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Thank you. My SVT was AVNRT and they say it has been there since birth. It didn't give me a huge problem until menopause and then it really ramped up. I tried everything - very clean diet, no caffeine, researched everything I could to try and stop it naturally. Valsalva worked all the time when I was younger but with it happening so often if I didn't lay down right away as I got older and get it under control I would risk it lasting a long time. It totally impacted my life and my ability to go visit my kids and grandkids, friends and family, because I didn't want to drive my myself because AVNRT could happen at any time and it made me feel breathless anxious. During this time I lost my husband and then my mom and the stress just kept building.

My EP was highly rated but she also brought in a fellow that I had not met right before surgery and I'm just wondering if he assisted and he hadn't been doing this very long. Unfortunately, there is no turning back and I hope to be in a much better place in 4-8 months. I have to believe that because what else is there?

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There is always a redo. I had to have two, seven months apart. My EP was the top trainee for the Canadian Cardiovascular Society for 2002-2003. He frankly warned me that even he has a 25% failure rate for first ablations. His success rate on second attempts was a bit higher than 80%. I won with the odds, but only on the second go.
I know people who have had literally scores, yes 'scores' of cardioversions, mostly because none of them took for long. They have had three, five, six, ablations until they found the right EP. In this one case, six ablations, is was Dr. Andrea Natale at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute in Austin, and his patient was an EMT who also knows his 'stuff'.
Your attending cannot have a person handle your treatment unless they ask your permission, or except during an outright emergency when there's nothing left but to have the trainee/assistant step in to do something critical. So, I doubt there is anything poorly or improperly done that could be attributed to a trainee...but I guess anything is possible, or at least plausible. I would scream if I learned of it and had not been advised or asked beforehand.