367 - PEDIATRIC AND CONGENITAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY WORKSHOP SERIES PART 3: UPDATES ON ARRHYTHMIA MANAGEMENT IN THE EP LAB AND ICU FOR PEDIATRIC AND CONGENITAL CARDIOLOGISTS

Saturday, October 25, 2025

4:30pm - 5:30pm ET

Room:303AB

Target Audience: Electrophysiologists, Pediatric cardiologists, Adult congenital cardiologists

Co-Chair(s)

SD

Santokh Dhillon, MBBS, MD (he/him/his)

Professor
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University/IWK Health Center
Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia, MD, PhD

Pediatric and congenital cardiologist
CHU Sainte Justine

Presenter(s)

Virginie Beausejour-Ladouceur, Pediatric Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist

Montreal Children's Hospital
Robert Hamilton, MD

Cardiac Electrophysiologist
CHRS
Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

Moderator(s)

SD

Santokh Dhillon, MBBS, MD (he/him/his)

Professor
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University/IWK Health Center
Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia, MD, PhD

Pediatric and congenital cardiologist
CHU Sainte Justine

Planning Committee Member(s)

Francesca de la Cruz, MD (she/her/hers)

Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
University of Ottawa
SD

Santokh Dhillon, MBBS, MD (he/him/his)

Professor
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University/IWK Health Center
Carolina Escudero, MD, MSc (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Cardiology and Electrophysiology
Stollery Children's Hospital
University of Alberta
Marisha McClean, MBBS, DM (Paeds)

Pediatric Cardiologist
London Health Sciences Centre
Western University
Cheryl Peters, MD

PEDIATRIC CARDIAC ANESTHESIOLOGIST AND INTENSIVIST
CCS, CANCARE, CPCA
BC Children's Hospital
Jonathan Windram, BSc (Hons), MBChB, MMEd, MRCP (UK), FCCS, FESC

Associate Professor
University of Alberta
Mazankowski Heart Institute

Workshop Description: This is Part 3 of a 3 part workshop series on pediatric and congenital electrophysiology. Part 3 of this series will focus on recent updates regarding arrhythmia management in the electrophysiology (EP) lab and cardiac intensive care unit for pediatric patients and patients with congenital heart disease.

Session 1: "Updates from the EP lab: What pediatric and congenital cardiologists should know about new techniques and outcomes”. This talk will focus on newer technologies used in the invasive assessment and ablation of arrhythmia substrates in children and patients with congenital heart disease. This will include discussion of intracardiac echo in children and patients with congenital heart disease, the outcomes of recent multicenter studies focusing on ablation in children and patients with congenital heart disease, the use of high density mapping technologies, and cardioneural ablation.

Session 2: “Updates on preventing and managing post-operative arrhythmias in pediatrics and congenital heart disease". This session will provide the audience with a review on the most recent data on the pre- and post-operative management of these patients including pre-operative conduction system mapping, indications for earlier post-operative pacemaker implantation for post-operative AV block, and use of newer antiarrhythmics in the management of post-operative junctional ectopic tachycardia (ex. ivabradine).

This part of the workshop will conclude with a question and answer session and panel discussion.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session participants will be able to:

Describe recently reported outcomes of ablation in children and patients with congenital heart disease;
Identify newer technologies available for use for ablation in children and patients with congenital heart disease, including their utility and limitations;
Describe advancements in the care of children and patients with congenital heart disease with immediate postoperative arrhythmias, including earlier post-operative pacemaker implantation for post-operative complete heart block and the use of ivabradine for post-operative arrhythmias