cardioversion

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• This should be considered in the following circumstances: in symptomatic patients, when patients are unstable, and when cardioversion to restore normal conduction would improve long-term outcomes.

  Academic text (2011)

• Correction of the arrhythmia may be attempted through the use of cardioversion, once the patient is properly anticoagulated and assuming they are suitable for this.

  Academic text (2012)

• Most of us eventually are just put on medication after a few cardioversion treatments.

  Blog text (25)

• I had the same thing; first, they do the cardioversion to see if they can kick-start it back to normal.

  Blog text (1)

• Could be a cardioversion, where they use electrical current to change an irregular atrial rate to a regular rate.

  Blog text (1)

• 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh met with the media on Friday, a day after missing practice due to a cardioversion procedure for his heart.

  Blog text (14)

• If that was the case, he would have apparently been treated with a cardioversion, which is an outpatient procedure (check both links for more details on the procedure).

  Blog text (28)

• The underlying nature of the AF is key to the selection of medication, and indeed to its combination with non-pharmacological management such as ablation and cardioversion.

  Academic text (2011)

• Conduction defect was defined as Mobitz type II or complete heart block requiring parenteral drug treatment, a pacer, or cardioversion.

  Academic text (1999)

• In persistent AF, rate control is recommended first-line in patients > 65 years old with coronary artery disease with contraindications to anti-arrhythmic drugs unsuitable for cardioversion.

  Academic text (2011)

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