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Syncope and Atrial fibrillation in a Healthy 70-something Male

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

PMH: Known paroxysmal Atrial fib. He is usually is in sinus rhythm as far as he knows, but he cannot subjectively feel atrial fibrillation, so he is never completely certain when he is in sinus or atrial fib. Here is his ECG: Atrial Fib with a Ventricular Response of about 66. He immediately completely recovered.

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Evaluation of atrial fibrillation using wearable device signals and home blood pressure data in the Michigan Predictive Activity & Clinical Trajectories in Health (MIPACT) Study: A Subgroup Analysis (MIPACT-AFib)

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Herein, we report results of a follow-up screening protocol for incident atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) within a large observational digital health study. Of 59 participants who sent at least 1 EKG, 52 (88.1%) were in sinus rhythm, 3 (5.1%) AF, 2 (3.4%) indeterminate, and 2 (3.4%) sinus bradycardia.

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How Wearable Tech Can Help Monitor Your Heart Health

MIBHS

Detection of Irregular Heart Rhythms Devices such as the Apple Watch or Fitbit Sense can detect irregular heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation (AFib). These early warnings are critical, as AFib increases the risk of stroke and other heart-related complications.

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What is this ECG finding? Do you understand it before you hear the clinical context?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Pendell Meyers First try to interpret this ECG with no clinical context: The ECG shows an irregularly irregular rhythm, therefore almost certainly atrial fibrillation. After an initially narrow QRS, there is a very large abnormal extra wave at the end of the QRS complex. Is there a long QT? How would you manage this patient?

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What is strange about this paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in an otherwise healthy patient? And what happened after giving ibutilide?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Her Apple Watch suddenly told her that she is in atrial fibrillation. Patients with healthy AV nodes who are not on AV nodal blockers and who are not hyperkalemic should have a rapid ventricular response if they have paroxysmal Atrial fibrillation. I focus my comment on a few additional aspects regarding new AFib.

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Conventional computer ECG algorithm misses another potentially deadly abnormality. How does AI perform?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This ECG shows sinus bradycardia with massively long QT (or QU?) Especially when present in the setting of bradycardia and syncopal episodes, this is very worrisome for high risk of lethal dysrhythmias including polymorphic ventricular fibrillation (termed Torsades when in the setting of long QT). interval, at over 600 msec.

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Cardiomatics guide: Analyzing arrhythmias made easy

Cardiomatics

Sinus bradycardia – sinus rhythm below 60 bpm is a sinus bradycardia. AFIB/AFL – atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter episodes. Sinus tachycardia – sinus rhythm above 100 bpm is a sinus tachycardia. In healthy individuals occurs during exercising or strong emotions.