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PROGRAM AGENDA
“Essential Concepts of Cardiac Pacing” – 9am to 4:30pm

9 am – Registration, Breakfast, Opening Remarks
9:20 – 10:45 am

• Indications for Permanent Cardiac Pacing
• Pacing Codes and Modes

10:45 – 11 am – Break
11 – 11:45 am

• Timing Cycles and Blanking Periods
• Sensing/Programming Sensitivity

11:45 – 12:30 pm

• Upper rate limit behavior – pacemaker Wenckebach, 2:1 block
• Mode Switch Principles/Programming – case examples – appropriate/inappropriate mode switch with programming changes

12:30 pm – 1:15 pm – Lunch – PrepMD Program Presentation
1:15 – 2:15 pm

• Sensors/Sensor Programming
• PMT Principles and Algorithms – with 2 case examples – true & false PMT, programming changes to avoid PMT

2:15 – 3 pm

• Principles of pacing output, capture threshold testing, programming output, factors affecting pacing threshold
• Automatic Capture Algorithms, programming, advantages/precautions

3 – 3:15 pm – Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm

• Reducing RV Pacing (MVP 1&2; AVD extensions; AV Search; Rhythm IQ; VIP)

3:30 – 4:30 pm

• Feature Profiles – Medtronic/Abbott/BSC – 20 minutes each vendor