Target Audience

This program is intended for a professional audience.

• Cardiac electrophysiologists
• Cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellows
• Cardiac surgeons
• Other cardiologists and radiologists

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish the differences between focal atrial tachycardia (FAT) from the pulmonary veins and PV triggers of atrial fibrillation.
  
• Explain the characteristic P-wave morphologies of FATs originating from each of the pulmonary veins and the adjacent structures.
  
• Recall the ablation strategy for FATs originating from the pulmonary veins (focal ablation vs. PVI)
  

Faculty

Jonathan Kalman, MBBS, Ph.D.
Royal Melbourne Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Author

Robert W. Rho, MD
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA

Accreditation

The Heart Rhythm Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The Heart Rhythm Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The AMA has determined that physicians not licensed in the USA who participate in this CME activity are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Continuing Education (CE) for Nurses

The Heart Rhythm Society is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the New York State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

It has been assigned code 7M7R3X-PRV-09-04.

A maximum of 1.0 credit hours are available for this educational activity.

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Catheter Ablation of Focal Atrial Tachycardia: FAT in the Pulmonary Veins

Required Hardware and Software 

• Computer Screen with USB Drive Screen resolution of 1024x786 or larger
  
• Sound card and speakers/headphones
  
• Operating System Requirement: Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 7 Intel® Pentium® III 450MHz or faster processor (or equivalent) 128MB or RAM Mac OS Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or above Intel Core TM Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor 128MB of RAM Plug-in
  

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