| Chair: Mr Ian Wright, Mr Jason Collinson | London UK, Basildon UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | What every electrophysiologist should know about basic science | Dr Fu Siong Ng | London UK | |
| 09:00 | The importance of recording techniques for interpreting Epsignals | Ms Eleri Roberts | Manchester UK | |
| 09:30 | Current trends in 3D mapping | Ms Elaine Lim | London UK | |
| 10:00 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Gwilym Morris, Dr Matt Daniels | Manchester UK, Manchester UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | What has basic science ever done for me, a clinician? | Dr Matt Daniels | Manchester UK | |
| 09:00 | Why do athletes get arrhythmias, and what can we do (apart from burn them)? | Dr Graham Stuart | Bristol UK | |
| 09:30 | Data, AI and the android electrophysiologist: Machine learning for you, your patients and your job | Dr Alfonso Bueno-Orovio | Oxford UK | |
| 10:00 | Close |
Arrhythmia Alliance - Women in arrhythmia care - Hall 9 - 08:30 - 10:00 | Chair: Dr Kim Rajappan, Mrs Trudie Lobban MBE | Oxford UK, Chipping Norton UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Why I went into arrhythmia care - a Physiologist's perspective | Ms Eleri Roberts | Manchester UK | |
| 08:50 | Why I went into arrhythmia care - an Arrhythmia Nurse perspective | Mrs Angela Griffiths | Oxford UK | |
| 09:10 | Why I went into arrhythmia care - a Electrophysiologist's perspective | Prof Sabine Ernst | London UK | |
| 09:30 | Debate: Do patients really care whether they are seen by male or female healthcare professionals? - does the care provided by males differ from that delivered by females in the care of arrhythmia patients? | |||
| Male | Dr Derick Todd | Liverpool UK | ||
| Female | Prof Sabine Ernst | London UK | ||
| 10:00 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Arthur Yue, Prof Nicholas Peters | Southampton UK, London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | New mapping systems and how I use them | Dr Ashley Nisbet | Bristol UK | |
| 09:00 | New ablation tools – more power, more depth? | Dr Neil Seller | Newcastle Upon Tyne UK | |
| 09:30 | Subcutaneous ICD, leadless pacing and beyond… | Dr Arthur Yue | Southampton UK | |
| 10:00 | Close |
Arrhythmia Alliance & EHRA Symposia - Gaps of knowledge in anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation - Hall 11 - 08:30 - 10:00 | Chair: Dr Irina Savelieva, Prof Prapa Kanagaratnam | London UK, London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Low risk AF patients: always anticoagulation? | Dr Irina Savelieva | London UK | |
| 08:50 | Two hours of subclinical AF - start anticoagulation? | Prof Paulus Kirchhof | Birmingham UK | |
| 09:10 | AF and PCI or ACS: dual or triple therapy? | Prof Tatjana Potpara | Belgrade RS | |
| 09:30 | Left atrial appendage closure - alternative for OAC in high risk AF patients | Prof Prapa Kanagaratnam | London UK | |
| 09:50 | Panel discussions/questions | |||
| 10:00 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Kim Rajappan | Oxford UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:45 | National audit of arrhythmia care | Dr Francis Murgatroyd | London UK | |
| 11:15 | National commissioning and its impact on arrhythmia care | Dr Derick Todd | Liverpool UK | |
| 11:45 | Raising the profile of arrhythmia research in the UK | Prof Pier Lambiase | London UK | |
| 12:15 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Andrew Turley | Middlesbrough UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30 | Pacemakers | Dr Ashish Patwala | Stoke on Trent UK | |
| 12:45 | Cardiac Resynchronisation therapy | Prof Francisco Leyva | Birmingham UK | |
| 13:00 | Implantable cardioverter defibrillators/S-ICD | Dr Andrew Grace | Cambridge UK | |
| 13:15 | Close |
Medtronic Symposia - How do we manage the current epidemic of AF? - Hall 6 - 13:30 - 14:50 | Chair: Dr Kim Rajappan | Oxford UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | The AVATAR-AF Trial | Prof Prapa Kanagaratnam | London UK | |
| 13:40 | How can the AVATAR protocol be improved further? | Dr Jack McCready | Brighton UK | |
| 13:50 | Ablation outside the EP Lab – time to rethink cath lab roles? | Dr Ewen Shepherd | Newcastle Upon Tyne UK | |
| 14:00 | Panel discussion | |||
| AF ablation in the next 10 years | ||||
| Chair: Dr Neil Hobson, Prof Prapa Kanagaratnam | Hull UK, London UK | |||
| 14:10 | Pulmonary Vein Mapping is no longer relevant; Lesson from the AVATAR trial | Dr Derick Todd | Liverpool UK | |
| 14:20 | Can the AVATAR protocol be extended persistent AF? | Dr Muzahir Tayebjee | Leeds UK | |
| 14:30 | Is radiofrequency ablation still the gold standard for AF ablation | Dr Andreas Kyriacou | Sheffield UK | |
| 14:40 | Panel discussion | |||
| 14:50 | Close |
HeartLogic Symposia: Early yellow alerts, not late blue lights for worsening heart failure patients? - Hall 7 - 13:30 - 15:00 | Chair: Prof Francisco Leyva | Birmingham UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Introduction | Prof Francisco Leyva | Birmingham UK | |
| 13:35 | A HeartLogic Overview: What is HL and what is the supporting data? | Dr Alastair Gray | Dublin IR | |
| Brief overview of HeartLogic algorithm | ||||
| MultiSense study and results | ||||
| More recent MultiSense sub-analysis etc. | ||||
| Early HeartLogic centre experience: Blackpool Victoria | ||||
| 13:50 | Introduction to BPV and How HL was introduced | Ms Alison Seed | Blackpool UK | |
| 14:00 | Blackpool Victoria HF care pathway and how HL has been integrated - experience so far - challenges they’ve faced and overcome | Ms Lesley Howard | Blackpool UK | |
| 14:15 | Latitude experience and Cardiac Physiologist perspective | Ms Angelic Goode | Blackpool UK | |
| Case studies from: | ||||
| 14:25 | New Cross | Ms Emma Painter | Wolverhampton UK | |
| 14:35 | Blackpool | Ms Paula Black | Blackpool UK | |
| 14:45 | Mater Mis | Dr Alastair Gray | Dublin IR | |
| 14:55 | Q&A | |||
| 15:00 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Rachel Myles, Dr Tim Betts | Glasgow UK, Oxford UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrhythmia Mechanisms | ||||
| 13:30 | THE IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ECTOPY-TRIGGERING GANGLIONATED PLEXUSES IN LANGENDORFF-PERFUSED PORCINE HEARTS | Min-young Kim | London UK | |
| 13:45 | REDUCTIONS IN QRS AREA PREDICT LONG-TERM CLINICAL OUTCOMES AFTER CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY | Osita Okafor | Sutton Coldfield UK | |
| 14:00 | REDUCED SODIUM CURRENTS AND INCREASED SENSITIVITY TO FLECAINIDE IN ATRIAL CARDIOMYOCYTES WHEN COMPARED TO VENTRICULAR | Daniel Johnson | Birmingham UK | |
| 14:15 | ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL REPOLARIZATION TIME MEASUREMENTS IN THE INTACT HUMAN HEART USING INTRACARDIAC UNIPOLAR ELECTROGRAMS | Michele Orini | London UK | |
| 14:30 | THE DEGREE AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS CAN INFLUENCE THE UNDERLYING MECHANISM OF VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION | Balvinder Handa | London UK | |
| 14:45 | IMPACT OF ADENOSINE ON MECHANISMS OF WAVEFRONT PROPAGATION IN PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION | Michael Pope | Oxford UK | |
| 15:00 | Break | |||
| Chair: Dr Nick Kelland | Sheffield UK | |||
| Imaging & Clinical EP | ||||
| 15:45 | LV MASS ON CARDIAC MRI IDENTIFIES HIGHER RISK ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY THAN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY: AN OBSERVATIONAL RETROSPECTIVE 10-YEAR STUDY | Philip Rodwell | Nottingham UK | |
| 16:00 | USE OF A MULTI-ELECTRODE RADIOFREQUENCY BALLOON CATHETER TO ACHIEVE PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: 12 MONTH OUTCOMES: THE RADIANCE STUDY | Gurpreet Dhillon | London UK | |
| 16:15 | EVALUATION OF ECG IMAGING TO MAP HAEMODYNAMICALLY STABLE AND UNSTABLE VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS | Adam Graham | Islington UK | |
| 16:30 | CHARACTERISATION OF THE ELECTRICAL AND STRUCTURAL IMPACT OF ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS | Louisa O'Neill | London UK | |
| 16:45 | REPROGRAMMING TO PREVENT PROGRESSIVE PACEMAKER REMODELLING | Maria Paton | Leeds UK | |
| 17:00 | TEMPORARY EPICARDIAL CARDIAC PACING POST CARDIAC SURGERY AN AUDIT AT A LARGE TERTIARY CENTRE | Shahini Desai | London UK | |
| 17:15 | Close |
Arrhythmia Alliance Symposia (1) - Hall 8b - 13:30 - 15:00 | Chair: Dr Elena Arbelo, Prof Nicholas Peters | Barcelona ES , London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Outcomes in Atrial Fibrillation: European Registries and New International Recommendations | Dr Elena Arbelo | Barcelona ES | |
| 14:00 | Digital technology | Prof Nicholas Peters | London UK | |
| 14:30 | Patient Reported Outcomes & Quality of Life | Mr Sotiris Antoniou | London UK | |
| 15:00 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Kevin Leong | London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Risk stratification of sudden death in patients with structurally normal hearts | Dr Kevin Leong | London UK | |
| 14:00 | Ablation approaches for ventricular fibrillation | Dr Matthew Wright | London UK | |
| 14:30 | Catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia in patients with channelopathies | Dr Sajad Hayat | Doha QA | |
| 15:00 | Close |
| Chair: Mr Stuart Allen | Manchester UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel | Ms Lucy Broadhurst, Dr Philip Moore | Rotherham UK, Manchester UK | ||
| 15:00 | Close |
AF Association Symposia (2) - Hall 11 - 13:30 - 17:15 | Chair: Dr Andrew Grace , Dr Moloy Das | Cambridge UK, Newcastle Upon Tyne UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | How to get durable PVI: The role of composite lesion indices and local impedance tracking | Dr Moloy Das | Newcastle Upon Tyne UK | |
| 13:45 | Non-pulmonary drivers of atrial fibrillation; how much do we really know? | Dr Gwilym Morris | Manchester UK | |
| 14:00 | High Power Short Duration Ablation for AF: More effective and safer? | |||
| 14:20 | Preventing and managing esophageal injury following AF ablation | Dr Richard Snowdon | Liverpool UK | |
| 14:35 | Podiatry's role in opportunistic AF detection | Ms Monica Fisk | London UK | |
| 14:50 | Panel discussions/questions | |||
| 15:00 | Break | |||
| 15:45 | AF Association update | Mrs Rachel Harris | Chipping Norton UK | |
| 15:55 | How have CABANA and CASTLE AF changed my practice? | Dr Tim Betts | Oxford UK | |
| 16:10 | LAA Closure at the time of AF Ablation – When, how, and outcomes | Dr Tom Wong | London UK | |
| 16:25 | Has the time come to offer AF ablation as a day case procedure? | Dr Jack McCready | Brighton UK | |
| 16:45 | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Big Data as used for AF management | Dr Graeme Kirkwood | Sheffield UK | |
| 17:05 | Panel discussions/questions | |||
| 17:15 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Rachel Myles | Glasgow UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | IS VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM AN UNDER-RECOGNISED COMPLICATION OF RIGHT SIDED CARDIAC CATHETER ABLATION? | Charo Bruce | Manchester UK | |
| 15:05 | CATHETER-TISSUE COUPLING DURING CONTACT FORCE-GUIDED PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION: MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS INTO HETEROGENEITY OF RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION EFFECTS IN VIVO | David Tomlinson | Plymouth UK | |
| 15:10 | HYBRID SURGICAL ABLATION VERSUS CATHETER ABLATION ALONE IN LONGSTANDING PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: A SINGLE CENTRE PROPENSITY-MATCHED COHORT STUDY | Edd Maclean | London UK | |
| 15:15 | PROGNOSIS OF INCIDENTAL LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK | Abbasin Zegard | Birmingham UK | |
| 15:20 | THE IMPACT OF ELECTIVE CARDIOVERSION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS | John Graby | Bristol UK | |
| 15:25 | THROMBOEMBOLIC PROPHYLAXIS AFTER VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA ABLATION | Esther Randall | London UK | |
| 15:30 | INFLUENCE OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY ON ESOPHAGEAL COOLING PROTECTION DURING HIGH-POWER SHORT-DURATION ABLATION | Erik Kulstad | Dallas US | |
| 15:35 | PREVALENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CARDIAC FIBROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK UNDERGOING PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION | Christopher Saunderson | Leeds UK | |
| 15:40 | POST-IMPLANTATION DEVICE CHECKS PRE DISCHARGE ARE NECESSARY - A SINGLE CENTRE RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS | Emma Dooley | London UK | |
| 15:45 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Martin Lowe, Dr Vivienne Ezzat | London UK, London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:45 | BiCEP – Where are we, and where do we want to go? | Dr Vivienne Ezzat | London UK | |
| 16:15 | CHD arrhythmias – what can our European colleagues teach us? | Dr Claire Martin | Cambridge UK | |
| 16:45 | What can BHRS do to support CHD arrhythmia services | Dr Joseph De Bono | Birmingham UK | |
| 17:15 | Close |
Biosense Webster Symposia - Hall 8b - 15:45 - 17:15 | 15:45 | Welcome | Prof Andre Ng | Leicester UK | |
| 15:50 | The importance of substrate analysis in Persistent AF | Dr Matt Ginks | Oxford UK | |
| 16:15 | Early Evaluation experience with CARTO PRIME and COHERENT Mapping | Dr Vias Markides | London UK | |
| 16:35 | New technology for PVI: HelioStar Balloon Ablation Catheter | Dr Arash Aryana | California US | |
| 16:55 | Q & A Session | Prof Andre Ng | Leicester UK | |
| 17:15 | Close |
Arrhythmia Alliance Symposia (2) - Hall 9 - 15:45 - 17:15 | Chair: Dr Rebecca Lane, Dr Zachary Whinnett | London UK, London UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:45 | Are we ready to start a clinical His bundle pacing service - which patients first and why? | Dr Zachary Whinnett | London UK | |
| 16:00 | Increasing use of Subcutaneous ICDs - why not? | Dr Rebecca Lane | London UK | |
| Chair: Dr Francis Murgatroyd | London UK | |||
| 16:15 | Debate: Pacing leads should never be abandoned - extraction for all | |||
| Pro | Dr Mark Gallagher | London UK | ||
| Con | Prof Aldo Rinaldi | London UK | ||
| 17:00 | Panel discussions/questions | |||
| 17:15 | Close - To be continued on Wednesday 9 October - 08:30-15:00, Hall 5 |
| Chair: Dr John Paisey | Southampton UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debate: HIS pacing: why bother? | ||||
| 15:45 | Pro | Dr Paul Foley | Swindon UK | |
| 16:05 | Con | Dr Amir Zaidi | Manchester UK | |
| Remote monitoring of pacemaker patients should be the gold standard | ||||
| 16:25 | Pro | Mr Stuart Allen | Manchester UK | |
| 16:50 | Con | Ms Holly Daw | London UK | |
| 17:15 | Close |
| An interactive case-based session discussing a patient undergoing cardioversion and then ablation | ||||
| 15:45 | Chair: Dr Derek Connolly, Dr Tarvinder Dhanjal | Birmingham UK, Coventry UK | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key clinical topics include: | ||||
| Is rhythm control important? | ||||
| How to approach cardioversion in a patient with poor adherence or an anticoagulant-naïve patient | ||||
| How to manage anticoagulation before, during and after ablation | ||||
| How to manage a tamponade during ablation | ||||
| 17:15 | Close |
| Chair: Dr Benedict Wiles | Bournemouth UK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17:30 | The pregnant patient with palpitations | Dr Ashley Nisbet | Bristol UK | |
| 17:50 | When things go wrong: complications and complaints | Dr Amir Zaidi | Manchester UK | |
| 18:10 | The patient with failed ICD therapy | Ms Jennifer Cole | Oxford UK | |
| 18:30 | Driving dilemmas and the DVLA | Dr Kim Rajappan | Oxford UK | |
| 18:50 | Trainee update | Dr Benedict Wiles | Bournemouth UK | |
| 19:00 | Close |