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Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Ablation U.K. Survey
– Anonymous Questionnaire for Cardiologists –

(completion time ≈4-5 minutes)
1. Regarding your UK cardiology practice, please select one of the following most applicable to your subspecialty:
2. Which region of the U.K. is your main place of work?
3. For the medium to long-term management of patients with AF, do you usually (please select the most appropriate):
4. Regarding conventional atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation as a treatment option for patients with AF:
Yes
No
(a) Do you regularly undertake this procedure?
(b) If you do not, do you have access to a colleague or colleagues who does/do so?
5. Do you believe conventional catheter ablation has a valuable role to play in managing patients with:
Yes
No
Maybe
(a) Paroxysmal AF?
(b) Recent [< 1 year] persistent AF
(c) Long-standing [≥ 1 year] persistent AF?
6. What limit, if any, should there be on the number of times a patient is offered a repeat catheter ablation for AF?
1
2
3
≥ 4
No limit [on number of attempts]
7.  Regarding concomitant cardiac surgical AF ablation:
Yes
No
Don’t know
(a) Is this performed in your hospital?
(b) If not performed in your hospital, is it accessible to you via a networked institution?
8. If the answer to Q7 (a) or (b) was “YES”, is this:
Yes
No
Don’t know
(a) Concomitant surgical AF ablation at the time of other cardiac surgery?
(b) Stand-alone surgical AF ablation?
9. Are you well-aware of the current international society (ESC/EHRA/ECAS/EACTS/AATS/STS/SCTS /ACC/HRS/ICMICS) guidance on concomitant surgical AF ablation at the time of elective cardiac surgery?
10. In patients with AF, do you routinely request concomitant AF ablation surgery in your referral primarily for other forms of cardiac surgery?
11. Do you feel concomitant surgical AF ablation should be routinely discussed at the time of joint cardiology and cardiac surgical JCC / MDT meetings, so that suitable patients might be able to benefit from this therapy?