Atrial Fibrillation
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
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🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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We're going to be continuing this month of December with cardiology. The first two weeks we discussed murmurs and this week we'll be discussing atrial fibrillation.
Believe it or not, but atrial fibrillation is the most common arrhythmia. This is going to be characterized as an irregular rate of the atria.
So, let's dive into presentation, EKG findings, and management. We'll also be hitting a little atrial flutter as we go.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's going on guys? My name's Andrew. I'm founder of med geeks and we're going to be continuing this month of December with cardiology. |
| 0:07.0 | Now the first two weeks we discussed murmur and this week we're going to be discussing atrial |
| 0:12.8 | fibrillation. Now before we get started I want to make a quick |
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| 0:57.6 | Whether you're a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner. Thank you so much now let's get into arial fibrillation? Well believe it or not |
| 1:22.1 | atrial fibrillation is Well believe it or not atrial fibrillation is the most |
| 1:23.8 | common cardiac arrhythmia. This means that out of all the other |
| 1:27.2 | rhythmias that you might have learned about atrial fibrillation is the most |
| 1:31.0 | common. Now atrial fibrillation is going to be characterized as a rapid |
| 1:34.5 | irregular rate of the atria. Essentially we have an atria that quivers right? |
| 1:39.6 | Now what happens is we have this irregular rate that causes the atra to quiver uncontrollably, |
| 1:45.8 | which then results in stagnant blood? |
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