Heart Rhythm Society : Core Concepts in EP and Board Prep 2021

This course features didactic lectures and case-based workshops presented by expert faculty and course directors for in-depth coverage of the essential EP curriculum. It is bundled with a 100-question, multiple choice Self-Assessment Exam available immediately upon purchase.

Course Highlights

Over 20 recorded didactic lectures with nine case-based workshops delivered by leading experts covering:

• Basic cardiac and intracardiac electrophysiology
• Pharmacology of antiarrhythmic drugs
• Noninvasive testing for arrhythmias
• Atrial and other supraventricular tachycardias
• Catheter ablation
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Cardiac pacing
• Intracardiac ultrasound in EP
• Transseptal catheterization techniques
• Pericardial access for epicardial mapping and ablation
• Complications of EP procedures – avoidance and management

Program : 
Session I: Basic Science and Fundamentals of Electrophysiology

• Basic Electrophysiology Principles for the Clinician
• Inherited Ion Channelopathies
• Sinoatrial and Atrioventricular Nodes and His-Purkinje System: Anatomy, Evaluation, Autonomics and Therapy
• Retrograde Conductions
• Workshop #1: Electrocardiographic/Electrophysiologic Correlations
  • Physiology and Conduction
  • Basic Science and Channelopathies
  • Basic Science

Session II: Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment

• Use of Overdrive Pacing/Entrainment in Supraventricular Tachycardia
• Principles of Entrainment: Ventricular Tachycardia
• Techniques of Differentiating SVT Mechanisms: Part I
• Techniques of Differentiating SVT Mechanisms: Part II
• Workshop #2
  • SVT Maneuvers
  • Entrainment – VT
  • Entrainment – SVT
• Catheter Ablation of Atrial Tachycardia and Typical Atrial Flutter
• Physiology, Mapping and Catheter Ablation of Accessory Pathways
• Workshop #3: SVT Mechanisms/Maneuvers
• Physiology of Catheter Ablation of AV Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia
• Special Workshop: 12 Lead ECG for PVC and VT Localization

Session III: Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment

• Ventricular Tachycardia: Ischemic and Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy and other Unique VT Syndromes
• Workshop #4: SVT and VT Invasive/Noninvasive Correlation
• Wide Complex Tachycardias: Idiopathic VTs, Bundle Branch Reentry, Antidromic Tachycardias – Mechanisms, ECG Manifestations, Invasive Assessment and Ablation
• Workshop #5: Invasive/Noninvasive Correlation

Session IV: Noninvasive Diagnosis and Treatment

• Antiarrhythmic Drugs: Part I
• Antiarrhythmic Drugs: Part II
• Workshop #6: Electrocardiographic/Electrophysiological Correlations
• Mechanisms, Pharmacologic, and Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
• Biophysics of Catheter Ablation
• Workshop #7: Electrocardiographic/Electrophysiological Correlations, Atrial Fibrillation, Clinical Scenarios and Syndromes

Session V

• Device: Evaluation, Management and Troubleshooting
• Workshop #8: Device Cases
• Workshop #9: Arrhythmia Case Studies

Special Technology Sessions

• Transseptal Catheterization
• Complications of Electrophysiologic Studies – Avoidance and Treatment
• Use of Intracardiac Ultrasound in Electrophysiology Procedures
• Pericardial Access for Epicardial Mapping and Ablation
• Cardiac Conduction System Pacing – Theory and Practice
• Electroanatomical Mapping – Principles and Pitfalls

1. Describe the current guidelines related to evaluation and management of patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances
2. Describe the role of electrophysiologic testing in managing patients with brady arrhythmias and tachyarrhythmias
3. Identify the advantages and limitations of diagnostic electrophysiologic methods
4. Identify the role of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies for the treatment of arrhythmias
5. Recognize the basic electrophysiology and genetics of inherited conditions associated with cardiac arrhythmias
6. Recognize clinical, electrocardiographic, and electrophysiologic characteristics of specific cardiac arrhythmia syndromes
7. Interpret complex electrophysiologic and electrocardiographic tracings
8. Interpret stored electrograms from pacemakers and ICDs
9. Understand the role, utility and limitations of imaging (fluoroscopy, intracardiac echocardiography, electroanatomic mapping) in electrophysiologic procedures
10. Understand different methods of safely accessing left atrium with transseptal techniques, and pericardial space for electrophysiologic procedures
11. Describe potential complications of electrophysiologic procedures, how to avoid them when possible and remedy them when they occur

• EP Fellows
• MDs taking the ABIM CCEP Board Certification Exam
• MDs taking the ABIM CCEP Recertification Exam