In advance of this appointment you will be asked to watch a video and to read the procedure specific consent form. You will have a video or telephone appointment booked with one of the arrhythmia clinical nurse specialists who will assess that you are fit and ready for your procedure. We only really suggest this procedure, however, if you've had heart surgery, were born with congential heart defects, or have already had an ablation procedure.Īfter having a catheter ablation, many patients find their symptoms of AF are reduced or go completely. It is a more regular, but complex, treatment which uses a similar approach. Sometimes, we recommend atrial tachycardia (AT). We normally recommend this treatment if your AF is too difficult to control with medication, if you can't tolerate the medication or of you don't want to take it. Once there, it uses heat energy to damage (or ablate) the abnormally active heart muscle. This is a keyhole technique (surgery performed through a tiny incision), which directs a small, flexible tube (or catheter) to a specific area inside the heart. By using a thin electrode catheter to burn heart tissue, we try to stop the faulty electrical signals which cause your arrhythmia. We us atrial fibrillation ablation to treat arrhythmia (irregular heartbeats).

Heart obliteration procedure