Meet the Experts Sessions
WoCoVA ‘Meet the Experts’ is a GloVANet/WoCoVA online educational learning opportunity with its topic of interest being Vascular Access. There has been held four ‘Meet the Experts’ sessions in between the 5th WoCoVA in Copenhagen and the 6th WoCoVA in Athens. Each session contained 2 topics, lasting 45 minutes, half of the time for an introduction presentation and the other half for Q&A’s. All sessions of Meet the Experts have been made accessible to watch here below.
Meet the Experts 1
The 1st Meet the Experts Session was 15th September 2020
Programme
How to prevent and treat lumen occlusion – Christian Dupont (FR)
How to prevent and treat catheter-related thrombosis – Sergio Bertoglio (IT)
Hosts: Marguerite Stas (BE) & Mauro Pittiruti (IT)
Watch the video and the presentations below.
Meet the Experts 2
The 2nd Meet the Experts Session was 24th November 2020
Programme
How to prevent and treat dislodgment – Matthew Ostroff (US)
How to verify tip location of central venous access: State of the art – Mauro Pittiruti (IT)
Hosts: Fulvio Pinelli (IT) & Ken Symington (US)
Watch the video and the presentations below
Meet the Experts 3
The 3rd Meet the Experts Session was 19th of January 2021
Programme
How to prevent catheter-related infections: strategies before and during VAD insertion – Giancarlo Scoppettuolo (IT)
How to prevent catheter-related infections: strategies during VAD maintenance – Marcia Ryder (US)
Hosts Nancy Moureau (US) & Josie Stone (US)
Watch the video and the presentations below.
Meet the Experts 4
The 4th Meet the Experts Session was 9th of March 2021
Programme
How to organize and manage a Vascular Access Team (VAT) – Ton van Boxtel (NL)
How to choose the best VAD in non-hospitalized patients – Paolo Cotogni (IT)
Hosts: Evangelos Konstantinou (GR) & Gloria Ortiz Miluy (ES)
Watch the video and the presentations below.
Meet the Experts 5
The 5th Meet the Experts Session was 14th of March 2023
Programme
VAD Securement – State of the Art.
Subcutaneous anchorage of PICCs – Fabrizio Brescia (IT)
VAD securement in neonates and children – Amanda Ullman (AU)
Current options for VAD securement – Evan Alexandrou (AU)
Host: Ton van Boxtel (NL)
Watch the recording and the presentations below
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