ECTAS 2026 – Day 2 : Friday 6 February, 2026

10:00-11:40 Session 3– ECMO

Moderators: Prof. Dr Alia A.Fattah, Prof. Dr Maged Salah, Prof. Dr Mostafa Elshazly, Prof. Dr Akram Abd Elbary, Prof. Dr Mohamed Yosri

10:00 -10:20 LV Venting: Why? How? When? Suraj Yalamuri (USA)
10:20 -10:40 Ethics in ECPR, Stefan Wiebe (Germany)
10:40 -11:00 ECMO in Pulmonary Embolism, Maged Salah (Egypt)
11:00 -11:20 Novel MCS – What Else Can You Do With A Pump? Suraj Yalamuri (USA)
11:20 -11:40 The Role of ECMO in Thoracic Surgery (Virtual) Federico Piccioni ( Italy)

11:40–13:30 Friday Prayer/ Break

Workshop 5 : 12:30-16:30

Stefan Wiebe (Germany), Suraj Yalamuri (USA), Adrian Boehm (Germany) and Maged Salah (Egypt)

10:00-11:40 Session 4 – Interventional Cardiology

Moderators: Prof. Dr Nabila Abdelaziz, Prof. Dr Magdy Lotfy, A. Prof. Dr Mahmoud Tantawy, A. Prof. Dr Pierre Zarif

10:00 – 10:20 Update on Structural Heart Interventions (Virtual), Mohamed Farag (UK)
10:20 – 10:40 TAVI & TEER for the Non-Interventionist (Virtual), Mohammed Saad (UK)
10:40 – 11:00 Seconds from Disaster: High-Stakes Moments in Interventional Cardiology, Hisham Hosny (UK)- Negmeldeen Mamoun (USA)
11:00 – 11:20 Anesthesia for TAVI Procedures: The Final Call, RandaZaineldin (Egypt)
11:20 – 11:40 Hemodynamic Monitoring Strategies in Aortic Arch Surgery: Is One Arterial Line Enough to Save the Brain? Amr Hashem Elrify (Egypt)

11:40–12:30 Friday Prayer- Break

12:30 – 14:10 Session 5 – High Risk Cardiovascular Anesthesia

Moderators: Prof. Dr Magdy Mamdouh, Prof. Dr Gamal Fouad, Prof. Dr Mohamed Hamed

12:30 -12:50 Assessment of RV Function During Cardiac Surgery, Hossam Al Ashmawi (Egypt)
12:50 -13:10 Perioperative Challenges in LVAD patients anesthesia for the non beating machine, Faisal Saeed, MY Centre (Egypt)
13:10 -13:30 Predictive Laboratory Values for Outcomes After CPB (Virtual), Andrea Szekely (Hungary)
13:30 -13:50 Malperfusion Syndrome: From Recognition to Rescue (Virtual), John Augoustides (USA)
13:50-14:00 New hope for Managment of Severe Acute Decompensated Heart, Magdy Francois (Egypt)
14:00-14:10 Levobupivacaine- SLS 0.125% & Ropivacaine – SLS 0.2%: Local Anaesthetics Beyond Pain Management, Maged Salah ( Egypt)

15:00 -16:40 Session 6 – Post Operative Cardiac Care

Moderators: Prof.Dr Ashraf Rady, Prof. Ahmed Obied-Allah, Prof. Dr Mohamed Bakry

15:00 -15:20 Multimodal Pain Control for MICS, Marcus Lance (Kenya/Germany)
15:20 -15:40 Predictors of ICU Outcome and Advanced Monitoring After Cardiac Surgery, Adel Alansary (Egypt)
15:40-16:00 Medical Nutrition Therapy in Patients Receiving ECMO: Evidence -Based Guidance, Dina Soliman (Egypt)
16:00-16:20 Doxapram – SLS: Respiratory Stimulant: A Clinical Renaissance, Adel Alansary (Egypt)
16:20-16 :40 Postoperative Ischemic Stroke after Cardiac Anesthesia, Ibrahim Abubakr (Egypt)

Workshop 6 :

09:00-11:40 -TEE Simulation Workshop

Moderators: Prof. Dr Hossam El-Ashmawi, A. Prof. Dina Soliman, A. Prof.Dr Ahmed Haddad, Dr Ashraf Abdelrahim

Hossam El-Ashmawi (Egypt)

Workshop 7 :

12:30-14:00 -Workshop 7: Coagulation and POC Testing

Moderators: Prof. Dr Marcus Lance, A. Prof Dr Amr Hussein, A. Prof Dr. Mohamed Elshorbagy

Marcus Lance (Kenya /Germany)

15:00-16:30 Session 7 – On the Edge: Management of the Failing Heart

Moderators: Prof. Dr Hisham Hosny , Prof. Dr Hossam El-Ashmawi, Prof. Dr Gihan Elkholy, Prof. Dr Hesham Khedr

15:00 -15:20 Basics of Impella as MCS, Hisham Hosny (UK)
15:20 -15:40 Surgical Insertion of Impella 5.5 (Virtual), Nadeem Khwaja (UK)
15:40 -6:00 Impella at the NUTH: Lessons and Future (Virtual), Mostafa El Adawy (UK)
16:00 -16:20 The Forgotten Ventricle from Physiology to Clinical Application, Yasser Selim (Egypt)
16:20 -16:30 Open Discussion