10th GAVeCeLT
Congress
11th PICC Day
Florence, Italy
December 4-6, 2017
Florence Congress Center
International conference
organized by GAVeCeLT
The Italian Group for Venous
Access Devices
The 10th GAVeCeLT congress (December
4th-5th) will consist of five main sessions
(venous access in ICU - venous access
devices in oncology - vascular access in
children and neonates - peripheral venous
access devices - venous access for dialysis,
aphaeresis and filtration).
The 11th PICC Day (December 6th) will be
dedicated exclusively to PICCs.
Scientific Coordination
Alessandra Panchetti
Fulvio Pinelli
Mauro Pittiruti
Francesca Rossetti
Congress Secretariat
Manuela Tartagni
c/o Millennium Events
[email protected]
For additional information, please contact
the Scientific Coordination:
[email protected]
Information and updates about the
meeting will also be available on the
GAVeCeLT website:
www.gavecelt.info
VENUE
All the scientific sessions of GAVeCeLT 2017 will take
place at the Florence Congress Center (Palazzo dei
Congressi, piazza Adua 1, Florence, Italy).
CONGRESS SECRETARIAT
The Secretariat of GAVeCeLT 2017 will be managed by
Millennium Events
Via K. Adenauer 18 - 00061 Anguillara Sabazia (RM)
Tel +39 06 01902533 - Fax +39 06 3221853
[email protected]
REGISTRATION
Each participant is welcome to register to the 10th
GAVeCeLT Congress or to the 11th PICC Day or to both
events.
For details about the registration fees and the modality
for registering to the Congress, please see the
registration form, available through the Congress
Secretariat and through the website :
www.gavecelt.info.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATION
For information about hotel accommodation close to
the Congress venue, please contact the Congress
Secretariat.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Special sessions of poster presentations of clinical and
scientific contributions in the field of venous access
are scheduled both during the GAVeCeLT Congress
and during the PICC Day. Anyone interested in
presenting his own clinical experience or the results of
his scientific work should send an abstract to Mauro
Pittiruti ( email
[email protected]
) before October
31st, 2017. Please use Arial 12; do not exceed 600
words of text (excluding title, authors and institution);
organize the text of the abstract as introduction/
method/results/conclusion.
SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION
All scientific sessions in the Auditorium will have
simultaneous translation English-Italian and
Italian-English, both during the GAVeCeLT Congress and
during the PICC Day.
Invited faculty
Massimo Antonelli - Marco Ariotti - Giovanni Barone -
Sergio Bertoglio - Daniele G. Biasucci - Roberto Biffi -
Paul Blackburn - Christian Breschan - Brunello Brunetto
Giuseppe Capozzoli - Davide Celentano - Alessandro
Crocoli - Vito D’Andrea - Raffaele De Gaudio - Nicola
Disma - Laura Dolcetti - Pietro Dormio - Christian Dupont
- Daniele Elisei - Stefano Elli - Alessandro Emoli -
Vincenzo Faraone - Maurizio Gallieni - Ugo Graziano -
Sheila Inwood - Kathy Kokotis - Evangelos Konstantinou
- Antonio LaGreca - Massimo Lamperti - Alessandra
Mancusi - Bruno Marche - Giacomo Morano - Luigi
Montagnini - Andrea Musarò - Gloria Ortiz Miluy -
Alessandra Panchetti - Nicola Panocchia - Federico
Pappalardo - Fulvio Pinelli - Mauro Pittiruti - Herve Rosay
- Francesca Rossetti - Giancarlo Scoppettuolo - Luca
Sidro - Vito Silvestri - Liz Simcock - Ulf Teichgraber - Ton
Van Boxtel - Gianluca Villa - Clelia Zanaboni - Pietro Zerla
10th GAVeCeLT Congress - 11th PICC Day
11th PICC Day
Wednesday December 6th
Indications and contraindications of PICCs: state of the art
PICC insertion in 2017
Current recommendations for dressing and securement of
PICCs
‘VADIP’: a new GAVeCeLT protocol for infection prevention
A guide to old and new PICCs
Tip navigation in 2017: which is the most cost-effective
strategy?
Different methods for tip location: which one should we use
today
PICCs as a long term VAD: tunneled PICCs, cuffed PICCs,
PICCs secured with subcutaneously anchored devices
Which is the ideal training for PICC insertion
Diagnosis and treatment of PICC occlusion
Occlusion prevention (1): goodbye heparin
Occlusion prevention (2): choosing the best needle free
connector in 2017
When PICC removal is difficult: causes and solutions
A diagnostic algorithm for identifying the cause of PICC
malfunction
New technologies: cyanoacrylate glue
New technologies: wireless ultrasound for bedside PICC
insertion
PICCs in palliative care
PICCs in the hematologic patient
Two strategic choices: proactive vascular approach and
vascular access team
Better than Magic: the GAVeCeLT algorithm for the
appropriate use of PICCs
10th GAVeCeLT Congress
Monday December 4th - Tuesday December 5th
Venous access in intensive care (Monday afternoon)
Which venous access device in intensive care? an evidence-based choice - Technique of insertion of non-tunneled CICCs and FICCs in the critically ill: state of the art - Role of PICCs in intensive care: when, which, how - Prevention of catheter related infections in ICU - Prevention of catheter related venous thrombosis in ICU - A new GAVeCeLT protocol: the ‘central ZIM’ - Antiseptic and anti-thrombotic central venous catheters: old and new evidence - Special problems of securement and dressing of CVC (PICC, CICC, FICC) in intensive care - Which access in emergency?
Port and other VADs in oncology (Tuesday morning)
Indications of PICCs and ports for chemotherapy - Which is the current role of PICC-ports? - Peripheral access for chemotherapy: is still acceptable? when? - Choice of the device and patient’s preference - Strategies for maximizing the safety and the cost-effectiveness during port and PICC-port insertions - The catheter of ports and PICC-ports: silicone or polyurethane? - Is there any role for fluoroscopy during the insertion of medium and long term venous access devices? - PICC, port and catheter related venous thrombosis: the diagnosis, the prevention, the treatment - Old and new lock solutions for preventing and/or treating the colonization of long term VADs - The fibroblastic sheath (so-called ‘fibrin sleeve’…): still a mystery? - Psychological impact of the VAD in the cancer patient on chemotherapy - Training courses for PICC-port and port insertion: a current issue
Venous access in children and newborns (Tuesday morning)
Choosing the central venous access in the neonate: ECC o CICC ? - The future of umbilical venous catheters - Ultrasound and echocardiography for placement of CVO and ECC - A new GAVeCeLT protocol for the superficial veins of the neonate: RaSuVA - Role of NIR technology today: the evidence - Skin antisepsis in the premature newborn: a delicate issue - Choosing the central venous access in children: PICC vs. CICC - A new look to long term VADs in pediatrics: silicone vs. polyurethane catheters - Subcutaneously anchored securement devices: zeroing the risk of dislodgment - Ultrasound-guided venous access, NIR-guided venous access and intraosseous access in pediatric emergencies? - Venous cutdown: R.I.P.
Peripheral venous access today (Tuesday afternoon)
The ERPIUP consensus on peripheral venous access - Which peripheral access in the DIVA patient ? - Peripheral cannulas today: different features, different indications - Dressing and securement of peripheral VADs in 2017 - The increasingly successful ‘mini-midline’: when, which, how - Filters and infusion lines: a new start? - Role of peripheral VAD sin home care - Short peripheral cannulas today: strategies for minimizing the complications
Venous catheters for dialysis, apheresis and filtration
(Tuesday afternoon)
Venous catheters for hemodialysis in 2017: the state of the art - Vascular access for ultrafiltration: which and how - An emerging problem: vascular access for ECMO - Apheresis: the choice of the venous access - Anticoagulant lock for dialysis catheters: citrate vs. heparin - Dialysis catheters and prevention of catheter related complications: contrasting recommendations from the international guidelines - The patient who needs periodic chronic apheresis: are power injectable tunneled PICC a new option? - Special problems of placement and maintenance of non-tunneled dialysis catheters in the critically ill with acute renal failure
