Does general anaesthesia reduce peri-procedural pain and improve patient experience compared to conscious sedation in patients undergoing radiofrequency pulmonary vein isolation?
General anaesthesia improves patient experience by reducing peri-procedural pain during radiofrequency pulmonary vein isolation compared to conscious sedation.
Patients who had general anaesthesia for radiofrequency pulmonary vein isolation experienced less peri-procedural pain than patients who had conscious sedation and were more likely to recommend general anaesthesia as a mode of anaesthesia.
Maher et al. (Thu,) studied this question.