This website is intended to provide patients and caregivers with some information about the WATCHMAN … As the procedure has … WATCHMAN is for people with atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem who need an alternative to blood thinners. Posted: Oct 1, 2020 / 06:33 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 2, 2020 / 04:53 AM EDT Atrial fibrillation is a heart rhythm problem that is all too common. What is the Watchman Device (Also known as Watchman Procedure, Watchman Heart Procedure or Watchman Implant)? It’s estimated up to five million people … Watchman in the Real World: Reports on Use in High-Risk Patients and Overall Safety. Early this summer I saw the TV ads for the Watchman, for people who cannot take blood thinners. Here is the problem: The Watchman device does not prevent strokes. PREVAIL 5-year data and a patient-level meta-analysis nudge the Watchman left atrial appendage device to meeting noninferiority, but the devil is in the details, notes Dr Mandrola. Dr. John Mandrola argues that randomized, controlled trials of the Watchman, designed for LAA closure, showed the device failed to reduce ischemic stroke, despite being designed for just … Findings from three Cleveland Clinic real-world studies suggest a wider range of patients stand to benefit from the left atrial appendage closure device. I am scheduled for the Watchman procedure at Mass General, Boston, in June 2020 and wonder if I should be asking about this. It’s an jellyfish looking implant that is inserted in the left atrial appendage of the heart. What do we know about this new device? When compared in the best test of medicine, the randomized controlled trial (RCT), the device was inferior to warfarin. The Watchman Device is a small implant placed in to the heart that … SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In the 3-and-a-half years after the Watchman device (Boston Scientific) was approved for left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion in high-risk patients with atrial fibrillation, commonly reported adverse events have included pericardial effusion, device-related thrombus, cerebrovascular accident, and device … During the Watchman clinical trials, a small percentage of people suffered stroke, clots around the device, or fluid buildup (pericardial effusion) in the membrane surrounding the heart. Background: The PROTECT AF (WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage System for Embolic Protection in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation) trial demonstrated that left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) with the Watchman device … CC354-- The flex is supposed to be an improvement on the original Watchman… After implantation, heart tissue will grow over the device … Another problem: advocates for the device … Thanks, Larkspur, February 18, 2020 1:24pm EST.