Sponsored Sessions:

2 February Medtronic: Pre-conference Workshop BARD: Evening Symposium

3 February Biotronik Lunch Symposium: "Application of Close Loop Stimulation for Rate Adaptation, Cognitive Function and Heart Failure" St. Jude Medical: Lunch Symposium St. Jude Medical: AF Symposium Guidant: Case Demonstration Medtronic: Evening Symposium

Program Topics

I. How-to Sessions (with video presentations)

Cardiac Pacing: Tips and Tricks for Device Implantation

• How to achieve alternative atrial site pacing?
• How to achieve alternative ventricular site pacing?
• Pearls and Pitfalls of device replacement and upgrade

Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Improving Clinical Success

• How to prepare the patient and perform transeptal puncture
• How to select ablation strategies and endpoints?
• What are the roles of advanced mapping and ablation techniques?

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: How to Get There?

• How to select suitable candidates for CRT?
• Tips and tricks to increase implant success rate
• How to optimize patient response to CRT?

ICD: Who, What and How?

• Who needs an ICD?
• What ICD to implant?
• How to implant ICD and perform DFT testing?

II. Practical Tutorials

Guidelines for Arrhythmias Management

• Atrial fibrillation
• SVT, including Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome
• Sudden Death in Young Adult

Understanding Device Malfunction (Case based tutorial)

• Why do Leads Fail?
• Why do Generators Fail?
• How to Detect and Manage Device malfunction?

Risk Assessment of SCD (Case based tutorial)

• Genetic testing
• Electrophysiological study
• Non-invasive methods

Syncope (Case based tutorial)

• Update of Syncope Guidelines
• Current Role of Tilt-Table Test
• Diagnostic Challenges- POTS, Orthostatic hypotension and Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia

Management of Genetic Heart Rhythm Disease (Case based tutorial)

• Understanding Genetic Testing
• Long and Short QT Syndrome
• Brugada and Variants
• Idiopathic VT/VF

• SCD in Asia
• Pacing and ICD Survey in Asia

I. Atrial Fibrillation

• New Risk Factors for Atrial Fibrillation
• The Genetic Basis for Atrial Fibrillation
• Rate versus Rhythm - New Guidelines
• Evolving Rate Control Strategies
• New Antiarrhythmic Agents
• Upstream Therapy
• Growing Problem of Asymptomatic Atrial Fibrillation
• Anti-thromboembolic Treatment - Drugs and Devices

II. Heart Failure

• Epidemiology of CHF
• Pharmacologic Management of CHF 2007: State of the Art
• CHF Not Secondary to Systolic Dysfunction
• Overview of Clinical Trials in CRT
• ICD Therapy in CHF
• Atrial Arrhythmias in CHF: Incidence and Management
• Acorn and Similar Devices for CHF Management: Status and Potential Role
• Left Ventricular Assist Device: Destination Therapy or Stand-Alone Therapy or New Horizons of CHF Management

III. Sudden Cardiac Death

• Are Current ICD's Trials Adequate?
• The Heart Failure Candidate
• Non Invasive Means for Patient Selection
• Sudden Death in Young Adults
• Cost-efficacy Analysis

IV. Catheter Ablation

• 20 Years of RF Ablation for SVT
• Pitfall in Mapping and Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardia
• Catheter Ablation of Atypical Atrial Flutter
• Image of Atrium and PV in Ablation of Atrial Arrhythmias
• Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation - Long Term Results
• Frequency Analysis, Fractionated Electrograms, and Rotors for Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
• Ablation of Idiopathic VT and VF
• Ablation of VT in Structural Heart Disease

V. New Technology and Imaging

• Update of Magnetic Navigation
• Update of Robotic Navigation
• New Applications of Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE)
• Image Integration for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
• Novel Applications of Percutaneous Pericardial Instrumentation
• Advances in Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: New Energy Sources and Technologies
• Gene Therapy for Arrhythmias
• Advances in Antiarrhythmic Drugs

VI. New Devices

• The Role of the Steerable Catheter in Pacing Implants
• The Current Status of Transvenous Left Ventricular Lead Technology
• The Evolving ICD Lead
• The Shrinking Defibrillator
• Minimal Ventricular Pacing Algorithms
• The Fully Automatic Pacemaker
• Remote Device Follow Up
• The Future of Implantable Monitors for Heart Failure

• CRT Implant
• Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
• Epicardial Ablation
• Lead Extraction