SIS 2011 Cardiology Nurse/Tech Symposium

The 9th Annual SIS Cardiology Nurse/Tech Symposium offers a comprehensive, in-depth educational experience for Registered Nurses, ARNPs, PA-Cs, cath lab technicians, and other allied healthcare professionals who manage cardiovascular patients in the cath lab, operating room, ICU, CCU, telemetry and other associated areas

With the overwhelming success of the Bioskills labs, we are bringing back the hands-on dissection of pig hearts. Attendees will have the opportunity to work with local expert faculty who will review cardiac anatomy and physiology using pig hearts. This evening event takes place on Thursday, April 28th and is held in the state-of-the-art BioSkills Lab at the Seattle Science Foundation. Space is limited.

On Friday, April 29th the symposium will feature didactic presentations and four BioSkills sessions to choose from. The BioSkills Sessions feature updates and demonstrations on the advances in cardiac interventional and surgical technologies and techniques using cadaveric specimens (including neck, great vessels, brain, carotid stents, radial and brachial arteries, SFA, SVG, aorta, pelvis, renal, iliac, prosthetic valves – aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement; PFO, ASD; and a display and demonstration of numerous devices and stents used in interventional and cardiovascular surgery). For those attendees not able to participate in the Thursday evening anatomy and physiology review, there will be a table with pig hearts and expert faculty to guide you through the dissection.

We hope you will take this opportunity to learn about the latest advances in devices, technologies, and therapies, to congregate with your colleagues, share clinical experiences, and exchange new ideas and information, which are essential for the proper care and treatment of the cardiovascular patient.

Welcome to SIS 2011!

Susan L. Reed, M.N., ARNP SIS Course Director
Mark Reisman, M.D. SIS Course Director
R. Jeffrey Westcott, M.D. SIS Course Director
SIS in Action Dr. Barnhart sutures in a replacement mitral valve.