Scientific Programme

An exciting and diversified scientific programme has been assembled, which will offer a full spectrum of educational opportunities and topics such as:

  • Sudden cardiac death
  • Prevention / rehabilitation
  • Intervention / catheter lab
  • Heart failure / palliative
  • Cardiac surgery / transplantation

View the Scientific Programme session by session, for both days. Details include time, place, presentation titles and speaker names.

Conference Highlights: 8 reasons to attend!

  • Enhancing self care in the heart failure population
  • Challenges in revascularisation
  • Implantable cardioverter defibrillation                               
  • Ventricular assist devices                                       
  • Sudden cardiac death                                                               
  • Who is really managing heart disease?
  • How to session: increasing nursing knowledge in cardiovascular assessment
  • Global cardiovascular disease prevention: a call to action  

The programme also includes:

  • Discussion of recent developments in the fields of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular nursing
  • Debates that provide a lively yet balanced discussion on controversial issues.
  • Sessions geared towards practical management of cardiovascular care in daily situations
  • Joint Sessions
  • Abstracts of Original Contribution
  • Satellite Symposia

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Key Dates

  • Abstract Submission Services Open: 1 October 2008
  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2008
  • Abstract Results Available: early January 2009