Special articleSpanish Catheter Ablation Registry. 12th Official Report of the Spanish Society of Cardiology Working Group on Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias (2012)Registro Español de Ablación con Catéter. XII Informe Oficial de la Sección de Electrofisiología y Arritmias de la Sociedad Española de Cardiología (2012)
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INTRODUCTION
We present the Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry for 2011. Its publication completes 12 years of uninterrupted activity by the Spanish Society of Cardiology Working group on Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 This is a voluntary registry covering all of Spain and is published annually. The majority of Spanish electrophysiology laboratories participate, making it one of the few large-scale observational catheter ablation registries.
The main objectives of the
METHODS
As in previous years, 2 different systems were available for data collection: a prospective system and a retrospective system. The prospective approach uses a standardized database provided by the registry and requires patients to be added individually. The retrospective approach involves completing a standard questionnaire sent to all interventional electrophysiology laboratory in January 2013 and is also available on the Working Group on Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias website.12 Data
RESULTS
Following the general trend in recent years, there was an increase in both the number of participating centers and the total number of ablations performed. Of the 74 participating centers (Appendix 2), 60 (81.1%) belonged to the public health care system and 14 were private; for the first time, there were over 10 000 ablation procedures (Fig. 1).
The retrospective data collection system was once again the preferred method. Only 8 centers (10.8%) collected data prospectively.
The majority of the
DISCUSSION
Data from the 2012 catheter ablation registry show a continued increase in the number of participating centers, and thus the registry is increasingly representative of the situation in Spain. In total, 74 centers participated, surpassing the 66 centers that participated in 2011, thus setting a new record. The mean number of ablations per center increased slightly, and the total number of procedures easily surpassed the number performed in 2011.
Healthcare staff levels remained the same this
CONCLUSIONS
As in previous years, the Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry contains one of the largest samples of ablation procedures reported in international publications, surpassing the 9662 ablation procedures performed in 2011. Ever more complex substrates were treated, while maintaining a very high success rate with low rates of major complications and mortality.
Once again, the increase in the number and complexity of the ablations performed was not matched by an increased number of healthcare staff
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
None declared.
Acknowledgements
The coordinators of the registry would like to express their thanks to all participants in the 2012 Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry who voluntarily and disinterestedly submitted the data on the procedures they performed. They also wish to extend special thanks to Cristina Plaza for her excellent and untiring administrative work.
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