17
Apr
2020
11:00
BST
Webinar
Asia Pacific Online Symposium on Cardiac Rhythm Management
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Overview
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a major impact on health care systems across the globe. The practice of electrophysiology and specifically cardiac rhythm management has been altered in order to control the spread and to prioritize resources for urgent (COVID-19) cases.
This online symposium provides a platform for experts from the Asia Pacific region to discuss matters associated with cardiac rhythm management during the pandemic.
The first portion of the symposium focusses on the management of patients with heart rhythm disorders including pre-op assessment, procedural considerations, and follow-up as well as education for patients implanted with a CIED. The second portion highlights how this pandemic will likely affect delivery of patient care and potentially alter the practice of electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm management in the future.
This two-hour webinar will be of value to all physicians who implant cardiac implantable electronic devices.
Faculty:
Shu Zhang
Chu-Pak Lau
Wee Siong Teo
Chun-Chieh Wang
Chi-Keong Ching
Wei Hua
This webinar is supported by
Key Learning Objectives
- To increase the safety of device implantation in hospitals
- To understand options in managing outpatient clinic in the outbreak of coronavirus
- To give advice to patients who were implanted with CIED
- To discuss how Coronavirus will change the practice of cardiac rhythm management in the future
Panelists
- Prof Yuji Nakazato, Juntendo University, Tokyo
- Dr Ning Zhou, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan
- Dr Arisara Suwanagool, Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok
- Dr Katherine Fan, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong
- Dr Stephen Pavia, Wesley Hospital, Brisbane
- Dr Balbir Singh, Max Hospital, New Delhi
Faculty Biographies
Chu-Pak Lau
Professor Chu-Pak Lau is Honorary Clinical Professor of the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong.
He graduated in The University of Hong Kong in 1981 and received cardiology training in St. George's Hospital Medical School, Department of Cardiological Sciences, London, U.K.
His main research interest is on cardiac arrhythmias and implantable device therapy. He has published over 500 international papers, 28 chapters in cardiology textbooks on cardiac arrhythmias. He edited an international textbook on cardiac arrhythmia entitled ”Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchronization Therapy”.
Professor Lau is past president of Hong Kong College of Cardiology and World Society of Arrhythmia, and President of Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (2019).
Chi-Keong Ching
Professor Chi-Keong Ching is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology and the Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the National Heart Centre Singapore.
He completed his clinical fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing at the Cleveland Clinic, USA, in 2007. He is currently teaching at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School as an Adjunct Associate Professor.