Objectives

The 1994 Postgraduate Course on Congenital Heart Disease will address the following three topics: Surgical Techniques, Postoperative Care - Issues for the 1990s and Pediatric Lung Transplantation. This course will provide attendees with the opportunity to interact with recognized experts involved in the research and development of new techniques and procedures in congenital heart disease. The format of the course will include video presentations and lectures on current issues within each of the three topic areas, with ample time provided during each session for discussion of specific questions from the audience.

Registration

Enrollment in this course will be by pre-registration until March 25, 1994. After March 25, 1994, participants may register on site at the Hilton Hotel in New York. The registration fee is $50.00 and includes the PG course, coffee break, and lunch. Special convention rates have been obtained at the Hilton and Towers Hotel in New York, New York.

Accreditation

The American Association for Thoracic Surgery is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The American Association for Thoracic Surgery designates this continuing medical education activity for 6 credit hours in Category I of the Physicians Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24,1994

Program - Trianon Ballroom

7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

SESSION I SURGICAL TECHNIQUE - VIDEO PRESENTATIONS

7:50 a.m. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Edward L. Bove, M.D., Chairman

Robert M. Sade, M.D., Co-Chairman

8:00 a.m. THE ARTERIAL SWITCH PROCEDURE

Constantine Mavroudis, M.D., Chicago, Illinois

8:20 a.m. TRANSATRIAL REPAIR OF TETRALOGY OF FALLOT

Albert D. Pacifico, M.D., Birmingham, Alabama

8:40 a.m. THE NORWOOD PROCEDURE

Edward L. Bove, M.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan

9:00 a.m. THE HEMIFONTAN PROCEDURE

Robert M. Sade, M.D., Charleston, South Carolina

9:20 a.m. THE FONTAN PROCEDURE

Hillel Laks, M.D., Los Angeles, California

9:40 a.m. DISCUSSION

10:15 a.m. REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION II POSTOPERATIVE CARE - ISSUES FOR THE 1990s

10:45 a.m. NITRIC OXIDE FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

David I. Wessel, M.D. Boston, Massachusetts

11:00 am. MANAGEMENT OF THE POSTOPERATIVE NORWOOD PATIENT

Thomas J. Kulik, M.D. Ann Arbor, Michigan

11:15 a.m. ECMO/LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST

Pedro J. del Nido, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

11:30 a.m. ULTRAFILTRATION AND FLUID MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS

Martin J. Elliot, M.D., F.R.C.S., London, England

11:45a.m. DISCUSSION

12:15 p.m. LUNCHEON

SESSION III PEDIATRIC LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

2:00 p.m. DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF REJECTION AND INFECTION

Thomas L. Spray, M.D., St. Louis, Missouri

2:15 p.m. PULMONARY HYPERTENSION - WHICH TRANSPLANT?

John Armitage, M.D., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2:30 p.m. COMBINED HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

Bruce A. Reitz, M.D., Stanford, California

2:45 p.m. SINGLE LUNG TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN

Vaughn A. Starnes, M.D., Los Angeles, California

3:00 p.m. LUNG TRANSPLANTATION FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS

Thomas M. Egan, M.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina

3:15 p.m. DISCUSSION

4:00 p.m. MEETING ADJOURNS