Intended Audience

Please note, this course runs concurrent with the CVBR, Echo, and ICBR.

This course is intended for Cardiologists, Cardiovascular fellows, Electrophysiologists and Electrophysiology fellows.

Course Description

Mayo Electrophysiology Review Course for Electrophysiology Boards and Recertification will provide the cardiologist and electrophysiologist with an overview of all aspects of cardiovascular electrophysiology. Well-known experts in each field will give in-depth didactics on state-of the-art subjects in electrophysiology and device therapy. Each lecture will include multiple question and answers with an electronic response system. Although this course is designed specifically to prepare the electrophysiologist specialist for the Electrophysiology Boards or Recertification, it will also provide the cardiologist or practicing electrophysiologist with an update on the latest knowledge and advances in electrophysiology. The full spectrum of electrophysiology practice will be reviewed, ranging from basic arrhythmia mechanisms and pharmacology, to catheter diagnosis and therapy, and device-based treatments. Special sessions reviewing maneuvers for arrthymia diagnosis in the eclectrophysiology laboratory and ablation of atrial fibrillation are included. There will be special sessions specifically for those participants taking the Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Certification Boards and Recertification Boards. The schedule includes numerous case based sessions, useful for board examinations and practice.

This course will also include a mock test using an ABIM Electrophysiology Module. Special sessions will be available providing useful adjunctive material including anatomy for the electrophysiology, minimizing ablation complications, and ablation of arterial fibrillation.

Special evening sessions will be available providing useful adjunctive material including anatomy for the electrophysiology, ablation biophysics and advanced mapping system review.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, the participants should be able to:

• Interpret intracardiac and electrocardiographic presentations of common arrhythmias, including:  AVNRT, WPW dependent tachycardias, atrial and ventricular tachycardias, and atrial fibrillation.
• Interpret intracardiac electrograms to plan ablative and device therapy strategies for patients.
• Analyze multicenter trials addressing optimal management of patients with cardiac arrest, those at risk for ventricular arrthymias, WPW, and atrial fibrillation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the common arrhythmia syndromes associated with channelopathies and the ECG/phenotypic aspects of these familial syndromes.
• Identify the muscular anatomy of the heart and how that facilitates arrhythmogenesis.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of ablation biophysics.
• Identify ECG/EGM features of various types of atrial flutters, VT in the normal heart, and atypical accessory tracts like Mahaim and fasciculoventricular fibers.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic electrophysiology of ion channels, gap junctions, and anisotropic conduction and how these can effect clinical arrhythmogenesis.
• Identify the mechanism of action and indications for antiarrhythmic drugs.
• Analyze normal and abnormal functioning of pacemakers and ICDs and their subsequent troubleshooting in the latter situations.

Scholarship Information

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