Multidisciplinary Early Recovery After Congenital Heart Surgery (MERCURY) Meeting

Thursday, July 24, 2025, 7:00 AM - Friday, July 25, 2025, 6:00 PM, Nationwide Children's Hospital Conference Center, Columbus, OH


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (12.00 hours), ANCC Contact Hour(s) (12.00 hours), APA Credit(s) (12.00 hours), IPCE Credit(s) (12.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (12.00 hours)

Learn to safely reduce post-operative morbidity and reduce ICU/hospital length of stay by utilizing Nationwide Children’s MERCURY approach to early recovery after surgery.

Immerse your team in a two day hands-on experience to gain confidence in achieving reliable and safe intraoperative extubation, lowered device days and reduced blood transfusion for congenital heart surgery.

Develop your multidisciplinary teams’ coordination through live cases and simulations that will allow you to take home knowledge and skills to achieve best patient outcomes by utilizing Nationwide Children’s MERCURY approach.

1. Utilize shared goals and operational unity of the multi-disciplinary team to achieve best outcomes for patients after congenital heart surgery
2. Obtain confidence in operating room extubation for all patients undergoing elective congenital heart surgery and its importance in decreasing length of stay
3. Communicate the importance and safety of blood conservation strategies to decrease operative morbidities and length of stay for patients undergoing congenital heart surgery
4. Explain the role of intra-operative and immediate post operative care in decreasing operative morbidity and length of stay after congenital heart surgery.
5. Gain confidence in the practices that lead to safely avoiding blood transfusion in patients after congenital heart surgery.

Registration
GROUP DISCOUNT - 25% discount for groups of 2 or more registrants from a single institution; please contact [email protected] for more information. 

Virtual registration requires at least 1 individual from your institution to be attending in person.

Register before May 16 to receive the discounted rate. The registration rates will increase $100 for Physician and Other Clinical following that date.

In support of improving patient care, Nationwide Children's Hospital is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC),  the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for the healthcare team.

AMA Statement

Nationwide Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

APA Statement

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.  Nationwide Children's Hospital designates this activity for 12.0 continuing education credits.

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received in writing no less than 20 days before the course will be refunded, less a 20% administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date. Please send cancellation requests to [email protected].

Nationwide Children's Hospital reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
Nationwide Children's Hospital is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

More details coming soon.

The Nationwide Children's Hospital® adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Nationwide Children's Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Thank you for your interest in the Multidisciplinary Early Recovery After Congenital Heart Surgery (MERCURY) Meeting. The conference will be held on July 24-25, 2025 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Conference Center.  

We are proud to host internationally renowned visiting faculty members from institutions across the country, as well as experts from both Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University. We anticipate an attendance of approximately 100 cardiologists, intensivists, nurses, advanced practice providers, cardiothoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists and perfusionists to convene for this annual conference.

Exhibit at this Event

We invite you to submit an original research or quality improvement abstract for poster presentation at the Multidisciplinary Early Recovery After Congenital Heart Surgery (MERCURY) Meeting.  Submissions must be received by May 31, 2025 11:59 p.m. and authors will be notified of acceptance no later than June 15, 2025.

All presenters must be registered to attend the conference in-person (not virtually). At the time of notification of acceptance, presenters will also be notified of the date/ time they will present during the conference. Please review the following submission guidelines carefully.

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

 

Eligibility:
-Abstracts containing quality improvement, clinical or translational research findings in the field of recovery following cardiac surgery can be submitted. Topics may include intraoperative anesthesia and perfusion management, post-operative management, longitudinal care planning, and team dynamics.
-Abstracts that have been submitted to or presented at other national or international meetings may be submitted.
-Abstracts will not be considered for presentation if they have been published as an article or have been accepted for publication (including manuscripts) in printed or electronic formats upon submission deadline.

Formatting:
-Abstract titles may not be longer than 255 characters, including spaces. Identifying information like author or institution names must not be included in the title.
-Traditional research abstracts should be structured under the following headings: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusion. If planning to share a qi project, please consider highlighting at least one qi tool in your submission, such as a key driver diagram, pdsa cycle, pareto chart, statistical process control chart, or other. we are interested in seeing projects at different stages of completion, including design and early results.
-There is limit of 500 words, including spaces, for the abstract text. Information included in tables or images does not count toward this limit.
-Abstracts may include up to one image per abstract. Images will only be accepted in gif, png, tiff, tif, jpg, or jpeg formats. PDFs will not be accepted.
-Any author wishing to include a table with their abstract must submit the table as an image file type.
-Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary image permissions for inclusion in their abstracts. 
-Drug products mentioned in abstracts should be identified by their nonproprietary (i.e., generic) names only. Do not capitalize nonproprietary names. All off-label or non-FDA approved uses must also be disclosed.

Presentation rules:
-Presenters must present in person.
-Submission of an abstract constitutes a commitment by the author(s) to register and present the abstract (if selected for presentation) at the date, time and location specified in the acceptance notification.
-Abstracts may be presented only by authors listed in the author string at the time of submission.
-All presentations will be in English.
-The corresponding author certifies that all authors named in the abstract have agreed to its submission for presentation; that any animal studies conform with the October 2014 revision of The Guiding Principles in the Care and Use of Vertebrate Animals in Research and Training by the American Physiological Society; and that any human experimentation conducted conforms with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association, and meets all the requirements governing informed consent of the country in which the research was performed.
-By submitting an abstract, the corresponding author affirms that his co-authors have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, the analysis of data and the writing of the abstract to take public responsibility for it.
-Corresponding authors affirm that they and the other authors submitting an abstract certify that the data included in their abstract submission and/or presented is truthful, original, unduplicated and without fraud or fabrication.

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