Programme topics for 2024
Timings
Thursday 26 September
11:30-20:00 hrs
Friday 27 September
08:30-15:00 hrs
Session 1:
Single sample rule out
How is it working in emergency care?
Rick Body (Manchester, UK)
What does it mean to the cardiologist
Nick Mills (Edinburgh, UK)
What does it mean to the laboratory
Paul Collinson (London, UK)
Session 2:
0-1, 0-2, 0-3 Rapid diagnostic protocols in the real world
Accelerated diagnostic pathways- The Liverpool Experience
Aleem Khand (Liverpool, UK)
HighSTEACS – Effectiveness and safety of implementing risk stratification with high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in the Emergency Department
Cass Li (Edinburgh, UK)
Experience with High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin in the Third World
Allan Jaffe (Rochester, USA)
All just robots? – Opportunities and challenges of personalized triage using machine-learning methods
Raphael Twerenbold (Hamburg, Germany)
Session 3:
And the answer is POC?
Does it do what it says on the tin – overview of system performance
Kristin Aakre (Bergen, Norway)
This talk will discuss the analytical and clinical performance of high sensitivity cardiac troponin point of care assays and compare to what is achievable for central laboratory high sensitivity troponin assays.
POC hs-cTnI – Clinical Evidence for Safe Early Rule Out
Fred Apple (Minneapolis, USA)
POC for the ED doc
Martin Than (New Zealand)
Session 4:
Chronic disease management – natriuretic peptides
Big hearts – the case for sex specific reference ranges for natriuretic peptides
Bill McEvoy (Galway, Ireland)
Natriuretic peptides – the state of the art
Rob Christenson (Baltimore, USA)
Machine learning in acute heart failure
Ken Lee (Edinburgh, UK)
Session 5:
Chronic disease management – troponin
Troponin for chronic disease – role of fragments
Saara Wittfooth (Turku, Finland)
Troponin standardisation – necessity or mirage
Rob Christenson (Baltimore, USA)
Session 6:
Cardiac biomarkers days of future passed
Personalised medicine and cardiac biomarkers – Voices from yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Fred Apple (USA)
The cardiac biomarker future?
Panel discussion
Breakout Topics:
Case-based discussions
1/ POC – How would you implement POC in the ED?
Facilitator | Richard Body
2/ Analytical validation of a low-end high sensitivity troponin for early rule out
Facilitator | Rob Christenson
3/ Biomarkers of chronic disease and sex
Facilitator | Fred Apple
Plus breakouts, lots of panel discussion, moderated poster session and networking