The next PCI Data Manager Meeting will be held on October 21, 2010 at Beverly Hospital. More details to follow.

Abstracts for the AHA QCOR meeting, which will be held in May 2011, must be submitted to AHA by mid-February 2011 (exact date TBD).

Abstracts for the AHA Annual Scientific Sessions, which will be held in November 2010, must be submitted to AHA by June 2, 2010.

Abstracts for the ACC Annual Scientific Sessions, which will be held in March 2011, must be submitted to ACC by early October (exact date TBD).

To attend the bi-monthly PCI Data Manager's meeting please e-mail Ann Lovett.

Directions and final agenda will be posted closer to the actual meeting date on the Mass-DAC Community Forum's Meetings and Events Forum.

If you have not yet registered with Mass-DAC to access the forums, please click the register button upon entering the Community Forum home page, otherwise login to go directly to the meeting topic.

On March 4, 2010, Sharon-Lise Normand, Director of Mass-DAC, presented the findings of this year's annual reports for CABG and PCI to a joint group of 75 Massachusetts ACC and STS members.

PCI Criteria and Definitions for Identifying Compassionate Use and Exceptional Risk Cases (pdf) Updated March 2010

The Mass-DAC Criteria for Identifying Compassionate Use and Exceptional Risk file provides the the risk factors and definitions for variables used to determine if an individual case should be designated as compassionate use. In addition, the Exceptional Risk designation has additional protocols that need to be followed to qualify a patient procedure as an Exceptional Risk case. We have also provided several cases studies that provide examples of Exceptional Use cases.

Protocol details: ExceptionalRiskv2public.pdf.

Case Studies: ExceptionalRiskCaseStudies200910.pdf.

Mass-DAC December 2010 PCI Data Submission Harvest

Mass-DAC September 2010 PCI Data Submission Harvest

Mass-DAC June 2010 PCI Data Submission Harvest