Pulsed Field Ablation for AF: video sources and credits Created for Dr Ng Kim Fong, Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist Prepared 14 October 2026 English patient-education video • 2 minutes 54 seconds FARAPULSE/FARAWAVE is shown as one catheter-system example; the video is not a comparison of all PFA systems. Clinical review before patient distribution This short video provides general education, not complete informed consent or personal medical advice. Confirm local device indications, hospital instructions and individual risk discussions before use. Continue prescribed anticoagulation according to the treating team’s advice and the patient’s stroke risk. Media and production Clinical photographs and procedure footage: supplied by Dr Ng Kim Fong. Original room audio is omitted. Selected views are cropped to keep patient-identifying monitor headers out of the video. The clinical-room audio is not used. No patient-specific details are narrated. The source recording and narration are processed locally, without upload to an external speech-generation service. The anatomical animation is an illustrative atlas-based model, not a reconstruction of the filmed patient. The sinus-rhythm-versus-AF comparison and basket/flower catheter sequence are original explanatory animations. Illustrative ECGs are not patient recordings or diagnostic tracings. Device geometry and positioning are simplified, not to scale, and not intended to teach procedural technique. The highlighted region explains the concept of pulmonary-vein isolation; it does not specify the exact extent of lesions or a clinical catheter-placement technique. Pale moving markers indicate blood flow from a pulmonary vein into the left atrium. Selected authentic procedure-room footage is also included. Clinical sources National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: how the heart beats https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/heart/heart-beats American Heart Association: atrial fibrillation https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/atrial-fibrillation/understanding-afib-symptoms-treatment-and-living-well Boston Scientific: FARAPULSE indications, safety and warnings https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/products/catheters--ablation/farapulse/farapulse-indications.html Boston Scientific: FARAWAVE catheter (basket/flower example only) https://www.bostonscientific.com/us/en/healthcare-professionals/products/pulsed-field-ablation/farawave-pulsed-field-ablation-catheter/fp90000116.html Boston Scientific: FARAWAVE instructions for use (five splines, four electrodes per spline; basket and flower configurations) https://www.bostonscientific.com/content/dam/elabeling/ep/farawave/pulsed_fiel_ablation_catheter/farawave-nav_ifu-51967706/51967706-01A_FARAWAVE2-0-PERSAF_IFU_ML_s.pdf Boston Scientific: FARAPULSE patient brochure https://www.bostonscientific.com.au/content/dam/bostonscientific-anz/farapulse/FarapulsePatientBrochure.pdf 2024 ESC atrial-fibrillation guideline https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/45/36/3314/7738779 2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS atrial-fibrillation guideline https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2023.08.017 Ekanem and colleagues: MANIFEST-17K safety study, Nature Medicine (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03114-3 Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: after cardiac ablation https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/cardiac-ablation-irregular-heart-rhythm/after-having-cardiac-ablation Reference animation Boston Scientific Cardiology: FARAPULSE procedural animation, supplied by the user as a reference. The official transcript informed the conceptual basket/flower sequence. No source-video footage or frames were reused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjDfsH-kozo Anatomy attribution Left atrial atlas adapted from LAUSM, by Georgios Rovas and contributors: https://github.com/g-rov/lausm Source revision: 040ff44e205c5c1a4ca6e5c3b44f3370e2f84629 Mesh: atlas/affine_average_clipped_longpvs.vtk Adaptations: orientation, surface rendering, cutaway view, camera animation and illustrative treatment/flow overlays. No endorsement by the atlas authors is implied. Related publication: Adamopoulos D, Rovas G, Johner N, et al. Left atrial wall shear stress correlates with fibrosis in atrial fibrillation. 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