Atrial Flutter: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Atrial Flutter: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: Atrial flutter (AFL) is the second most common tachyarrhythmia, after atrial fibrillation. Much has been learned about the mechanism of atrial flutter in the past two decades and therefore how this arrhythmia is treated has changed. ...

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Tags: Heart Disease, Arrhythmia, Atrial Fibrillation, Atrial Flutter, Emergency, Emergency Medicine

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Atrial flutter (AFL) is the second most common tachyarrhythmia, after atrial fibrillation. More about atrial flutter. http://bit.ly/8WWoAu

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Emergency Medicine Article | atrial fibrillation

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Emergency Medicine News & Articles - MDLinx - Atrial Fibrillation on #MDlinx

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Variation in Management of Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter Among Academic Hospital Emergency Depar... http://bit.ly/apVwAG #ER

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physweeklyarchives.com — “Physician's Weekly, your source for medical news, information on new drugs and devices, clinical updates, CME accreditation for radiology, emergency medicine, pediatrics, mammography, and anesthesia .View full resource at physweeklyarchives.com

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emergency-medicine.jwatch.org — “Researchers evaluated the efficacy and safety of a protocol for rapid emergency department (ED) cardioversion and discharge of patients with recent-onset (<48 hours) atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter in a retrospective observational study of 660 . . .View full resource at emergency-medicine.jwatch.org

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Rapid Treatment and Discharge of Patients with Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter. http://bit.ly/9OuiSp

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Toxicity, Clonidine: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Clonidine is a central alpha-agonist that is used as an antihypertensive agent. Other reported clinical uses include treatment of opiate and alcohol withdrawal and control of atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular rate. It is also ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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The anti-hypertensive drug clonidine, when misused, can cause serious health issues almost immediately. Learn more. http://bit.ly/c12gI3

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Preexcitation was defined by Durrer et al in 1970 with the following statement, Preexcitation exists, if in relation to atrial events, the whole or some part of the ventricular muscle is activated earlier by the impulse ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome affects approximately 0.15-0.2% of the general population. Learn more about the cause. http://bit.ly/dcw6aN

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Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Multifocal atrial tachycardia (MAT) is an irregular cardiac rhythm caused by at least 2 different sites of competing atrial activity. Pathophysiology MAT most often is found in the elderly patient with decompensated chronic lung disease and ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Multifocal atrial tachycardia is an irregular cardiac rhythm due to at least 2 sites of competing atrial activity. http://bit.ly/cFSG12

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Atrial Fibrillation: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequently diagnosed arrhythmia and affects 2.3 million people in the United States. Its prevalence increases with age, and as many as 9% of people older than 80 years are affected.View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Atrial fibrillation is the most frequently diagnosed arrhythmia and affects 2.3 million people in the United States. http://bit.ly/bMGdIu

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Heart Block, Second Degree: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Second-degree heart block, or second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block, refers to a disorder of the cardiac conduction system in which some atrial impulses are not conducted to the ventricles. Electrocardiographically, some P waves are not followed by ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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2nd degree heart block is a condition in which not all atrial impulses are conducted to the ventricles. Learn the cause.http://bit.ly/bIJQkv

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Atrial Flutter: eMedicine Cardiology

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Atrial flutter has many clinical aspects that are similar to atrial fibrillation (ie, underlying disease, predisposing factors, complications, medical management). However, the underlying mechanism of atrial flutter makes it amenable to cure this arrhythmia with percutaneous ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Atrial flutter is similar to atrial fibrillation, but flutter is more easily managed. Learn what causes atrial flutter. http://bit.ly/doRqos

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