08.15 – 09.00

Registration Opens, Refreshments & Trade Exhibition

09.00 – 10.30

Session 5 | Free Paper Presentations

10.30 – 11.00

Refreshments, Trade Exhibition & Scientific Poster Viewing

11.00 – 12.30

Session 6

Unit Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery – What has changed?

Mr Simon Kendall, South Tees & Mr Niall O'Keeffe, Manchester

Cytokine Adsorption

Dr Nicholas Lees, London

Cardiac ERAS - The Leipzig Experience

Prof Massimiliano Meineri, Leipzig

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch, Trade Exhibition, Scientific Poster Viewing & AGM

13.30 – 15.00

Session 7

An Update on the Management of Advanced Heart Failure

Dr Jonathan Dalzell, Glasgow

Viruses of Bacteria as Novel Antimicrobials

Prof Martha Clokie, Leicester

Photonics for Robotic Surgical Guidance

Dr Mario Giardini, Glasgow

15.00 – 15.30

Refreshments, Trade Exhibition & Scientific Poster Viewing

15.30 – 17.00

Session 8

Where is Robotic-assisted Technology Taking Surgery

Mr Sasha Stamenkovic, London

Newer Trunk Blocks and their (Potential) Use in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr Iain Thomson, Glasgow

Controversies in the Practice of Intraoperative Transoesophageal Echocardiography

Dr Giuseppe Bozzetti, Glasgow