Course objectives

Cases are presented by a faculty member and worked-out in interaction with the audience, focusing on both diagnostic and therapeutic aspects. The cases are supplemented by short slide-presentations, highlighting some aspects and/or literature evidence. Interaction with the audience will be stimulated by voting. The results are shown anonymous. 

Target Audience

This Basic course in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology addresses 1st year EP fellows and fellows who need to review fundamentals in EP.

Scientific Programme

Thursday 09 October

12:00 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 13:25 Welcome 
13:25 – 14:25 Basic electrophysiologic mechanisms  - A. Zaza
14:25 – 15:15 Cardiac Anatomy for the Electrophysiologist - D. Sanchez-Quintana

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break 

15:45 – 16:15 Imaging anatomy: Fluoroscopy and 3-D mapping systems - H. Heidbuchel
16:15 – 17:00 Intracardiac recordings and electrical physiology of the whole heart -  J. Almendral
17:00 – 17:15 Intracardiac recordings: comments from the basic side - A. Zaza
17:15 –18:15 Supraventricular tachycardia: definition and classification. AV nodal reentry. -  H. Heidbuchel

20:00   Group dinner 

Friday 10 October

9:00 – 9:45 Conduction and refractoriness in the EP Lab - P. Lambiase
9:45 – 10:00 Conduction and refractoriness: comments from the basic side - A. Zaza

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break  

10:30 – 11:30 Pacing maneuvers: pacemapping: resetting and entrainment  - J. Almendral
11:30 – 12:15 Biophysics of ablation  - M. Antz

12:15 – 13:00 Lunch  

13:00 – 13:45 Accessory pathways: recognition: localization: orthodromic tachycardias  - J. Ormaetxe
13:45 – 14:20 Focal atrial tachycardia: EP study and ablation  - M. Antz
14:20 – 15:30 Practical examples on how to read tracings: focus on narrow QRS tachycardias  - M. Antz / J. Almendral

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break 

16:00 – 16:45 Atrial flutter and atrial macrorrentry - J. Almendral
16:45 – 17:30 Practical examples on how to read tracings: focus on atrial tachycardia / flutter - P. Lambiase / C. de Chillou
17:30 – 18:30 Inherited electrical disease  - P. Lambiase

19:30   Free evening 

Saturday 11 October

9:00 – 10:00 Wide QRS complex tachycardia: mechanisms and differential diagnosis. Preexcited tachyarrhythmias -  J. Ormaetxe

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break  

10:30 – 11:30 VT in structurally normal heart: subtypes: localization and ablation - R. Schilling
11:30 – 12:30 Scar related VT: substrate: localization and ablation  - C. de Chillou

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch 

13:15 – 14:15 AF: pathophysiology and ablation - R. Schilling
14:15 – 15:30 Practical examples on how to read tracings: focus on AF and wide QRS tachycardias - R. Schilling / J. Almendral
15:30 – 15:40 Closure of the Course and departure