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Tachyarrhythmias

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Therapy

Atrial flutter
  • pharmacological cardioversion 

Note:

  • No one method of pharmacological cardioversion is definitively better than another - studies are small and have short follow-up, so some of the differences noted below maybe due to chance. In addition, adverse effects from cardioversion and effects on mortality are unclear.

Expiry date: July 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   H   Oral
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , N   Shenker , CJ   Wotton