Real-world Experience of Catheter Ablation for the Treatment of Paroxysmal and Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

The REAL Registry is an observational, prospective, multi-center, non-randomized registry designed to obtain real-world clinical experience of ablation using Biosense Webster, Inc. (BWI) CARTO technologies (e.g., THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH®, THERMOCOOL SMARTTOUCH® SF, QDOT MICRO™, VARIPULSE™). Future new Biosense Webster, Inc. technologies, including new thermal and/or pulsed field ablation (PFA), may be included as they become commercially available.

Current clinical practice guidelines recommend ablation for ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and atrial fibrillation (AF)1,2. Therefore, REAL AF will include subjects with symptomatic paroxysmal AF (PAF), persistent AF (PsAF) who meet all eligibility criteria and in the opinion of the investigator, are candidates for AF catheter ablation. CORE-VA will include all subjects with documented ventricular arrhythmia appropriate for catheter ablation.

All subjects will be treated with commercially approved BWI ablation catheters, and the ablation procedure will be conducted based on the participating Site's current standard of care (SOC). Participation in the Registry does not influence treatment decisions. All consecutive subjects presenting at the Site considered for an ablation procedure should be screened by the Investigator or a designated member of the research team for eligibility.

The objective of this registry is to assess clinical outcomes, including procedural efficiency, safety, long-term, effectiveness of RF ablations in the treatment of patients with Paroxysmal or Persistent atrial fibrillation. The outcomes of the registry are: 1) long term effectiveness defined as freedom from Arrhythmia recurrence post 90-day blanking period, 2) acute safety defined by serious complications within 7 days post ablation and up to 30 days post ablation.

Sites and Investigators considered for inclusion in the Registry will be assessed to determine if their practice patterns align, minimally, with what is outlined in VISIT SCHEDULE AND DATA COLLECTION of this protocol for the specific cohort in which the investigators will be enrolling. Investigators need to only align with the requirements of one cohort, but can participate in both, if qualified, and selected in each cohort. The Registry does not require any additional visits above what is considered standard of care follow-up for the Registry subject population.