Guidelines

GUIDELINES RAPID REVIEW

Chair(s)

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  Kim Connelly, MD, FRACP, PhD, MBBS

  Director, Krembil Stem Cell Facility
  St Michael's Hospital
  University of Toronto

Don't miss a thing from the 2019 CCS Guidelines and Position Statements! Attend this interactive workshop that provides key highlights and takeaway messages from this year’s CCS guideline and position statement updates on Syncope, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant. Experts will discuss key messages and share resources available to help integrate recommendations into patient care. Learn about topics currently under development and find out how to submit suggestions for future CCS updates.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• summarize key messages from the CCS guideline/position statement workshops;
• discuss emerging issues and evidence; and
• identify resources designed to integrate CCS guidelines/position statements into practice.

Presentations:

• 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

  RAPID REVIEW: SYNCOPE GUIDELINES
  Roopinder K. Sandhu – University of Alberta
• 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

  RAPID REVIEW: HEART FAILURE GUIDELINES: CLINICAL TRIALS UPDATE
  Shelley Zieroth, MD FRCPC – Canadian Heart Failure Society
• 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

  RAPID REVIEW: TAVI POSITION STATEMENT/QI
  Anita Asgar, MD, MSc – Montreal Heart Institute; Maral Ouzounian, MD PhD – University of Toronto
• 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM

  RAPID REVIEW: ATRIAL FIBRILLATION GUIDELINES
  Jason G. Andrade, MD, FRCPC – Vancouver General Hospital
• 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

  RAPID REVIEW: POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME POSITION STATEMENT
  Robert S. Sheldon, MD PhD FRCPC – University of Calgary
• 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

  RAPID REVIEW: HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENT ELIGIBILITY, SELECTION, AND POST-TRANSPLANT CARE
  Sharon Chih