PROGRAMME

As of 3 March 2020, subject to change.

DAY 1: Saturday, 21 March 2020

08:30-09:30        Main Room

Session 1: Setting the scene

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To be updated about current and future indications for TAVI
  • To understand more about the status of TAVI in LATAM and create solutions to improve your TAVI program
  • To build a Heart Team 2.0 in your institution

TAVI in 2020: State of the art

08:30   Session objectives - TBA

08:35   US perspective - TBA

08:45   European perspective  - TBA

08:55   TAVI in LATAM - Progress to date  - TBA

09:05   Heart Team 2.0: Ingredients for success - TBA

09:15   Setting the scene final “wrap up” - TBA

09:35-09:45        Main Room

Welcome message

09:35   Welcome message from PCR & TCT - TBA

09:42   Welcome message from SBHCI & SOLACI - TBA

09:50-11:20        Main Room

Session 2: Preprocedural planning (case-based)

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To understand more about patient selection and risk assessment before TAVI procedures
  • To identify how CT imaging allows appropriate device selection and preprocedural planning
  • To learn how to optimise the use of echocardiography for periprocedural guidance and assessment of procedural success

09:50   Patient Selection and risk assessment  - TBA

10:00   Discussion

10:10   Aortic pathobiology: Implications for TAVI procedures  - TBA

10:20   Discussion

10:30   CT Imaging: Sizing algorithms, device selection, and procedural planning  - TBA

10:40   Discussion

10:50   Echo evaluation: Procedural guidance and assessment of success  - TBA

11:00   Discussion

11:20-12:00        Exhibition Area & Training Rooms

Break WITH SIMULATORS

12:00-13:00        Main Room

Sponsored session by Medtronic

13:00-13:45

Lunch break WITH SIMULATORS

13:45-14:45        Main Room

Session 3: Know your valves

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To understand the basic features of each TAVI platform
  • To understand the favorable and unfavourable attributes of each TAVI platform
  • To understand the clinical scenarios in which each TAVI platform would be the first or less favorable choice

13:45   Session objectives - TBA

13:47   Medtronic Evolut™ and Evolut™ PRO+ - TBA

13:57   Discussion and audience interaction

14:06   Edwards SAPIEN 3™ and SAPIEN3 Ultra™ - TBA

14:16   Discussion and audience interaction

14:25   Boston Scientific ACURATE neo™ and LOTUS Edge™ - TBA

14:35   Discussion and audience interaction

14:50-16:20        Main Room

Session 4: Transfemoral TAVI skin to skin

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To identify the key steps of a contemporary TF-TAVI procedure
  • To understand how to prevent the most frequent TF-TAVI complications

16:20-17:00        Exhibition Area & Training Rooms

Break WITH SIMULATORS

17:00-18:00        Main Room

Session 5: Complication management, Part 1

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To learn more about the principal causes of hemodynamic instability during and after a TAVI procedure (and how to manage them)
  • To learn how to anticipate, prevent, and treat coronary obstruction
  • To learn how to anticipate, prevent, and treat vascular complications

Unexpected hypotension immediately after TAVI

17:00   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

17:05   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

17:14   How would I treat the case? - TBA

17:17   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Vascular access complications: Identification and management

17:20   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

17:25   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

17:34   How would I treat the case? - TBA

17:37   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Coronary occlusion: Prevention and postprocedural management

17:40   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

17:45   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

17:54   How would I treat the case? - TBA

17:57   How did I treat the case? - TBA

DAY 2: Sunday 22 March 2020

08:00-10:00        Main Room

Session 6: TAVI in special situations (Case-Based)

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To appreciate the benefits of careful preprocedural planning before complex TAVI procedures
  • To learn advanced tips and tricks for use in difficult clinical situations
  • To understand situations where pushing the boundaries of TAVI may be appropriate

Bicuspid Valves: Procedural Planning and Device Selection

08:00   Case presentation: What's the problem?  - TBA

08:05   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

08:14   How would I treat the case? - TBA

08:19   How did I treat the case? – TBA

Alternative Access: Indications and Route Selection

08:24   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

08:29   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

08:38   How would I treat the case? - TBA

08:43   How did I treat the case? – TBA

Coronary Protection (BASILICA/Chimney): Indications and technical steps

08:48   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

08:53   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

09:02   How would I treat the case? - TBA

09:07   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Pure Aortic Regurgitation: Patient selection and anatomical considerations for device selection

09:12   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

09:17   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

09:26   How would I treat the case? - TBA

09:31   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Left ventricular dysfunction:  Indications for haemodynamic support

09:36   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

09:41   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

09:50   How would I treat the case? - TBA

09:55   How did I treat the case? - TBA

10:00-10:45        Exhibition Area & Training Rooms

Break with simulators

10:45-12:15        Main Room

Session 7: Preparing for discharge and long-term follow-up

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To learn more about the key clinical questions following a successful TAVI procedure
  • To share ways to make postprocedural recovery efficient and simplified
  • To understand current challenges in specific clinical scenarios

Clinical pathways for early discharge

10:45   US perspective - TBA

10:51   European perspective - TBA

10:57   Paravalvular leak management - TBA

11:03   Discussion and audience interaction

11:13   Pacemaker requirement - TBA

11:19   Discussion and audience interaction

11:29   Anti-thrombotic therapy - TBA

11:35   Discussion and audience interaction

11:45   Echocardiographic surveillance - TBA

11:51   Discussion and audience interaction

12:01   Infective endocarditis/valve thrombosis - TBA

12:07   Discussion and audience interaction

12:20-13:20        Main Room

Sponsored session by Edwards Lifesciences

13:20-14:00        Exhibition Area & Training Rooms

Lunch break with simulators

14:00-15:00        Main Room

Session 8: Complication management, Part 2

Facilitators: TBA
Expert Panellists: TBA

Attend this session if you want:

  • To learn more about the principal causes of hemodynamic instability during and after a TAVI procedure (and how to manage them)
  • To learn how to anticipate, prevent, and treat coronary obstruction
  • To learn how to anticipate, prevent, and treat vascular complications

Paravalvular leak: Assessment and management

14:00   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

14:05   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

14:14   How would I treat the case? - TBA

14:17   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Periprocedural stroke: Prevention and treatment

14:20   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

14:25   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

14:34   How would I treat the case? - TBA

14:37   How did I treat the case? - TBA

Atrioventricular block: Risk assessment, strategies for prevention, and postprocedural management

14:40   Case presentation: What's the problem? - TBA

14:45   How would you treat the case? Discussion and audience interaction

14:54   How would I treat the case? - TBA

14:57   How did I treat the case? - TBA

15:05-15:15        Main Room

Closing remarks

Speakers: TBA