – 13:00    Registration

    10:30 – 16:00    Workshop with interventional faculty
                              Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital Intervetion Cardiology Lab.

                              LIVE CASES (6 – 8 cases)
                              Moderators: R. Benetis, A. Demaria, A. Erglis, S. Hoffmann,
    I. Kumsars,
     R. Lacis, G. Latkovskis, A. Lismanis, I. Narbute,
     S. Nakamura, A. Rudzitis, P. Stradins,  D. P. Taggart,
    K. Trusinskis, K. Zarins

    Open Heart surgery with guest operators D.P. Taggart and R. Benetis
    Complex lesions (left main, total occlusions, bifurcations etc.)
    plaque modification and DES types
    scoring devices (cutting balloon, angiosculpt, etc.)
    protection devices
    closure devices for congenital heart diseases
    QCA, IVUS, Virtual histology, OCT
    structural heart disease

    13:00 – 13:30    Diagnostic novelties in conorary athery disesases
                               Prof. Kristaps Zarins
     MD, PhD (USA)
    Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University

    13:30 – 14:00    Lunch

    18:00 – 20:00    Basketball tournament 2014 for main program
                               Basketball foul shot tournament for nurses
    Address: Viestura iela 6, Bulduri, Jurmala

    20:30                  Dinner in Caviar Club Restaurant
    Address: “Baltic Beach Hotel”, Jūras iela 23/25,
    Majori, Jurmala

  • MAIN PROGRAM, SATURDAY, 21 JUNE, 2014

    VENUEBaltic Beach Hotel, Jūras iela 23/25, Majori, Jurmala, HALL JŪRA


    08:00 – 09:30
       
     Breakfast, check out

    09:30 – 09:50    Welcome. Introduction. Cardiology in Latvia.   
    Andrejs Erglis, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Latvia)
    President, Latvian Society of Cardiology,
    Chief, Latvian Center of Cardiology

    09:50 – 10:20    Development of cardiology in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.
    The contribution to the development of cardiology.
    Prof. David Iosseliani
    , MD, FESC  (Russia)
    Editor in Chief, International Journal of Interventional Cardioangiology

    10:20 – 10:40    ABSORB in real world practice: new insights from clinical evidence”
    Paolo Pedeferri
     (Belgium)
     Marketing and Market Development Director, Emerging
    Markets EMEA at Abbott Vascular

    10:40 – 11:00    Development of cardiology and cardiac surgery over the next
    10 years. Similarities and differences.

                             
     Prof. Anthony DeMaria, MD, FACC (USA)
    Editor in Chief, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

    11:00 – 11:20    Left Main Experience.
                             
     Prof. Sunao Nakamura, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Japan)
    New Tokyo Hospital

    11:20  11:40    History of PCI: From Werner Forßmann to todays complex
    intervention
    Dr. Stefan Hoffmann,
     MD, Phd (Germany)
                              Klinikum Barnim, Werner Forssmann Krankenhaus

    11:40 – 12:00    Cardiac surgery in Latvia
                              Prof. Romans Lacis, MD, PhD (Latvia)
                              Head of Heart Surgery Centre, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

    12:00 – 12:20    Coffee break

    12:20  12:40    Mitral valve repair – indications and timing of surgery
    Prof. Rimantas Benetis,
     MD, D.Sc. (Lithuania)
    Director, Institute of Cardiology at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

    12:40  13:00     Alternative access routes for TAVI – experience in Latvia
    Dr. Martins Kalejs
    , MD, PhD (Latvia)
    Pauls Stradins University Hospital

    13:00  13:10    Surgical management of Heart Failure – Latvian Experience
    Dr.
     med. Uldis Strazdins MD (Latvia)
    Pauls Stradins University Hospital

    13:10 – 13:50    Open Mic Session
    Case reports and short presentations  

    13:50 – 14:00    General Assembly of the Baltic Society of
    Interventional Cardiology

    14:00 – 15:00     Lunch

    Departures

  • NURSING PROGRAM, SATURDAY, 21 JUNE, 2014

     

    NORISES VIETA: BALTIC BEACH HOTEL, HALL JURMALA

    09:30 – 09:40       Welcome
         Alona Grave, Head nurse of the Invasive cardiology
    Sigita Sakne, Head nurse of the Latvian Centre of
    Cardiology

    09:40 – 10:10       Practical basics of radiation protection in Invasive radiology
    Engineer J.Apinis

    10:10  10:30        Intra-coronary assesments :why and how? (IVUS, FFR,IFR, OCT)
    Sanda Jegere, MD, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

    10:30  11:00        Complex and complicated cases How to manage PCI-related
    complication

    Karlis Strenge, MD, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital

    11:00  11:30        Do we need Drug Eluting Systems in PVI?
     Wilhelm Stahlhoff, MD, Klinikum Arnsberg, Karolinen Hospital

    11:30  11:40        Smartflex – the latest inovation in self expanding stent
    Zane Kaprale, Product Specialist in Cardiology Johnson&Johnson

    11:40  12:00        Patient perspectives of outcome after TAVI
    Alona Grave, RN
    Zane Stelbauma, RN

    12:00  12:20        Nursing responsibility in meeting patient rights
    Dace Kancāne, RN, Head nurse of Pauls Stradins Clinical
    University Hospital

    12:30 – 13:00        Coffee break


    YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN MAIN SESSION IN HALL JURA


    14:00 – 15:00
            Lunch

     

    Departures