Costs, efficiency, and patient‐reported outcomes associated with suture‐mediated percutaneous closure for atrial fibrillation ablation: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

• Published in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology Vol. 35; no. 12; pp. 2372 - 2381
• Main Authors: Kiani, Soroosh, Eggebeen, Joel, Al‐Gibbawi, Mounir, Smith, Paige, Preiser, Thomas, Kundu, Suprateek, Zheng, Ziduo, Bhatia, Neal K., Shah, Anand D., Westerman, Stacy B., De Lurgio, David B., Tompkins, Christine M., Patel, Anshul M., El‐Chami, Mikhael F., Merchant, Faisal M., Lloyd, Michael S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2024; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Ablation; Aged; ambulation; Atrial Fibrillation - diagnosis; Atrial Fibrillation - economics; Atrial Fibrillation - physiopathology; Atrial Fibrillation - surgery; atrial fibrillation ablation; Cardiac arrhythmia; Catheter Ablation - adverse effects; Catheter Ablation - economics; Clinical outcomes; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Costs; early discharge; Efficiency; Female; Fibrillation; Hemostasis; Hemostatic Techniques - economics; Hemostatic Techniques - instrumentation; Hospital Costs; Humans; Learning curves; Male; Middle Aged; Nursing; Observational learning; Original; Pain; Patient Reported Outcome Measures; Patients; perclose; percutaneous closure; Pressure; proglide; prostyle; same day discharge; suture mediate closure; Suture Techniques - adverse effects; Suture Techniques - economics; Sutures; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; vascular closure; percutaneous closure; atrial fibrillation ablation; early discharge; ambulation; proglide; hemostasis; prostyle; perclose; vascular closure; same day discharge; suture mediate closure

Introduction To evaluate the cost and efficiency of suture‐mediated percutaneous closure (SMC) compared to manual compression (MC) after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. SMC has been demonstrated to be efficacious in reducing hemostasis and bedrest times after AF ablation. To date, randomized data...