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National A-Fib Numbers Higher Than Previously Thought

DAIC

percent of the patients treated between 2005 and 2009 to 6.82% of the patients treated between 2015 and 2019. The study appears Sept. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology JACC. About 2 million of these people had been diagnosed with A-Fib, and the numbers grew over time, rising from 4.49 million.

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National A-Fib Numbers Higher Than Previously Tought

DAIC

percent of the patients treated between 2005 and 2009 to 6.82% of the patients treated between 2015 and 2019. The study appears Sept. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology JACC. About 2 million of these people had been diagnosed with A-Fib, and the numbers grew over time, rising from 4.49 million.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

in 2010 EM Clinics of North America (full text link) For an Exhaustive Review of Syncope and its full management outside the ED environment, go to the 2009 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines (full text pdf). Yield of Diagnostic Tests in Evaluating Syncopal Episodes in Older Patients Arch Intern Med 2009 Jul 27; 169:1299-1305.