European Summit on Acute Cardiovascular Care

The First European Summit on Acute Cardiovascular Care took place in October 2011 at the European Heart House in Sophia Antipolis (France).

The main objective of this summit was to bring together representatives of international acute cardiovascular care working groups or societies, in order to discuss and interact on various challenges faced by health professionals involved in the field of intensive care.
We also perceived this first meeting as a great opportunity to share news and future plans of the working group, discuss potential challenges and opportunities and ways to cooperate.

The event has attracted 50 participants from 22 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech rep, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and UK. Not only cardiologists but also emergentists, intensivists, nurses, physicians, all involved in the process of Acute Cardiac Care were part of the audience, enabling great exchange and debate.

What was discussed?

Check the agenda here
Access slide resources here (restricted acess to Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care members)

Testimonials

Marek Banaszewski from Poland : "The meeting was very interesting, because we could share our experiences and problems in the field of the intensive cardiac care. There is no doubt that in the next few years we should have another subspecialty in cardiology - the intensive cardiac therapy"
Ivan J Nunez Gil from Spain: "The ACC summit is an interesting opportunity to improve the management of our acute patients together with a place to establish some collaborative international nets. We will face a big challenge in the next years. Only by means of joint work and research we could compete with other relevant international societies. "
Grieco Niccolò from Italy: "A wonderful meeting with a high level panel, interactions between colleagues and interesting for future developments and collaborations "
Antoniu Octavian Petris from Romania: "The face-to-face relationship is the real win-win solution for the implementation of high standards in our current medical activity. "
David Walker from UK : "This was an excellent first summit of the working group on acute cardiac care. It was useful to compare the organisation of care across the different countries and develop strategies to improve acute cardiac care across Europe"

Who was present?
Check who represented your country:

Country	Last Name	First Name	Name of represented entity / organisation
Georgia	Agladze	Vaja	Georgian Society of Cardiology ACC WG
Germany	Arntz	Hans-Richard	Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany; European Resucitation Council; German Resuscitation Council
Poland	Banaszewski	Marek	ACC WG Polish Cardiac Society
Spain	Barrabes	Jose	WG on Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Units of the Spanish Society of Cardiology
Spain	Bueno	Hector	ESC Working Group on ACC (Spain)
Denmark	Clemmensen	Peter	ESC Working Group on ACC (Denmark). Vice Chair Danish Society of Cardiology
Lebanon	Dada	Sobhi	Lebanease society of cardiology
Belgium	Evrard	Patrick	BIWAC: belgian interdisciplinary working group on acute cardiology
Turkey	Gorenek	Bulent	ESC Working Group on ACC (Turkey)
Italy	Grieco	Niccolo	Chief of Pre-Hospital Cardiac Emergency Projects EMS - 118 Milano
Israel	Hasin	Yonathan	Poria Medical Center
Austria	Huber	Kurt	ESC Working Group on ACC (Austria)
Estonia	Jalakas	Toomas	Tartu University Hospital,Heart Clinic, Department of the emergency Cardiology
Czech rep	Jansky	Petr	University hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
France	Laribi	Said	EuSEM Research Committee
Italy	Lettino	Maddalena	ESC Working Group on ACC (Italy)
Latvia	Maca	Aija	Latvian Society of Cardiology
Estonia	Marandi	Toomas	WC of ACS, Estonian Society of Cardiology
Denmark	Mogelvang	Rasmus	Danish Society of Cardiology
Egypt	Mokhtar	Sherif	Professor of Cardiology, Chairman of the Egyptian Collage of Critical Physician
Switzerland	Mueller	Christian	ESC Working Group on ACC (Switzerland)
Netherlands	Nieuwland	Wybe	Dept. Cardiology, medical director CCU University Medical Center Groningen
Greece	Nikolaou	Nikolaos	European Resuscitation Council
Spain	Nunez Gil	Ivan javier	Coronary Care Unit.Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid (SP) . Spanish Society of Cardiology
France	Petrino	Roberta	European Society for Emergency Medicine
Romania	Petris	Antoniu Octavian	Acute Cardiac Care Working Group of the Romanian Society of Cardiology
Romania	Pop	Calin	Romanian Society of Cardiology Working Group of Acute Cardiovascular Care
Austria	Pretsch	Ingrid	Working Group: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Medicine of the Austrian Society of Cardiology (Ã–KG)
UK	Price	Susanna	ESC Working Group on ACC (UK)
UK	Quinn	Tom	ESC Working Group on ACC (UK)
Hungaria	Rudas	Laszlo	Hungarian Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiac Care Working Group /head of the working group/
Belgium	Sazova	Ogun	AstraZeneca
France	schiele	francois	ESC Working Group on ACC (France)
Portugal	Seixo	Filipe	Grupo Estudos de Cuidados Intensivos CardÃacos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia
Belgium	Sinnaeve	Peter	Belgian Interdisciplinary Working Group for Acute Cardiology (BIWAC)
Poland	Stepinska	Janina	Polish Cardiac Society, President
Italy	Tubaro	Marco	ESC Working Group on ACC (Italy)
Netherlands	Van der Horst	Iwan	Cardiologist at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlans Member of the NVVC and the ESC Member of the working group Accreditated ICCU specialist
Belgium	Vrints	Christiaan	ESC Working Group on ACC (Belgium)
UK	Walker	David	Chairperson of British Cardiovascular Society Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care (and Member of BCS Council)
UK	West	Nick	British Cardiovascular Society (Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care)
Hungary	Zima	Endre	WG on Resuscitation and Cardiac Intensive Care of Hungarian Society of Cardiology