We are pleased to invite you to the Annual EPCCS CV Summit for Primary Care & 10th annual EPCCS scientific meeting , an initiative of the European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (EPCCS) to be held on March 15-16, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.

CV Summit &10th EPCCS Annual Scientific meeting

The EPCCS CV Summit & 10th Annual EPCCS Scientific is an educational opportunity for those working in primary care with an interest in cardiovascular disease, the single most important disease presenting to primary care physicians. It is the only European conference specifically aimed at primary care with a single focus on cardiovascular disease. Benefit from updates, reviews, and debates at this international forum, which addresses issues and challenges that primary care professionals face in daily practice

Annual EPCCS CV Summit for Primary Care

The CV Summit for Primary Care provides updates, consensus and guidance towards European primary care professionals. Primary care professionals with a special interest in cardiovascular disease are invited as participants to the meeting to have an active role in discussions, aimed to reach consensus on guidance in clinical practice.

As a participant in this international forum you will benefit from updates, reviews, and debates, which addresses issues and challenges that primary care professionals face in daily practice. The programme will review the latest research and clinical data, evaluate the implications of these developments for improved patient care, discuss the latest guidelines and exchange experience and best practices.

As output and follow-up of the CV Summit for Primary Care, the EPCCS will provide video updates with leading experts and consensus reports, all to become available on ipccs.org and shared with the EPCCS member database. As important step, the participants of the CV Summit for Primary Care will share the outcomes of the meeting with colleagues in their country, and thereby ensuring real impact in European primary care in multiple countries.

As a health care professional involved in the management of cardiovascular patients in primary care, this CV Summit for Primary Care is an educational programme you cannot miss.

We look forward welcoming you in Barcelona

Prof. Richard Hobbs - Chairman EPCCS – Chairman of EPCCS Scientific Organising Committee, Professor of Primary Health Care, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for abstracts

Abstract submission has been closed.

Educational programme

The programme will review the latest research and clinical data, consider implications of these developments for improved patient care, discuss the latest guidelines and exchange experiences and best practices. The format of the educational sessions are structured in brief expert update/introductions, followed by GP panel discussions translating the novel developments to relevance for European primary care. The agenda will cover different topics of interest and innovation for primary care, like:

• Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease: the role of the GP
• Advanced Heart Failure in Primary Care
• Hypertension: which guidelines to follow?
• Management of CVD in patients with multimorbidity
• Peripheral Arterial Disease & DOACs
• Update on Lipid management: implications of novel therapies for primary care
• Workshop on Blood Pressure measurement

Thursday, March 15, 2018

• 10:00 - 12:00 - EPCCS Council Meeting
• 11:30 - 12:30 - Registration, exhibition, posters and lunch
• 12:30 - 12:40 - Welcome and introduction to EPCCS 2018
• 12:40 - 13:30 - Peripheral artery disease, a neglected major CV disease? How to diagnose and what is the evidence base for management? - Dr. Rafael Ramos, Girona, Spain
• 13:30 - 16:00 - Session 1: Diabetes and vascular disease: epidemiology and management options?
• 16:00 - 17:30 - Session 2: Managing elevated lipids and statins – the good, the bad, and the ugly?

Friday, March 16, 2018

• 08:45 - 09:00 - Welcome and introduction
• 09:00 - 10:10 - EPCCS Rapid Abstract Session: Freestanding abstracts from EPCCS members
• 10:00 - 10:30 - Morning break, exhibition and posters
• 10:30 - 12:15 - Session 3: Hypertension – can we agree on diagnostic and therapeutic thresholds?
• 12:15 - 13:30 - Lunch, exhibition and posters
• 13:30 - 15:30 - Session 4: Complexities of managing Heart Failure
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Feedback on EPCCS CV Summit 2018
• 16:00 - 16:15 - Close

Session 1: Diabetes and vascular disease: epidemiology and management options?

• What’s the evidence that diabetes is linked to CVD and an update on managing CV risk in diabetes - Prof. Xavier Cos, Barcelona, Spain
• Panel & audience debate on main issues
• What are remaining questions for primary care and consensus summary?
• Afternoon break & exhibition and posters

Session 2: Managing elevated lipids and statins – the good, the bad, and the ugly?

• Lipid-lowering: the evidence, the guidelines, the clinical reality’ - Prof. dr. Frank Visseren, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Panel & audience debate on main issues
• What are remaining questions for primary care and consensus summary?

Friday March 16, 2018 - 09:00 - 10:10 hrs - EPCCS Rapid Abstract Session: Freestanding abstracts from EPCCS members

• Multicenter, randomized, open clinical trial to assess the efficacy in reducing cardiovascular risk of an intervention aimed at improving information for patients with high cardiovascular risk. INFORISK study - Rubén Fuentes García, Spain
• Analysis of Selected Factors Determining the Effectiveness of Primary Health Care for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases under Home Care - Donata Kurpas, Poland
• Blood pressure control among Bulgarian patients with T2DM and hypertension-facts raising questions - Emil Mushanov, Bulgaria
• Glomerular filtration and other risk factors for admission due to heart failure - Betlem Salvador González, Spain
• L-ARGININE ASPARTATE supplementation possibilities in primary cardiovascular prevention in hypertensive females comorbid with rheumatoid arthritis - Oksana Sirenko, Ukraine

Session 3: Hypertension – can we agree on diagnostic and therapeutic thresholds?

• What’s the evidence, why guidelines differ, and what should the GP do? - Prof. Richard McManus, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Panel & audience debates on main issues
• What are remaining questions for primary care and consensus summary?
• Practical Workshop session on ambulatory BP measurement - Dr. Mark van der Wel, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Session 4: Complexities of managing Heart Failure

• Managing complex heart failure: a specialist view of the primary/secondary interface - Dr. Nuria Farré, Barcelona, Spain
• Managing heart failure in primary care: The GP perspective - Dr. Miguel Angel Muñoz, Barcelona, Spain
• Panel & audience debate on main issues
• What are remaining questions for primary care and consensus summary?

Meeting venue

The 2018 EPCCS Summit & Annual Scientifc Meeting will be held in the SB Icaria Barcelona Hotel, Av. d'Icària, 195, 08005 Barcelona, Spain. For more information about the hotel, please visit the hotel website. You can reserve your room directly via this website and benefit from the EPCCS rate. Costs per night are € 120,- incl. breakfast and taxes, excl. € 1,21 tourist tax (single use). Please insert the promo code: EPCCS when making a booking.

Registration

To register for the 2018 EPCCS Summit & Annual Scientific Meeting, please use this link, or the link at the bottom of this page

>The EPCCS is committed to close the gap between available scientific knowledge and implementation of novel developments in cardiovascular medicine. EPCCS aims to contribute to individual knowledge in primary care, by providing knowledge and guidance targeted to primary care settings

CME accreditation

The programme will be submitted for accreditation to the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC)

Register here for the EPCCS 2018 Summit