Deep sedation for pulsed field ablation by electrophysiology staff: can and should we do it?

Bart A Mulder¹, Pascal Defaye², Lucas V A Boersma^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
² Department of Cardiology, University Hospital and Grenoble Alpes University, Bd de la Chantourne, 8043 Grenoble, France.
³ Department of Cardiology, Sint Antonius Hospital, Koekoekslaan 1, 3435 CM, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Bart A Mulder et al. Europace. 2023.

. 2023 Aug 2;25(9):euad234.

doi: 10.1093/europace/euad234.

Bart A Mulder¹, Pascal Defaye², Lucas V A Boersma^{3

4}

¹ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
² Department of Cardiology, University Hospital and Grenoble Alpes University, Bd de la Chantourne, 8043 Grenoble, France.
³ Department of Cardiology, Sint Antonius Hospital, Koekoekslaan 1, 3435 CM, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest None declared.

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