Practical Guide to Implementation of Coronary Physiology in the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory June 2015 (2 Day Course)

Overview

This Advances in Coronary Physiology Course 2015 provides all you need to know to understand the basics of coronary physiology and what you need to do to implement coronary physiology into the cardiac catheter laboratory.  

• Welcome and introductions 
• The role of intra-coronary physiology in 2015?       
• Intra-coronary physiology: Past, present and future           
• Terminology and descriptions of the index abbreviations
• Why do we use pressure instead of flow - intra-coronary pressure flow relationships?  
• Discuss the role of basal flow for coronary stenosis assessment
• An introduction to iFR: concepts, principles, and limitations
• FFR Basics and Optimal Technique
• Tips, tricks, and pitfalls of physiology assessment
• Detecting ischaemia using resting or hyperaemic indices all give similar results
• DEFER, FAME, FAME II – the key points
• DEFER, FAME, FAME II – what they didn’t answer
• Challenging cases from the audience/faculty?
• Implementation of physiology into the catheter laboratory

Featuring

Justin Davies, Course Co-Director, Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College Healthcare London, UK

Javier Escaned, Course Co-Director, Consultant Cardiologist, Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Sayan Sen, Course Lead, Consultant Cardiologist, Imperial College Healthcare London, UK

Sukhjinder Nijjer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Carlo Di Mario, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, UK

Allen Jeremias, Interventional Cadiologist, Stony Brooks Hospital, USA

Rasha Al-Lamee, Imperial College London, UK

Christopher Cook, Imperial College London, UK

Mauro Echavarria-Pinto, Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Florian Krackhard, Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Ricardo Petraco,  Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust