Heart Rhythm Congress 2011

Tuesday 4th October

19:00 - 00:00

Gala Dinner

We invite you to join friends and colleagues at the HRC Gala Dinner. Complimentary pre-dinner drinks will launch the evening, followed by a sumptious 3-course meal and the winners of the Young Investigators Competition will be announced.

Tables seat 10 guests. Tickets available from Industry or can be purchased individually from Sara Newbold - sara@heartrhythmcongress.org.uk 01789 451831

Individual ticket prices:

Consultants & Industry £75
Nurses, Physiologists & Trainees £55

Kings Suite

Monday 3rd October - Wednesday 5th October

BARD® EP Mini Case Review Sessions

 These 30minute EP Teaching Sessions are to be held during breaktimes & lunchtimes on the BARD® EP stand. A Consultant Electrophysiologist will present a real life EP case. Participants will be encouraged to interact with the case, including making measurements of intervals.
The sessions are aimed at Cardiology SpR's or Cardiac Physiologists with at least a basic EP knowledge. The sessions will be limited to a small group of 5-6 people & thus aim to be interactive. Pre registration will be required & can be booked at the BARD® EP stand during the meeting.

Monarch Suite Exhibition

Monday 3rd October

13:30 - 17:15

Hands-On Session

This session will give attendees the opportunity to get practical experience with programmers and devices from participating device companies. Technical experts will be on hand to demonstrate and teach on all aspects of device setup and programming. The session will run all afternoon so that you can drop in and out at your convenience.

Arden Room

Tuesday 4th October

12:15 - 13:30

RECCOVVER Meeting

An invitation is extended to all UK-based cardiologists who are interested in the role of implanted devices for the management of heart failure to discuss a research proposal called RECCOVVER (Randomised trial of Early Combined CRT, Volume status assessment and Ventricular Rhythm therapy).

The study aims to randomise a large number (3000) and broad range of patients recovering from an episode of worsening heart failure to either an implanted device prior to or soon after discharge (with CRT-D being the preferred option) compared to a delayed and selective approach only after optimisation of medical therapy as advised in European Society of Cardiology guidelines.

The study is designed to be simple and practical. It is not yet funded. However, without enthusiasm and support from you this is unlikely to happen. We hope to enagage all centres implanting CRT-D in the UK in the study. By doing so, we believe this might require only two implanted devices per centre per month for study purposes over a 2-3 year period.

Professor Cleland will give a short presentation in te Lancaster room on Tuesday 4th October from 12:15 - 13:30.

All interested parties welcome, especially those wishing to contribute to protocol development and to lead the effort.

Lancaster Room