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      Atrial fibrillation: management strategies in the emergency department.

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      Emergency medicine practice

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          Atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are the most common dysrhythmias seen in the emergency department. As the aging population continues to grow, atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter are expected to affect 6 million people by 2050. This will lead to an increase in emergency department visits for symptoms from the disease itself or its complications, such as heart failure or thromboembolic disease. This review examines the recent literature on the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation. Evidence-based recommendations are provided, including cost-effective strategies to evaluate new-onset arrhythmias and unstable patients with atrial fibrillation, rate control strategies, the use of medical and direct current cardioversion for new-onset atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter, whom and when to anticoagulate, and the use of the novel anticoagulation agents.

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          Emerg Med Pract
          Emergency medicine practice
          1524-1971
          1524-1971
          Feb 2013
          : 15
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
          Article
          354
          23369365
          4407db14-5e4e-4ea3-889a-642a7852068a
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