Safety of ventricular arrhythmia radiofrequency ablation with half-normal saline irrigation.
Kanae HasegawaZachary T YonedaEdward M PowersKenichi TokutakeMasaaki KurataGregory F MichaudJay A MontgomerySharon ShenJuan C EstradaPablo J SaavedraAmy EmersonMarilyn L WalkerHarikrishna TandriGregory F MichaudArvindh N KanagasundramWilliam G StevensonPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2024)
Half-normal saline irrigation RF ablation with power guided by impedance fall and intracardiac echocardiography has an acceptable rate of complications and acute ablation success while administering half of the saline load expected for NS irrigation.