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Once the cardiac ablation is complete, the catheters and IV lines are removed. No stitches are required since only very small incisions were made. You are transported to the recovery unit for a while then on to his or her hospital room for a few hours of observation. You may have some soreness where the IVs were removed and where the catheters were inserted as well as some bruising. Depending on where the cardiac ablation was inside the heart, they may also have some minor soreness in the chest – but not chest pain or shortness of breath.Most patients go home within a day of the cardiac ablation procedure. Before you leave the hospital, your electrophysiologist will talk to you about medications, activity, and follow-up care. When it’s time to leave, make sure a friend or family member is there to drive you home.
Normal heart rhythm after the cardiac ablation. In some cases, the heart rhythm is faster than normal for days to weeks. This can lead patients to believe that the cardiac ablation procedure did not work. Treating arrhythmias with cardiac ablation involves working very close to critical structures, for example, the heart’s natural pacemakers, the esophagus or coronary arteries.
Cardiac ablation allows the electrophysiologist to slightly freeze tissue to test whether it is responsible for conducting an arrhythmia. An electrophysiology (EP) study is a test performed to determine the precise origin or location of an arrhythmia in the heart. An EP study can be done just before cardiac ablation or as a separate procedure. In many ways, the EP study and the cardiac ablation procedure are similar since they both involve guiding catheters through veins to the heart.
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