26th Annual Meeting & Workshops

April 24-28, 2004

Honolulu, Hawaii


Saturday, April 24, 2004


7:00 - 7:30 am Continental Breakfast for Refresher Course
7:20 - 7:30 am Welcome & Introductions
Glenn P. Gravlee, MD, President; Solomon Aronson, MD, Scientific Program Chair
7:30 - 12:00 noon Refresher Courses (Open to all Annual Meeting Registrants) Moderator: Solomon Aronson, MD
7:30 - 8:10 am Transfusion: To Give or Not to Give-Options and Outcomes
Bruce D. Spiess, MD
8:10 - 8:50 am Evidence Data and Behavior Modification in Medicine: What we know, what we need to know, what we should do
Dennis T. Mangano, MD, PhD
8:50 - 9:30 am Neuroprotection during Cardiac Surgery: What we learned, what we think, what we don't yet know
Mark F. Newman, MD
9:30 - 9:50 am Coffee Break
9:50 - 10:30 am Preoperative Assessment of the Cardiac Patient undergoing Non-cardiac Surgery: Update
Kim A. Eagle, MD
10:30 - 11:10 am Gender and Risk in Cardiac Surgery
Nancy A. Nussmeier, MD
11:10 - 11:50 am Bayer Lecture
12:00 n - 1:00 pm Lunch on Own
1:00 - 1:30 pm Summary of 2004 Abstracts with Potential Impact on our Specialty
Moderator: Linda Shore-Lesserson, MD/Solomon Aronson, MD
1:00 - 4:00 pm Optional Workshops for SCA Members Only
Separate Registration Required

Valvular Heart Disease Workshop

Understanding How and When to Apply New Monitoring Technology

Practical Echocardiography I: Anatomy, Physiology and Intraoperative Applications

(see workshop descriptions)

1:45 - 3:45 pm Session A: Poster Discussion I

Session B: Poster Discussion II

4:00 - 4:15 pm Coffee Break
4:15 - 7:15 pm Optional Workshops for SCA Members Only
Separate Registration Required

Practical Echocardiography II: Valvular Anatomy and Surgery

New Echo Technologies Workshop

(see workshop descriptions)



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