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Should emergency defibrillators be used on patients suffering atrial fibrillation attacks?
If patients with atrial fibrillation experience rapid heart rate (rapid ventricular response) and are hemodynamically unstable (hypotension, altered mental status) then electrical cardioversion is appropriate. Defibrillation is never utilized in atrial fibrillation.
What is normal heart rate when you have Atrial Fib?
The goal for patients who have atrial fibrillation are for their heart rates to be normal (60-80).
What is the prognosis for patients with atrial fibrillation and flutter?
these arrhythmias can cause a blood clot to form in the heart. This can lead to a stroke or a blockage carried by the blood flow (an embolism ) anywhere in the body's arteries. Atrial fibrillation is responsible for about 15% of strokes
What is an atrial fibrillation?
An atrial fibrillation is a cardiac arrhythmia which involves the upper two chambers of the heart.
Is it possible that excess adrenaline causes atrial fibrillation?
Yes. Excess adrenaline causes Adrenergic Atrial Fibrillation.
Caused by irregular contractions of the atrial myocardium?
Atrial fibrillation
What is Albanian word for atrial fibrillation?
as simple as: "Fibrilacion Atrial"
Difference between atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter?
They're he same thing. Atrial flutter is more of a slang term, and is sometimes found in patients with atrial tachycardia. Basically, atrial fibrillation is a disorder, and atrial flutter is a symptom
Which would produce the most life-threatening condition atrial flutter ventricular flutter atrial fibrillation or ventricular fibrillation?
Ventricular fibrillation, since this pumps blood to the rest of the body.
Should patients with atrial fibrillation take Sumatriptan for migraines?
Those who have atrial fibrillation should not be taking the triptan class of medications such as sumatriptan (Imitrex). Any person who has a prior history of heart condition should reconsider taking these drugs, but in clinical trials - the only people who had atrial fibrillation from the medication, were the ones who had a prior history of it. So, taking these medications can trigger this arrhythmia in those who already suffer from it.
Should someone with atrial fibrillation have a exercise stress test or a thallium stress test?
If you are a patient currently in atrial fibrillation. Generally speaking an adenosine or lexiscan nuclear stress tests are usually the best options. The other medicated stress test is Dobutamine (both echocardiogram and Nuclear). You do not want to use Dobutamine on patients at risk to go into atrial fibrillation because it is a drug that can induce it. For patients that are in chronic atrial fibrillation dobutamine can be used but is not considered to be as diagnostic as a lexiscan or adenosine stress test. The reason being (and this goes or exercise stress tests as well) dobutamine is a heart rate dependent test. This means the closer the heart rate gets to the patients age predicted max HR the more accurate the test is at detecting heart disease. The assumption in this is that the patient is in a sinus rhythm. Myocardial oxygen demand correlates directly with patients HR when the patient is in sinus rhythm. If the patient is in atrial fibrillation that correlation with myocardial oxygen demand becomes much more cloudy thus reducing the sensitivity of an exercise or dobutamine stress test with patients in atrial fibrillation. Both lexiscan and adenosine eliminate HR demands in detecting CAD which makes them the best test for a.fib patients.
Where can one find information about atrial fibrillation surgery?
One can find information about Atrial Fibrillation surgery on a number of webpages. StopAfib, Medifocus, and Mayo Clinic are few examples of websites where one can find information about Atrial Fibrillation surgery.
