Different spontaneous breathing trials in patients with atrial fibrillation

Different spontaneous breathing trials in patients with atrial fibrillation.

INTRODUCTION Weaning from mechanical ventilation is one of the most important and challenging problems for most intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) is the most common method used to evaluate patients' ability to breathe by themselves and plays an important role in decision making for weaning. The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of different metho...

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clinical implications of recent trials on anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation

Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Background: The method described provides a rational means for determining whether to institute chronic anticoagulation to prevent stroke in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation under a variety of clinical circumstances. Summary of Comment: The concept of expected value is used in conjunction with data from clinical studies to define the net value of anticoagulation to the patient. A full ...

Spontaneous onset of atrial fibrillation.

Most commonly, atrial fibrillation is triggered by rapid bursts of electrical impulses originating in the myocardial sleeves of pulmonary veins (PVs). However, the nature of such bursts remains poorly understood. Here, we propose a mechanism of bursting consistent with the extensive empirical information about the electrophysiology of the PVs. The mechanism is essentially non-local and involves...