Atul Verma, John A Cairns, L Brent Mitchell, Laurent Macle, Ian G Stiell, David Gladstone, Michael Sean McMurtry, Stuart Connolly, Jafna L Cox, Paul Dorian, Noah Ivers, Kori Leblanc, Stanley Nattel, Jeff S Healey
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an extremely common clinical problem with an important population morbidity and mortality burden. The management of AF is complex and fraught with many uncertain and contentious issues, which are being addressed by extensive ongoing basic and clinical research. The Canadian Cardiovascular Society AF Guidelines Committee produced an extensive set of evidence-based AF management guidelines in 2010 and updated them in the areas of anticoagulation and rate/rhythm control in 2012. In late 2013, the committee judged that sufficient new information regarding AF management had become available since 2012 to warrant an update to the Canadian Cardiovascular Society AF Guidelines...
October 2014: Canadian Journal of Cardiology