Patient Management Pre‐ and Postablation - Atrial Fibrillation Ablation - Wiley Online Library

Hospital equipment and facilities, and personnel, training requirements, and competences: Hospital equipment and facilities
Personnel, training requirements, and competences
Preablation management Anticoagulation
Other imaging studies
Informed consent and preablation fasting
Postprocedural management
Rhythm outcome
Antiarrhythmic therapy
Late surveillance
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