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Heart Team/MAM 2016: Moving A-Fib Care to a New Level

Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting 2016Totally historic! The MAM 2016 symposium set important goals for shaping the future of A-Fib care and showed how the emphasis on a ‘Heart Team’ is moving the field of patient A-Fib care to a new level.

This first Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting (MAM) was held in Zurich, Switzerland Sept 15-16, 2016 and advocated for a team approach―EPs, Surgeons, and other healthcare professionals working together to better help the A-Fib patient.

Leading cardiologists and surgeons explained why they favored the hybrid surgery/ablation referred to by several terms: “hybrid simultaneous,” or “hybrid staged,” or “multidisciplinary sequential approaches”.

MAM 2016 Hands-on demos at A-Fib.com

MAM 2016 Hands-on demos

Interactive Hands-On Workshops and Live Surgery

MAM 2016 featured interactive workshops with hands-on experiences in EP ablation, Surgical Ablation, and Mechanical Exclusion of the Left Atrial Appendage (LAA). Included were working examples of clinicians, electrophysiologists and surgeons teaming up to better help A-Fib patients.

MAM 2016 Live video feed of A-Fib surgery at A-Fib.com

Live video feed of A-Fib surgery by Dr. Stefano Benussi and staff

Observing via a live video feed, attendees watched Dr. Stefano Benussi and his colleagues perform a surgery of an A-Fib patient showing both the left side and right side approaches. (The patient had a huge amount of fat which first had to be cut away before the pericardium sac could be reached and cut into in order to access the heart and pulmonary veins.)

MAM 2016 Program and Faculty

Dr. Stefano Benussi and Steve Ryan in Zurich at A-Fib.com

Dr. Stefano Benussi and Steve Ryan, PhD

The  Multidisciplinary Arrhythmia Meeting was the brain child of the Course Director Dr. Stefano Benussi of the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Course Co-Directors were Harry Crijins of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Firat Duru of Zurich, Switzerland.

The Program Committee and Scientific Faculty making presentations included 54 distinguished doctors from around the world including the famed inventor of the original Cox Maze operation, James L. Cox of Denver, USA. (The Cox Maze operation was the first treatment to make patients A-Fib free.)

A partial list of MAM 2016 participating doctors and countries:

Steve in front of MAM 2016 meeting site in Zurich - A-Fib.com

Steve in front of MAM 2016 meeting site in Zurich

Manuel Castella, Barcelona, Spain
Paolo Della Bella, Alberto Pozzoli, Claudio Tondo, Milan, Italy
Karl Heinz Kuck, Andreas Metzner, Hamburg, Germany
Bart van Putte, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Malcolm Dalrymple-Hay, Guy Haywood, Plymouth, UK
Joris Ector, Mark La Meir, Laurent Pison, Brussels, Belgium
Hans Kottkamp, Diana Reser and many more from Zurich, Switzerland
Gunther Laufer, Vienna, Austria
Randal Lee, Bing Liem, Steve S. Ryan, California, USA
Ju Mei, Shanghai, China
Peter Mueller, Dipen Shah, Geneva, Switzerland
Amiran Revishvili, Moscow, Russia
Timo Weimar, Stuttgart, Germany
Michael Zembata, Zabrze, Poland

Additional presenting doctors will be identified along with summaries of their individual presentations.

My presentation summaries will follow.

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If you find any errors on this page, email us. Last updated: Monday, October 3, 2016

 

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