Patients with a cardiac arrhythmia may be given medication to regulate the rhythm. If that doesn’t work, they’re eligible for an ablation. People who run a high risk of death, for example, are always given priority during the procedure. “But waiting is very stressful for all patients,” Meeder says. “For example, people are sometimes afraid of dying. And that is also a conceivable fear.”
Dutch Healthcare Authority: patient has to wait longest for surgery on nasal septum
