Ablation Surgery Recovery Time. Your heartbeat and blood pressure will be monitored continuously to check for complications of the procedure. They will apply pressure to the insertion site to avoid bleeding.
Edema or water retention may occur in the days and weeks after. Avoid driving for two days after your surgery. Immediately after the rfa the patient is shifted to a recovery room for 15 minutes to an hour if sedation was used where his her vital signs are continuously monitored.
Here is more about the recovery process.
For surgical ablation called mini maze you re in the hospital just a couple of days and will need to take it easy for a few weeks. Under normal circumstances cardiac ablation recovery takes a few days only. They will apply pressure to the insertion site to avoid bleeding. Recovering from vein ablation surgery will also require that you move as much as possible to get your blood flowing properly again.
