You’ll find it all at ACC.08. Not only is the Cardiac Care Team Spotlight session tailored just for CCAs, there are a wide range of additional spotlight sessions, symposia, clinical focus sessions, meet the experts sessions, brown bag lunches, case reviews, abstract presentations, and poster sessions—all with programming of interest to CCAs. Learn from the best clinicians in the world. Expand your personal network by getting to know fellow CCAs from across the country. Share your experiences with your peers and gain practical skills you’ll use in clinic every day.

 It’s all waiting for you at ACC.08.

ACC.08 Programming—Something for Every Interest

ACC.08 has so much to offer Cardiac Care Associates. By sampling from spotlight sessions, ACC.08 symposia, core curricula, meet the experts sessions, brown bag lunches, and more, CCAs can craft a personalized and well-rounded educational program that encompasses both the fundamentals and the latest scientific advances in every clinical arena.

Cardiac Care Team Spotlight
Preview the new ACC Cardiac Care Core Education Programming!
Sunday, March 30

Basic Track, 8 – 11:30 a.m.

• Physical findings in cardiovascular disease
• 12 lead ECG interpretation: A case-based examination of ischemic heart disease
• Imaging: Which test for which patient?
• Blood pressure management: How low to go and does it matter how we get there?
• Tips for managing dyslipidemia: When the first statin dosage is not enough
• Optimizing CVD risk reduction in patients with diabetes
• Discharge/post-discharge visits: Taking advantage of those “teachable moments”
• Behavioral strategies that work
• Supplements: Where’s the evidence?

Advanced Track, 2 – 6 p.m.

• Heart failure versus other causes of edema
• State-of-the art therapy for heart failure
• LVADs as destination therapy
• Heart transplantation
• Drug therapies on the horizo
• Complex arrhythmias
• ECG assessment in ICD patients
• Devices: Are we making a difference with biventricular pacemakers, ICDs, and monitoring systems?
• Complex cases in renal disease, lipids, and diabetes
• Persistent chest pain in women
• Stem cell and gene therapy: New frontiers?
• Stents: Management of bare metal and drug-eluting stents in the outpatient setting
• Innovations in health care delivery: What’s working?
• Lipid/secondary prevention clinics
• Coagulation clinics
• Device clinics

Cardiac Arrhythmias
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight

• Atrial fibrillation
• Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
• Atrial septal aneurysm and beta-blockers: Is warfarin really necessary?
• Pill in a pocket: Indications for RF ablation in 2008
• Results/complications of Maze surgery
• Role of atrial flutter ablation in patients with AF/AFL

EP 2008 Spotlight

• Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Update 2008

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Basic arrhythmia mechanisms in atrial fibrillation
• Pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation
• Getting more from the electrocardiogram
• How to incorporate remote monitoring of implantable devices into your device clinic

Cardiac Function and Heart Failure
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight

• Heart failure by the cases
• Best inotropes, best vasodilators, indications for biopsy
• Cardiorenal syndrome, prognosis, when to consider RRT
• How to evaluate viability and candidacy for surgery

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Setting up a heart failure clinic
• Risk stratification of the heart failure patient
• Quality indicators in heart failure
• Improving self-care and long-term adherence in heart failure patients
• Difficult decisions in end-stage heart failure
• Diastolic heart failure: Beyond preserved ejection fraction
• Acutely decompensated heart failure: Early gains, late losses

Imaging and Diagnostic Testing
Integrated Imaging 2008 Spotlight

• Complementary imaging in clinical decision-making
• Imaging experts unplugged: Select cases on appropriateness, quality, and payer perspectives

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Joint ACC/European Society of Cardiology symposium: How to identify asymptomatic high-risk patients using nuclear imaging, echo, MRI, and CT

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight

• Acute coronary syndromes
• Lytic and adjunctive Rx
• Regionalization of STEMI care: The case for quality
• Is ischemia-guided therapy sufficient?
• Is invasive therapy still preferred?

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Challenges in secondary prevention
• Fat to fit: Combating obesity
• Increasing activity levels
• Lower LDL, raise HDL, or both?
• Is there anything new to help my patient quit smoking?

Valvular Heart Disease
ClinCard 2008 Spotlight

• Asymptomatic valvular heart disease
• Severe aortic stenosis
• Severe mitral regurgitation
• Surgery vs. watchful waiting
• Incorporating the new antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines into your practice

Vascular Disease, Hypertension and Prevention
VHP 2008 Spotlight

• Great debates in prevention: You decide who wins, using our audience response system!
• Should patients with hypertriglyceridemia be treated to a TG goal of <150 mg/dL?
• Should patients at intermediate CHD risk be screened for preclinical disease? Carotid ultrasound or CT?
• Should all patients at increased CHD risk be treated with statins?

More ACC.08 Highlights

• Selecting initial therapy for hypertension
• Challenging cases of hyperlipidemia: One drug or more? Case-based answers