DANUBE CHIP & CTO 2025 in Vienna

May 8th – 9th, 2025 | Hotel NH Danube City

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Preliminary Program

8th May 25 | Day 1

CHIP

Registration Start 07:30
Industry Breakfast Symposium 08:00 – 08:30
Welcome Address 08:45

 

Session 1: Live Cases 1 + 2 and MVD/CHIP Debate

09:00 – 11:00

Live Case 1: Cluj-Napoca
Live Case 2: Vienna AKH

In between

  • LM/MVD surgeon view, who is a surgical turn down?
  • LM/MVD cardiologist view
  • Hybrid approach
  • IVI in LM.
  • Calcium modification strategies algorithm in 2025
Back to the Live Cases 1 + 2

 

Coffee Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 11:00 – 11:30

 

Session 2: Live Case 3 and CHIP – MCS/Access Session

11:30 – 13:30

Live Case 3: Vienna KOR (Impella Case)

In between

  • Protected PCI in 2025 when and which device 
  • Impella how to… (monitoring, common alarms and measures- weaning)
  • ECMO how to… (monitoring, common alarms and measures, venting y/n, weaning)
  • Large bore access view from a cardiologist 
  • Large bore access view from a radiologist 
  • Large bore access view from a vascular surgeon
  • Alternate access: percutaneous transaxillary access – initial experiences – transcaval access
Back to the Live Case 3
Lunch Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 13:30 – 14:45

Opening ceremony with special talk Steffen Gros (Long distance pilot/Management Coach/Resilience Trainer)….

What CHIP/CTO Operators and CHIP/CTO teams can learn from Aviation standards

Session 3: Live Cases 4 + 5 and TAVI-CHIP Debate

14:45 – 16:35

Live Case 4: Pardubice
Live Case 5: Vienna AKH

In between

  • Aortic stenosis and multi vessel disease – CHIP first 
  • Aortic stenosis and multi vessel disease – TAVI first
  • Complex PCI (incl. CTO) post TAVI or with coronary anomalies 
Back to the Live Cases 4 and 5
Coffee Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 16:35 – 17:05

Session 4: Complication CHIP/CTO – selected Participant Cases

17:05 – 18:00

Best selected 5 cases

General discussion and award best case

    Conference Dinner Departure Bus 19:00

    9th May 25 | Day 2

    CTO

    Industry Breakfast Symposium 07:30 – 08:00

    Session 5: Live Cases 6 + 7 and Complication Management

    08:30 – 10:30

    Live Case 6: Basel
    Live Case 7: Vienna KOR
    • CTO post CABG pitfalls (perforation /localized tamponade…)
    • Septal hematoma management
    • Bifurcations and lost SB during CTO 
    • Entrapped gear
    Back to the Live Cases 6 + 7
    Coffee Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 10:30 – 11:00

    Session 6: Live Cases 8 + 9 and Specific Anatomies

    11:00 – 13:00

    Live Case 8: Bucharest
    Live Case 9: Vienna AKH

    In between

    • Difficult septals/epicardial crossing – strategies
    • Blunt stump and bifurcations at proximal or distal cap 
    • HDR and TDADR
    • right ventricular function: Relevance in patients with red LVEF undergoing CHIP/CTO procedures 
    Back to the Live Cases 8 + 9
    Lunch Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 13:00 – 14:30
    1x Lunch Industry Symposium 13:30 – 14:00

    Session 7 : Live case 10 and CTO Team Building

    14:30 – 16:00

    Live Case 10: Vienna KOR

    In between

    • How to start a successful CTO service 
    • Psychology of a CTO/CHIP operator/team 
    • CHIP/CTO Fellow – what do I expect from the perfect fellowship 
    • What to expect from a perfect fellow 
    Back to the Live Case 10

    Session 8 : How best assess viability before CTO Intervention

    16:00 – 16:45

    CMR
    PET-CT
    stress Echo
    How CT-can help in my CTO planning and CTO operation 
    Coffee Break & Visit to the Industrial Exhibition 16:45 – 17:15

    Session 9 : Angio review sessions

    17:15 – 18:15

    Three groups, each with three case-in-the-box sessions.

     

    Closure Ceremony/Wrap Up 18:15 – 18:30