Comparison of the Different Anesthesia Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation Catheter Ablation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Results of the meta-regression analysis for procedural parameters.

Slope coefficient	Standard error	Z value	P value	95% CI
				Lower limit	Upper limit
Procedural time
3.80313	27.57992	0.14	0.913	−346.633	354.2392
−20.06846	18.39054	−1.09	0.472	−253.7424	213.6055
−2.883939	3.674606	−0.78	0.576	−49.57424	43.80636
−436.7515	165.4476	−2.64	0.231	−2538.962	1665.459
7.288352	4.523885	1.61	0.354	−50.19305	64.76976
109.8325	62.75476	1.75	0.330	-687.5424	907.2074
Ablation time
0.7524953	9.018126	0.08	0.939	−27.94721	29.4522
6.843837	8.885825	0.77	0.497	−21.43482	35.1225
−1.469066	1.819742	−0.81	0.479	−7.260297	4.322165
0.552666	55.07902	0.01	0.993	−174.7334	175.8387
−0.8592097	1.382002	−0.62	0.578	−5.257357	3.538938
−6.715246	10.64719	−0.63	0.573	-40.59935	27.16885
Fluoroscopy time
−3.022216	3.156895	−0.96	0.514	−43.13437	37.08994
172.1302	199.2275	0.86	0.546	−2359.295	2703.556
−13.78631	24.25556	−0.57	0.671	−321.9825	294.4099
Recurrence rate
−0.112459	0.1209298	−0.93	0.523	−1.649018	1.4241
0.2239085	0.4280696	0.52	0.693	−5.215231	5.663048
1.252249	1.027552	1.22	0.437	−11.80404	14.30854
0.0054298	0.0711709	0.08	0.952	−0.8988824	0.909742
−6.004763	4.139268	−1.45	0.384	−58.59914	46.58962
−0.2981956	0.2125513	−1.4	0.394	−2.998917	2.402525
0.808037	0.8573068	0.94	0.519	−10.08508	11.70115

^∗Since only one study was different from the others, the study type, publication year, and anesthesia strategy had been tested by sensitivity analysis, so they were not included in this meta-regression.