The AICT 2014 is a Great Success

picture The AICT 2014 is a Great Success

The 10th Asian Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics has been started. This event was held in Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Mega Kuningan, Jakarta. More than 500  participants from all over Asia are participating in this annual international cardiology event. After the opening ceremony, there are four presentations in each ballroom which present various interventional topics, including Update in Mitral Clip, Complications in coronary intervention, Imaging and Physiology Summit for Complex Lession Intervention, Complex PCI, and Live demo from many Cardiac Center in Asia. Thefirst day of 10th AICT closed with gala dinner which held in JW Marriott Hotel

The second day of the 10th AICT began with 4 main topics in each ballroom. One of the interesting topics is about Improving STEMI Outcomes and Creating STEMI Networks which was led by Sunarya Soerinata, MD and Sameer Mehta, MD. All participants were invited to discuss about therapeutic procedural in complex STEMI cases and no less importantly about challenge to create good prehospitally STEMI management including making a STEMI network to improve STEMI patient refferal and the use of telemedicine technology as being used in Latin America as a choice of STEMI patient’s delay problems. After the lunch break, the scientific meeting continued with different session such as CTO session, imaging for cardiovascular interventional, serious complication in cardiovascular intervention and live demo from other cardiac center in Asia.

The last day spent with a half-day meeting program at the 10th AICT 2014. AICT-EUROPCR joint session take largely part of this 3rd day congress. The symposium closed by a closing ceremony.