Patient educationAtrial fibrillationThis chapter is about the importance of educating patients about their atrial fibrillation and the hurdles that healthcare providers must traverse in order to help patients understand their disease process. It has been established over time the importance of education ...
Atrial fibrillation or AF is a heart rhythm disorder that causes the heart to beat in an irregular and often accelerated manner. The cause is a malfunction in the electrical system of the heart, where all electrical impulses normally are fired in a regular way by the sinus node. In AF pati...
Prof Sanders said: "Some hospital admissions for atrial fibrillation are likely preventable through better education of those living with the condition. We believed that involving patients in their care, helping them understand their condition, and providing tools to manage it might avoid hospitalisation...
Education Lab | CME | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of arrhythmia observed in clinical practice. Although not typically life-threatening itself, AF represents a major risk factor for stroke and major cause of death and serious long-term dis...
The article presents information on an initiative 1 Mission 1 Million: Getting to the Heart of Stroke that is on the verge of launching a petition for calling the World Health Organization (WHO), health authorities worldwide and member states for addressing atrial fibrillation as a risk factor ...
Education Lab | CME | We have seen a remarkable evolution in the therapy of atrial fibrillation in the last two decades. In this issue, several internationally renowned experts review the state of the art in risk stratification and drug therapies for treating atrial fibrill...
Atrial fibrillation and stroke prevention: is warfarin still an option? Yes With the advent of new oral anticoagulants, the place of warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation needs re-evaluation. Warfarin ... JD Spence - 《Journal of Neural Transmission》 被引量: 8发表...
A relationship between lifestyle, diet, and atrial fibrillation (AF) remains unclear. Except for alcohol consumption, AF guidelines do not differentiate specific advice for this rhythm disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between adherence to healthy dietary patterns and...
Automated detection of the atrial fibrillation episodes proposed in this work starts with extraction of sixteen HR irregularity features composing the classifier input vector. Then the LSVM classifier is applied to mark a given heartbeat as AF or non-AF one. Final step is aggregation of the class...
结论 同伴教育可以提高房颤患者的抗凝治疗的依从性,提升抗凝治疗的效果.%Objective To explore the application effect of peer education in anticoagulant therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation.Methods Totally 130 patients with atrial fibrillation were selected by convenience sampling,then they were divided...