Advanced Catheter Ablation: New Tips, Techniques, and Technologies for Complex Arrhythmias

September 14-17, 2018
Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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Credit Types: AMA PRA Category 1™ (28.25), ABIM MOC Points (28.25), Price: $875 - $995 | Early registration saves $100 off these rates.

Program

7:00 a.m.

Fri, Sept 14

7:00 a.m.

Registration | Continental Breakfast - French Room

7:30 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction - Course Directors

7:45 a.m.

FUNDAMENTALS AND SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAS

Moderator: David Wilber, MD

7:45 a.m.

Mapping Fundamentals, Electrograms, and Entrainment Pitfalls

William Stevenson, MD

8:20 a.m.

Focal Atrial Tachycardia: Recognition, Mapping, Ablation

Peter Noseworthy, MD, MBA

9:00 a.m.

Diagnostic Maneuvers for SVT/AVNRT/Accessory Pathways

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

9:30 a.m.

Question and Answer

9:45 a.m.

Refreshment Break - French Room

10:05 a.m.

Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT): When Slow Pathway Ablation Is Not Enough

Warren Jackman, MD

10:55 a.m.

Illustrative Cases of AVNRT

Warren Jackman, MD

11:30 a.m.

Question and Answer

11:45 a.m.

Lunch - Pavilion Room

1:00 p.m.

ABLATION OF CHALLENGING SVT, AVRNT/ACCESSORY PATHWAYS

Moderator: William Stevenson, MD

1:00 p.m.

Cavotricuspid Isthmus Dependent Atrial Flutter: Tough Cases

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

1:40 p.m.

Ablation of Challenging Accessory Pathways

Warren Jackman, MD

2:30 p.m.

Atrial Arrhythmias in Unusual Settings: Congenital Heart Disease, Post-Surgical Cases

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

3:00 p.m.

Question and Answer

3:15 p.m.

Refreshment Break - French Room

3:30 p.m.

Atriofasicular Pathways: Mahaim or Mayhem

Warren Jackman, MD

4:00 p.m.

Mapping Systems Review: Fundamentals of Cardiac Mapping: Unipolar, Bipolar and Multipolar Approaches and High Density Mapping

David Wilber, MD

4:30 p.m.

Question and Answer

5:15 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

Sat, Sept 15

6:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - French Room

7:00 a.m.

Early Bird Presentation: Biophysics of RF: Understanding the Dangers of Contact Force and High Output Ablation

Douglas Packer, MD

7:25 a.m.

Introduction and Comments

David Wilber, MD

7:30 a.m.

VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

Moderator: David Wilber, MD

7:30 a.m.

Anatomy of the Ventricles Relevant to Ablation: Approaches / ECG Correlations

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

8:15 a.m.

Step by Step Approach to Ablating Outflow Tract Tachycardias

Douglas Packer, MD

8:45 a.m.

Right Side or Left Side in Papillary Muscle Ablation: Endocardial/Epicardial/Needle

Peter Noseworthy, MD, MBA

9:15 a.m.

Ablation of VT from the LV Summit

David Wilber, MD

9:45 a.m.

Refreshment Break - French Room

10:05 a.m.

Fascicular Ventricular Tachycardia

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

10:35 a.m.

Scar-Related VTs: Defining the Substrate in Ischemic vs Non-ischemic Cardiomyopathy

David Wilber, MD

11:05 a.m.

Mapping During VT for Scar-Related VTs: Defining Circuits

William Stevenson, MD

11:35 a.m.

Aggressive Strategies for Substrate Ablation: Border Zone and Substrate Homogenization: How to Find the Potentials

Douglas Packer, MD

12:05 p.m.

Utility of MR, CT and Pet Scanning for Unusual Ventricular Tachycardia

Vivek Reddy, MD

12:35 p.m.

Lunch - Pavilion Room

1:30 p.m.

VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

Moderator: William Stevenson, MD

1:30 p.m.

Advanced Ablation Tools From Needle Electrodes to Particle Therapy: They Have Arrived

Douglas Packer, MD

2:00 p.m.

Epicardial Mapping and Ablation: Getting There and Getting the Job Done Safely

David Wilber, MD

2:30 p.m.

Ablation of RV Scar-related VT: ARVC, Sarcoid, Congenital

William Stevenson, MD

3:00 p.m.

High Density Mapping of VT: What Can It Add? What Can it Hurt?

Smit Vasaiwala, MD

3:30 p.m.

Ablation of Polymophic VT/Ventricular Fibrillation

Vivek Reddy, MD

4:00 p.m.

Refreshment Break - Move to Anatomy Session

4:00 p.m.

Hands-On Anatomy Workshop

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

6:00 p.m.

Adjourn

6:50 a.m.

Sun, Sept 16

6:45 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - French Room

7:25 a.m.

Opening Comments

7:30 a.m.

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Moderator: Douglas Packer, MD

7:30 a.m.

The Atria: Critical Anatomy. What You Need to Know

Samuel Asirvatham, MD

8:15 a.m.

Achieving Reliable Pulmonary Vein Isolation with RF ablation

Gregory Michaud, MD

8:45 a.m.

Second Generation Cryo Balloon for Ablation: How to Make and Work?

Douglas Packer, MD

9:15 a.m.

Identifying and Ablating Non PV Triggers: A Case Based Approach

Andrea Natale, MD

9:45 a.m.

Question and Answer

10:00 a.m.

Refreshment Break - French Room

10:15 a.m.

Mapping of Persistent AF: Visualizing the Atrial Substrate

David Wilber, MD

10:45 a.m.

Mapping of Persistent AF: Is PV Isolation Enough? Rotor or Other Mapping Help?

Douglas Packer, MD

11:15 a.m.

Post Ablation Atrial Tachycardias: A Systematic Approach

Peter Noseworthy, MD, MBA

11:45 a.m.

Question and Answer

12:00 p.m.

Working Lunch Session – Cultural Communication - Open Discussion

12:45 p.m.

Stretch Break

1:00 p.m.

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Moderator: David Wilber, MD

1:00 p.m.

Electroporation

Warren Jackman, MD

1:35 p.m.

Avoiding Complications and Managing Risk in AF Ablation

Douglas Packer, MD

2:05 p.m.

Case Based Discussion: Interactive Cases With Panel Members - Persistent AF: What is the Best Approach in 2018? Faculty Panel: Drs. Natale, Packer, and Wilber

Moderator: Smit Vasaiwala, MD

3:00 p.m.

Appendage Closure: Devices and Strategies

Vivek Reddy, MD

3:30 p.m.

Question and Answer - Drs. Packer and Reddy

3:45 p.m.

Adjourn

7:15 a.m.

Mon, Sept 17

7:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - French Room

7:30 a.m.

Breakfast Panel: Managing Anticoagulation in Patients Undergoing Ablation - Panelists: Drs. Michaud, Natale, Packer, and Stevenson

Moderator: David Wilber, MD

8:15 a.m.

ABLATION LIVE OR ALMOST

Moderator: Douglas Packer, MD

8:15 a.m.

Intracardiac Ultrasound Workshop: How Do You Get Those Views?

Gregory Michaud, MD

9:00 a.m.

Putting It All Together: Case Presentations of AF and Related Arrhythmias

Gregory Michaud, MD, Andrea Natale, MD, Douglas Packer, MD

Moderator: Douglas Packer, MD

10:15 a.m.

Putting It All Together: Case Presentations of Ventricular Arrhythmias

Vivek Reddy, MD, William Stevenson, MD, David Wilber, MD

Moderator: William Stevenson, MD

11:30 a.m.

Adjourn

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28.25
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28.25

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Advanced Catheter Ablation: New Tips, Techniques, and Technologies for Complex Arrhythmias

September 14-17, 2018Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Program

7:00 a.m.

Fri, Sept 14

FUNDAMENTALS AND SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIAS

ABLATION OF CHALLENGING SVT, AVRNT/ACCESSORY PATHWAYS

7:00 a.m.

Sat, Sept 15

VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA

Hands-On Anatomy Workshop

6:50 a.m.

Sun, Sept 16

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

Working Lunch Session – Cultural Communication - Open Discussion

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION

7:15 a.m.

Mon, Sept 17

ABLATION LIVE OR ALMOST

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