Pacemaker Club: cardiac ablation

cardiac ablation

by rhymeandreason@knology.net
2014-06-10 08:06:32
Surgery & Recovery
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Guess no one liked the poem I wrote. Has anyone had ablation and how bad of a producure is it? Jackie Caylor

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Easy

by valley01 - 2014-06-11 08:06:37

Sorry, I didn't see the poem but I'm not on here every day. I had an ablation 5 days prior to my PM implant. It was my first surgery ever and pretty easy I thought. The worst part for me was that I had been admitted through the ER the day prior for ventricular tachycardia and they had me on strict bed rest the whole time so even before I went into surgery my back was sore. I woke up during the surgery with my back cramping and I must have been moving around quite a bit because they were holding me down and telling me I had to stay still. I told them my back had a cramp and they knocked me out completely. I came to and still had a sore back but the insertion point in the groin was fine. A day later I bruised majorly at the insertion point and it did get sore but they said it was from me moving around during the procedure. Still I would have thought it would have been much worse than it actually was. I got to get out of bed and walk around that day and then home the following day - no pain killers needed. I actually drove myself home because nobody mentioned I wasn't supposed to drive and my car was still at work where I left it when they took me to the ER.

Cardiac Ablation

by Selwyn - 2014-06-11 12:06:15

The medical risk of ablation depends on the type of ablation undertaken (e.g. atrial fibrillation ablation carries a greater risk than atrial flutter ablation, svts, etc...).

The discomfort at the time depends on whether you opt for a general or local anaesthetic.

My ablation for flutter was a general anaesthetic without complications ( unless you count a little bruising of the groin), with no recurrence of the arrhythmia.