CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA • Volume 25, No 4, July/August 2014
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Dedicated programme for paediatric cardiologists at SA Heart
Congress 2014
The 2014 SA Heart Congress has a
dedicated and comprehensive programme
for paediatric cardiologists that will be
taking place daily at the International
Conference Centre in Durban from
Friday 17 to Sunday 19 October.
There will be a pre-congress workshop
on peri-operative and peri-interventional
transoesophageal echocardiograhy (TOE)
on Thursday 16 October from 12:00
to 17:00. This will cover basic views,
evaluation of congenital heart disease
and ASD closures, as well as evaluation
of the mitral valve. The AGM for the
Paediatric Cardiac Society of South
Africa (PCSSA) will be held immediately
after the workshop from 17:00 to 18:00.
Key topics designated for the paediatric
cardiology track on Friday, 17 October
include:
•
providing a service with limited
resources (Dr Krishna Kumar, India)
•
the status quo of paediatric cardi-
ac services in South Africa (Dr Liesl
Zühlke)
•
making difficult decisions with limited
resources.
Paediatric cardiologists will join the
general plenary sessions on Friday
afternoon for the session on valvular/
structural heart disease.
On Saturday 18 October, various
aspects of congenital heart disease will
be discussed in the morning by speakers
who include Drs Krishna Kumar and Tim
Jones (UK). The afternoon session will
focus on single-ventricle physiology and
will cover the evaluation and monitoring
of patients over their lifetime, surgical
techniques, and the anaesthetising
and imaging of Fontan patients for
non-cardiac procedures.
Themorning of Sunday 19October has
been dedicated to an interactive session
covering some of the more challenging
percutaneous interventions in congenital
heart disease. This workshop will include:
•
percutaneous closure of peri-membra-
nous VSDs
•
ballooning and stenting of branch
pulmonary arteries
•
percutaneous closure of PDAs safely
in infants below 5 kg
•
PDA stenting.
For full programme details, and to register for the
SA Heart Congress and pre-congress workshops,
visit
. For queries,
contact Europa Organisation Africa on (011)
325-0020, or email
