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This is what single shot ablation is supposed to look like. RF for PVI may have an issue.
#PFA
#electroporation
NEWS: First Patients in Europe Treated with Biosense Webster VARIPULSE® Catheter for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
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Yesterday I did a 5h shift in the triage section of our
#Covid_19
area of the ER. Learned many things. Some highlights below
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Last week's
#PFA
PVI case using the
@BiosenseWebster
VariPulse catheter. Pulsed field goes fast. For you inquisitive minds out there, it can go 23 minutes skin-to-skin fast.
Procedure speed is not the primary goal. But it is an important contributor to safety
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Ultrasound-derived 3D reconstruction with zero manual processing (CARTO v8)
1. Rotate ICE probe
2. Acquire frames
3. Receive annotated, segmented 3D LA model (with LAA cut away already) compliments of deep learning algorithm
@MoussaMansour10
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This week we had the opportunity to restart evaluating
#HPSD
90W ablation with the ngen console. 3s ablations on post wall, 4s anterior. Temp monitoring on cath (qdot) and in esophagus. Total RF times at end of movie by
@LouisVerdonckt
@DhirajGuptaBHRS
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Full circle for circular PFA! Exactly 1300 days ago we did the first ablation ever with
#varipulse
and today ⭕️ PFA is back with the world’s first non-study case. Smooth case - quite a bit faster than the regulatory process 😉
This is what single shot ablation is supposed to look like. RF for PVI may have an issue.
#PFA
#electroporation
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Recurrent cardioinhibitory syncope (as in +++/week recurrent). Young pt, not happy with pacemaker she got recommended
Anatomical/EGM guided minimalistic approach. The autonomous nervous system is an endless source of fascination.
@MDTolgaAksu
@jczerpa
@drraviele
@shivkumarmd
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Hey
#EPeeps
meet the
@AdagioMedical
VT cryoablation catheter
#ablateVT
@BourierFelix
@boersma_lucas
@atulverma_md
@DrRoderickTung
@PaoloDellaBell1
@DrBerruezo
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We are excited to host a live case for the
#AFSymposium2022
!
Want to see
@BiosenseWebster
’s pulsed field ablation
#PFA
in action for single shot treatment of
#AFib
? Join us at 10 am ET / 4 pm CET
@MoussaMansour10
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Ravin (Hemant) Ramchurn was
#EPeeps
from before it was cool, a colleague and a long-time partner of our arrhythmia unit, and a volunteer in the
#COVID
unit of his hospital in Mons-which cost him his life at age 62. Fuck 2020
@CMichaelGibson
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We hope you enjoyed
#EHRA2022TogetherAgain
as much as we enjoyed building it!
Thank you Alexia, Anne-Laure, Bambou and everyone involved.
And
#EPeeps
please join me in welcoming
@IsabelleVGelder
to Twitter!
#NeverGiveUp
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Why I love my job-Friday afternoon bailout. 4th proc, refractory VT listed for transplant. Mapped in sustained VT with Impella. Check lower right screen-260 bpm with nice MAP of 66! Thanks
@OLVZaalst
@EricWyffels
for enabling what is needed, cost-constrained environment be damned
What a team! Impella assisted VT ablation. Another friday afternoon in the Cardiovascular Center Aalst
@tomdepotter
@OLVZaalst
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4. 3 months ago, I would have considered point-of-care ultrasound for lung disease silly, and POC CT scanning the word that comes after silly. Now, I think we should install a CT at the ER door. It's fast, it doesn't lie and it tells you who is in trouble (unlike SaO2).
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6. We need to figure out better why some people have little symptoms despite ugly scans / ABGs, and why even V-V ECMO seems to do little in what should be its ideal use case. Meanwhile, stay inside it is. And wear masks.
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Yesterday we had >3200 active participants at
#EHRA2021
and >800 participants for the late breaking trials session - exceeding the capacity for this type of interaction of all but the largest live venues
Perception for today looks even better - thank you for participating!
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Hey
@MoussaMansour10
we are ready!
#EPeeps
if you’d like to see pulsed field ablation in action there is a great live session for the
#AFSymposium2021
starting 11am EST - 5pm CET
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Thank you on behalf of Isabelle Van Gelder and myself for making
#EHRA2021
- the program committee members, the heart house team, the technical staff, our faculty, and the engaging audience! Looking forward to
#EHRA2022
@EHRAPresident
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1. If you partition ER in a (suspect) COVID / non-COVID area and direct patients based on initial presentation, then 99.999999% of pts in the COVID area will have the exact same symptoms, imaging and diagnosis. There is virtually no grey area. Have never seen anything like it
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This morning we presented acute safety and efficacy outcomes of pulsed field AF ablation from the Wave 1 cohort of the InspIRE trial
#ESCCongress
#PFA
via
@escardio
.
Five minute presentation. But if even that sounds too long: zero esophageal lesions :-)
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#EHRA2021
program online! Lots of hard work from very diverse group, hope you like the result
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I’m ready for
#EHRA2021
!
Finch approves. Gipsy could care less.
Do you want to learn about latest tech innovations and see pulsed field ablation
#PFA
in action? Register here
👉
@EHRAPresident
@escardio
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Proud to present 3M results on behalf of the SmartfIRE investigators today at
#EHRA2024
#PFA
in the future science late breaking session
#EPeeps
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Dilated cardiomyopathy, smVT. Normal LV endo map. Epi map w/ left lateral scar crossing phrenic (orange dots). Sinus activation processed with Coherent to show maximum deceleration zone (brown). Very targeted ablation in this region, non inducible after. Map by
@LouisVerdonckt
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Today the EHRA board confirmed
#EHRA2022
will proceed on site in Copenhagen as planned!
Call for late breaking science submission still open, early registration fee available until Feb 3rd
@EHRAPresident
Be part of
#EHRA2022
. What you'll find:
👉New techniques for ablation of AFib & ventricular arrhythmias
👉Analyses from key opinion leaders
👉Your own abstract, clinical case or invention!
You’ve done the work. Time to share it. Submit your science
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#EHRA2022TogetherAgain
meeting friends again indeed. Still no luck bringing Isabelle to
#MedTwitter
but we have 2 days left
@DavidDuncker
@Dominik_Linz
@LuigiDiBiaseMD
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Local wall thickness remains "known unknown" in many ablation procedures. This is data from a postprocessed
#KODEX_EPD
CTI case (R&D version, not yet commercially available) showing dielectric thickness compared to ICE imaging (red circles). Up next: real time lesion formation?
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Referral you love to hate
53YoM
3x endo PVI
1x hybrid surgical PVI & PWI
1x endo CTI & mitral
Recurrent very symptomatic AF with AADs
@VoltaMedical
dispersion areas identified at septum superior and inferoposterior - terminated and noninducible after. 2021 is going to be OK
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Ultralow temperature cryoablation
@AdagioMedical
off to a great start in sunny Arizona!
Thanks king of cool
@su_wilber
and
@DrRoderickTung
for the super nice case and the hospitality. Already looking for an excuse to return
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Check out our paper for closure devices in same day discharge PVI workflows by
@DavideFabb
@ChiaraValeriano
Key potential benefits vs FoE:
- patient comfort
- zero bedrest time
- faster time to ambulation
Can be cost neutral depending on context
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Future of VT substrate mapping?
#Europace
#EPeeps
#CardioTwitter
Noninvasive Detection of Slow Conduction with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
#MRI
for
#VT
Ablation.
📚📷
@ivroca
@LluisMont2
@arbelo_e
@GiulioConte9
@Dominik_Linz
@AndyZhangMD
@marcovitoloMD
@FraSantoroMD
@natale_md
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It took a year of Zoom meetings and remote procedure support but...
Device programming over smartphone is doable. Really easy actually.
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5b. The point is, I love my job and I love helping patients with complex arrhythmias. Part of that (the non-urgent part) is on hold now. Same is true for many specialisms. But we can help out elsewhere. Even before the tsunami hits. Especially before it hits.
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Today’s technology is so much fun
@BorisSchmidt5
sorry it’s not 4 balloons 1 lab but I think this also counts - with the bonus happy feeling of not holding a balloon when your PVI case turns into PVI that needs something else as well 😊
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I don’t think zapping pulmonary vein potentials is going to get old anytime soon 😊
@DRTomlinsonEP
as discussed earlier, can’t share data about micro bubble formation yet. You’re welcome to have a look for yourself though
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Hey
#EPeeps
help me figure this out
Finished left lat concealed Kent ablation (tracings RF in LA, CS, quad in RV).
Pacing from RV inhibits sinus node. Reproducible phenomenon. Patient awake, feels just fine. Ideas?
@adribaran
@MDTolgaAksu
@Dominik_Linz
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If you’re wondering how -196°C
#ULTC
ablation looks, this is one of my favourite slides
Single shot cryoablation of massive left common trunk (36 mm ø). Yellow loop is freezing element, 1/2 CO goed over it. Disappears during freeze b/c covered in ice
slide credit
@DavidCabrita
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Thought provoking data!
Trigger elimination as good as targeted mechanistic ablation for flutter, and better for overall arrhythmia control.
Makes sense which is often the hardest to prove - congrats
@DhirajGuptaBHRS
and team.
Results of CRAFT, our multicenter RCT in patients with flutter, comparing CTI ablation to Cryo PVI, published in
@Heart_BMJ
PVI as effective as CTI abl in reducing flutter, and better at preventing new onset AF
#EPeeps
@LHCHFT
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#ThrowbackThursday
- my 1st 👣 with
#EHRA
as chair of
#YoungEP
committee in 2014 👶
10 yrs ⏭️ slightly older & much wiser 😉, I’m applying for the EHRA secretary position. Don’t forget to vote
#EPeeps
!
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Huge thanks to this wonderful team in Aalst and to
@boersma_lucas
for moderating on site. Thx to
@drsuneet
and
@MoussaMansour10
and others for the support from the stage in DC. Looking forward to doing it again!
Congrats to
@tomdepotter
for an excellent and informative live case transmission!
#ULTC
#
#AFSymposium2020
@AFSymposium
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QDot is back! After 18 months we’re collecting temp data (and μEGM) in irrigated RF PVI again! Pics show Visitag coded by abl idx, max t° and ΔImp-2 similar, one different. Laws of thermodynamics did not change. Can you guess which is which w/o looking at legend?
@DRTomlinsonEP
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Day 2 had >3400 active participants 😊
Judging by today’s activity in all chat sessions we will do better still - not too late to join if you have not already!
#EHRA2021
Yesterday we had >3200 active participants at
#EHRA2021
and >800 participants for the late breaking trials session - exceeding the capacity for this type of interaction of all but the largest live venues
Perception for today looks even better - thank you for participating!
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Sunday morning abstract sessions. 80 participants enjoying discussion in just one of the sessions. Near zero barrier for participation and discussion.
I have seen face to face abstract sessions do far worse in far more premium time slots
#EHRA2021
@DavidDuncker
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5c. The ER people will love you for helping out with even the most basic stuff so they can go on managing this crisis. And you get to re-discover parts of medicine you forgot about long time ago. On the -ive side, drinking coffee with an FFP2 mask is impossible I've discovered
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More QDot! S/P 2 endo RF and 1 hybrid surgery.PVC mapped in AP just above pulm valve (with ICE). Check crazy late EGM after sinus QRS on μ2-3/stable beat to beat. Super sharp super early EGM on bip and uni micro during VT
@DrRoderickTung
@DrFerminGarcia
Have you seen this before?
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5. Much to my regret, there were no Mahaim pathways to be diagnosed nor did anyone ask questions about phase 2 vs phase 3 re-entry ECGs (see point 1). I guess those go to non-COVID but given they didn't ask for help there, I'm guessing they don't see those too often there either
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Ultra low temperature cryo has crossed the Atlantic! Thanks to the wonderful team
@ValleyHospital
for their hospitality and congratulations to
@drsuneet
and team with their first iCLAS IDE case!
#ULTC
@AdagioMedical
@josoriomd
@boersma_lucas
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18 months later - Ultralow temperature cryoablation for VT is alive in 6 centers in the ongoing clinical trial. We report acute outcomes of the first 13 patients ever treated
Potential for tissue adhesion&deeper lesions. Synergy with PFA under study
Hey
#EPeeps
meet the
@AdagioMedical
VT cryoablation catheter
#ablateVT
@BourierFelix
@boersma_lucas
@atulverma_md
@DrRoderickTung
@PaoloDellaBell1
@DrBerruezo
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2. ER is certainly at risk of being overwhelmed but with good planning and preparation, many things become manageable. Yesterday the ER team would have managed perfectly fine without "outside" help. That's the whole point. Cases are picking up and they are preparing accordingly
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So true. Screening will not even prevent most SCDs. It will prevent those that can be - and so we should screen. With potential harm considerations in mind. But can we also discuss
*** CPR ***
Why don't we start by offering CPR courses to athletes?
1/3
@gbiondizoccai
Why don´t we take a moment to see what the underlying disease was (if we will ever be told - completely his decision to share that or not). Would it have been identified by screening? Screening no matter how intensive will never prevent all SCDs. And downstream testing can harm.
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Dual atrial rhythm (zoom in a lot, best seen in lead I). Don’t think I’ve seen this before.
Anyone has an idea?
Hint: patient did NOT get a heart transplant.
@bordistef
@MDTolgaAksu
#epeeps
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A day full of talks, live cases and most importantly meeting old and new friends at
#FAFA2020
thank you and congrats
@BorisSchmidt5
@bordistef
@jongichun
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Congratulations
@HaranBurri
@EmmaSvennberg
@SergeBoveda
and the nominating committee members
@boersma_lucas
with the
#EHRA_ESC
2024-2026 elections!
Next time I'm bringing the dragons
@tomdepotter
@Dominik_Linz
@clementy_ep
@Kasia_Rajpold
@EHRAPresident
@EmmaSvennberg
@purerfellner
@DavidDuncker
Wait, you have dragons planned?
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Day 2 underway! Our course participants engaging in discussion while keeping in shape with the throwable 🎤
Eat that online webinars 😀
@purerfellner
@DavidDuncker
In lovely Warsaw for the
@escardio
#EHRA
course on AF ablation.
Packed program with lots of exciting lectures
@tomdepotter
@Phiso_de
@EmmaSvennberg
@purerfellner
@JosefKautzner
@EHRAPresident
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Image shows temps measured in degrees C (negative numbers, Td is tip during normal LV output. Tin is what you get when using liquid N2O as a coolant 😀). Large footprint ablation in the ventricle is a reality now!
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Meeting had just started. Not too late to join!
Impressive effort by
@MDTolgaAksu
created in no time, to support victims of the devastating earthquake earlier this month
We left less than one hour for the meeting.
Let’s join us
To join meeting:
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Such a wonderful meeting. Thank you for the invitation and congratulations with another lineup of cases and topics. Have fun celebrating
@jongichun
‘s bday!
Those who were able to fly and train in….
#FAFA2022
faculty dinner
@agep
@YoungDgk
@AriSultanEP
@jalurz
@bordistef
@kottmaier_md
@tomdepotter
@jongichun
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🔥 One shot to challenge single shot🔥
Love the title for the commentary on our efficacy paper by the amazing
@ChiaraValeriano
#EPeeps
@bordistef
@drjohnm
@bogdienache
Excellent editorial by Matthew Dai and
@CRB_EP
for recent
@JICE_EP
paper by
@ChiaraValeriano
@tomdepotter
and colleagues
One shot to challenge single-shot
📖🧐
#EPeeps
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@drluissaenz
@DRTomlinsonEP
@syrton71
@PrashSanders
@SchakrabartiEP
@CirculationEP
@Rajiv_EP
@DH_Lau
@atulverma_md
@peterkistler3
@andreanatalemd
@biorxivpreprint
@medrxivpreprint
@DrFerminGarcia
@Dr_Santangeli
@MiguelVldrbno
@DrRoderickTung
@LAHRSonline1
@HRSonline
Voted other - voltage map 6 months post single shot liquid N2 cryoablation (minus 196° C
@AdagioMedical
) for PsAF (RF points are CTI line for which the redo was done). Agree PWI is highly valuable concept - discussion will be on how to achieve safely, durably and consistently
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Today Isabelle Van Gelder and I spent the day going through a first round of proposals for the
#EHRA
2021 meeting. Some things will be different, some familiar. But we’re not going back to airport meeting rooms 😊
@EHRAPresident
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Ultrasound-guided everything (venous access, transseptal) - is key to doing this repeatably in our experience
@atulverma_md
@boersma_lucas
@Phiso_de
Thanks
@LouisVerdonckt
for making great infographics and supporting the case as if you had 4 hands not 2 :-)
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Great deep dive on the autonomous nervous system by
@Dominik_Linz
#fafa2021
“Further studies needed” appropriate for pretty much all fields but direly needed for the ANS. So much left to discover
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First human case ever, large LV inferoposterior scar (translucent pink, ICE-derived). Easily induced, gross macroscopic scar ablation. Non-inducible after first lesion set. Image shows 3D map (posterior), ICE and EGMs
Bottom right is EGM before ablation, top right is after
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Here is pacemap in target region. Note long stimulus-QRS for pacemap, weird VT morphology and tiny late potentials only visible on micro electrodes (red circle). Amazed at how far technology has taken us in tackling these cases. Phrenic nerve survived. VT did not.
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The simulation village will enter its 2nd year at
#EHRA2024
in Berlin - last year was great and we've worked hard to make this year even better 😀
come have a look and experience the future of training and education
@EHRAPresident
@SteffelJ
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The expert speaks! One of the innovations we are proud of for
#EHRA2021
is having a patient engagement expert as a formal program committee member, a first for ESC - thank you
@Rhythmisit
for input throughout the program - it shows!
@escardio
The patient speaks! Presentation by Inga, what does she thin of remote monitoring? listen now!
#EHRA2021
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RIP and thank you for teaching so much to so many of us
Prof Hein JJ Wellens, (1935-2020), one of the true legends in our field and a dear friend has passed away. A gentle and kind ‘master’ educator...his work will always be alive!
#EPeeps
@DrRoderickTung
@True_EP
@wgstevenson1
@utedrow
@dzipes
@BradfieldMD
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Webinar by
@purerfellner
&
@BorisSchmidt5
- wonderful attendance and off to a great start. We finished the in-depth follow-up yesterday with selected audience. Looking forward to next session - July 16th!
#EPeeps
Webinar series on streamlined and optimised RF ablation, led by
@tomdepotter
Part 1 on 25 June: Excellent talks from
@BorisSchmidt5
& Helmet Purerfellner
Part 2 on 16 July: Benjamin Berte & I will discuss our AF Abl protocols
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Kick off for the year in AF ablation with an impressive array of early stage technologies combined with top level discussions as usual. Free for all which is an unbelievable + coming out of 2020. Looking forward to it
@MoussaMansour10
Virtual AF Symposium coming up - great program, January 29-31, 2021. Program and free registration here:
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Excited to see ultra low temperature cryoablation move forward-we’ve been working on this for more than 5 years now-it’s cool as only liquid nitrogen can be
#ULTC
Adagio Medical announces US FDA IDE approval with conditions to conduct a clinical study for treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation using the ultra-low temperature cryoablation system.
#AdagioMedical
#AFib
#AtrialFibrillation
#Cryoablation
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Athletes in group sports are always present when a team mate experiences SCD. As
@simonkjaer1989
showed it makes a difference. Speed of intervention is the only thing that matters.
And can we then please start talking about mandatory CPR training for the general population?
2/3
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3. The whole
#PPE
/decontamination thing is totally out of the comfort zone (unless you are
@KimGeybels
in which case this is called "Tuesday"). Thank you
@OLVZaalst
for providing everything needed, including a Covid coach (a CoCo🙂) to stop idiots like me from hurting ourselves.
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Great meeting to exchange thoughts between
#EPeeps
and surgery legends like Jim Cox-spices up debate a few notches
@DrBradleyKnight
#CASTAF19
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It is a low cost, low effort, super high yield intervention that will impact SCD outcome
The outcome of sudden cardiac death is determined to an absurdly high degree by whether you experience one next to someone trained in CPR or not. Simple as that.
3/3
@EAPCPresident
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#EPeeps
please welcome prof Willems
@RWillemsKUL
!
@Dominik_Linz
you’ll be happy to hear all it took was a 5 min presentation yesterday based on your EHRA talk 😀
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Looking forward to the summit and to the opportunity to debate
@GerdHindricks
!
GREAT DEBATE: PFA will open the door for non-EPs to do PVI
#EPeeps
who do you think will be in black armour?
🔜 learn all about PFA !⚡️
🔜 challenge PFA experts! 🫀
🔜 enjoy EHRA and Berlin! 🙂
✅Registration open!
@EHRAPresident
@SergeBoveda
@purerfellner
@EuropaceEiC
@DrJasonAndrade
@tomdepotter
@BorisSchmidt5
@atulverma_md
@DavidDuncker
@Phiso_de
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(1/2) Check out echo-guided puncture from the future! Put needle (any needle will do) in magnetic well for a few seconds-feels like voodoo magic
@KimGeybels
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Obviously we need sham control trials for a complex disease entity with QoL outcomes, as
@drjohnm
explains
Meanwhile hard to argue placebo effect for a SNRTc from 600 to 220 ms measured under general anaesthesia. And hard to argue with a patient that does not pass out anymore.
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Final images show full LA and RA lesions (did not bother to make LA shell). Hope we can overcome current huge challenges and get back to treating “non-urgent” EP soon. Many thanks to
@MDTolgaAksu
for exchange of ideas and strategies!
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Echo guided access for all punctures is crucial. Many labs have started doing this for all cases. You don't need much equipment and can start today.
@jongichun
@Dominik_Linz
@ftrae
@Dominik_Linz
@kvernooy
@BobWeijs
More
#echofirst
echo-guided puncture from
@ftrae
: “we use an old school ultrasound machine in the lab. No one misses it. We would certainly miss it” 😅
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Track needle orientation and trajectory with custom ultrasound probe-works like a charm
#EPeeps
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Don’t forget to bring 🍿 for the great debate!
Attend the
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@jongichun
@SergeBoveda
@tomdepotter
@RolandTilz
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Today we did France’s first laser balloon PVI with the great team in Nancy under the lead of Jean-Marc Sallal-the chief was on holiday so I figured I might as well steal his lead cover 😬
@CardioFocusAF
@JeffTenHaken
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Map on the left shows visually identified “target” or fragmentation areas. Map on the right shows what the AI identified-much smaller subset, AT terminated (transitioned to RA flutter) with limited ablation. Man vs Machine 0-1 😳
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@DrJasonAndrade
@jongichun
@MicheleB_MD
@DhirajGuptaBHRS
@BourierFelix
@BorisSchmidt5
@aalahmadmd
@jskoruth
Really great study, compelling argument. Meanwhile lot of effort into making RF reproducible across operators. Pic below shows the workflows we're currently collecting for an efficiency project. Incidentally shows the type of versatility balloons are not going to give you :-)
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Damn. Impressive. Wonder if it cures AFib too
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Massive potential if confirmed. Wondering why no HRV effect was seen in some of the earlier PFA studies
@jongichun
@KarsNeven
PFA is nerve sparing?
Pulsed Field Ablation of the Right Superior Pulmonary Vein Prevents Vagal Responses Via Anterior Right Ganglionated Plexus Modulation - Heart Rhythm
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Targeting only SVC-Ao ganglion (from SVC and RA) and right superior ganglion (from RA and LA). Procedure can be simplified and standardised to high degree.
Thanks
@ChiaraValeriano
@LouisVerdonckt
and Dimitri Buytaert for support.
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👇 we all need to start wearing masks outside. I’m not talking about the hospital ones to protect healthcare providers. I mean the “simple” ones that protect your environment from you. Once you think about it, it becomes hard not to see the benefit
Useful primer on the benefits of masks. A recommendation from CDC for consumers to wear cotton masks (with guidelines on how to fashion these products from household items) can improve safety and reduce spread and not strain the hospital supply chain.
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Great experience during zero fluoroscopy ablation live case for PVI thanks to this wonderful team
#PragueAblationWorkshop
#Go4zerofuoro
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Day 5/7: I’ve been nominated by
@Kasia_Rajpold
and
@bordistef
to produce a picture a day for 7 days to illustrate my daily life (no people). You have to copy these words, add a photo and repeat the challenge. Today I nominate
@DhirajGuptaBHRS
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Today we performed our first (and 2nd) case using the
@VoltaMedical
machine learning AI system together with
@SeitzJulien
. Redo after PVI, AF that went to AT with variable CL. All veins isolated during mapping-a classical 🤷♂️situation for
#EPeeps
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…smart glasses without the glasses!
Pro: completely solves the fogging and peripheral vision issues
Con: makes you look like part of the Borg collective. Had to bring in Ayla to counter that 😊
Future of proctoring? Gadget? In between? What do you think
@EmmaSvennberg
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Case from 3 mos ago. 55 yom with 1° AVB since 2006. Sudden PR increase to 312 ms, episodes of 2°/3° AVB at rest. No syncope. Symptoms (dyspnea) during start of exercise, resolve after a few minutes. PR shortens during exercise
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@DhirajGuptaBHRS
@mcfinlay
@ESC_Journals
@BiosenseWebster
Beauty of VISTAX is precisely that it is reproducible and trainable. We and others have successfully trained new EPs on this workflow. True, your first case won’t be 60 minutes (that is trainable too). But it’s objective and repeatable at scale. Oh, and steerable sheaths 😊
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