Complications during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: Identification and prevention

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Doppalapudi, Harish ^a   Yamada, Takumi ^a   Kay, G Neal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Complications

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIR EMBOLISM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; DEATH; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EDEMA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SINUS NODE DISEASE; SKIN INJURY; STENT; STOMACH PARESIS; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VAGUS REFLEX;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

EID: 70849088070     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.025     Document Type: Article

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