Correvio Pharma Corp. announced the presentation of clinical data highlighting the low rate of hospitalization in patients treated with Brinavess® (vernakalant hydrochloride, IV), its antiarrhythmic drug for the rapid conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation (AF), at the Belgian Society of Cardiology (BSC) 2019 Annual Congress, being held Feb. 7-8, 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The presentation will include data from a clinical survey assessing patients with acute AF treated with Brinavess in Belgian hospitals. The data from this survey, which was mandated by Belgium's National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI), was provided by six participating hospitals, enrolling a total of 97 patients that were treated with Brinavess in the emergency room setting over a 15.5-month period during 2017 and 2018. The data demonstrated that treatment with Brinavess successfully avoided hospitalization for 85.4% of all treated patients. Treatment with Brinavess also significantly decreased the use of electric cardioversion, with 84.1% of patients avoiding electric cardioversion. Hospitalization post-vernakalant treatment did not appear to be center-dependent and the need for hospitalization and electric cardioversion tended to be linked in all clinical centers. These data supported NIHDI's decision to award reimbursement for Brinavess in August 2018.