2012 Canadian Cardiovascular Presentations

Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
1. / David Horne / Dion Pepelassis / Soni R
Buffo I
Lee J
Hiebert B
Pepelassis D / SUPRA-VALVULAR PULMONARY STENOSIS AFTER ARTERIAL SWITCH OPERATION: EARLY POST-OPERATIVE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PREDICTORS FOR RE-INTERVENTION
2. / David Horne / Dion Pepelassis / Pries S
Lee J
Hiebert B
Buffo I
Soni R
Pepelassis D / ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN CONGENITAL CARDIAC DISEASE IN MANITOBA
3. / Kanwal Kumar / Rakesh C. Arora / Brett Hiebert
Hilary P. Grocott
Dean D. Bell
Ryan Zarychanski
Alan H. Menkis / WHAT IS THE COST OF BETTER CARE FOR PATIENTS POST-CARDIAC SURGERY? 24/7 IN-HOUSE CONSULTANT STAFFING IS A COST-EFFECTIVE MODEL
4. / Li Zhang / David B. Ross / Shinya Ugaki
Mohammed M. Al-Aklabi, Ivan M. Rebeyka / SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF INFANT TRANSPOSITION OF THE GREAT ARTERIES WITH VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT AND PULMONARY STENOSIS: NIKAIDOH VERSUS RASTELLI
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
5. / Erin Karlstedt / Davinder Jassal / Anjala Chelvanathan, Megan DaSilva, Kelby Cleverley, Kanwal Kumar, Navdeep Bhullar, Matthew Lytwyn, Sheena Bohonis, Sacha Oomah, Roman Nepomuceno, Xiaozhou Du, Steve Melnyk, Matthew Zeglinski, Robin Ducas, Mehdi Sefidgar, Scott Mackenzie, Sat Sharma, Iain D. Kirkpatrick, Davinder S. Jassal / Myocardial Fibrosis in Marathon Athletes: A Marker of Occult Coronary Artery Disease
6. / Anjala Chelvanathan / Farrukh Hussain / D. Allen
R. Philipp
J. Ducas
K. Minhas
M. Vo
M. Kass
G. Parmar
A. Ravandi
D. Jassal / Predictors of Good Neurologic Outcome Based on the CPC Score (Cerebral Performance Category) in Post Cardiac Arrest Return of Circulation Patients Undergoing Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia and Catheterization: The Importance of Immediate CPR
7. / Kiranjit Sran / Darren Freed / Yun Li , Saeid Ghavami, Melanie Ngo, Rakesh Arora, Lorrie KIrschenbaum, Darren Freed / DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF LIPOPHILIC VERSUS HYDROPHILIC STATINS ON SURVIVAL OF HUMAN ATRIAL FIBROBLASTS IN VITRO
8. / Anjala Chelvanathan / Farrukh Hussain / D. Allen, R Philipp, J. Ducas,
K Minhas, M. Vo, M. Kass,
G. Parmar / Predictors of Discharge Home Post Cardiac Arrest – A Pre-Specified Analysis of the Return of Spontaneous Circulation, Cooling and Catheterization Registry (ROSCCC Registry)
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
9. / Karen Schnell-Hoehn
Josette Berard
Sheila Bowles
Alan Menkis
Maureen Kuppe / Moving Beyond Written Words: Addressing Educational Needs of the Cardiac Surgery Population
10. / Chris Kuttnig
Irene Nazarevich
Lorraine Avery
Estrellita-Estrella Holder
Sheila Bowles / Supporting cardiac sciences nurses through nursing leadership council
11. / Kimberly Jabusch
Barbara Lewthwaite
Lynda Mandzuk
Karen Schnell-Hoehn
Barbara Wheeler / Pain Prevalence among In-Hospital Patients
12. / Davinder Jassal / Davinder Jassal / Xiaozhou Du, Zhaohui Zhao, Khuong Le, Tiffany Nicholson, Chun Y. Goh, Sheena Bohonis, Mohammed H. Moghadasian / Does Fish Oil Consumption Reduce Cardiovascular Complications in APOE Deficient Mice?
13. / Thang Nguyen / Thang Nguyen / BL Abramson
A. Galluzzi
M. Tan
AT Yan
SG Goodman / Temporal Trends and Factors Associated with Referral for Cardiac Rehabilitation Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome: Insights from the Canadian Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Grace)
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
14. / Christopher White / Darren Freed / Darren Freed, Christopher White, Rakesh C. Arora, Johann Strumpher / AORTO-RIGHT ATRIAL FISTULA COMPLICATING ACUTE TYPE A DISSECTION: A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
15. / Ben Arenson / Rakesh C. Arora / Hiebert B, MacDonald L, Grocott HP / THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPLEMENTING A SYSTEMATIC SCREENING TOOL TO IMPROVE IDENTIFICATION OF DELIRIUM AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY
16. / Yoan Lamarche, Marie Page, Rakesh C. Arora / Rakesh C. Arora / CANCARE / CCCN / Cardiac Advanced Life Support Demonstration
17. / Karen Schnell-Hoehn
Estrellita Estrella-Holder
Lorraine Avery / Cardiac Nurses’ Knowledge of Palliative Care at a Tertiary Care Facility
18. / David Horne / Rakesh C. Arora / Kehler S
Kaoukis G
Hiebert B
Garcia E
Duhamel TA
Arora RC / DEPRESSION AND CARDIAC SURGERY: PREDICTORS AND THE IMPACT OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
19. / Anjala Chelvanathan / Farrukh Hussain / D. Allen
R. Philipp
J. Ducas
K. Minhas
M. Vo
M. Kass
G. Parmar
A. Ravandi
D. Jassal / Return of Spontaneous Circulations (ROSC), Cooling and Catheterization Registry (ROSCCC Registry) – Outcomes and Predictors of In-hospital Mortality in Witnessed Cardiac Arrest Patients Undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia and Cardiac Catheterization
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
20. / Anjala Chelvanathan / Farrukh Hussain / D. Allen
R. Philipp
J. Ducas
K. Minhas
M. Vo
M. Kass
G. Parmar
A. Ravandi
D. Jassal / Incidence and Outcomes of Patients with Pneumonia Post Cardiac Arrest – a Pre-Specified Analysis of the Return of Spontaneous Circulation, Cooling and Cauterization Registry (ROSCCC Registry)
21. / Jacques Rizkallah / James Tam / Megan Jack, Mahwash Saeed, Leigh Ann Shafer / Evaluation of Non-Invasive Bedside Techniques to Assess Right-Atrial Pressure: With the Tradition Continue?
22. / Manji RA / Jacobsohn E / Grocott HP
Menkis AH / AORTIC SURGERY PATIENTS WITH A POSITIVE HIT ELISA ARE AT INCREASED RISK OF THROMBOSIS
23. / Rakesh C. Arora / Rakesh C. Arora / CANCARE Society Investigator Group / CHARACTERIZING INTENSIVE CARE PHYSICIAN STAFFING MODELS IN THE CARE OF THE POSTOPERATIVE CARDIAC SURGICAL PATIENT
24. / Manji RA / Jacobsohn E / Grocott HP
Menkis AH / SEIZURES POST CARDIAC SURGERY: IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AND INTERMEDIATE TERM OUTCOMES
25. / Manji RA / Menkis AH / Witt J / IS IT MORE COST-EFFECTIVE TO USE STEROIDS OR COLCHICINE IN PATIENTS AT MODERATE TO HIGH RISK FOR ATRIAL FIBIRILLATION TO PREVENT POST- CARDIAC SURGERY ATRIAL FIBRILLATION?
26. / Dr. Rakesh Arora / Session Chair – Critical Care
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
27. / David Horne / Rohit Singal / Minnaar C
Hiebert B
Arora RC,
Singal R / POST-CARDIAC SURGERY CARE: WHAT DOES THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN KNOW?
28 / Christopher White / Rakesh C. Arora / Lillian Koley
Sandra Christie
Brett Hiebert
Jo-Ann Sawatzky
Nettie Strople
Debbie Marcynuk
Les Proulx
Michelle Todoruk Orchard
Colleen Rand
Michelle Meade
Sora Ludwig
Darren H. Freed / IMPACT OF ELEVATED PREOPERATIVE HEMOGLOBIN A1C, INTENSIVE DIABETES MANAGEMENT, AND TARGETED WOUND SURVEILLANCE ON THE INCIDENCE OF POST-DISCHARGE SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY
29. / Colette Seifer / Structured History to Diagnose and Risk Stratify Syncope
30. / Bernard MacDonald, Greg Schnell, David Nagpal / Rakesh C. Arora / CANCARE Society / CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE - A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WHO, WHEN, WHERE AND HOW TO USE MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT (MCS) FOR CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
31. / Steven Melnyk / Davinder Jassal / Robin Ducas, Jason Elliott, Sheena Bohonis, Megan Da Silva, Kelby Cleverley, Mehdi Sefidgar, Scott Mackenzie, Michael Helewa, Davinder S. Jassal / Effects of Normal Pregnancy on Cardiovascular Remodeling as Assessed by Echocardiography and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Insights from the CHIRP Study

Heart Failure/ Transplant/ VAD

Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co-Authors / Abstract Title
1. / Paul Mundt / Dr. Darren Freed / Dr. Shelley Zieroth
Louise Dyck CPC CCP
Dr. A. Menkis / Initiation and Management of an MCS Program in a Non-Transplant Centre
2. / Chris White / Darren Freed / Christopher White
Ayyaz Ali
Bo Xiang
Simon Colah
Paul Mundt
Rakesh C. Aroara
Trevor Lee
Steven Large
Ganghon Tian / A normokalemic non-depolarizing cardioplegia minimizes myocardial injury and improves cardiac function in a large animal model of donation after cardio-circulatory death
3. / Shelley Zieroth / Session Chair – Clinical Cases in Heart Failure
4. / Estrellita-Estrella-Holder / Shelley Zieroth / Rosalie Grant
Francisco Cordova-Perez
Lorraine Avery
Dean Luchik
Rhea Vaags-Olafson
Amrit Malik / Automatic cardiac rehabilitation referral: A strategy for meeting the national guidelines and needs of heart failure patients.
5. / Kiranjit Sran / Darren Freed / Sran KK
Li Y
Ghavami S
Ngo MA
Arorar RC
Kirshenbaum LA / Differential effect of lipophilic versus hydrophilic statins on survival of human atrial fibroblasts in vitro sussion
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co-Authors / Abstract Title
6. / Chris White / Shelley Zieroth / R. Ariano
D. Delgado
H. Ross / Pharmacokinetics of Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus in cardiac transplant patients with diabetes
7. / Lorraine Avery
Jo-Ann Sawatzky / Jo-Ann Sawatzky / Shelley Zieroth
Darren Freed
Francisco Cordova
Shari Barker
Louise Frechette
Rhonda Findlater
Lisa Bowen
Ashleigh Shearer
Debbie Debrouwere / Left ventricular devices (LVADS): optimizing care for the caregiver
8. / Mahwash Saeed / Shelley Zieroth / Vince Lim
Pram Tappia
Francisco Cordova-Perez
Amrit Malik
C. Rigatto
L. Shafer
M. Sood / Urinary NGAL is not associated with renal function changes or hospitalization in ambulatory heart failure patients
9. / Mahwash Saeed / Shelley Zieroth / Vince Lim
Amrit Malik
Francisco Cordova-Perez
Pram Tappia
C. Rigatto
L. Shafer
M. Sood / Serial measures of the fractional excretion of urea(FEurea), fractional excretion of sodium (FEna)and the urea/creatinine ratio (UCr) for predicting changes in renal function in ambulatory heart failure patients
Presenting Author / Senior Author / Co Authors / Abstract Title
10. / Mahwash Saeed / Shelley Zieroth / Vince Lim
Pram Tappia
Francisco Cordova-Perez
Amrit Malik
C. Rigatto
L. Shafer
M. Sood / Change in Renal Function and Association with acute hospitalization in chronic ambulatory heart failure
11. / Estrellita Estrella-Holder / Shelley Zieroth / Rosalie Grant
Dawn Barker
Sandi Chartrand
Michelle Hammond
Kelly Brink
Rhonda Fusee
Nicole Bonomo
Amrit Malik
Francisco Cordova / The Facts vs. Fiction of Medication Reconciliation: A Medication Discrepancy Audit in an Ambulatory Heart Failure Clinic.
12. / Rosalie Grant / Francisco Cordova Perez / Estrellita Estrella-Holder
Kelly Lewington
Kerri Liebrecht
Amrit Malik
Shelley Zieroth / Cardiovascular Nurses: The key factor in the success of the first Canadian Heart Failure Remote Monitoring Clinic.
13. / Tony Wassef / Francisco Cordova Perez / Shelley Zieroth
Amrit Malik / A First in Canada: The St. Boniface Hospital Heart Failure Remote Monitoring Clinic Experience.

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