Choose from the categories below to be taken to the full list of presentations available

• ICDs and Cardiac Resynchronization Devices Course Presentations
• Complications, Controversies and Patient Assessment
  
• Customization for Optimal ICD Programming:
  
• Troubleshooting and Case Presentations
  
• How to Successfully Implant CRT: From Lead Placement to Programming
  
• Selecting the Right Device for the Right Patient: What Type of ICD to Implant
  
• Success with Failure: CRT from Implant to Optimization
  
• Tips and Tricks for Device Implantation
  
• Defibrillation Threshold Testing: Avoiding EP Lab Disasters
  
• LV Lead Placement: My Way
  
• Hot Topics in Pacing and Heart Failure
  

ICDs and Cardiac Resynchronization Devices Course Presentations

ICD Programming & Follow-Up

• ICD Follow-up: Troubleshooting, Reprogramming, and ERI Indicators
  Nitish Badhwar, MBBS
• Fundamentals of ICD Follow-Up: Evaluation of Therapy
  Joshua Cooper, MD
• ICD Programming: What To Tell The Box
  John Payne, MD
  

ICD Implantation

• ICD Implantation I: Implantation Techniques
  Dwight Reynolds, MD, FHRS
• ICD Implantation II: Defibrillation Testing
  Dwight Reynolds, MD, FHRS
• CRT Implant Techniques
  Charles Kinder, MD

CRT Follow-Up & Outcomes

• Optimizing CRT Outcomes
  E. Kevin Heist, MD, Ph.D.
• Fundamentals of CRT Follow-Up: Optimizing CRT Delivery
  Andrea Russo, MD

Rhythm 2006 Presentations


Complications, Controversies and Patient Assessment

• Controversies in Devices (Brady, Tachy):
  We Should Train Non-Electrophysiologists to Implant ICDs -- Protagonist
  James Coman, MD
• Controversies in Devices (Brady, Tachy):
  We Should Train Non-Electrophysiologists to Implant ICDs -- Antagonist
  Eric Prystowsky, MD, FHRS
• The 10 Most Important Rules for Avoiding and Treating Device Infections
  Sung Chun, MD
• The Track Record of CRT in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure
  Richard Garmany, MD
• Which Patients Are "Not Sick Enough" To Need An ICD?
  James Daubert, MD
• When Don't You Want an ICD? Who's Too Sick?
  Berndt Luederitz, MD, Ph.D., FHRS
  

Customization for Optimal ICD Programming: Troubleshooting and Case Presentations

• Troubleshooting Special Features and Algorithms
  Amy Beeman, RN, BSN
• Customization for Optimal ICD Programming: Case Presentations
  Neil Bernstein, MD
• Customization for ICD Programming: Brady and Tachy Parameters
  Robert Mosteller, MD
  

How to Successfully Implant CRT: From Lead Placement to Programming

• CRT Optimization
  Mitchell Faddis, MD, PHD
• Trying to Avoid a Pain in the Os: Tips and Tricks in Navigating the Coronary Sinus
  Robert Rea, MD
  

Selecting the Right Device for the Right Patient: What Type of ICD to Implant

• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Patient Selection and Optimization
  Michael Gold, MD, PhD, FHRS
• Selecting the Right Device for the Right Patient: What Type of ICD To Implant
  Jay Franklin, MD
• What Type of ICD to Implant: How to Select the Right Device Every Time*
  *Well, most of the time...
  Sami Viskin, MD

Success with Failure: CRT from Implant to Optimization

• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy and Implantable Monitoring Systems
  William Abraham, MD
• Patient Selection for CRT
  John Cleland, MD
• Optimizing Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
  Cheuk-Man Yu, MD, FRCP 
  

Tips and Tricks for Device Implantation

• Tips and Tricks for Device Implantation: Left Ventricular Lead Placement
  Rahul Doshi, MD
• Tips and Tricks for Device Implantation: Would You Check Your Parachute?
  Randy Lieberman, MD
• "Unipolar" Dual Chamber Pacing ICD Implant
  Robert Rea, MD
  

Defibrillation Threshold Testing: Avoiding EP Lab Disasters

• How Do you Manage the High Defibrillation Threshold Patient?
  Richard Klein, MD
• How to Avoid Complications with Defibrillation Threshold Testing
  Byron Lee, MD
• Is An Anesthesiologist Necessary for Deep Conscious Sedation for ICD Shock Testing?
  Charlie Young, MD

LV Lead Placement: My Way

• LV Lead Placement: Everyday Challenges
  David De Lurgio, MD
• LV Lead Placement, My Way
  Westby Fisher, MD
• LV Lead Placement: My Way
  Daniel Gras, MD
  

Hot Topics in Pacing and Heart Failure

• Does Atrial Pacing Prevent Afib?
  Christopher Cole, MD
• Does Right Atrial Pacing Help or Hurt Heart Failure Patients?
  David Martin, MD, MPH
• How Far Should We Go to Prevent Unnecessary Right Ventricular Pacing in Heart Failure Patients?
  Brian Olshansky, MD, FHRS

Disclaimer: Please note that the following presentations have been made available in the ICD/CRT Resource Center for educational purposes ONLY. In no way do the presentations fulfill the requirements, didactic or otherwise, of the Alternate Training Pathway, which expired October 2008.

For questions about the presentations in the Device Therapy Self-Study area of the ICD/CRT Resource Center contact Cynthia Roller of the Heart Rhythm Society.