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Cardiology • Cardiac Electrophysiology
Should systemic anticoagulation be considered for patients with a less than 1% atrial fibrillation burden on outpatient monitoring with an elevated CHADSVASc score and acceptable bleeding risk?
Answer from: at Community Practice
This is a recurrent question. My policy is to anticoagulate such patients. The cutoff for anticoagulation is still controversial though. I believe that any episodes lasting longer than 5 min deserve anticoagulation. Not so sure what to do with shorter episodes but my philosophy is that prevention of...
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