Session types and tracks

 Main themes

Treatment of HF: Integrating Pharmacology & Technology
Review treatment of congestion, a major unmet need in heart failure, as a main objective. Revisit biomarkers and guidelines oriented individual strategies for the most vulnerable patients. Confront your experience with the leading experts in the field of acute heart failure and optimisation of care for the most complex patients. Explore the recent advances in management of heart failure patients with diabetes, obesity, and ventricular arrhythmias. Translate the results of the latest randomised trials into clinically detectable improved outcomes for heart failure patients.
 
Co-morbidities and heart failure
Explore in-depth the topics of co-morbidities and heart failure - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), diabetes, hypertension as well as include new areas such as cancer, cardio-renal syndrome through main sessions led by experts but also with the more practical angle of interactive educational sessions based on actual clinical cases.

Devices and Technology for heart failure in 2012
Discuss critical decision making in the role of ICD’s and CRT implantations and therapies. Review patient selection criteria for the use of implantable LVADs for heart failure treatment. Explore the developments of Telemonitoring and other monitoring management.
 
Education and Guidelines
Understand the management of patients with heart failure and be provided with guidelines to improve outcomes in the heart failure population with a practical application of the HFA guidelines to assist all heart failure professionals in their daily practice.
 
Basic Science, Basic Science translated for the clinician (ISHR, WG Myocardial Function)
When researchers meet and interact with clinicians to discuss the science that will lead tomorrow’s translational initiatives. Sessions aimed at researchers, PhD students and early career scientists as well as at clinicians and all health care providers.

 Tracks

Skills and Clinical practice - Training and educational track
Integration of pharmacology and technology in the era of personalised heart failure management will be the overarching theme of the programme. Variation of different session types covering all congress themes. 

Basic science translated for clinicians track
Sessions bridging the gap between Clinical and Basic Science. Research approach that seeks to move “from bench to bedside” or from laboratory experiments through clinical trials to actual point-of-care patient applications.

Basic science track
An extensive Basic Science Programme build of sixteen sessions. Experts in the field will cover topics which are central for the most significant and fast-moving research areas.

Local language track
Six sessions held in Serbo-Croatian only (no translation available).
To find out more go to our "Scientific Programme Online".

Oral abstract session track
Sessions with presentations from you - to you. These sessions will feature top graded abstract selected for their high quality content.

 Pre-arranged session types 

Main sessions and symposia
Ninety minutes long sessions in which renowned experts present state of the art reviews on all aspects of heart failure with special time allocated for panel discussions to assure the interaction with the audience.

Special sessions  
- Best of 2011 & 2012 -
- Highlights of the Congress -
- Late Breaking Trial sessions -
- Highlights of tommorow - .... and more -
Not to be missed sessions attracting large number of audience - being it late breaking trials with their latest results or highlights of the congress picking the 'creme de la creme' of the congress scientific happening...  

Clinical interactive case-based sessions - HFA focus -
Discussions around practical cases by the experts who will call upon the audience in regards to the management of the case. Sessions will be concluded by recommendations based on new ESC guidelines on the diagnosis & treatment of heart failure.  

Debate sessions
Lively yet balanced discussion on controversial issues - an effective way to present opposing / different views about a topic. Come and listen to th earguments! 

Read with experts
Don't miss these discussions where experts will explain difficulties, pitfalls and limitations in the use of different techniques.

Abstract based session types  

Oral sessions - Rapid fire sessions - Judges choice
- Clinical -
NEW FORMAT this year.
Faced-paced and Interactive - two sessions built of 16 flash abstract presentations each. Discussions animated by experts chairing the session.

Oral session - Judges choice
- Basic Science & Translational -
Sessions build from the best selected abstracts presented by the authors in a lecture room chaired by two experts.

Oral sessions - Awards
- Young Investigator Award for Basic Science -
- Young Investigator Award for Clinical Research -
- Nursing Investigator Award -
- ISHR Young Investigator Award -
Not to be missed opportunity to support and interact with young researches and nurses who will present their findings in dedicated sessions. 

Moderated poster sessions 
- Five half day sessions - 
Abstracts selected for their outstanding quality, on display in moderated poster sessions area and presented during coffee breaks. Sessions will be moderated by one or two experts. 

Poster sessions  
- Five half day sessions - 
Your place to meet, exchange and learn with colleagues, peers and researchers from all continents. Abstracts selected for poster presentation, on display in poster sessions and presented by the researcher during coffee break.