Visualization and Attentive Behavior for Pain Reduction during Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

Abstract

Visualization and structured attentive behavior was shown to reduce the amount of analgesics during the RF ablation of AF. There was no difference in perception of pain intensity, but the patients spontaneously expressed pain significantly less numbers of times outside the scheduled measurements. There was no reduction in anxiety and numbers of adverse events.