Focus Meeting Heart: the trade show
the German Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the DGfK. A motto that, in our opinion, can be used to override all the main topics of the annual conference in the sense of interdisciplinary cooperation and communication: organ protection and demanding adequate ECC procedures, perfusion concepts for complex aortic interventions, mechanical heart and lung support, innovative device therapy as well as hemostasis and coagulation in the operating room as well as in the intensive care unit.
Therapy and technology are always in Change and many attributes of this development enable new perspectives in terms of potential care concepts for multimorbids Heart patients. They open up new perspectives and at the same time face great challenges. Borderline cases of cardiac medicine pose ethical Aspects in focus. Especially in cardiac surgery is the discussion of the latest findings to Treatment of patients with increasing Age and growing comorbidity in the foreground.
Pediatric cardiac surgery is also shifting Increased to complex re-operations and require customized ECC systems, perfusion strategies and organ protection measures.