Past Event

Cardiology Update 2011

May 27 to 28, 2011 - University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Speaker presentation handouts:

Please note: Presentations have been posted for those speakers who granted permission. Some presentations may take several minutes to download depending on your bandwidth. Presentations are listed in the order they were presented as listed in the final program:

• Carlos Morillo - Dizziness - is it all in the head?
• Sean McMurtry - Risk assessment - why bother?
• Paul Armstrong - New insights in the management of CHF
• Carlos Morillo - Will my patient drop dead?
• Sean McMurtry, Glen Pearson and Jissy Thomas - Risk reduction - a recipe. How many cooks do we need?
• Justin Ezekowitz and Krista Dewart - Outpatient management of CHF
• Lucille Lalonde - My patient has chest pain - which tests should I order?
• Robert Welsh and Lori Savard - ACS in the rural setting. Bridging the care gap.
• Alana Durand - Pitfalls in echocardiography, common errors, challenging cases
• Peter Hamilton and Ann Thompson - The hypertensive swan song
• Ian Paterson and Nakul Sharma - Sinister ECG patterns
• Jonathan Choy - Why every echo lab needs contrast
• Miriam Shanks - Is imaging necessary before or after CRT/ICD?
• Isabelle Vonder Muhll - Is the RV really that difficult to image?
• Sherry Pysyk - RADAR
• Sean McMurtry - Aortic Clinic
• Isabelle Vonder Muhll - Northern Alberta Adult Congenital Heart Program
• Marcie Smigorowsky - EASE/Telehealth
• Tracy Downie - Navigation
• Lucille Lalonde - PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
• Robert Welsh - TAVI

Join your colleagues to hear the latest developments in cardiology, including what’s new in the field, and participate in our special practical workshops. There will also be a separate imaging stream to for those who want to understand the role of complementary techniques of multimodality imaging in assessing patients with structural and ischemic heart disease.

Accreditation: The Cardiology Update has been approved by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 13.5 Mainpro-M1 credits.

Directions:

Driving directions from the TELUS Centre at the University of Alberta to the Muttart Conservatory: Google Map

Walking directions from the TELUS Centre at the University of Alberta to the Mazankowski Heart Institute: Google Map

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