Optimize Patient Care
Case-Based Studies
Up to 20 hours of Continuing Education
Concentrated Exposure to the Most Contemporary Concepts in CLI Treatment
CME Courses Designed for General and Vascular Surgeons, Primary Care Providers, Interventional Cardiologists, Interventional Radiologists, Podiatrists, Wound Care Specialists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Nephrologists, Diabetologists, Mid-Level Providers and Affiliated Staff Assigned to the Interventional Suite
This learning objectives in this CME course include:
- Recognize the patient at risk for significant tissue loss and develop an efficient, comprehensive diagnostic strategy that directs the patient to appropriate therapeutic options.
- Understand the role of various limb preservation strategies and how to employ them to minimize tissue loss in the at risk patient.
- Understand and describe the anatomic substrates associated with various presentations of CLI with reference to the angiosome model.
- Understand and employ Color Duplex imaging as an adjunct to vascular access to the appropriate angiosome.
- Recognize the anatomic substrates in which multiple access intervention may be advantageous.
- Recognize, describe and effectively prevent or deal with common complications of endovascular procedures.
- Develop an efficient, cost effective interventional inventory for the Limb Preservation Program.
- Identify the necessary components of an effective Limb Preservation Program.
- Identify and effectively triage or manage the various classes of lower extremity ulcers encountered in a Limb Preservation referral practice.
- Describe and appropriately employ the various tissue modification technologies available for the treatment of the CLI patient.
- Understand and acknowledge the desirability of a multidisciplinary approach to Limb Preservation.
Event Pricing
Physicians
- Early Bird Pricing ($495) before April 30, 2018.
- Save 5% with QxMD Discount Code – QxASCENT05
Non-Physicians
- Early Bird Pricing ($295) before April 30, 2018.
- Save 5% with QxMD Discount Code – QxASCENT05
Resident/Fellow
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Selected Speakers
Robert McLafferty, MD
Chief of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Health Care System Professor of Surgery, Div of Vascular Surgery
Mehdi Shishebor, DO, PhD, MPH
Director of the Cardiovascular Interventional Center
Enoch Huang, MD
Medical Director, Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine Adventist Medical Center
Desmond Bell, DPM, CWS
Executive Director, The Save a Leg, Save a Life Foundation
Frequently Asked Questions
Pricing
Non-physicians: $295/$395 before/after April 30, 2018.
Residents/Fellows: $100.
5% discount applied during registration by using discount code QxASCENT05 . *Pricing in USD
Where is the course located?
Which sessions are included in the course?
Registration & Breakfast
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM |
Registration and Industry Sponsored Breakfast Meeting: Non-CME Event
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Day 1 Morning: Fundamental Concepts in PAD and CLI
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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8:10 AM – 8:20 AM |
Imaging Modalities Guide Selection of Treatment Options for CLI
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8:20 AM – 8:30 AM |
CLI and USA/ACS: Why All Interventionists Should be Interested in Treating Both
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8:30 AM – 8:40 AM |
Screening for PAD and Identifying CLI: Classification Systems and Implications
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8:40 AM – 8:50 AM |
Economic Cost of Venous Insufficiency, PAD and CLI: “Cost is What You Pay. Value is What You Get.”
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8:50 AM – 9:00 AM |
Optimal Medical Therapy for Patients with CLI
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9:00 AM – 9:10 AM |
The Physical Examination in PAD and CLI: The Basics are Still Important
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9:10 AM – 9:20 AM |
Correctly Identifying Lower Extremity Ulcers is Critical in CLI
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9:20 AM – 9:30 AM |
Relationship of Pedal Ulcers to Amputation in CLI (and, sometimes CVI)
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9:30 AM – 9:40 AM |
Clinical Evaluation of the Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcer
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9:40 AM – 9:50 AM |
The Role of Non-invasive Physiologic Testing in Diagnosis, Treatment and Follow-up of CLI
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9:50 AM – 10:00 AM |
Up and Coming Techniques in Assessing Limb Perfusion: What’s in the Pipeline?
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Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM |
Break: Refreshments in the Technology and Treatment Display Area
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Day 1 Morning: Fundamental Concepts in PAD and CLI
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM |
Diagnosing and Dealing With Osteomyelitis in CLI
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10:30 AM – 10:40 AM |
Risk Stratifying the CLI Patient: The WIFI System
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10:40 AM – 10:50 AM |
When is it Time to Refer the Patient with a Lower Extremity Ulcer to a Vascular Specialist?
(What are you waiting for?)
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10:50 AM – 11:00 AM |
Prognosis of the Patient with Advanced Rutherford Category CLI
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11:00 AM – 11:30 AM |
The Inflammatory Response in CLI. Possible Implications of CANTOS for this Population
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11:30 AM – 11:40 AM |
Support Your Local Wound Clinic. Why Your Hospital Might Want to Invest in One
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11:40 AM – 11:50 AM |
The Role of Multidisciplinary Care in Chronic Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI)
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11:50 AM – 12:00 PM |
What is the Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Management of CLI?
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Lunch
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
Industry Sponsored Lunch Meeting: Non-CME Event
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Traditional and Novel Approaches to Treating CLI
1:00 PM – 1:10 PM |
Application of the Angiosome Concept in Diagnosis and Planning Treatment of CLI
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1:10 PM – 1:20 PM |
An Approach to the Patient Who Fails to Progress with Therapy for CLI
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1:20 PM – 1:30 PM |
Appropriate Follow-up of the Limb Salvage Patient: Immediate, Intermediate, Long Term
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1:30 PM – 1:40 PM |
Complications of Vascular Access. Identifying and Treating Them Efficiently
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1:40 PM – 1:50 PM |
Single Setting vs. Staged Revascularization for Multisegmental Disease in CLI
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1:50 PM – 2:00 PM |
Are We Making Progress in Treating CLI. The State of Affairs in 2018
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2:00 PM – 2:10 PM |
How Will Large Registries Improve the Care of Patients with CLI?
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2:10 PM – 2:20 PM |
Avoiding Complications in CLI Intervention
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2:20 PM – 2:30 PM |
Institutional and Community Benefits of a CLI Program
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2:30 PM – 2:45 PM |
Speaker Summary of the Day and Discussion
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Reception
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM |
Faculty and Attendee Reception: Umpqua Valley Wine and Hors d’oeuvres
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Friday, June 8, 2018
Registration & Breakfast
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM |
Registration and Industry Sponsored Breakfast Meeting: Hands-on Atherectomy Workshop
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Clinical Concepts and New Information About CLI
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM |
CLI Patients Need a Home – Importance of the Would Care Clinic in All Phases of Treatment
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8:10 AM – 8:20 AM |
Extreme Extremity Salvage
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8:20 AM – 8:30 AM |
Timing Revascularization for the Non-Healing, Infected Limb
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8:30 AM – 8:40 AM |
Clinical Utility of Ultrasound Guided Access – Everywhere
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8:40 AM – 8:50 AM |
Duplex Guided Tibiopedal Access – Why You Must Master This Technique for Optimal Outcomes
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8:50 AM – 9:00 AM |
Extreme Access: How and Why?
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9:00 AM – 9:10 AM |
Importance of Understanding Plaque Morphology in Treating CLI
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9:10 AM – 9:20 AM |
Emerging BTK Therapies: Bullfrog and others
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9:20 AM – 9:30 AM |
Psychosocial Aspects of CLI
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9:30 AM – 10:00 AM |
Latest Data on DEB’s in the Treatment of SFA Disease
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Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM |
Break: Refreshments in the Technology and Therapy Suite
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Clinical Concepts and New Information About CLI
10:20 AM – 10:30 AM |
CLI Due to Aorto Iliac Disease: Approaches and Techniques for Crossing CTO’s
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10:30 AM – 10:40 AM |
Treating CLI Due to SFA Occlusive Disease and Respecting the Profunda
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10:40 AM – 10:50 AM |
A New System for Classifying Restenosis in the SFA
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10:50 AM – 11:00 AM |
Options for Treating Common Femoral Arterial Disease. A Decision Matrix
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11:00 AM – 11:10 AM |
How Much Runoff is Enough? Is Straight Line Flow Adequate?
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11:10 AM – 11:20 AM |
Post Revascularization Reperfusion Injury in CLI. Does it Occur? Can it be Treated?
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11:20 AM – 11:30 AM |
Wound Mechanics: What is a Chronic Wound? How Should we Evaluate and Treat?
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11:30 AM – 11:40 AM |
What Makes Heel Ulcers so Difficult to Manage? (In the Cath Lab and Wound Clinic?)
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11:40 AM – 11:50 AM |
When is Amputation the Appropriate Choice?
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11:50 AM – 12:00 PM |
Speaker Panel Discussion
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Lunch
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM |
Industry Sponsored Lunch Meeting: Non-CME Event
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Interventional Tool Box – What You Need to Succeed
1:00 PM – 1:10 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Access Sheaths, Crossing Sheaths and Catheters
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1:10 PM – 1:20 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Understanding Guidewires and Selecting the Right Tool for the Job
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1:20 PM – 1:30 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Balloons (POBA, Scoring, Scaffolded, Drug Coated)
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1:30 PM – 1:40 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Devices to Modify, Macerate, Vaporize and Evacuate Plaque
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1:40 PM – 1:50 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Crossing Devices. Still in the Inventory
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1:50 PM – 2:00 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: OCT Guided Plaque Excision – The Panther is Loose.
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2:00 PM – 2:10 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: Filters, Aspiration Devices, EKOS and more
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2:10 PM – 2:20 PM |
Interventional Toolbox: The Changing Role of Stents in Treating PAD and CLI
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2:20 PM – 2:30 PM |
Adjourn
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2:30 PM – 4:00 PM |
Chalk Talk: ASCENT Half Time Case Based Treatment Strategy Session
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2:30 PM – 4:00 PM |
Symposium for Cath Lab Personnel
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Dinner
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Industry Sponsored Dinner Presentation: Non-CME Event
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
Breakfast
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM |
Industry Sponsored Breakfast Meeting: Non-CME Event
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Bringing It All Together – Case-Based Learning
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM |
Interventional Treatment of Aortoiliac Disease causing CLI
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8:10 AM – 8:20 AM |
CLI Due to Common Femoral, SFA, Popliteal Disease
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8:20 AM – 8:30 AM |
Acute Limb Ischemia: You Need Time, Vision and Tools. Unique Cases
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8:30 AM – 8:40 AM |
Use of Laser Atherectomy in CLI: Case and Relevant Data
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8:40 AM – 8:50 AM |
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Orbital Atherectomy Conquers Calcium: Case and Relevant Data
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8:50 AM – 9:00 AM |
Multiple Accesses and Devices in Treatment of CLI: Case and Relevant Data
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9:00 AM – 9:10 AM |
Use of the Jetstream Device in CLI: Case and Relevant Data
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9:10 AM – 9:20 AM |
Directional Atherectomy and DEB: What is the Supporting Data?
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9:20 AM – 9:30 AM |
DES and DEB in CLI. Review of the Data Sets
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9:20 AM – 9:30 AM |
The Role of Distal Embolic Protection and Aspiration Thrombectomy in CLI
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9:30 AM – 9:40 AM |
Case of OCT Guided Plaque Excision with Pantheris in CLI
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9:40 AM – 9:50 AM |
The Role of Covered Stents in CLI
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9:50 AM – 10:00 AM |
Speaker Panel Discussion
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Coffee Break
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM |
Break: Refreshments in the Technology and Therapy Display Area
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Bringing It All Together – Case-Based Learning
10:10 AM – 10:20 AM |
CART, Reverse CART and Rendezvous Techniques
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10:20 AM – 10:30 AM |
The TAMI Technique for Treating CLI
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10:30 AM – 10:40 AM |
Femoral Tibial Bypass for CLI: Patient Selection, Technique and Outcomes
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10:40 AM – 10:50 AM |
Plaque Extraction with the Phoenix Atherectomy Device
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10:50 AM – 11:00 AM |
Multiple Access Interventions for CLI
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11:00 AM – 11:10 AM |
Trans-Stent Mid SFA Access: Surprisingly Easy and Effective
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11:10 AM – 11:20 AM |
Intervention Below the Ankle: Resurrecting the Pedal Arch
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11:20 AM – 11:30 AM |
Extreme Access for Retrograde Tibial Revascularization in CLI
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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM |
Cath Lab Catastrophes: Shared Cases for Learning
Root cause analysis, recommendations and discussions with the experts.
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Lunch
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM |
Industry Sponsored Lunch Meeting: Wound Management Symposium
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2:30 PM – 3:00 PM |
Summary and Adjourn
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