Expediting the pathway to supraventricular tachycardia ablation
To the Editor Honarbakhsh et al
Patients with supraventricular tachycardia usually experience frustrating recurrent attendances at accident and emergency departments (AEDs) prior to referral to electrophysiologists, despite our knowledge that ablations are successful in 95% at the first procedure. Similarly, many journeys to the AED are aborted as the symptoms self-terminate prior to arrival or have abated by the time of medical review. Thus, frequently ECGs fail to capture their arrhythmia and clinch the diagnosis, protracting the time to effective treatment.
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Publisher URL: http://heart.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/103/18/1471
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310709
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