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Use pulsed-field ablation as an option to treat atrial fibrillation with standard arrangements in place for clinical governance, consent and audit.
1 Recommendations
1.2
Clinicians should enter details about everyone having the procedure onto the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) database and review local clinical outcomes.
Why the committee made these recommendations
Evidence shows the procedure reduces atrial fibrillation and its symptoms, increases quality of life in the short term, and raises no major safety concerns. More data collection would be useful to guide patient selection and to see how well the procedure works to prevent long-term complications of atrial fibrillation, such as stroke.