The Scientific Committee invites all interested individuals to submit abstracts to the 8th international annual Conference of the Egyptian Cardiothoracic anesthesia society, ECTAS 2012. Accepted abstracts will be selected for Oral or Poster presentations and will be published in the Conference Book. Selected full-text articles will also be published in the Egyptian Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (EJCTA).

Important Dates:

Suggested Topics:

Topics of interest would include but are not limited to:

• Ethics in teaching and training.

• Communication between the cardiac surgery team.

• Quality assurance in cardiovascular and thoracic anesthesia.

• Towards the era of simulation training.

• Robotic surgery and anesthesia.

• Heart and Lung Transplantation.

• Updates in cardiac surgery and anesthesia.

• Updates in aortic surgery and anesthesia.

• Updates in thoracic anesthesia.

• Management of complex congenital heart diseases.

• Hybrid procedures in cardiac surgery: anesthetic implications.

• Future of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia.

• New modalities in intraoperative TEE:

  • 3D echo.

  • 2D strain.

  • Speckle tracking.

• TEE evaluation of right heart function.

• Anesthetic management of the patient with right-sided heart failure.

• Anesthetic management of the patient with diastolic heart failure (HFNEF)

• Fast-track cardiac anesthesia.

• Postoperative dilemmas in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery.

• Physiology and Molecular/Cellular Biology:

  • Cell Cycle and Apoptosis.

  • Gene Therapy.

  • Stem-Cell Research.

  • Receptors and Channels

  • Autoimmune Cardiac Diseases.

• Metabolic and Genetic Diseases.

• Perfusion Technology.

• ECMO experience and outcome.

• Cardiac Assist Devices.
   

Abstract Submission:

All abstracts must be submitted via the online submission form on the ECTAS website no later than 1 October 2011. Abstracts that have been presented at previous international cardiac meetings will not be accepted. Please read carefully the guidelines for abstract submission before submitting your abstract. Abstracts that do not conform to the ECTAS guidelines will not be accepted. To go directly to the online submission form click here.