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Target Audience

Cardiovascular Disease, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Physician Assistant, Vascular Surgery

Overview

This conference has attracted an international community of leading interventional electrophysiologists and cardiac arrhythmia surgeons, to present the contemporary and most advanced techniques for both the catheter and surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation. In addition, current recommendations for the management of the left atrial appendage will be presented and debated and the results of new LAA occlusion devices will be discussed. The format for the conference consists of plenary lectures, plenary roundtables, and plenary debates on topics of controversy as well as extensive specialty interventional EP and surgical breakout sessions. A special invited plenary lecture will also be delivered by Professor Amiran Revishvili of Moscow, Russian Federation, who is both an interventional EP and a cardiac arrhythmia surgeon. Audience participation will be by electronic means at the end of the plenary roundtables and plenary debates.

Objectives

1. Discuss the electrophysiology of atrial fibrillation
2. Cite the newest concepts of atrial electrophysiology, including differences in endocardial and epicardial conduction patterns and how they can impact the interpretation of electrophysiologic mapping
3. Identify the advantages and limitations of activation-time mapping, voltage mapping, and phase mapping for the analysis of the electrophysiology of atrial fibrillation
4. Apply the most advanced techniques for the catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
5. Describe the most advanced techniques for the surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation
6. Discuss the electrophysiological basis of catheter ablation for paroxysmal and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
7. Cite the current indications for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in paroxysmal and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
8. Explain the current results of catheter ablation for paroxysmal and non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
9. Discuss the current results of surgical ablation for non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
10. Explain the limitations of the HRS definitions of success and failure for the interventional (catheter and surgical) treatment of atrial fibrillation
11. Examine the differences in the electrophysiology of primary (“stand-alone”) and secondary (“concomitant”) atrial fibrillation
12. Discuss the electrophysiological basis of concomitant surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing valve surgery with or without coronary artery disease.
13. Review the surgical options for the treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing mitral valve, aortic valve, and/or coronary artery bypass surgery
14. Restate the currently recommended surgical lesion patterns for the concomitant surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing mitral valve, aortic valve, and/or coronary artery bypass surgery
15. Discuss the current results of concomitant surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation during mitral valve, aortic valve, and/or coronary artery bypass surgery.

Accreditation Statement
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
ABIM MOC Recognition Statement
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 7.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.