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This study was aimed at exploring the temporal trends of in\u2010hospital mortality, major complications, and impact of hospital volume on frequency of AF ablation\u2013related outcomes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The Nationwide Inpatient Sample database was utilized to identify the AF patients treated with catheter ablation. In\u2010hospital death and common complications including vascular access complications, cardiac perforation and\/or tamponade, pneumothorax, stroke, and transient ischemic attack, were identified using International Classification of Disease (ICD\u20109\u2010CM) codes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result<\/jats:title><jats:p>In\u2010hospital mortality rate of 0.15% and overall complication rate of 5.46% were noted among AF ablation recipients (n\u00a0=\u00a050,969). Significant increase in complications during study period (relative increase 56.37%, P\u2010trend\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.001) was observed. Cardiac (2.65%), vascular (1.33%), and neurological (1.05%) complications were most common. On multivariate analysis (odds ratio\u00a0[OR]; 95% confidence interval\u00a0[95% CI]; P value), significant predictors of complications were female sex (OR\u00a0=\u00a01.40; CI\u00a0=\u00a01.17\u20131.68; P value\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.001), high burden of comorbidity as indicated by Charlson Comorbidity Index \u22652 (OR\u00a0=\u00a02.84; CI\u00a0=\u00a02.29\u20133.52; P value\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.001), and low hospital volume\u00a0(&lt;\u00a050 procedures).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our study noted a decline in AF ablation\u2013related hospitalizations and complications associated with the procedure. 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