Description
This session will include presentations of preclinical studies of pulsed field ablation technologies.
Learning Objectives
- Compare the characteristics of lesions using the different ablation parameters of PFA.
- Understand lesion creation using pulsed field ablation.
- Evaluate the impact of strategies for improving safety and efficacy of pulsed field ablation.
Session Chair(s)
Ante Anic
Presentation
Can Cryoablation Pre-Treatment Mitigate Coronary Artery Spasm and Injury After Pulsed Field Ablation?
Presenter(s): Thomas A. Dewland, MD, Ramkumar Venkateswaran, MD, Satoshi Higuchi, MD, PhD, Chanhee Lee, Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD, MS
PFA PVI Acute Assessment with a High-Density Mapping Catheter in the Swine Model
Presenter(s): Atul Verma, MD, Loell Boyce. Moon, BSBME, Jeffrey Fish, DVM, Lakshya Mittal, BSEE, MSEE, PhD, Hannah Loughlin, Isaac Remer, BS, MS, Christopher Lafean, Christopher Piorkowski, MD
Predicting Lesion Depth During Pulsed Field Ablation: Prospective Validation of a Novel Ablation Index Based on Contact Force and Number of Applications in a Swine Beating Heart Model
Presenter(s): Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD, Salman Farshchi, MD, Jennifer Maffre, PhD, Tushar Sharma, Assaf Govari, PhD, Christopher Beekler, Andres Altmann, Phillip Lam, Atsushi Ikeda, MD, PhD, Masafumi Sugawara, MD, Warren M. Jackman, MD, Ayman A. Hussein, MD, Shady Nakhla, MD, Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD, Walid I. Saliba, MD, Oussama M. Wazni, MD
Visualization and chronic assessment of electrical field tags for pulsed field ablation of pulmonary veins with the second-generation pentaspline catheter
Presenter(s): Vivek Y. Reddy, MD, Ignacio Garcia-Bolao, MD, Noel Fitzpatrick, Petr Neuzil, MD, PhD, RAMON ALBARRAN RINCON, Evripidis Mikos, Silvia Canepa, Tobias Oesterlein, Brendan Koop, Sarah Gutbrod, PhD, Gabor Szeplaki
Comparison of Monopolar or Bipolar Pulsed Field vs. Radiofrequency Ablation on Coronary Artery Injury in a Swine Model
Presenter(s): Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD, MS, Savannah Bifulco, Lauren Lehn, Brian Soltis, Michelle Curtis, PhD, Molly Speltz, Kara E. Garrott, PhD
Disclosures
Thomas Dewland:
- Adagio Medical (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Boston Scientific (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
Atul Verma:
- Kardium (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Servier (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Biosense Webster, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels)
- Medtronic (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels)
- Adagio Medical (Research (Contracted Grants for PIs and Named Investigators only) - Research)
- Medlumics (Research (Contracted Grants for PIs and Named Investigators only) - Independent Contractor (including contracted research))
Hiroshi Nakagawa:
- Fukuda-Denshi (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Japan Lifeline (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Stereotaxis, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Biosense Webster, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Acutus Medical Inc (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Galaxy Medical, Inc (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Abbott Medical (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
Petr Neuzil:
- EBR Systems (Research (Contracted Grants for PIs and Named Investigators only) - Research)
- Boston Scientific (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Medtronic (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Abbott (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Research)
- Biosense Webster, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Independent Contractor (including contracted research))
- CardioFocus, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Farapulse (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
- Kardium (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Research)
Edward Gerstenfeld:
- Medtronic (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Speaking and Teaching)
- Boston Scientific (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Speaking and Teaching)
- Abbott Medical (DSMB member - Consulting)
- Biosense Webster, Inc. (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Speaking and Teaching)
- Abbott (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Speaking and Teaching)
- Abbott Medical (Research (Contracted Grants for PIs and Named Investigators only) - Research)
- Varian Medical Systems (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels)
- Biotronik (Honoraria/Speaking/Consulting Fee - Consulting)
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Education Framework
General Concepts
-- Pathophysiological Basis of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Basic EP
-- 8. Know the biophysics of radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation, electroporation and other energy sources.