TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

CRITICAL CARDIAC FAILURE SESSION

8:00AM	Historical Perspective on the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Heart Failure
8:30AM	Molecular/Cellular Aspects of Heart Failure and Future Considerations
8:50AM	Medical Management of Acute Heart Failure
9:10AM	Medical Management of Heart Failure in Patients With Single Ventricle Physiology
9:30AM	Hemodynamic Monitoring: Invasive, Noninvasive, Novel
9:50AM	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:10AM	BREAK
10:25AM	Pathophysiology and Treatment of Sepsis-induced Cardiovascular Failure
10:45AM	Diagnosis and Management of New Onset Heart Failure
11:05AM	Pathophysiology and Treatment of Heart Failure Complicated by Respiratory Disease
11:25AM	Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
11:45AM	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
	NEUROHORMONAL AXIS AND CRITICAL
	CARDIAC DISEASE SESSION
1:00PM	Neurohormonal Axis and Critical Cardiac Disease
1:45PM	Thyroid Dysfunction in the Critically Ill Patient
2:05PM	Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Dysfunction in the Critically Ill Patient
2:25PM	Modifying the Inflammatory Response to CPB
2:45PM	Management of Hyperglycemia and Insulin in the Cardiac ICU
3:05PM	PANEL DISCUSSION
3:30PM	BREAK
3:45PM	Neurohormonal Impact on Fluid Management (Aldosterone/BNP)
4:05PM	Hypertonic-hyperoncotic Solutions in the Post-operative Patient
4:25PM	Anesthetic Management of the Stress Response to Open-heart Surgery
4:45PM	PANEL DISCUSSION
5:00PM	ADJOURN

Committee

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Paul A. Checchia, MD, FCCM
St. Louis Children's Hospital and
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Harris P. Baden, MD
Children's Hospital and Regional
Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, USA

Ronald A. Bronicki, MD
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, USA

Anthony C. Chang, MD
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, USA

David S. Cooper, MD
All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Nancy S. Ghanayem, MD
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Therese M. Giglia, MD
Schneider Children's Hospital
New Hyde Park, New York, USA

Sylvia Göthberg, MD
The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital
Goteborg, Sweden

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD
All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Lisa Kohr, RN, MSN, CPNP
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Peter C. Laussen, MBBS
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Chandra Ramamoorthy, MD
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, USA

Dawn Tucker, MSN, PNP
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, USA