Seeing the Future with ICE

Catheter-based treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion has seen tremendous advances in the past decade, lastly with a stronger trend toward integrated concomitant procedures. With evolving clinical needs and interventional workflows, the community continues to aim at improved efficacy, efficiency and safety for patients and staff, ultimately leading to the best treatment across complex patient populations. For Intraprocedural guidance as a cornerstone enabling understanding and navigating within the human anatomy, main modalities of choice today are Electro anatomical Mapping (EAM) and Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) for ablation, as well as Fluoroscopy and Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion. With a continued trend toward fully anatomically guided ablation approaches with modern PFA ablation systems, as well as concomitant treatment of LAAC, this session aims to discuss strategies and innovative technologies to enable individual and combined workflows through interventional cardiac image guidance using ICE. A specific focus here is to review where today’s workflows are challenged using different guidance solutions as well as the trend toward more integrated and combined procedures, and the need for reliable, intuitive, and precise navigation as a key requirement for optimal treatment.