(completion time ≈4-5 minutes)

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* 1. Regarding your UK cardiology practice, please select one of the following most applicable to your subspecialty:

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* 2. Which region of the U.K. is your main place of work?

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* 3. For the medium to long-term management of patients with AF, do you usually (please select the most appropriate):

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* 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?

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* 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?

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* 6. What limit, if any, should there be on the number of times a patient is offered a repeat catheter ablation for AF?

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* 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?

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* 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?

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* 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?

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* 10. In patients with AF, do you routinely request concomitant AF ablation surgery in your referral primarily for other forms of cardiac surgery?

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* 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?

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