Live Case Centres
This year’s live case centres will come from the Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, the Royal Adelaide Hospital and The National Heart Centre, Singapore.
The program will be highly interactive with national and international experts discussing cases, interventional techniques and strategies. Live case transmissions will be interlaced with lectures, reviewing the latest clinical studies.
These lectures are planned to provide a forum for all interventional cardiologists, trainees, cath lab nurses and staff in Australia and New Zealand to discuss various approaches to cardiovascular interventions.
Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide
The Royal Adelaide Hospital Interventional Service is the largest service in the state performing approximately 1000 PCI a year. It was the first Interventional Service in the state to commence a 24 hour primary PCI program. The clinical service has a strong radial access focus, with this access site being used in greater than 80% of cases as well as an emerging same day PCI program. All angiogram and angioplasty data is prospectively collected for auditing and research purposes by the state based CADOSA registry.
The unit has a strong research focus. It has been involved with a number of invasive coronary physiology protocols along with large clinical and investigator lead trials of intravascular imaging (IVUS), studying invasive endothelial function and plaque progression. These protocols have used standard grey scale IVUS as well as optical coherence tomography and near-infrared imaging technology.
This research focus is also observed in a strong history of first-in-man new device studies. These studies have not only included new stent technology but have also involved a number of new devices in a strong structural heart program. These have included studies in left atrial appendage devices, mitra-clip technology, renal denervation and transcutaneous aortic valve implantation devices.
The National Heart Centre, Singapore 
The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) is a not-for-profit public healthcare institution wholly owned by the government of Singapore.
Each year, over 100,000 patients seek treatment at NHCS. The high workload is a testament of the trust patients have in us.
NHCS prides itself as a national and regional referral centre for cardiovascular diseases and are dedicated to providing optimal care through our three core pillars – Patient Care, Education and Training, and Research.
As a 185-bed national centre for cardiovascular medicine in Singapore, NHCS provides a one-stop comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative cardiac services.
Patients can be assured of safe and quality care at NHCS as the centre has been accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI). JCI is a standard-setting and accrediting body for healthcare institutions. NHCS was first accreditated in 2005.
NHCS is a member of SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore. SingHealth offers a complete range of multi-disciplinary and integrated medical care. The group consists of 3 Hospitals (Singapore General Hospital, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Sengkang Health), a community hospital (Bright Vision Hospital), 5 National Specialty Centres (National Heart Centre Singapore, National Cancer Centre Singapore, National Dental Centre Singapore, National Neuroscience Institute and Singapore National Eye Centre) and a network of polyclinics.
Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide 
Flinders Medical Centre is a 580 bed public teaching hospital and medical school, co-located with Flinders University and the 130 bed Flinders Private Hospital located at Bedford Park, South Australia.
Opening in 1976, Flinders Medical Centre is one of the major public hospitals operating in metropolitan Adelaide, serving as the trauma centre for the southern suburbs of Adelaide; it is also the liver and corneal transplant centre for South Australia.