Social Programme Welcome Reception at the EICC The Welcome Reception will take place from 17.30 hrs - 19.30 hrs on Wednesday 9th June, 2010. It will be held in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) located in the heart of the city. Delegates receive a complimentary ticket to this event with their conference registration. Additional tickets can be purchased from the registration desk for €30 per person or £28.00 pp. Informal Social Evening Thursday 10th June 2010 from 1930 hrs. Join your colleagues for a traditional night out at a Scottish Ceilidh. Details to follow shortly. Tickets for this event are available and can be purchased shortly.

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