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What are the success rates of cardioversion treatment
Atrial Fibrillation is the most common sustained heart rhythm disorder. One potential treatment is to electrically reset the heart by shocking the heart back to a normal rhythm. This treatment is called a cardioversion. In this video Dr Husain Shabeeh discusses the success rates of cardioversion treatment.
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The success of cardioversion treatment is high, however we have not changed anything inside. We have just shocked the heart back to normal. So we don't know how long that will last. It may last a whole year, it may last years, it may last months, it may only last minutes we don't know because nothing's changed inside. The way we try and increase the success of keeping you in normal rhythm is by giving medication and there's different levels of medication. Some medication is stronger than others with better chance of keeping you in normal rhythm.
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