Changing Your Practice: A Case-Based Approach to the New STS Guidelines

Activity Description
This webinar features renowned experts who provide invaluable insights on the impact of the latest STS Guidelines. The activity features insightful lectures, case-based reviews, and panel discussions that explore Left Atrial Appendage Closure, Concomitant AF Ablation, SAVR with Maze versus TAVR, and Stand-Alone AF Treatment with Hybrid Ablation. The faculty also discusses practical applications of the new guidelines in clinical decision-making and step-wise procedural approaches and offers key take-home lessons that can be immediately applied to real-world practice.

Agenda

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Curriculum

Welcome and New Guidelines Overview
Patrick McCarthy, MD, FACC

Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Patients with Pre-op AF
HelenMari Merritt-Genore, DO

Concomitant AF Ablation for Valve Surgery and Coronary Artery Bypass: The Evidence Behind the Class I Recommendation
Marc Gerdisch, MD

Case Reviews with Panel Discussions
Minimally Invasive Mitral Repair in the Setting of Persistent AF
Marc Gerdisch, MD

Concomitant AF Ablation: Step-Wise Decision-Making Strategies and Procedural Approaches
Patrick McCarthy, MD, FACC

SAVR with Maze versus TAVR
Anthony Tran, MB, BCh

Stand-Alone AF Treatment with Convergent Hybrid Ablation
HelenMari Merritt-Genore, DO

Educational grant support provided by:
AtriCure

Joint Providership:
MediaSphere Medical, LLC and Ciné-Med

Faculty

Program Chair
	Patrick McCarthy, MD, FACC Executive Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Vice President, Northwestern Medical Group Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery Chicago, IL
Faculty
	HelenMari Merritt-Genore, DO Cardiothoracic Surgeon Executive Committee and Board of Directors Member Nebraska Methodist Hospital Omaha, NE
	Marc Gerdisch, MD Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Franciscan Health Heart Center Co-Medical Director, Heart Valve Center at Franciscan Health Indianapolis, IN
	Anthony Tran, MB, BCh Doylestown Hospital Doylestown, PA