Jan Piek
Latest contributions
Resilience and continuity of cardiovascular care in times of crises: the RESIL-Card project
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Reflect on cardiovascular care resilience during crises with insights from the RESIL-Card project initiated by the PCR community. This session shares lessons from the pandemic, presents the development of a novel resilience assessment tool, and outlines future timelines to better prepare cardiac care systems for upcoming...
Managing complex STEMI patients in diverse healthcare systems - Adapting best practices to local realities
20 May 2025 – From EuroPCR 2025
Addressing the complexities of STEMI management across diverse healthcare systems, this session highlights challenges and adaptive strategies tailored to geographic and resource-specific realities. Learn from regional experts on thrombus burden, late presentations, cardiogenic shock, and multivessel disease management.
Equity in STEMI management: bridging gaps in STEMI care for women
15 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This joint session with the Stent - Save a Life! initiative focuses on the unique challenges in STEMI diagnosis and management for women. It explores different pathological processes resulting in STEMI and STEMI mimics in women, and discusses optimal management techniques. The session features perspectives from...
PCI: from basics to robots
14 May 2024 – From EuroPCR 2024
This session covers a wide range of topics in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), from fundamental aspects to the latest advancements. It includes discussions on non-fasting versus fasting before interventional procedures, radial artery puncture hemostasis, ultrasound-guided transfemoral puncture in complex PCI, the use of uninterrupted direct-acting oral...
Continued global expansion of Stent – Save a Life!
18 May 2023
There is no doubt that the original Stent for Life initiative had a huge, positive impact on morbidity and mortality in patients with STEMI in Europe. With the global Stent – Save a Life! (SSL) initiative comes the continued spread of the mission to other regions,...
Contemporary management of patients with INOCA: a practical guide
17 May 2023 – From EuroPCR 2023
Enrich your understanding of ischemia with non-obstructive corona arteries (INOCA) by watching this very practical session, where you'll discover precious knowledge on the prevalence and causative factors of this condition. Dive into the diagnosis algorithm used for INOCA and explore the latest advancements in its management.
Developing STEMI networks in Africa
03 Mar 2023 – From AfricaPCR 2023
After a presentation of the Stent-Save a Life! programme, which supports the implementation of clinical practice guidelines on myocardial revascularisation, learn about the current situation of STEMI management in Africa, and more specifically in Angola, and analyze how the STEMI network could be set up in...
Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum - Looking ahead – New candidates and new projects
20 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session from Stent - Save A Life! 10th Anniversary Forum to learn about the results of the primary PCI program in Aruba, the primary PCI Iranian project, and the STEMI Network Blueprint project.
