A JAMA trial of 200 coffee drinkers found daily caffeinated coffee was associated with lower Afib or atrial flutter ...

The incidence of atrial fibrillation has increased globally, in part because of modifiable risk factors.1 Acute atrial fibrillation, especially at a rapid rate, is often treated with pharmacological ...

Aside from patient factors, a number of factors may influence the immediate success of cardioversion, that is, a complete failure to cardiovert. These include electrode placement, shock polarity, ...

Bayer AG BAYRY announced that it has initiated a phase I study, which is evaluating its investigational highly selective GIRK4 inhibitor, BAY 3670549, for the treatment of patients with atrial ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice, and commonly leads to morbidity and mortality as a result of thromboembolism events or heart failure. The ...

Heart arrhythmias are usually harmless, but some can be life threatening. Treatments help correct your heart rate to prevent serious health issues. When the electrical impulses that affect your ...

Anterior–posterior electrode placement is preferred in electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. However, the optimal anterior–posterior electrode position in relation to the heart is not ...

A team of Ochsner Health cardiologists recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology comparing two treatment strategies for patients with atrial ...

From the Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK. Background—Although atrial electrical remodeling has been studied extensively in animal models, the reversibility of this ...

Cardioversion restores a normal heartbeat in patients with arrhythmias, heartbeats that are too fast or irregular. Doctors use one of two methods for restoring normal heartbeat: medication or electric ...

This study aimed to assess the safety of electric cardioversion in the absence of anesthetists assistance. We also evaluated the efficacy and safety of this procedure in older adults (≥80 years) ...

Medtronic alerted healthcare professionals in Europe to the risk of cardioversion-related damage to the Vanta implantable neurostimulator (INS), model 977006, During cardioversion, healthcare workers ...