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2018 AF Symposium Live Procedures: Four New Reports
The live cases are what I like best about attending the AF Symposiums. From world-wide locations via streaming video, we join doctors in their various EP labs while a procedure is underway. The EPs address the symposium audience directly, often fielding questions.
AF Symposium 5-floor-to-ceiling video monitors
We watch these live procedures on floor-to-ceiling high monitor screens. You feel like you are actually in the EP lab with these doctors.
My Favorite and My Most Difficult
While I like live cases the best, they are also my biggest challenge when it comes to writing quality reports.
My difficulty is they are often dealing with devices or treatments I have never heard of before. I take notes as best I can while trying to understand and follow the new concepts and treatments. Happily, I can often send my reports to the doctors involved so they can correct any mistakes and misconceptions.
Four New Live Case Reports
EP and attendee during live case
I’ve posted my first four reports on the live cases (2 more to come). From Belgium to Boston and Texas to Prague, all relate to performing catheter ablations: a device to protect the esophagus, two related to the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA), and a clinical trial of mapping software to better identifying rotors and drivers.
• The DV8 Retractor: an Esophageal Deviation Tool from Manual Surgical Sciences with Drs. Kevin Heist, Conor Barrett and Moussa Mansour, all from Massachusetts General in Boston, MA
• LAA Closure: Installing a Coherex WaveCrest LAA Occlusion Device with Dr. Tom De Potter from Aalst, Belgium
• RADAR―A Software Breakthrough in Mapping and Identifying A-Fib Rotors and Drivers? with Dr. Petr Neuzil from Prague, Czech Republic
• Isolating the Left Atrial Appendage using RF Energy with Dr. Rodney Horton, Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, Austin, TX
Just Like Being There
These live cases are probably the closest symposium attendees can come to visiting all of these various global locations and observing these world-class master electrophysiologists and their teams.
For many attendees the live cases are often the most innovative and rewarding of the AF Symposium presentations.
Looking for all my 2018 reports?
Go to my 2018 AF Symposium page (link in the left menu column).
