WoCoVa 2018 Professor E.A. Konstantinou  Panel Questioning
Channel: Professor E. A. Konstantinou
Date: 2018-06-29

The World Congress on Vascular Access (WoCoVA) took successfully place on 20th to 23rd June 2018.

The congress had more than one thousand delegates from 52 countries amongst whom were nurses, physician vascular access specialists, academics and clinicians.

New methods to firm the good practice in the catheter tip placement, sonographic detection of the vessels, vascular access device management and the option in the proper dressings, have been analyzed in detail from the speakers. Also, products and devices have been exhibited for first time without being in the European market, yet, such as the peripherally vein catheters with lifespan of usage up to one month and detecting systems of the right catheter tip placement based on the method of electrocardiogram (ECG) even for the atrial fibrillation patients. The presentations of the delegates are in the http://www.wocova.com/congress-info/2018-program-2/2018-webcast/ 

Greece has been represented with a presentation (you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g28KaHaKaQ&feature=youtu.be ), 
round table conference coordination (you can watch it here), and a poster (you can watch it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibk9zsgo9h9d3hi/WoCoVa%202018%20-%20Poster%20-%20P161__.tif?dl=0).

Especially useful for the Greek Vascular Access and the country in general is the fact that our coordination with the Organization of Athens Convention Bureau – Athens Tourism and Economic Development Company of the Athens borough was successful and the 6th World Congress on Vascular Access (WoCoVA) will take place in June 2020.