Wed, 22 Feb
|Star Center (Harefield Hospital)
MLS Advanced LVAD/Impella/ECMO Course (Full-Day)
This is targeted towards members of the MDT who work in intensive care and the catheter laboratories. It would also be suitable for cardiology, anaesthetic and intensive care trainees and doctors working in a cardiac specialist hospital. Accredited for 6 CPD points.
Time & Location
22 Feb 2023, 08:30 – 17:15
Star Center (Harefield Hospital), Hill End Rd, Harefield, Uxbridge UB9 6JH, UK
Curriculum
Heart failure
a. Epidemiology
b. Diagnosis
c. Management
Advanced Heart failure
a. Medical and intensive care management
b. Temporary mechanical support devices
Heart Transplantation
a. Indications for routine, urgent, super-urgent listing
b. Perioperative and longer-term care
Ventricular assist devices
a. Anatomical considerations
b. Device types
c. Physiological changes
d. Perioperative & longer-term management
e. Common complications
LVAD Mechanical Life Support Algorithm
a. Algorithm rationale
b. Common emergency scenarios
c. Simulation experience
*Advanced Course - Impella & LVAD
a. Anatomical considerations
b. Device types
c. Physiological changes
d. Perioperative & longer-term management
e. Common complications
*Advanced Course - Impella/ECMO Mechanical Life Support Algorithm
a. Algorithm rationale
b. Common emergency scenarios
c. Simulation experience
Registration:
To sign up for the courses please email mls@rbht.nhs.uk
Programme
15 minutesIntroduction
20 minutesLecture: Advanced Heart Failure