Update on Surgical Intervention of AF: The Cox-Maze Procedure or Less Extensive Approaches?

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Update on Surgical Intervention of AF: The Cox-Maze Procedure or Less Extensive Approaches?

Dr. Ralph Damiano describes the current state of the art of surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation. He describes available techniques, appropriate settings for various techniques, advantages and disadvantages of each as well as the likelihood of suppression of atriail fibrillation with and without antiarrhythmia agents at his institution with appropriate use of each of these techniques.

The focus of the presentation is on the experience at Washington University/Barnes Hospital, however, Dr. Damiano briefly compares the experiences at other institutions.

Discussants mention the importance of LA appendage removal in protection against thromboembolism and the role of the coronary sinus in atrial fibrillation and its recurrence.

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:

Describe current techniques utilized by cardiac surgeons to treat atrial fibrillation
Differentiate the advantages of bipolar radiofrequency application over unipolar application of radiofrequency energy to create left atrial lesions, and the reason for this advantage
Recall current devices used to create bipolar lesions
Qupte freedom from AF at six months with surgical PVI alone vs. freedon from AF using Cox Maze

Faculty

Ralph J. Damiano, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Author

Michael Belz, MD
Group Health Cooperative
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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Update on Surgical Ablation of AF: The Cox-Maze Procedure or Less Extensive Approaches?

Commentary and analysis by: W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr., MD and Suraj Kapa, MD

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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