Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2018 Oct;104(4):613-614.
doi: 10.1002/cpt.1144. Epub 2018 Jul 14.

Enlisting Emergency Medicine Clinicians to Help Reduce Strokes in High-Risk Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

David R Vinson  1   2   3   4 , Bory Kea  5 , Blanca Coll-Vinent  6   7 , Tyler W Barrett  8 , Clare L Atzema  9   10   11
Affiliations
Comment

Enlisting Emergency Medicine Clinicians to Help Reduce Strokes in High-Risk Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Flutter

David R Vinson et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2018 Oct.
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declared no competing interests for this work.

Comment in

Comment on

References

    1. Hsu JC & Freeman JV Underuse of vitamin K antagonist and direct oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: a contemporary review. Clin. Pharmacol. Ther 104, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.1024 - DOI - PubMed
    1. Coll-Vinent B et al. Benefits of emergency departments’ contribution to stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation: the EMERG-AF study (emergency department stroke prophylaxis and guidelines implementation in atrial fibrillation). Stroke 48, 1344–1352 (2017). - PMC - PubMed
    1. Atzema CL & Singh SM Acute management of atrial fibrillation: from emergency department to cardiac care unit. Cardiol. Clin 36, 141–159 (2018). - PubMed
    1. Vinson DR et al. Thromboprophylaxis for patients with high-risk atrial fibrillation and flutter discharged from the emergency department. West J. Emerg. Med 19, 346–360 (2018). - PMC - PubMed
    1. Barrett TW & Marill KA Anticoagulation for emergency department patients with atrial fibrillation: is our duty to inform or prescribe? Ann. Emerg. Med. 62, 566–568 (2013). - PubMed