Atrial Fibrillation AliveCor Mobile ECG Misidentifies One Patient’s Heart Rhythm 10 Sep 2015 The skeptical cardiologist has been evaluating the AliveCor mobile ECG device for use with a smartphone to detect atrial fibrillation. In my initial post on this I found it to…
Atrial Fibrillation Can Ovine Obesity (Fat Sheep) Teach Us About Atrial Fibrillation? 1 Sep 2015 Until the last year or so when patients asked me what they could do to help their atrial fibrillation (AF) I would tell them to avoid excessive alcohol consumption and…
Atrial Fibrillation… AliveCor Smartphone App Detects Atrial fibrillation: Potential for Stroke Prevention 12 Jul 2015 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common abnormal rhythm of the heart which causes 1 in 4 strokes. Those afflicted with AF may lack any symptoms or only have a vague…
Atrial Fibrillation… Foxglove Equipoise 11 Jul 2015 I came across the word equipoise, used eight times, in a recent, brief editorial entitled "Digoxin: In the Cross Hairs Again." It's not a word I hear outside of medical…
Atrial Fibrillation… Please, Sir, May I Have My Gall Bladder Back? 25 May 2015 Do we have property rights over our body parts? Apparently not, as I and several thousand David Sedaris enthusiasts learned recently at the Peabody Opera House where he was promoting…
Atrial Fibrillation… Stroke Risk Estimation in Atrial Fibrillation: Please Give Me Lip! 26 Apr 2015 The best way we have of estimating a patient's risk of stroke if they have atrial fibrillation (AF) is by the CHA2DS2-VASc scale. This scale take the factors we know…
Atrial Fibrillation… Why Does The TV Tell Me Xarelto is a BAD DRUG? 4 Dec 2014 One of my patients called the office today concerned about a medication she was taking because she was "seeing about 4-5 commercials a day about how bad Xarelto is". She…
Atrial Fibrillation Take Your Pulse and Prevent A Stroke 11 Sep 2014 Hopefully by now everyone has gotten the message that atrial fibrillation is associated with stroke (and, most importantly, that we have ways to prevent those associated strokes). Atrial fibrillation occurs…
Navigating Treatment Options For Atrial Fibrillation 