XVIII European Congress of Cardiology

The European Society of Cardiology, which now unites about 20,000 specialists from 40 countries, was founded in 1950 in Paris and met for the first time in London in 1952. The authors of the report first attended the XVIII Congress of the society, which was held this time in the center of England, in Birmingham, the National Exhibition Center, one of the world's largest facilities designed for conferences. The Congress was attended by 12,000 people and some 5,000 scientific presentations were made. Up to 10,000 delegates could be accommodated at the same time in 24 different conference rooms at this center and the adjoining Metropole Hotel. In addition, 5 gigantic halls were used for deployed exhibitions of modern cardiology equipment and medicines.