Program
Atrial Fibrillation (Ablation)
Atrial Fibrillation (Ablation)
Role of AF Ablation Outcomes & Techniques
Saturday, 26 February 2011 (08:30 - 10:00) - N101A
Chairpersons: Wing-Hong Fung (Hong Kong), Li-Fen Hsu (Singapore), Logan
Kanagaratnam (Australia), Shao-Wen Liu (China)
- Monitoring and long-term outcome after AF ablation (Chang-Sheng Ma, China)
- Approach to the long standing persistent patient (Meleze Hocini, France)
- Ablation strategies for paroxysmal AF: What really works (Shih-Ann Chen, Taipei)
- What to do after 2 or 3 ablations have failed? (Andrea Natale, USA)
- Epicardial Ablation for AF (Young-Hoon Kim, Korea)
Atrial Fibrillation (Ablation)
Avoiding and Treating Complications of AF Ablation
Sunday, 27 February 2011 (10:30 - 12:00) - N201B
Chairpersons: Ke-Jiang Cao (China), Raymond HW Chan (HK), Li-Wei Lo (Taipei),
Edmund Keung (USA)
- Patient selection and preparation - (Andrew Grace, UK)
- Anticoagulation strategies for preventing stroke and bleeding (Antonio Raviele, Italy)
- Atrial Tachycardia after AF ablation (Prash Sanders, Australia)
- Prevention and Treatment of major complications: PV stenosis and atrio-esophageal fistula (Douglas Packer, USA)
- Recognition and Management of Complications Associated with Linear Lesions in the Left Atrium (Davendra Mehta, USA)
Atrial Fibrillation (Ablation)
What's New in AF Ablation?
Sunday, 27 February 2011 (14:00 - 15:30) - N101B
Chairpersons: Joseph YS Chan (HK), Cengiz Ermis (Turkey), Chang-Sheng Ma
(China)
- Can new mapping and ablation technique enhance clinical success? (David Burkhardt, USA)
- Update on remote navigation (Chi-Keong Ching, Singapore)
- Technologies for large area ablation: Balloon technology, multi-polar catheter or more to come? (Karl-Heinz Kuck, Germany)
- New approach to robotic catheter manipulation in electrophysiology (Andre Ng, USA)
- Advanced irrigated catheter for AF (Peter Chen, USA)
