Management of atrial fibrillation in the emergency department

W Bode, LM Ptaszek - Current Cardiology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in adults
and is responsible for 600,000 emergency department (ED) visits each year in the USA …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging the Gaps in Atrial Fibrillation Management in the Emergency Department

BX Wang - Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2025 - mdpi.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) frequently presents in emergency departments (EDs), contributing
significantly to adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Despite established guidelines, ED …

[PDF][PDF] Registro de fibrilación auricular en servicios de urgencias del Institut Català de la Salut (URGFAICS): análisis en función del tipo de fibrilación auricular y de la …

J Jacob, I Cabello, O Yuguero Torres, JA Guzmán… - 2019 - repositori.udl.cat
Objetivos. Estudiar las características de los pacientes que consultan por un episodio de
fibrilación auricular (FA) en los servicios de urgencias hospitalarios (SUH), en función de si …

Clinical decision support to Optimize Care of patients with Atrial Fibrillation or flutter in the Emergency department: protocol of a stepped-wedge cluster …

DR Vinson, AS Rauchwerger, CA Karadi, J Shan… - Trials, 2023 - Springer
Background Management of adults with atrial fibrillation (AF) or atrial flutter in the
emergency department (ED) includes rate reduction, cardioversion, and stroke prevention …

Prescribing of oral anticoagulants in the emergency department and subsequent long-term use by older adults with atrial fibrillation

CL Atzema, CA Jackevicius, A Chong, P Dorian… - CMAJ, 2019 - cmaj.ca
BACKGROUND: Patients with atrial fibrillation frequently seek emergency care. Rates of
guideline-concordant oral anticoagulant therapy for stroke prevention are suboptimal in the …

Decision Support Intervention and Anticoagulation for Emergency Department Atrial Fibrillation: The O'CAFÉ Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial

DR Vinson, EM Warton, EJ Durant, DG Mark… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Oral anticoagulation for adults with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter (AFF) who are
at elevated stroke risk reduces the incidence of ischemic stroke but remains underused …

Practice gap in atrial fibrillation oral anticoagulation prescribing at emergency department home discharge

B Kea, BT Waites, A Lin, M Raitt… - Western Journal of …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Current US cardiology guidelines recommend oral anticoagulation (OAC) to
reduce stroke risk in selected patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but no formal AF OAC …

Stroke prophylaxis for atrial fibrillation? To prescribe or not to prescribe—A Qualitative study on the decisionmaking process of emergency department providers

B Kea, T Alligood, C Robinson, J Livingston… - Annals of emergency …, 2019 - Elsevier
Study objective Although clinical guidelines recommend oral anticoagulation for atrial
fibrillation patients at high risk of stroke, emergency physicians inconsistently prescribe it to …

Emergency Department capacity to initiate thromboprophylaxis in patients with atrial fibrillation and thrombotic risk after discharge: URGFAICS cohort analysis

O Yuguero, I Cabello, M Arranz, JA Guzman… - Internal and Emergency …, 2022 - Springer
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent heart rhythm disorder in the general population.
Stroke prevention is one of the leading management objectives in the treatment of AF …

Emergency Atrial Fibrillation Registry of the Catalan Institute of Health (URGFAICS): analysis by type of atrial fibrillation and revisits within 30 days

J Jacob, I Cabello Zamora, O Yuguero… - … , vol. 31, num. 2, p. 99 …, 2019 - diposit.ub.edu
Objectives: To study the characteristics of patients attending a hospital emergency
department (ED) with de novo or previously diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF), and to …