Restoring the balance in atrial fibrillation stroke prophylaxis with LAA occlusion: how to prevent strokes while avoiding bleeds
Chairpersons: H. SIEVERT, D. HILDICK-SMITH
Objectives:
To understand which patients may benefit from LAA occlusion based on recent developments, guidelines and consensus statementsTo learn about implanting LAA occlusion devices
To know how to start a LAA occlusion programme and how to get patients referred
Lectures
Session objectives
H. Sievert
Patient selection: should we change our practice based on new data?
L. Sondergaard
LAA anatomy; the LAA is unique as a fingerprint, how to close those successfully?
H. Omran
How to treat the untreatable; what are the options?
D. Arzamendi
How to successfully build a referral LAA practice? Involving referrals is key, but how to do that?
W. Budts