Abstract
Standard investigations were inadequately used in patients with atrial fibrillation and there was a reluctance to perform cardioversion or to start anticoagulant treatment.
Keywords
MedicineAtrial fibrillationWarfarinInternal medicineStroke (engine)AspirinCardioversionDigoxinHeart failurePopulationMyocardial infarctionCardiologyEmergency departmentManagement of atrial fibrillation
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- 1994
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 92-95
- Citations
- 140
- Access
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G Y H Lip,
Kim Nyin Tean,
F G Dunn
(1994).
Treatment of atrial fibrillation in a district general hospital..
Heart
, 71
(1)
, 92-95.
https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.71.1.92
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- DOI
- 10.1136/hrt.71.1.92