ECTAS 2026 – Day 3 : Saturday 7 February, 2026

ECTAS 2026 – Day 3 : Saturday 7 February, 2026

10:00-11:40 Session 8 – Challenges in Cardiac & Lung Transplant

Moderators: Prof. Dr Samir Abdullah , Prof. Dr Wael Abdelal, Prof. Dr. Adel Alansary

  • 10:00 – 10:20 How Resilient Is the Human Heart? Lessons from Cutting- Edge Cardiac Surgery, Nandor Marczin (UK)
  • 10:20-10:40 Perioperative Challenges in Heart Transplantation, Hamdy Awad, (USA)
  • 10:40-11:00 Perioperative Pain Management in Lung Transplantation, Negmeldeen Mamoun (USA)
  • 11:00-11:20 Lung Transplantation:Operative Challenges and Outcomes (Virtual), Hema Nair (UK)
  • 11:20–11:40 Open Discussion

12:30 – 14:10 Session 9– Post Operative Cardiac Challenges

Moderators: Prof. Dr Adel Abd Elfattah, Prof. Dr Ahmed El Agaty, Prof. Dr Amany Ezzat

  • 12:30 -12:50 Designing ERAS Pathways in Low-Resource Settings, Palesa Motshabi (South Africa)
  • 12:50 -13:10 Ultraminimally Invasive Strategies: Opioid-Sparing and Opioid-Free Cardiac Surgery, Mohamed El Tahan (Egypt)
  • 13:10 -13:30 Dexmedetomidine and Renal Impairment in Cardiac Surgery, Riham Salah (Egypt)
  • 13:30 -13:50 Vasoplegic Syndrome after Cardiac Surgery: Novel Predictors and Modern Managements, Mohamed Akram (Egypt)
  • 13:50-14:10 Commonly Asked Questions and Answers in Myocardial Preservation, Abla Atef (Egypt)

10:00- 11:20 Session 10 -Thoracic Anesthesia

Moderators:Prof. Dr Adel Abdel Fattah, Prof. Dr Abd Alazeem Eldawlatly, Prof. Dr Mohamed Abou Eldahab

  • 10:00-10:20 Lung Isolation Tools,Tips and Tricks, Abdel Azim Eldawlatly (Egypt)
  • 10:20-10:40 Open Hemodynamic Monitoring in Thoracic Surgery: When and How? (Virtual) Federico Piccioni (Italy)
  • 10:40 -11:00 Mechanical Power in One-Lung Ventilation: What Do We Know? (Virtual) Federico Piccioni (Italy)
  • 11:00-11:20 Open Discussion

12:30-14:00 Session 11 – Post Transplant Challenges

Moderators: Prof. Dr Hamdy Awad, Prof. Dr Nabil Askalany, Prof. Ahmed Mokhtar

  • 12:30-12:50 Will I Get an Organ? Listing Challenges to Transplant Surgery, Kevin Brennan (UK)
  • 12:50–13:10 Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in Lung Transplantation, Fawzia A. Fotouh (Egypt)
  • 13:10–13:30 Post-transplant Rejection: Detection and Prevention (Virtual), Clara Hernandez (UK)
  • 13:30-13:50 The Sequential Multiple-Hit Theory of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Lung Transplantation, Nandor Marczin (UK)
  • 13:50-14:00 Open Discussion

10:00 -11:30 Session 12 – Blood Coagulation

Moderators: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Galal, Prof. Dr Ahmed Abd Almabood, Dr Islam Shaaban

  • 10:00 -10:20 Monitoring Anticoagulation in ECMO/ECLS, Marcus Lance (Kenya/Germany)
  • 10:20 -10:30 Sonoclot in Clinical Practice: Assessing Coagulation and Platelet Function, Mohamed Anwar (Egypt)
  • 10:30 -10:50 Switching to Algorithm – Based Coagulation Practice: How to Change Culture? Ahmed Galal (Egypt/Saudi Arabia)
  • 10:50 -11:10 Revolutionizing Blood Product Management in Cardiac Surgery; Latest and Best Available Evidence, Heba Fouad (Egypt)
  • 11:10 -11:30 Open Discussion

11:40–12:30 Break

12:30 -14:00 – Workshop 8: Intraoperative Pacing After Cardiac Surgery

Organized in collaboration with the Egyptian College of Critical Care

Physicians (ECCCP)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Khaled Farouk, Dr Mahmoud Tantawy

Khaled Farouk(Egypt), Ahmed Gamal (Egypt)