Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Program Development: A Guide for the Heart Team

Launch and cultivate a successful program for the innovative procedure poised to become the standard for patients with aortic stenosis (AS) with Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program Development: A Guide for the Heart Team .
Written by leaders in the field, this clinical instruction manual is the first to consolidate evidence, guidelines, and best practices for the TAVR care pathway from referral to follow-up. This is a must-have for clinicians—nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals—as well as administrative leadership and staff involved in TAVR programs.

The text offers a comprehensive view of the TAVR program organized to support staff and quality, and positioned to grow on pace with evolving indications, regulations, technology, and patient needs:

• Foundational Knowledge – AS clinical presentation, disease progression, historical perspective and current practice
• Multidisciplinary Care – Heart Team, Valve Program Clinician, procedural staff, valve clinic, hospital-based care, partnership with primary care and referring providers
• Patient Evaluation – symptoms, medical history, social determinants of health, diagnostic imaging, echocardiography and computerized tomography, risk stratification
• Heart Team Shared Decision Making – case selection, real-world patient scenarios for shared decision-making, risk-predictive tools, considerations for specific conditions – anatomical challenges, low-gradient AS, mitral valve disease, frailty, pulmonary disease, kidney disease, dementia
• Procedural Care and Clinical Pathways – specific, detailed examples of procedure plans, order sets, emergency planning, peri-procedural communication and handoffs, post-procedure care pathways, discharge planning
• Program Optimization and Evaluation – strategies and tactics for education and communication, staffing considerations, wait list management, scheduling challenges, measurement of clinical outcomes, patient experience, adherence to indications, regulatory compliance, quality registry reporting