Management of atrial fibrillation in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1127-1139

  Raghavan, Arun V ^a   Decker, Wyatt W ^a   Meloy, Thomas D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; ESMOLOL; METOPROLOL; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPRANOLOL; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

ARTERIAL GAS; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIRECT CURRENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FATIGUE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART PALPITATION; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; LUNG EDEMA; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REVIEW; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 26044466519     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2005.07.013     Document Type: Review

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