Program of the Second Symposium of the IIfTC"The Action Potential and the Electrocardiagram.
Theories, Controversies, and New Approaches"
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November 21, 1987 | |
Morning session: | Methodology and basic mechanisms (Chairman: J. A. Abildskov) |
9.00 | Welcome and Introduction Michael Franz, Stanford University |
9.10 | Epistemology and the heart beat:
Some foundational problems in electrocardiology Jochen Schaefer, IIfTC Bad Orb, Germany Wolfgang Deppert, University of Kiel, Germany Reidar K. Lie, East Carolina University |
10.10 | Reducing uncertainty in practical
estimates of cardic activation and recovery times Robert L. Lux, University of Utah |
11.00 | Atrial repolarization/refractoriness Nadia Debbas, St. George's Hospital, London |
11.30 | Insights concerning cardiac fibrillation J. A. Abildskov, University of Utah |
12.00 | Origin of ischemic injury currents:
the calcium connection William T. Clusin, Stanford University |
12.30 | Walk to Falk Cardiovascular Research Building (CVRB) |
12.40 | Luncheon, CVRB |
Afternoon session: | The forward solution of the electrocardiogram (Chairman: Nancy Flowers) |
13.30 | Dispersion of refractoriness and
T wave abnormalities Jan Amlie, Oslo University |
14.00 | A ventricular envelope model Leo Horan, Medical College of Georgia |
14.45 | Correlation between epicardial action
potential and body surface maps Nancy Flowers, Medical College of Georgia |
15.30 | Ventricular action potential mapping
and T wave genesis Michael R. Franz, Stanford University |
16.15 | The effect of cardiac electrical
anisotropy of intracavitary, epicardial and extracardiac electrograms
and potential fields Bruno Taccardi, University of Utah |
17.00 | Summary and concluding remarks Michael Franz and Jochen Schaefer, IIfTC, Bad Orb |
17.30 | Shuttle to Hotel Sofitel |
19.00 | Dinner at Sofitel Hotel |
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