Pacific Northwest Endovascular Conference (PNEC) 2016

Pacific Northwest Endovascular Conference (PNEC) 2016 is organized by Pacific Northwest Endovascular Conference (PNEC) and would be held on May 26, 2016 at Seattle, Washington, United States of America. The targeted audience for this medical meeting basically for vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, interventional cardiologists, nurses and other physicians and healthcare providers involved in endovascular procedures.

The Pacific Northwest Endovascular Conference (PNEC) is designed to provide an educational program of exceptional quality focused on the latest technologies and techniques in vascular and endovascular surgery. Aortic pathology, carotid disease, peripheral vascular disease and quality improvement treatment methods, as well as data from recently completed and ongoing clinical trials will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, the learner should be able to:

1. Identify appropriate treatment methods for complex aortic pathology
2. Recognize the difference in medical management and operative treatment for aortic dissection.
3. Judge whether drug-coated balloons have shown a benefit since its release
4. Analyze strategies to treat patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI)
5. Assess different drug treatment strategies for lower extremity pathology
6. Identify techniques to assist in smoking cessation
7. Describe the implications of the “Sunshine Act”