Programme Overview
Session 1: 9.05 am
Pre-implant considerations: Selecting patients for primary prevention ICDs
Session 2: 10.05am
Device implant considerations
Session 3: 11.30 am
Post-implant considerations and follow-up
Session 4: 1.15 pm
Advanced VT Management: Quickfire tips and updates
Session 5: 3.45 pm
Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Making and Assessing Lesions
Programme subject to change
Full Programme
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 – 09:00 | REGISTRATION | |
| 09:00 | WELCOME | John Paisey |
SESSION 1: Pre-implant considerations: Selecting patients for primary prevention ICDs
Chairs: Lisa Anderson & TBC
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 09:05 | Optimal Timing of Primary Prevention ICDs
When to recommend device therapy in the wider therapy evidence base |
TBC |
| 09:25 | Primary prevention ICDs in ischaemic and non-ischaemic NICM. Are we getting it right?
Examines whether current guidelines remain relevant against a backdrop of a rapidly changing medical landscape and advances in risk stratification |
Elijah Behr |
| 09:45 | Discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
SESSION 2: Device implant considerations
Chairs: Eleri Gregory & TBC
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 10:05 | His Bundle and LBB pacing: Ready for Prime Time?
Covers the data for CSP in brady and CRT pacing |
Zach Whinnett |
| 10:20 | His and LBB pacing easier than you think
A practical approach on how to perform conduction system pacing for brady and CRT |
Dan Keene |
| 10:35 | Advances in SICDs
Impact of new developments on outcomes |
Niall Campbell |
| 10:50 | Questions & discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
| TIME | TITLE |
|---|---|
| 11:05 | BREAK & REFRESHMENTS – Osler Room |
SESSION 3: Post implant considerations and follow-up
Chairs: TBC
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | Using HF risk data to optimise care for device-HF patients | Fozia Ahmed |
| 11:45 | How to practically provide MRI for patients with non-conditional cardiac devices | Charlotte Manisty |
| 12:05 | Insights from the latest NICOR cardiac device registry
A review of device and ablation activity in 2021 and 2022 |
Mark Dayer |
| 12:25 | Discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
| TIME | TITLE |
|---|---|
| 12:35 | LUNCH – Osler Room |
SESSION 4: Advanced VT Management: Quickfire tips and updates
Chairs: Vishal Luther & Donah Zachariah
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 13:15 | Can I now list someone for post-MI VT ablation after their 1st ICD episode?
Placing VT ablation in the hierarchy of therapies. Practicalities and evidence. |
Shahnaz Jamil-Copley |
| 13:30 | Setting up and running a multi-disciplinary VT clinic
Optimising patients management in busy clinical settings. |
Tarv Dhanjal |
| 13:45 | Defining the scar and borderzone during VT ablation
Should we still be using 0.5-1.5mV? |
Vishal Luther |
| 14:00 | Questions & panel discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
| 14:15 | Coronary Vein Exit and CO2 Insufflation technique
Turning epicardial access inside out. |
John Silberbauer |
| 14:30 | Bipolar RF ablation in challenging VT cases
Problems approached from both directions |
Anthony Li |
| 14:45 | Radiotherapy in the treatment of refractory VT
Current UK experience, future developments for this emerging technique |
Justin Lee |
| 15:00 | Questions & panel discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
| TIME | TITLE |
|---|---|
| 15:15 | BREAK & REFRESHMENTS – Osler Room |
SESSION 5: Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Making and Assessing Lesions
Chairs: Claire Martin & TBC
| TIME | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 15:45 | Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
The options, the evidence. |
Dhiraj Gupta |
| 16:05 | Convergent Ablation
How and in whom? |
Syed Ahsan |
| 16:20 | RF Lesion assessment in clinical AF ablation
Inputs and outputs to judge lesion size in RF ablation. |
Waqas Ullah |
| 16:40 | Questions & panel discussion | Faculty & Chairs |
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