DES PLAINES, IL -- A multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial confirms that both chemical-first and electrical-first approaches are effective strategies for acute atrial fibrillation; however, ...

Pretoria - A Veterinary specialist from the University of Pretoria (UP) and the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital has performed South Africa’s first transvenous electrical cardioversion on a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sinus rhythm was restored in an effective, safe and rapid manner using drug-shock or shock-only strategies among ...

Pharmacologic cardioversion followed by electrical cardioversion and electrical cardioversion only were found to be safe and effective in patients presenting to the emergency department with recent ...

Synchronised electrical cardioversion (SEC) is the delivery of a shock to the myocardium to terminate a tachyarrhythmia. To minimise the risk of inducing cardiac arrest the shock is timed ...

Aside from patient factors, a number of factors may influence the immediate success of cardioversion, that is, a complete failure to cardiovert. These include electrode placement, shock polarity, ...

INTRODUCTION Restoring sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF)/atrial flutter (AFl) requires adequate oral anticoagulation prior to direct current cardioversion (DCC). Some patients ...

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