Update Course Programme

AEPC UPDATE COURSE IN PORTO, 2024

Prevention and Sports: Shaping Healthy Hearts

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UPDATE COURSE PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Morning Program
Preventive pediatric cardiology
08:00	Registration
Media	Video introducing the topic (join us in Porto!)
08:30	Opening – Local organizers and board
Appetizer	Mentimeter quiz: what is preventive pediatric cardiology for you?
08:45 - 09:30	Keynote lecture
08:45 - 09:30	Preventive pediatric cardiology: are we in the blocks, ready to go?
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture
09:30 - 10:00	Start early, live longer: is childhood the key to cardiovascular health?
10:00 - 11:00	Case studies on big topics in prevention: a guideline-based approach
	1) Dyslipidaemia
	Case: why and when to screen, and how to treat
	2) Hypertension
	Case: repaired CHD and still hypertension, what to do?
	3) Physical activity
	Case: public health versus focused physical activity programs, how to proceed?
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:20	Hot topics in preventive pediatric cardiology
	Set-up: two perspectives, followed by discussion with audience
	1) Lifestyle change: a realistic scenario? Can children simply move more and eat less?
	2) Why diet, if there are GLP1 inhibitors around to improve cardiometabolic outcomes?
12:20 - 12:30	Wrap-up: what is preventive pediatric cardiology for you now?
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch in the park - walk & talk, local highlights
Afternoon Program
Sports as prevention in CHD
13:30 - 14:14	Sports as prevention in children with CHD: benefits and risks
14:15 - 15:15	Case studies on sports in CHD patients: a guideline-based approach
	1) TGA and jumping high
	2) Fallot and football with a dilated RV
	3) Cardiac rehabilitation in children with CHD: does intensity matter?
15:15 - 15:40	Wrapping up - a training course quiz:
15:15 - 15:40	Prevention - better safe than sorry
15:40	Closure

Scientific Programme