I'm a CVICU nurse. Everyone I have seen that has had the ablation done has turned out fine. It is usually a same day procedure. They go through the groin just like your having a heart cath. After sheath is pulled the leg stays striaght for usually 4 hrs, this is the worse thing about the whole procedure. They give you what is called conscious sedation, usually morphine along with a drug called versed. You don't even know what their doing most of the time. If you decide to have it I would go to UAB first choice then second choice would be Baptist South. A cardiologist has to have a electrophysiology background to be able to do it.