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Feb 10 2023 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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Stroke AFib - The $64,000 Question?

EP: No one knows whether treating device detected AFib is warranted. Only two-thirds of the patients who had AFib detected in the study had an episode of AFib that lasted more than an hour, so they're picking up a lot of short duration AFib. A better trial if the authors and the sponsor wanted to answer the real question would have been to behave like, say, Richard Whitlock and the McMaster's group did with appendage closure after heart surgery.

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