Cardiac Care Associates play a critical role in both hospital and private practice. ACC.09 and i2 Summit 2009 offer a wealth of opportunities to strengthen clinical and leadership skills while learning alongside other members of the cardiac care team. You’ll have the opportunity to see more, do more and learn more with the most innovative information in the world of clinical cardiology.

Come to Orlando and learn from the best clinicians in the world. Choose from a wide array of educational sessions, guided only by your personal interests and plans for the future. Not only are there two Cardiac Care Team Spotlight sessions tailored just for Cardiac Care Associates (CCAs), there are a wide range of additional Spotlight sessions, symposia, Meet the Experts sessions, lunchtime case reviews, abstract presentations and poster sessions — all with programming of interest to CCAs.

Ground your learning in the fundamentals, then explore the latest in diagnosis and therapy. You’ll find breaking news on scientific advances and new technology, as well as practical approaches to common clinical problems. Listen to debates on the controversies of the day, then cast your vote for the winner. Put your iPod to work sharpening your skills in cardiac auscultation. Try new procedures using hands-on simulated learning techniques.

ACC.09 and i2 Summit 2009 focus on you and your professional development. Expand your personal network by getting to know fellow CCAs from across the country. Share your experiences with your peers and gain practical skills you’ll use in clinic every day. Tailor each day to your individual needs. Concentrate on one clinical area or sample from an unprecedented array of educational and networking opportunities. Either way, you’ll come away with new skills and new insight into your future.

Throughout ACC.09 and i2 Summit, the focus is on knowledge, breakthroughs and outcomes — and you can have it all! All cardiology, all in one place!

ACC.09 Cardiac Care Team Spotlight
Sunday, March 29
10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Atrial Fibrillation

• The epidemic
• Update on treatment approaches, including ablation

Heart Failure

• Using technology to manage patients better and more efficiently
• Improved survival of end-stage heart failure patients: Should status 2 candidates be transplanted?
• Gender differences in coronary heart disease: An update
• Surgical options for ischemic cardiomyopathy 

Community Health and Wellness

• What makes programs successful?

 Prevention

• Resistant hypertension
• How to get and keep patients on their medications: Tips for education, cost-containment
• Why, when and how to treat low HDL cholesterol

Valvular and Congenital Heart Disease

• Prevalence and resources in adult congenital heart disease
• What you need to know
• When you need to refer
• Endocarditis prevention: What’s new in the guidelines?

Professional Development

• Revenue opportunities in team models
• The business case: Practical points to ponder

ACC.09 Symposia, Meet the Experts, Lunch with the Experts and more
Enjoy educational sessions from our learning pathways that take your clinical skills to the next level.

Cardiac Arrhythmias

• Evaluation and management of syncope
• Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
• The athlete’s heart
• Atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure: Management strategies
• Advanced electrocardiography interpretation
• Inherited arrhythmias: What the clinician needs to know
• Ethnic and gender disparities in the treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure
• EP 2009 Spotlight
• Atrial fibrillation ablation: Who are the candidates? What can we expect of outcomes and complications? The future of AF therapy — drugs vs. ablation

Cardiac Function and Heart Failure

• Prevention of heart failure
• Integrated heart failure disease management programs
• Acute decompensated heart failure: Treatment advances
• Diastolic heart failure: Diagnosis and management
• Management of the continuum of care in heart failure: Guidelines and beyond
• Acute cardiogenic shock: Which drugs and devices?

Congenital Cardiology Solutions

• Adult congenital heart disease for the general cardiology community
• Advances in cardiopulmonary support
• CCS.09 Spotlight
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Fetal interventions, hybrid palliation

General Cardiology: Hypertension, Prevention and Lipids

• Weight loss in ischemic heart disease: What’s the best approach?
• Novel strategies to raise low HDL cholesterol
• The role of hypertension in heart failure
• Managing risk factors without medications
• Atherosclerosis update: Pathogenesis, diagnosis and prevention
• Drug therapy for hypertension
• VHP 2009 Spotlight
• Great debates in prevention: Statins and the source of their benefit, maximizing statin therapy, combination therapy, strategies to raise HDL
• Great debates in hypertension: Beta blockers as first-line therapy? Renal stenting for renal arterial disease? Reduced LV mass as a target for antihypertensive therapy?

Imaging and Diagnostic Testing

• Cost-effective approaches to cardiovascular imaging
• Advances in CT, SPECT, PET, echo and MR
• Is there a role for imaging in the risk assessment of asymptomatic individuals?
• Clinical applications of cardiac CT
• Integrated Imaging 2009 Spotlight
• Imaging of coronary artery disease: Update on technology and techniques
• Case studies: Nonobstructive high-risk plaque, 3D stress echo, ischemic chest pain in the ER, at-risk and infarcted myocardium, myocardial salvage post-PCI, no-reperfusion post-PCI, and in-stent restenosis
• Disease-based heart failure and myocardial diseases

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction      

• Creating a primary PCI network
• Antiplatelet therapy: Gender-specific differences?
• Management of STEMI complications
• Antithrombin therapy for NSTE ACS: Deciphering the guidelines
• Mild troponin elevation in the ER: What do we do?
• After PCI and CABG: Extending the benefits
• Hemorrhagic risk profiling in ACS
• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease
• CTA for chest pain in the emergency room: Ready for prime time?
• ClinCard 2009 Spotlight
• STEMI with cardiogenic shock: risk factors, time course, differential diagnosis, treatment, intra-aortic balloon pump, PVADs
• STEMI as a complication of treatment or illness: Conservative approach or invasive evaluation?

Quality of Care and Outcomes Assessment

• Appropriateness of cardiovascular tests and procedures
• How to bring quality initiatives to your institution and practice
• Challenges in communicating with patients: Meeting and exceeding patient expectations

Valvular Heart Disease

• Atrial fibrillation and valvular heart disease
• Timing of valve intervention

Vascular Disease

• Interesting cases in pulmonary hypertension
• Case studies in anticoagulation and bleeding

Cardiology Core Curriculum

This intensive program features an all-star line-up of speakers and a comprehensive review of the fundamentals of all major areas of cardiology, including:

• Cardiac Catheterization: Focus on hemodynamics
• Echocardiography: Indications, evaluation of LV function, valvular disease, plus Read with the Experts
• Nuclear Cardiology: Indications, protocols, viability studies, plus Read with the Experts
• General Cardiology: Preoperative risk stratification, stress testing, interventional cardiology for noninterventionalists, preventive cardiology, stable angina, ACS, medical therapy vs. PCI, valvular heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, including carotid and cerebrovascular disease
• Congenital Heart Disease: Simple and complex
• Heart Failure: Guidelines for management of systolic and diastolic heart failure, end-stage disease, pulmonary hypertension
• Electrophysiology: Atrial fibrillation and SVTs, sudden cardiac death, device therapy

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