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Peterborough Cardiac Update Meeting 2017A cardiac update meeting for healthcare professionals
involved in the management and treatment of arrhythmias.
Thursday 21 September 2017Peterborough City Hospital
Chair: Dr Brian Gordon & Catherine Laventure
CPD will be applied for with the Royal College of Physicians
09.00 Registration
09:30 Welcome and introduction
09:35 Arrhythmia Alliance, AF Association & STARS – what’s new?
09:45 Screening for atrial fibrillation and making it a national priority Dr Patrick Heck
How is this done and what happens next? Is AF preventable?
10:15 Detecting & diagnosing Reflex Syncope (Vasovagal Syncope) Tests carried out – implantable loop recorders, tilt table tests and heart rhythm
monitors
10:45 Case studies – 12 lead ECG’s in cardiac rhythm management Dr Simon Hansom
Normal, abnormal and in between What is the diagnosis?
11.15 Break
11:45 Anticoagulation therapy - where are we going? Dr Venkata Nagumantry
Why patients are selected for specific therapies and others aren't
12:15 Heart failure - current and future ways to manage these patients Dr Brian Gordon
Lifestyle changes Medicines Ongoing care
12:45 Device Therapy – how to meet the challenges over the next 5-10 years Dr Mohan Virdee
13.15 Lunch
14:00 Quiz questions Catherine Laventure
Detect, protect, correct, perfect
14:45 What do we mean by palliative and end of life care? Dr Sarah Bell
How does that help us identify patients for device management at that stage?
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15.15 Meeting CloseThank you to our sponsors who have purchased exhibition stand space: