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Figure 1. The event specific 30-day complication rates for patients either discharged the same day (SDD in blue) or observed during an overnight hospital stay (ONS in orange) following cryoballoon ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation are displayed. The ONS and SDD cohorts had similar event specific and overall 30-day complication rates (p=0.136).
Abbreviations: CHF=chronic heart failure; PNP=phrenic nerve palsy; and TIA=transient ischemic attack.
Figure 2. One-way sensitivity analysis of yearly cost savings per 100 cryoballoon ablation procedures as a function of percent of SDD per year is depicted for the East Coast (blue), West Coast (orange) and Midwest (grey) hospitals. As the percent of every 100 patients to undergo cryoballoon ablation for the treatment of AF who are discharged the same day as the procedure increased the hospital cost savings also increased.
Table 1. List of patient eligibility criteria for SDD at each hospital/region.