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173. The Internist's Guide to Atrial Fibrillation (Repeat)

The Intern At Work: Internal Medicine

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Is There an Ongoing Monitoring for Long QT?

If someone has a known history of torsad, the point or like a significantly elevated QT interval 500 plus, if they already are on multiple QT prolonged drugs, we wouldn't prescribe this drug. Usually we don't ask them to be monitored with ongoing ECGs or any blood work going forward. Just monitoring during the, during the AFib and the conversion,. If there is one, because of the fact that there's only a one, one time deal and these drugs have short half lives.

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