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📢 Left main PCI requires a thoughtful, step-by-step strategy. Join SCAI on October 6 at 6 pm ET for an expert-led webinar covering LM stenting, bifurcation algorithms, and calcium modification considerations.

Register ➡️ https://t.co/C8gKjs7uew

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That’s a wrap on #SCAISHOCK 2026! ❤️

Thank you to our faculty, attendees, partners, and multidisciplinary shock community for three days of learning, collaboration, and conversations focused on advancing #CardiogenicShock care.

Safe travels home from St. Louis!

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🌎 #CardiogenicShock care spans borders—and so do the challenges.

#SCAISHOCK closes its scientific programming with challenging shock cases from around the world, highlighting the global footprint of shock care and perspectives from across the international community.

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@SripalBangalore @BurkhoffMd @sanjum @VikasAgarwalMD How can MCS help unload the right heart in PE-associated shock?

Vikas Aggarwal, MBBS, FSCAI, explores the role of mechanical circulatory support in this high-risk setting.

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🍽️ Lunchtime learning at #SCAISHOCK turns to pulmonary embolism.

Sripal Bangalore, MD, MHA, FSCAI, opens a program on managing shock in patients with PE—from identifying risk before collapse to acute rescue and the role of MCS.

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@SripalBangalore @BurkhoffMd @sanjum @VikasAgarwalMD When PE progresses to shock, the focus shifts to acute rescue.

Behnam Tehrani, MD, FSCAI, discusses critical management of the patient in shock during the #SCAISHOCK lunch program.

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Surviving #CardiogenicShock is not the end of the care journey.

Iyad Isseh, MD, explores the vulnerable post-shock phase and multidisciplinary approaches to recovery, rehabilitation, transitions of care, and long-term management.

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How do we move from individual shock teams to comprehensive regional systems of #CardiogenicShock care?

This #SCAISHOCK session follows the evolution from tiered shock centers to networks, registries, and the survivorship continuum.

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From shock networks to shock registries: how can data move care forward?

Mitchell Krucoff, MD, MSCAI, discusses using registry data, data sharing, and benchmarking to inform quality improvement and clinical decision-making.

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🔀 Two topics, two breakout sessions at #SCAISHOCK:

🔹 Session A: The Shock Coordinator Playbook—from activation and escalation to quality improvement and program growth
🔹 Session B: Temporary MCS management in the ICU, including vascular, bleeding, kidney, infection, and cannula complications

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@HaroonFarazMD @SarasVallabhMD @SandeepNathanMD @PerwaizMeraj How far should calcium modification go in shock PCI?

Perwaiz Meraj, MD, FSCAI, explores the limits and considerations of calcium modification in patients with #CardiogenicShock.

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☀️ It’s the final day of #SCAISHOCK!

Day 3 starts with Complex PCI—Nothing Is Simple in SHOCK! Haroon Faraz, MD, opens the breakfast program focused on the procedural decisions that make PCI in #CardiogenicShock uniquely challenging.

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@HaroonFarazMD @SarasVallabhMD @SandeepNathanMD @PerwaizMeraj Does intracoronary imaging and physiology matter in shock PCI?

Jennifer Rymer, MD, MBA, MHS, takes on the question at #SCAISHOCK as the Complex PCI breakfast program continues.

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👐 We’re closing out Day 2 of #SCAISHOCK by getting hands-on with ECMO!

Attendees are rotating through stations covering circuit priming, best practices for large-bore access, and troubleshooting complications including differential hypoxia, LV distension, and airlock.

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🍽️ Who should own ECMO? At #SCAISHOCK, our experts made the case for everyone but themselves.

In a unique debate, each speaker stepped outside their own specialty to argue why another—cardiac surgery, heart failure, critical care, or interventional cardiology—should take the lead.

The discussion ultimately came back to one message: ECMO is for the shock team. The shock team is for the patient.

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