Course Objectives:

1. Comprehensive teaching of basic concepts essential to electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm device management
2. Clinical practice topics that applied the basic concepts to everyday practice and patient management
3. The program will help clinicians prepare for examinations in electrophysiology and device management

Course Co-Directors: Christine Chiu-Man (Canada), Yoshinori Kobayashi (Japan), Kathy LF Lee (Hong Kong)

08:30 - 10:10, Room S221
Introduction to Cellular Electrophysiology
Chairpersons: Kathy Lee (Hong Kong), Christine Chiu-Man (Canada)

1. Effects of Ion Channels on Electrocardiographic Findings (30 min)
   Gil Gross (Canada)
2. Arrhythmogenesis: Reentry, Automaticity and Triggered Activity (30min)
   Peng-Sheng Chen (USA)
3. Workshop: Early repolarization - Is it good or bad? (30 min)
   Mohit Singla (India)

10:40 - 12:20, Room S221
EP Studies: Anatomy, EGM Interpretation, Stimulation Protocols
Chairpersons: Craig Swygman (USA), Steve Lai (Hong Kong)

1. Cardiac anatomy and fluoroscopic imaging in EP
   Craig Swygman (USA)
2. Fundamentals of EGM Interpretation and Rhythm Analysis
   Chang-Hee Lee (Korea)
3. Basic Stimulation Protocols and Electrophysiologic Evaluation
   Ricardo Bernardo (Portugal)
4. Principles of Entrainment (30min)
   Hans Henrik Odland (Norway)

13:50 - 15:30, Room S221
Basics of Cardiac Pacing
Chairpersons: Dulce Obias-Manno (USA), Wai-Sum Luk (Hong Kong)

1. Electrical Concepts in Pacing: Ohms Law, threshold, sensing, polarity
   Susan Song (USA)
2. Basics of Pacemaker Timing Cycles: From VVI to DDDR
   Christine Chiu-Man (Canada)
3. Hemodynamics of Cardiac Pacing
   Carsten Israel (Germany)

16:00 - 17:40, Room S221
Basics of Cardiac Defibrillation & Resynchronization
Chairpersons: Susan Song (USA), Wai-Sum Luk (Hong Kong)

1. Myocardial Remodeling and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
   Carsten Israel (Germany)
2. Principles of ICD Sensing and Detection of VF / VT
   Ji-Hae Yun (Korea)
3. Defibrillation Concepts and Determinants of Shock Success
   Saeed Hosseini (Canada)
4. CRT Optimization Strategies
   Marleen Irwin (Canada)

08:30 - 10:10, Room S221
ECG Interpretation
Chairpersons: Ji-Hae Yun (Korea), June Huh (Korea)

1. Systematic Approach to Arrhythmia Recognition
   Stephen S.K. Huang (USA)
2. ECG Features in ARVC, Long QT, J wave and Brugada Syndromes
   Tohru Ohe (Japan)
3. Systematic Approach to Pacemaker /CRT ECG Troubleshooting
   Michael Wan (Australia)

10:40 - 12:20, Room S221
Basic Course Quiz
Chairpersons: Kathy Lee (Hong Kong), Yoshinori Kobayashi (Japan), Christine Chiu-Man (Canada)

Question slides with answer discussions for the audience. This will serve as review of topics covered in the Basic Course day.

13:50 - 15:30, Room S221
SVT Tutorial
Chairs: Yui-Chi So (Hong Kong), Christine Chiu-Man (Canada)

1. AV nodal and Pathway mediated SVT: Substrate, Mechanism and Diagnostic Criteria
   Chun-Ja Yoo (Korea)
2. Pacing Techniques in SVT Differentiation in the EP Lab
   Kyoto Soejima (Japan)
3. Workshop: Troubleshooting Difficult Cases of SVT
   Kyoto Soejima (Japan)

13:50 - 15:30, Room S221
VT Tutorial
Chairpersons: Chang-Hee Lee (Korea), Khalid Dagriri (Saudi Arabia)

1. VT: ECG-Anatomic Correlation
   Ahmed Al-Fagih (Saudi Arabia)
2. VT in Structural Heart Disease: Substrate and Catheter Ablation
   Yoshinori Kobayashi (Japan)
3. Cases Workshop: Difficult VT
   Amitabh Yaduvshi (India)

08:30 - 10:10, Room S221
Cardiac Imaging and Catheter Ablation in EP
Chairpersons: Kam-Wai Lai (Hong Kong), Philip Chang (USA)

1. Essentials of CT, Cardiac MRI, 3D-RA and ICE Techniques in EP
   Akiko Ueda (Japan)
2. 3D mapping: Principles, tips and tricks
   Luc Soucie (Canada)
3. Biophysics of Ablation Lesions
   Seller Neil (Saudi Arabia)
4. Emerging Technologies in AF ablation
   Werner Jung (Germany)

10:40 - 12:20, Room S221
Advanced Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
Chairpersons: JungWae Park (Korea), Neil Seller (Saudi Arabia)

1. CRT Implantation Techniques: Tips and Tricks to Improve Successful Implant
   Kheng-Siang Ng (Singapore)
2. CRT Follow-Up Complications and Management
   Elizabeth Stephenson (Canada)
3. Workshop: Case-Based Approach to CRT Troubleshooting
   Luigi Padeletti (Italy)

13:50 - 15:30, Room S221
Advanced ICD
Chairpersons: Chun-Ja Yoo (Korea), Kam-Wai Lai (Hong Kong)

1. VT/VF: Advances in programming ICDs to reduce shocks
   Jason Wildschut (Canada)
2. ICD Lead Technology in Lead Advisories/Recalls
   David Hayes (USA)
3. Subcutaneous ICD (S-ICD): Exploring Benefits and Limitations
   Michael Gold (USA)
4. Workshop: Case-Based Approach to ICD Troubleshooting
   Dulce Obias-Manno (USA)

16:00 - 17:40, Room S221
Advanced Pacemaker Programming
Chairpersons: Marleen Irwin (Canada), Ying-Keung Lo (Hong Kong)

1. Special Features to Reduce Ventricular Pacing: Pitfalls and Pearls
   Ta-Chuan Tuan (Taiwan)
2. Advanced Programming Features: One Size Fits All?
   Chun-Ja Yoo (Korea)
3. Workshop: Case Studies of Complex Pacemaker Troubleshooting
   Byron Lee (USA)

08:30 - 10:10, Room S226-S227
Preventing Complications in EP and Device Therapy
Chairpersons: Hyun-Soo Lee (Korea), Ricardo Bernardo (Portugal)

1. Recognition and Prevention of Complications in Ablation
   Shih-Lin Chang (Taiwan)
2. Device Infection Prevention: Risk Factors, Outcomes, Management Options
   Charles Love (USA)
3. Anticoagulation Pre and Post AF Ablation
   Oussama Wazni (USA)

10:40 - 12:20, Room S226-S227
Atrial Fibrillation
Chair: Yi-Lan Kou (Taiwan)

1. 3D mapping for AF Ablation
   Massimo Moltrasio (Italy)
2. Application in AF Ablation: Contact Force, Contact Sense
   Atul Verma (Canada)
3. Atrial Tachycardias During AF Ablation
   Hyun-Soo Lee (Korea)

13:30 - 17:00, Room S223/S224/S228
Basics of 3D Mapping Systems Practice Workshop

Workstations of 3D mapping systems to permit hands on step by step guided practice.

Facilitator (manufacturer specialist for each system) is to review:

1. Principles of operation
2. Patient setup
3. System navigation and procedure of creating geometry & activation / propagation map
4. Review basics of 3D map interpretation.
5. Systematic approach to troubleshoot problems.

Clinicians help to address clinical relevance and share clinical experience e.g. with troubleshooting.

13:30 - 17:00, Room S223/S224/S228
Basics of Device Programming Practice Workshop

Each major manufacturer (Medronic, St. Jude, Biotronik, Boston Scientific Guidant, Sorin) to provide programmer stations to permit hands on step by step guided practice and address audience questions.

At each station, Facilitator (manufacturer specialist for each device company) is to review:

1. Basics of programmer interface, navigation.
2. Review systematic approach to device follow up: interrogation, retrieval of diagnostic data, basics of interpretation, marker annotations.
3. Review methods to perform stimulation and sensing thresholds testing.
4. Review arrhythmia recognition and diagnosis during follow up assessment, eg. PMT.
5. Systematic approach to troubleshoot problems.

Clinicians help to address clinical relevance and share clinical experience e.g. with troubleshooting.

* To be confirmed