Copies will be made available throughout the Congress Centre and from selected Barcelona hotels. ESC Congress News will contain exclusive scientific highlights of the day, on-site reports from the previous day, photographs from key events and useful daily information!
As always this year’s Congress newspaper will focus on the highlights and points of greatest interest to the Congress delegates.
As such, you will be able to find daily reports on the
Hot Line and Clinical Trial Update sessions, along with a daily running theme on prevention.
Some of the topics that will be covered include:
- Changing perils of the physical environment;
- Exercise at high altitudes;
- Childhood obesity;
- A look at the effects of smoking bans throughout Europe and the world.
Debate topics and hot topics will be presented from sessions such as:
- Current perceptions of aspirin and cardiovascular disease prevention;
- Drug-eluting stents safety – is it time to turn the page on ESC Congress 2006 ;
- Contentious issues in sports cardiology;
- The SYNTAX trial: one year on;
- Life Saving in AMI;
- Atrial Fibrillation;
- Cardiotoxic anti-cancer treatments.
The following new
ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines will be introduced and presented: pulmonary hypertension, infective endocarditis, preoperative cardiac risk assessment in and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery and syncope.
You can look forward to profiles and interviews of gold medal winners, the new
European Heart Journal Editor-in-Chief, and coverage on the Andreas Grüntzig and Geoffrey Rose lectures. We will also pay tribute to the deeply regretted Professor Philip Poole Wilson.