One-month follow-up

One-month AF ablation recovery and outcome follow-up

Let's complete your 1-month AF ablation recovery check-in. If you are having severe or urgent symptoms, please seek emergency care or contact your EP team now.

Safety note: PostAblate is educational and protocol-driven. It does not diagnose symptoms, replace your EP team, or replace emergency care.

Procedure details

Date of AF ablationAccess site

Healthcare use since ablation

Since your ablation, have you gone to the emergency room?Have you been hospitalized?Have you called your EP office, cardiology office, or on-call team for symptoms?Reason, instructions received, and medication changes if any

Rhythm symptoms

Palpitations, skipped beats, fluttering, racing, or prior-AF-like symptoms?When did symptoms start?How often and how long do episodes last?Heart rate noticed, if knownECG/rhythm recording available?Current rhythm symptoms

Safety screening

Chest pain or pressureNew or worsening shortness of breathTrouble swallowing or painful swallowingCoughed up blood or vomited bloodFever, chills, confusion, or new neurologic symptoms

Access site and medications

Is the catheter site healed?Access-site symptomsIf symptoms are present, are they improving, stable, or worsening?Limb symptomsTaking a blood thinner?Blood thinner/antiplatelet, if knownMissed any blood thinner doses since ablation?Taking an antiarrhythmic or heart rhythm medicine?Stopped or changed any heart medicine since ablation?

Functional recovery and quality of life

Back to usual daily activities?Back to work?Exercising or walking?Fatigue limiting recovery?Compared with before ablation, do you feel:Overall recovery from 0 to 10Heart rhythm worry from 0 to 10Biggest concern or question for your EP team