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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
600 |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
40 countries (Australia, USA, Japan, Peru, middle east, Nepal, almost all European countries) |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
EACTS, SCA, ... |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
Overall was clear and interesting to them. Moreover they got surprised with our settings and statistics. The president of SCA (EACTA counterpart in USA) was chair of my session and I think my presentation and explanations about our center and TUMS changed her mind about Iran. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Manfred Seeberger Congress chair
Peter Rosseel EACTA president
Bodil Rassmussen President elect
Fabio Guraccino Chair scientific committee- EACTA
Marco Ranucci Past president-EACTA
Linda Shore president SCA
many other colleagues... |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
We talked about further cooperation in three fields:
Research, Education, patient management.
I need your experiences and support to finalize these negotiations. We tried to make ties between Iranian Society of Cardiac Anesthesia (ISCA) and EACTA and?or SCA. I'm member of directory board of ISCA. The other line was mutual relations between Tehran Heart Center and/or TUMS in one side and counterpart hospitals? universities on the other part. We started this from 4th joint cardiovascular congress in March 2016 in Tehran where we hosted many guests from other countries including EACTA president Prof Rosseel. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
Everywhere in the world has expected and unexpected experiences.
Switzerland is really wealthy country with fantastic natural scenes. We met many kind people and some bad sports too. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
The congress was a big and concise review of last updates on cardiac anesthesia as well as a good opportunity to get involved with research projects and networking with colleagues.
Among topics I was interested in those contains answers to my daily practice problems or difficult cases. I was interested in reports of clinical trials related to my field of research too. One of them was on corticosteroids. Our center was a big branch of an international trial named "SIRS". There was similar multicenter study in Germany. Database manager of German study Stefan Dieleman had a good presentation comparing these two studies. They were preparing a proposal to repeat this study in a group of younger patients. I declared that we are ready to collaborate in their next trial.
I tried to be active participant in as many sessions as possible. We have had many patients and our experiences are useful for other colleagues. I commented on anesthesia for cardiac operation during pregnancy, side effects of using newer cardiopledgic solutions, magnesium administration during cardiac operations |