Free Event for ACTACC Members!
location_on Virtual Event
📅 Saturday 10 October 2026
🕓 16:00-17:30 CET
💻 Live Online Webinar
Explore the latest evidence shaping perioperative cardiovascular management, with a focus on applying evidence-based approaches to clinical decision-making. The session will highlight key considerations for optimising care of patients with cardiovascular conditions in the perioperative setting.
Learning Objectives
- Understand perioperative cardiovascular physiology and shock types, general principles of hemodynamic optimization, advantages/disadvantages of cardiovascular drugs, discuss recent recommendations/studies.
- Understand perioperative heart failure and cardiogenic shock, principle of extracorporeal mechanical support in general and each devices, recent recommendation, complications.
- (Patho-)Physiology of coagulation, understand the balance between thrombosis and bleeding on MCS, drugs to be used, recommendations and treatment options.
Programme Agenda
16:00-16:05
Introduction & Welcome
16:05-16:25
Pharmacological support: vasopressors, inotropes, fluids — what to choose when and why?
F. Guarracino — Chieti (Italy)
16:28-16:48
Mechanical support: IABP, ECMO, Impella — what do we learn from the recent recommendations?
P. Ariyo — Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)
16:50-17:10
Coagulation management during mechanical support — something new?
T. Hayes — Manchester (United Kingdom)
17:10-17:30
Discussion and Q&A Session
Interactive floor discussion with participants & faculty
