The New Orleans Conference: Practices in Cardiac Surgery and Extracorporeal Technologies  must ensure balance, independence and objectivity in its educational program. Course director(s), planning committee, faculty and all others in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity. Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place. Disclosure of this information will be made available to all attendees so that they may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentations.