Early stroke and systemic embolism rates in patients following cardioversion for atrial fibrillation (A-fib) are low and comparable between those receiving warfarin or the novel oral anticoagulant ...

But the current study, from Dr Gaetano M De Ferrari (University of Pavia, Italy) and colleagues, suggests that there can be a role for cardioversion in some populations, in this case patients with ...

LISBON, Portugal—Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with new, symptomatic A-fib do not necessarily need to undergo immediate cardioversion, as is now common practice, the RACE 7 ...

Sweden: Researchers have found in a new study that pre-cardioversion rhythm monitoring using smartphone-based ...

A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

The drug-shock strategy was more effective for patients experiencing atrial fibrillation for the first time and for patients younger than 70 years, the researchers said. Both the anti-arrhythmia drug ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...

Heart rhythm monitoring in the weeks before cardioversion therapy for atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter reduced the ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who need anticoagulation before undergoing electrical correction of their abnormal heartbeat (cardioversion) may benefit from treatment with edoxoban - a ...

The 2006 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/European Society of Cardiology (ACC/AHA/ESC) Practice Guidelines for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation state that various benign ...

Medtronic alerted healthcare professionals in Europe to the risk of cardioversion-related damage to the Vanta implantable neurostimulator (INS), model 977006, During cardioversion, healthcare workers ...

Patients presenting to the emergency department with recent-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) do not benefit more from early cardioversion compared with a wait-and-see approach in achieving a return to ...