Incorporation of patients' preferences for therapy should now be considered an integral part of the decision-making process.This gradual shift in health-care practice from paternalistic to shared-decision making, whereby there is a two-way exchangeof information between the patient and healthcare ...
Robert Levin, a repeat attendee of the annual Atrial Fibrillation Patient Conference, said he highly recommends the conference to anyone who is living with afib. He’s now afib-free and attends the conference because of the high quality of information (and because it’s fun!). “Do a lot ...
* In a clinical trial 81.6% of people with paroxysmal AFib had no atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, or atrial tachycardia after a single ablation procedure at 12 months. Important Safety Information The FARAPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation (PFA) System is intended for the isolation of the pulmonary...
Patient information was related to atrial fibrillation (16%, n=8), warfarin (44%, n=22), low-molecular-weight heparins (12%, n=6), or other related topics (28%, n=14). The mean readability was found to be grade 10.7 (95% CI 10.1 to 11.2); none had a readability score at ...
Anticoagulant patient information material is written at high readability levels. Warfarin therapy requires frequent monitoring and dose adjustment. Elderly patients with atrial fibrillation, prior stroke, and lower literacy skills may h... CA Estrada,MM Hryniewicz,VB Higgs,... - Stroke; a journal ...
What if a patient with atrial fibrillation and anticoagulant treatment is suffering from acute ischemia stroke? 来自 国家科技图书文献中心 喜欢 0 阅读量: 47 作者:C Zhou,L Zhu,J Wu,S Fang 摘要: Author information: (1)Department of Neurology, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China...
Supplementary information Supplementary Information Supplementary methods and figures. Life Sciences Reporting Summary About this article Cite this article Robinson, S.S., Alaie, S., Sidoti, H.et al.Patient-specific design of a soft occluder for the left atrial appendage.Nat Biomed Eng2, 8–16 ...
The opinions of lay experts on the message board, anecdotal stories and hyperlinked Internet data were all highly valued sources of information in the messages. Using the learning gained from the board, individuals proceeded with strategies to treat their atrial fibrillation, often in a trial and ...
In brief Prompted by President George Bush's episode of atrial fibrillation (AF) while jogging, the authors reviewed the cases of eight apparently normal, physically active men who had AF. Episode triggers included exercise and the ingestion of caffeine, alcohol, cold water, and ice cream. None...
atrial fibrillation (AFib) and stroke. Many patients undergo a series of misdiagnoses and experience significant delays before receiving a correct HCM diagnosis. Without proper diagnosis and treatment, HCM patients may make adaptations to their lifestyle over the course of the disease. At firs...