Studies & Data
How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region?
Working Group Report: Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
AntithromboticTherapy To Prevent Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Meta-Analysis
Robert G. Hart, MD; Oscar Benavente, MD; Ruth McBride, BS; and Lesly A. Pearce, MS
Stroke Prevention in AF, Avoiding a Stroke Crisis
Action for Stroke Prevention, an alliance of cardiologists, neurologists, family doctors and patient groups, have urged EU policymakers to improve stroke risk assessment and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation before the increasing frequency of strokes becomes "a major public health crisis.’’
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NHS Stroke Improvement Programme: Atrial Fibrillation – Detection and Optimal Therapy in Primary Care
Paper reviewing opportunistic screening of pulse palpitation in patients over 65 years of age.Heart and Stroke Improvement
Commissioning for Stroke, Prevention in Primary Care -
The Role of Atrial Fibrillation
NHS Improvement
Prototype software currently for evaluation only.
‘The Auricle' is a new screening device currently being developed by NHS Innovations East which links to the CHADS2” risk calculator.
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Atrial fibrillation—so what? Changing clinical practice
Michelle Bennett, BHF Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist, highlights clinical changes improving the management of Atrial Fibrillation. Published by kind permission from the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing.
Pulmonary vein isolation by duty-cycled bipolar and unipolar radiofrequency energy with a multielectrode ablation catheter, a study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of a novel multielectrode catheter that delivers duty-cycled bipolar and unipolar radiofrequency (RF) energy.
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Atrial Fibrillation, stroke risk and costs, Department of Health data November 2008.