The 9th AEPC Teaching course on paediatric ar

9th AEPC Basic Paediatric Arrhythmia Course, 14.-15.6.2024, Helsinki, Finland

Friday 14.6.2024

8.00-8.45 Registration

8.45-9.00 Welcome Juha-Matti Happonen, MD, Helsinki, FI

Session 1 Paediatric arrhythmias - arrhythmia mechanisms and ECG findings
Chair Juha-Matti Happonen, MD and Fabrizio Drago, Professor

9.00-9.30 Tachyarrhythmias Roman Gebauer, MD, Leipzig, DE
9.30-9.50 Bradyarrhythmias Maria Gonzalez, MD, Giessen, DE
9.50-10.10 Tools or toys? Ilkka Jaakkola, MD, PhD, Helsinki, FI
- Modern ways of arrhythmia documentation
10.10-10.40 Paediatric arrhythmia emergencies Jan Janousek, Professor, Prague, CZ

10.45-11.15 Coffee and Exhibition

Workshops 1 & 2 (Choose 2 of 4)

11.15-11.55 Arrhythmias in real life
Fetal tachycardia Maria Miszczak-Knecht, MD, Warsaw, PL
Neonatal tachycardia Tomasz Książczyk, MD, Warsaw, PL
Narrow QRS tachycardia Thomas Paul, Professor, Göttingen, DE
Wide QRS tachycardia Alpay Çeliker, Professor, Istanbul, TR

12.00-12.40 Arrhythmias in real life
Fetal tachycardia Maria Miszczak-Knecht, MD, Warsaw, PL
Neonatal tachycardia Tomasz Książczyk, MD, Warsaw, PL
Narrow QRS tachycardia Thomas Paul, Professor, Göttingen, DE
Wide QRS tachycardia Alpay Çeliker, Professor, Istanbul, TR

12.45-14.00 Lunch and Exhibition

Session 2 Hereditary arrhythmias - Channelopathies and cardiomyopathies
Chair Nico Blom, Professor and Anita Hiippala, MD

14.00-14.30 Inherited arrhythmia Arthur Wilde, Professor, Amsterdam, NL
syndromes
14.30-15.00 Channelopathy patient fails Laszlo Környei, MD, Budapest, HU
medication - what next?
15.00-15.30 Arrhythmias in Janike Kammeraad, MD, PhD, Rotterdam, NL
cardiomyopathies
15.30-16.00 Diagnostic work-up in Emmi Helle, MD, PhD, Helsinki, FI
patients with family history of SCD

16.00-16.30 Coffee and Exhibition

Workshops 3 & 4 (Choose 2 of 4)

16.30-17.10 Risk stratification and treatment
Inherited arrhyhmia syndromes Arthur Wilde, Professor, Amsterdam, NL
- when to treat?
PVCs - benign or not? Fabrizio Drago, Professor, Rome, IT
Asymptomatic pre-excitation Ulrich Krause, MD, PhD, Göttingen, DE
- what to do?
Syncope in pediatric patients Alice Maltret, MD, Paris, FR
- when to worry?

17.15-18.00 Risk stratification and treatment
Inherited arrhyhmia syndromes Arthur Wilde, Professor, Amsterdam, NL
- when to treat?
PVCs - benign or not? Fabrizio Drago, Professor, Rome, IT
Asymptomatic pre-excitation Ulrich Krause, MD, PhD, Göttingen, DE
- what to do?
Syncope in pediatric patients Alice Maltret, MD, Paris, FR
- when to worry?

Saturday 15.6.2024

Session 3 Arrhythmias in congenital heart disease
Chair Joachim Hebe, MD and Ilkka Jaakkola MD, PhD

9.00-9.20 Arrhythmia substrates in CHD Thomas Kriebel, MD, PhD, Kaiserslautern, DE
9.20-9.50 Postoperative arrhythmias in the ICU Ferran Roses-Noguer, MD, Barcelona, ES
9.50-10.10 Sudden cardiac death in CHD Nico Blom, Professor, Leiden/Amsterdam, NL
10.10-10.30 Treatment strategies Roman Gebauer, MD, Leipzig, DE
- medical vs. invasive

10.30-11.00 Coffee and Exhibition

Workshops 5 & 6 (Choose 2 of 4)

11.00-11.40 Tips and tricks for patient treatment and follow-up
What is this ECG tracing? Juha-Matti Happonen, MD, Helsinki, FI
Device implantation in pediatric patients Massimo Silvetti, MD, Rome, IT
Holter, ILR and exercise test in Merja Kallio, MD, PhD, Helsinki, FI
arrhythmia management
Principles of EPS for beginners Joachim Hebe, MD, Bremen, DE

11.45-12.30 Tips and tricks for patient treatment and follow-up
What is this ECG tracing? Juha-Matti Happonen, MD, Helsinki, FI
Device implantation in pediatric patients Massimo Silvetti, MD, Rome, IT
Holter, ILR and exercise test in Merja Kallio, MD, PhD, Helsinki, FI
arrhythmia management
Principles of EPS for beginners Joachim Hebe, MD, Bremen, DE

12.30-13.30 Lunch and Exhibition

Session 4 Abstract competition
Chair Thomas Paul, Professor and Guilherme Lourenço, MD

13.30-13.40 Transvenous Leads in Mid-sized Children Yannic Wilberg, MD, Bad Oeynhausen, GE
– No Rational for Anticoagulation?
13.40-13.50 International Pediatric Brugada Registry Christine Stratmann, MD, Munich GE
13.50-14.00 Wearable Devices in Paediatric Cardiology: Hidde J. Hardon, PhD student, Rotterdam, NE
an evaluation of their Accuracy, Diagnostic
Value and Patient Satisfaction

Session 5 Device therapy in pediatric patients and patients with CHD
Chair Thomas Paul, Professor and Massimo Silvetti, MD

14.00-14.30 Bradycardia pacing in children Jan Till, MD, London, UK
- indications and methods
14.30-14.55 ICD therapy in children Eric Rosenthal, Professor, London, UK
14.55-15.20 Assessing and treating cardiac Jan Janousek, Professor, Prague, CZ
dyssynchrony
15.20-15.30 Announcing the winner of the abstract Ilkka Jaakkola and Merja Kallio, Helsinki, FI
competition and course conclusion