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Introduction and Objectives: This article presents the findings of the 2012 Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry., Methods: Data were collected in 2 ways: retrospectively using a standardized questionnaire, and prospectively using a central database. Each participating center selected its own preferred method of data collection., Results: Seventy-four Spanish centers voluntarily contributed data to the survey. A total of 11 042 ablation procedures were analyzed, averaging 149 (103) per center. The 3 main conditions treated were atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (n=2842; 25.7%), cavotricuspid isthmus (n=2485; 23%), and accessory pathways (n=1999; 18%). Atrial fibrillation was the fourth most common substrate treated (n=1852; 17%), representing a slight increase. The number of ventricular arrhythmia ablation procedures was similar to that of 2011, but there was a decrease in procedures for ventricular tachycardia associated with postinfarction scarring. The overall success rate was 94.9%, major complications occurred in 1.9%, and the overall mortality rate was 0.04%., Conclusions: Data from the 2012 registry show that the number of ablations performed continued to increase. Overall, they also show a high success rate and a low number of complications. Ablation of complex substrates continued to increase, particularly in the case of atrial fibrillation., (Copyright © 2013 Sociedad Española de Cardiología. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.)

Introduction and Objectives: The findings of the 2011 Spanish Catheter Ablation Registry are presented., Methods: Data were collected in two ways: retrospectively using a standardized questionnaire, and prospectively from a central database. Each participating center selected its own preferred method of data collection., Results: Sixty-six Spanish centers voluntarily contributed data to the survey. Some 9662 ablation procedures were analyzed, averaging 146 (104) per center. The three main conditions treated were atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (n=2537; 26%), typical atrial flutter (n=2205; 23%) and accessory pathways (n=1813; 19%). Atrial fibrillation was the fourth most common substrate treated (n=1535; 16%) and showed a slight increase over figures for 2010. Ventricular arrhythmia ablation has increased considerably. The overall success rate was 94%; major complications occurred in 2.2% and overall mortality was 0.04%., Conclusions: Data from the 2011 registry show a continued increase in the number of ablations performed with a generally high success rate and few complications. The use of complex substrate ablation continues to grow., (Copyright © 2012 Sociedad Española de Cardiología. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.)