This Grand Round focuses on the current state of atrial fibrillation in 2024 and the future challenges we might face to meet the needs and expectations of patients affected by atrial fibrillation.
Learning Objectives
- Relevance of atrial fibrillation – a global picture
- Digital applications for AF detection and treatment
- Stroke prevention – oral anti-coagulation and beyond
- AHRE – new trial data
- Rational for rhythm control in AF
- Catheter ablation – new technologies and new trial results
- Future of AF therapies
Professor Gerhard Hindricks background
Professor Gerhard Hindricks headed the Heart Center in Leipzig until February 2023 when he was appointed Head of Electrophysiology-Rhythmology at the German Heart Center of Charité, and Chief Integration Officer of the German Heart Center Berlin in March 2023. His main responsibilities in Berlin are the development of excellence in electro-physiology at Charité hospitals, the integration of the Charité hospitals to the German Heart Centre (as Chief Integration Officer) and to support the German Heart Centre of the Charité in fields of strategic development.
