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EMCrit Podcast 20 – The Crashing Atrial Fibrillation Patient

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Your patient is pale and diaphoretic. Blood pressure is 70/50. Heart rate is 178. EKG shows atrial fibrillation… What are you going to do???

Yeah, yeah the Pavlovian ACLS response–You cardiovert. Wonderful, except it didn’t change a thing. Now what?

In this episode, I discuss the crashing atrial fibrillation patient.

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