Preventive Cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation & Sports Cardiology

Preventive Cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation & Sports Cardiology is organized by European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) and would be held during Nov 20 - 23, 2017 at Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.

The target audience for this medical event for multidisciplinary team of specialists working in the field of secondary prevention, cardiac rehabilitation, and sports cardiology, encompassing cardiologists, sports physicians, physiotherapists, sports scientists and nurses. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 24 hours of European external CME Credits.

Educational objectives are :
• Learn to set up and run a modern preventive programme, including exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in cardiac patients with and without heart failure.
• Learn how to implement a multidisciplinary approach (exercise prescription, smoking cessation, nutrition and psychosocial counselling).
• optimal medical therapy
• patients with a high cardiovascular risk
• exercise testing
• exercise training and long-term management
• sports cardiology and sports in patients with cardiac diseases
• new frontiers and modern concepts in secondary prevention

The content of the course covers essential knowledge on secondary prevention, cardiac rehabilitation (including rehabilitation of heart failure patients), and sports cardiology according to the Core Curriculum for the European Cardiologist. The course approach is practical, including plenary discussion rounds, workshops, hands-on sessions, and live demonstrations of exercise testing and training.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.