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Electrical instability in a healthy 50 year old. How to manage?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

There were no plaques or stenoses. Smith comment-2: Another adverse effect from flecainide is atrial flutter with 1:1 conduction (if you happen to go into atrial flutter, the flecainide slows the flutter rate such that it is slow enough to conduct throught the AV node at 1:1 and you can end up with a ventricular rate of 220!!