Edinburgh Source: ECB/ Edinburgh Brand Edinburgh is charming, vibrant, historic and famed for its exciting year-round programme of cultural events and festivals. In the city’s compact centre, the Old and New Towns are designated World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The skyline of Edinburgh is instantly recognisable with Edinburgh Castle perched high above the city on an ancient volcanic plug. The Scottish capital and seat of its parliament, offers over sixty galleries, five major performing art theatres, a host of wide-ranging visitor attractions, an extensive range of quality accommodation and more restaurants per head of population than anywhere else in the UK. It also boasts a centuries long tradition of excellence in both science and the arts with Charles Darwin, James Young Simpson, Alexander Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sean Connery and JK Rowling just some of the famous names who have lived, worked and studied in Edinburgh. In the 18th Century, Edinburgh was a major centre for the Enlightenment earning it the nickname of ‘The Athens of the North’. However, it has also had its darker inhabitants. The body snatchers Burke and Hare, did not just rob graves to obtain corpses to sell to the anatomist Robert Knox, for dissection – but also committed serial murders to do so. Source: ECB/ Edinburgh Brand Today the city is a global leader in many areas of research and development in medicine, new technologies and the life sciences. Indeed, the first mammal ever to be cloned - Dolly the sheep - occurred in Edinburgh. It is also a major educational centre with four Universities as well as being a financial capital of Europe. Outside Edinburgh lies the beautiful countryside, coastline and mountains of Scotland. Famed for its castles and other historic buildings, Scotland is also a wonderful country for all kinds of outdoor pursuits including fishing, climbing, walking, sailing and mountain biking as well as being the birthplace of golf with many world class courses lying within easy reach of Edinburgh. » Click here for Pocket Map (PDF) Links: » Edinburgh - The official Tourist Board » Experience Edinburgh » Discount on bus fares in Edinburgh » Inspiring Capital

MCI Travel Grant

To help doctors, from less strong economic countries, to participate in future EACTA meetings MCI and the Directory Board has decided to offer of to 10 Travel grants.

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Chairman EACTA 2010
Peter Alston
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• Cognitive outcome and CABG surgery: a case of the Emperor’s new clothes?
• Can Computerised perioperative data be used to improve outcome from cardiac surgery?
• Renal failure after neonatal heart surgery; prevention and management
• GUCH (Grown-ups with congenital heart disease)
• Improving outcome from CPB
• Guidelines and cardiopulmonary bypass
• Anaesthesia and cardiopulmonary bypass
• TOE imaging of the right heart with congenital heart disease
• Anatomy of the right heart
• Echocardiographic imaging of right heart function
• Future pro- and anti-coagulants
• Blood transfusion and heart surgery
• Vasopressin in the ICU; friend or foe
• Coronary stent thrombosis in the peri-operative period: prevention and treatment
• TOE for all
• The operation was a success but the patient died; what is a meaningful outcome?
• The UK pneumonectomy outcome study
• How to avoid pneumonectomy: Role of bronchial and vascular sleeve resection
• Anaesthesia for anterior mediastinal masses
• General versus regional anaesthesia for carotid endarterectomy
• Pre-operative risk assessment: biomarkers versus exercise testing