ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2025
Same-Day Discharge After Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in the United States.
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- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Utilization and Outcomes of Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter: a State-of-the-Art Review.Current cardiology reports · 2026Review
- Same-Day Discharge in Ventricular Ablation: Safety Outcomes and Case Selection.Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology · 2026Observational
- Same day discharge can be performed safely after atrial fibrillation catheter ablation using a wide-footprint lattice-tip dual-energy system.Heart rhythm O2 · 2026Article
- Same-day discharge after electrophysiological and cardiac implantable electronic device procedures: a clinical consensus statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions (ACNAP) of the ESC.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026Review
- Patient and Procedural Factors Associated With Same-Day Discharge Following Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Insights From the DISRUPT-AF Registry.Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology · 2026Observational
- Incidence of laboratory-defined severe intravascular haemolysis across commercially available pulsed field ablation technologies for atrial fibrillation.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Observational
- Same-Day Discharge: It's Not Always Better to Sleep Over.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients undergoing atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation have historically been hospitalized overnight or longer postprocedure. National rates of same-day discharge (SDD) following AF ablation remain unknown. METHODS AND
resultsThe NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry) AF Ablation Registry was used to identify index procedures from January 1, 2016 to June 30, 2023. Patients were stratified by postprocedure disposition: (1) SDD, (2) overnight hospitalization (<1 day), or (3) >1 day hospitalization. Rates, clinical factors, and hospital-level variation associated with SDD were analyzed. Among 139 391 patients who underwent AF ablation across 197 hospitals, 51 622 (37.0%) underwent SDD, 78 220 (56.1%) were hospitalized overnight, and 9549 (6.9%) for >1 day postprocedure. SDD rates increased from 0.99% in Q1 2016 to 62.3% in Q2 2023 (
conclusionsRates of SDD following AF ablation markedly increased over time, corresponding with onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with substantial hospital variation. SDD patients had fewer comorbid conditions and were less likely to have persistent AF. Postprocedural complication rates with SDD were low and comparable with patients hospitalized overnight.
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