Here’s Your Chance to Gain Mastery in Managing Critical Limb Ischemia

If you’ve been looking for a chance to enhance your clinical and technical knowledge about critical limb ischemia (CLI) and limb salvage, your opportunity is at hand.

At the inaugural Masters’ Approach to Critical Limb Ischemia Symposium on April 17-19, 2016, Cleveland Clinic will convene a faculty of international experts in all aspects of CLI evaluation and management.

Over the course of two and a half days at the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center on Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, the symposium (which has been approved for up to 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™) will comprehensively explore the following subtopics and more:

• CLI epidemiology and wound assessment
• Perfusion assessment
• How to build a multidisciplinary limb salvage program
• Ultrasound-guided tibial pedal access and pedal loop interventions
• Open and endovascular strategies to treat superficial femoral artery and tibial occlusions
• Atherectomy
• Medical therapy and wound care
• Noninvasive evaluations — when, how, and why
• The future of endovascular therapy (roundtable with leading physicians and industry representatives)
• Extreme surgical techniques for complex peripheral artery disease and CLI

A dynamic, case-based learning mix

The symposium’s world-class faculty will explore these topics via a mix of learning formats in which succinct expert presentations are interspersed with:

• Hands-on arterial ultrasound workshop sessions
• Access to a cadaveric lab and a simulation lab
• Live case demonstrations
• Expert panel discussions

“We will be taking a highly case-based approach, with over 50 case discussions and demonstrations ranging from wound assessment to weighing endovascular vs. surgical revascularization to taking a team-based approach to CLI,” says Symposium Director Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, PhD, MPH, Director of Endovascular Services at Cleveland Clinic.

Networking, tours and more

The symposium, which runs from a Sunday morning through Tuesday at noon, is designed for physicians and other clinicians involved in the care of patients with CLI, including vascular surgeons and vascular medicine specialists, interventional cardiologists and radiologists, podiatrists, wound care specialists and others. On Monday, complimentary concurrent roundtable workshop sessions are offered for cardiac cath lab nurses, technicians and other lab professionals (for more details, see the symposium agenda here).

“Attendees will have access to master physicians who specialize in treating complex patients with CLI,” Dr. Shishehbor notes. “I am especially excited that we’ll be joined by top leaders from Italy, Germany, South America, Asia and across the U.S.”

“We are also offering behind-the-scenes tours of Cleveland Clinic’s Noninvasive Vascular Laboratory and our catheter lab,” notes Symposium Co-Director Heather Gornik, MD, who serves as medical director of the noninvasive vascular lab.

Call for cases and abstracts by March 1

Interested attendees may also submit cases and abstracts in the following topical areas:

• CLI assessment
• Tibiopedal access
• CLI medical therapy
• Atherectomy
• CLI team approach

Submissions must be received by March 1. Accepted submissions may qualify for complimentary registration and gift cards. Top abstracts and cases submitted by trainees may be eligible for travel grants. Submission guidelines are available here.

Click here for registration information and a video overview of the symposium from Dr. Shishehbor.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.