NewEra Cardiac Care 2001: Innovation and Technology
January 4-7, 2001
Dana Point, California
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Meeting Session: Op CABG: Avalanche or Apparition

	Off-Pump CABG: Flavor of the Month or New Food Group? David C. Kress, MD Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI

	To Pump or Not to Pump: Should it be an All-or-None Proposition? David A. Stump, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

	The St. Jude Medical Aortic Connector System for Proximal Vein Graft Anastomoses in the Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Thierry Carrel, MD Hospital Universitaire de Berne, Berne, Switzerland

	Preclinical Experience Performing a Stapled Proximal Aortocoronary Anastomosis without Aortic Clamping Jason M. Budde, MD Crawford Long Hospital, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

	Clinical Outcomes in 380 Consecutive Off-pump Coronary Bypass Patients: Emory Clinical Trials Vinod Thourani, MD Crawford Long Hospital, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Meeting Session: Heart Failure Innovations

	Pharmacologic Options for the Management of Heart Failure Jerrold H. Levy, MD Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

	Jarvik Heart Update O. Howard Frazier, MD Chief, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Texas Heart Institute

	Pusher Plate LVAD: Gold Standard or Antique? Mehmet C. Oz, MD Irving Fellow, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York

	Prevention of Progressive Left Ventricular Dilation in Heart Failure: Novel Surgical Approaches Hani N. Sabbah, PhD Director of Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan

	Multidimensional Visualization and Image-Guided Treatment of the Heart Richard A. Robb, PhD Faculty, Cancer Center Report - Imaging Research Program and Molecular Neuroscience Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Meeting Session: Perfusion Mini-Symposium

	Is CPB Really Bad for You? Jerrold H. Levy, MD Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

	Management of Heparin Resistance for Cardiopulmonary Bypass Mathew R. Williams, MD Columbia University-College of Physicians and Surgeons

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