EHRA at Cardiostim 2012

• CRT in the 21st century. what do we have now? / status quo and quo vadis? - Chairpersons: G Boriani (IT) - K-H Kuck (DE)
• ICD therapy in year 2012 - Chairpersons: S Garrigue (FR)- J H Svendsen (DK)
• Pacemaker therapy in year 2012 - Chairpersons: E Simantirakis (GR), TBD
• Contemporary considerations based on technological developments in cardiac pacing - Chairpersons: G L Botto (IT) - R Sutton (MC)
• The complex pacemaker implantation - Chairpersons: J-M Davy (FR), TBD
• Management of patients with defibrillator shocks: state of the art - Chairpersons: G Boriani (IT) - J M Morgan (GB)
• Diagnostic evaluation of syncope in special patient groups - Chairpersons: TBD

Catheter Ablation (Symposium)

• State of the art on ventricular tachycardia ablation - Chairpersons: C de Chillou (FR), TBD
• Preventing sudden cardiac death with RF ablation - Chairpersons: L Mont (ES), TBD 
• Continuous monitoring in af management. New science or new truth? - Chairpersons: T Lewalter (DE) - I Zupan (SI)
• Improving outcomes in the catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation - Chairpersons: J Kautzner (CZ) - K-H Kuck (DE)
• Complications related to AF catheter ablation - Chairpersons: F Gaita (IT) - R Hatala (SK)
• Advances in robotic and 3d mapping technologies for atrial fibrillation ablation - Chairpersons: J Kautzner (CZ) - M Santini (IT)
• New energies and technologies to treat atrial fibrillation - Chairpersons: D W Davies (GB) - K-H Kuck (DE)

EHRA Documents, Guidelines & Highlights

• CRT: reading the guidelines - Chairpersons: A Auricchio (CH)- P Kirchhof (GB)
• New EHRA documents - Chairpersons: A Raviele (IT)
• EHRA/HRS Expert Consensus Statement on Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Implantation and Follow-up considerations - Chairpersons: J C Daubert (FR) - L Saxon (US)
• Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation - state of the art - Chairpersons: A J Camm (GB) - L H Rasmussen (DK)
• Highlights from EUROPACE 2011: Device Therapy, Interventional EP and Medical Therapy - Chairpersons: A Auricchio (CH) - G Hindricks (DE)
• Certification and exams: fighting against inequality in health care across borders - Chairpersons: A Auricchio (CH) - J C Nielsen (DK)

Translational approaches in EP

• Purkinje fibers and ventricular arrhythmias - Chairpersons: K-H Kuck (DE) - J-F Leclercq (FR)
• Sudden cardiac death in the young - Chairpersons: H Heidbuchel (BE) - J M Morgan (GB)
• What a device specialist needs to know about heart failure - Chairpersons: J C Daubert (FR)
• The challenges of the asymptomatic patient in hereditary syndromes - Chairpersons: S G Priori (IT) - C Wolpert (DE)
• Translational approaches in atrial fibrillation - Chairpersons: A Goette (DE) - A Zaza (IT)

Pharmacological Therapy

• New insights in basics of arrhythmias - Chairpersons: HJGM Crijns (NL) -  I Savelieva (GB)
• Ion channelopathies - Chairpersons: S Kaab (DE) - J Jalife (US)
• Debates and controversies in the antithrombotic management of atrial fibrillation - Chairpersons: I Savelieva (GB)
• Antiarrhythmic drugs for atrial fibrillation - Chairpersons: A Capucci (IT) - I C Van Gelder (NL)

Nursing & Allied Professionals

• Arrhythmias in women: state of the evidence - Chairpersons: M Borggrefe (DE) - H Heidbuchel (BE)
• Nurse-led interventions for patients with arrhythmias - Chairpersons: N J Linker (GB) - K Zeppenfeld (NL)