Please download Final Program at a Glance here.

Please download Final Program here.

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The 61st International Congress of The European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery - ESCVS 2012' is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net.

The 'The 61st International Congress of The European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery - ESCVS 2012' is designated for a maximum of 15 hours of European external CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme

Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognized by the UEMS-EACCME for ECMEC credits are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

EACCME states that all members of the Faculty have to provide written declarations of potential or actual conflicts of interest.
These declarations must include any fee, honorarium or arrangement for re-imbursement of expenses in relation to the educational event.

Failure to disclose relevant financial relationships disqualifies the individual from being a planning committee member, a teacher, or an author of CME materials, and this individual cannot have any responsibility for the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of ESCVS CME activities.

For live presentations, all disclosures must be stated orally or on a slide at the beginning of the presentation and will be noted in published material related to the activity. Slides, handouts, and other materials utilized as part of an educational activity cannot contain any advertising, trade names or a product group message. Speakers are required to disclose that they have nothing to disclose if this is the case.

Chairpersons/Moderators are requested to declare interest regarding the topics of the presentations during the session on their first slide (if applicable) or orally at the beginning of the session.

Poster presenters are requested to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current poster presentation at the bottom of their poster.

The time allocated for oral presentations will be 7 minutes + 3 minutes of discussion and each presenter must comply with this time limit.

All scientific oral presentations must be produced in PowerPoint.

Presenters must report to the Speaker’s Lounge - Preview Room at least 2 hours prior to their scheduled presentation time to download their PowerPoint presentation. Be sure to bring your presentation on a CD Rom or USB flash drive. The use of personal laptops is not allowed. We encourage you to check your presentation in the Speaker’s Lounge well in advance.

Financial disclosure as defined by EACCME rules must be disclosed to the audience at the beginning of each presentation. This requirement is for moderators, presenters and invited discussants. A first slide disclosure must be used to reveal the nature of the disclosure. This disclosure information will also be provided in the text of this Program Book.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC POSTER PRESENTATION

E-POSTER PRESENTATIONS

As per e-mail communications sent to all corresponding authors, please be advised that no actual poster will be on display on boards, but authors will have 3 minutes at disposal for a short oral presentation, with 3 jpg slides with the following technical features:

• format : JPG
• resolution: 96 dpi
• width: 1024 pixels, height: 675 pixels
• orientation: horizontal
• recommended font size: 12 pt

There will be one dedicated room equipped with a screen, projector and computer, supervised by technical staff. We would like to remind you that the deadline for sending e-poster presentation files expires one week before beginning of the congress.
Should you have any problems with JPG files creation please send your posters as Power Point slides. They will then be converted to demanded file. In case of any technical problems or questions, please do not hesitate to contact the congress secretariat.
Financial disclosure as well as disclosure of potential conflicts of interest defined by EACCME rules regarding their current poster presentation is required at the bottom of their first slide and must be disclosed to the audience at the beginning of each presentation. This disclosure information will also be provided in the text of this Program Book.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRINTED POSTERS

Dimensions of your poster should be A0 Poster size - 118,9 cm (height) x 84,1cm (width) in portrait orientation. Design your poster layout in the following sections:

Title, author(s), address (at upper edge, across the width of whole poster), Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions and Declaration of interest (mandatory).

The title should be emphasized by the use of bold-face type. When displayed the letters used should not be smaller than 15mm.
The subtitle should be printed in the same kind of lettering, but semi-bold and not less than 10mm high when displayed. This guarantees clear reading even from a distance of 2-3 meters.
The text should be broken up by the inclusion of drawings and/or photos. The use of colour makes the poster more attractive and effective. Material for mounting your poster to the poster board will be supplied by the organizers. ESCVS Team are present at the Poster Assistance Desk to help you.

Poster presenters are requested to make financial disclosure and potential conflicts of interest regarding their current poster presentation at the bottom of their poster.