High-Power Short Duration Ablation for Pulmonary Vein Isolation

In this short video from Arrhythmia Academy’s Journal Club, Prof Roland Tilz (University Heart Centre Lübeck, Lübeck, DE) and Prof Josef Kautzner (Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, CZ) sit down to discuss the use of short-duration-ablation for pulmonary vein isolation (PVI). Prof Tilz provides a 10-minute presentation overview of VHPSD ablation technologies, including Abbott’s Tacticath and Tactiflex, and Biosense’s Q dot 90 w/4 seconds. Prof Kautzner and Prof Tilz then discuss the future implications of this technology for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.