Atrial Fibrillation: Surgery
(asked on 24th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of treating arterial fibrillation with an electric balloon.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 1st December 2021
NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that this is a new technology which offers an alternative for balloon-based catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. At present, further research on a wider cohort of patients is required to provide more data and evidence for its use.