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Reboot #159 Atrial Fibrillation

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Anticoagulation and Treatment of Atrofebrelation in Critical Illness

How do you address a anti coagulation and treatment of atral fibrulation if it arises in the setting of, say, critical illness? Do you approach that in the same way as kind of garden variety atib or? Is it kind of different, a different treatment algorithm? Ye, that's a really good question. I think that my advice about that is to resist the urge to assign the apparently isolated episode of atrofebrelation to a reversible cause. And so what that means to me is generally looking at their chads to vast score to kind of globally assess their wrists for stroke.

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