Events Hirslanden Heart Team Workshop
Get tips to advance towards an efficient and collaborative Heart Team for TAVI, TEER, and surgical cases. Understand its critical role, structure, setup, and decision-making.
The course is exclusively open to candidates holding:
- Specialization in Cardiac Surgery;
- Specialization in Anesthesia, Resuscitation, Intensive Care and Painy;
- Specialization in Diseases of the Cardiovascular Systemy; or
- The same specializations related to previous denominations/systems.
To offer a more in-depth experience, the number of participants is limited to about 4 attendees or 5 from a single center.
Dates:
- Dec 10 – 11, 2026
Day 1
12:00 – 13:00 | 1 h
Welcome Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 | 1 h
Heart Team Learnings
- Why a Heart Team
- How we built a Heart Team
- Added value for patients
- Heart Team Q&A
14:00 – 15:00 | 1 h
Heart Team Meeting
- Technical introduction on decision-making
- Echocardiography / CT imaging
- Case Presentation Nr. 1 / MiSAVR
- Case Presentations Nr. 2 & 3 / TAVI & TEER
- 2021 EACTS/ESC guidelines update
- 3mensio case discussion
- Interventional Echocardiography: CT-scan in the setting of TAVI, followed by a discussion
- Postoperative care
15:00 – 16:00 | 1 h
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | 1 h 30 min
Transfer to hotel and check-in
17:30 – 18:00 | 30 min
Transfer to dinner venue
18:00
Group dinner with discussion of workshop key learnings
Day 2
08:00 – 09:00 | 1 h
Live case attendance – TAVI
09:15 – 09:30 | 15 min
Live case attendance – MiSAVR
09:15 – 09:30 | 15 min
Coffee break
09:30 – 11:00 | 1 h 30 min
Live case attendance – TEER
11:00 – 11:45 | 45 min
Case debrief, procedure tips & tricks, and key learnings
11:45
Lunch
Jürg Grünenfelder
Zurich, Switzerland
Roberto Corti
