SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

Schedule of Events

CRITICAL TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR ACUTE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Consensus Guidelines
8:00AM	Historical Overview
8:20AM	State of the Art: Pathophysiology and Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Hypertension in the Newborn
8:40AM	Fundamentals of Diagnosis
9:00AM	Fundamentals of Management
9:20AM	Pre-operative Risk Factors for Death: When Is the PVR Too High to Safely Operate?
9:40AM	BREAK
10:00AM	iNO
10:25AM	cGMP-related Drugs
10:50AM	Prostacyclin Analogs
11:15AM	Endothelin Receptor Antagonists, Steroids, Anticoagulation, and Calcium Channel Blockers
11:40AM	Future Directions