Atrial Fibrillation
Checklists: Helpful checklist for the care team when treating a patient with cardiac tamponade.
Checklists: This Preoperative Checklist can be used by teams for all patients coming to the EP lab.
Care Pathways/CDS: Atrial Fibrillation Management Pathway
Guidelines/Clinical Documents: The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.
Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.
Care Pathways/CDS: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Primary Care Pathway from NHS South London, including decision making support and timelines.
Education – Patients/Caregiver: A comprehensive guide for AFib providers to use in conversations with patients and caregivers. The AFib Clinic Script contains helpful graphics, charts, and explanations to clarify what AFib is, how it progresses, and how it’s treated.
Workflows: A visual workflow to guide AF clinics in same day CT/transesophageal cardiogram, and CT/direct current cardioversion procedures.
Referral Pathways: OhioHealth’s referral pathways for treating acute vs. non-acute AFib patients.
Guidelines/Clinical Documents: Remote monitoring is beneficial for the management of patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices by impacting morbidity and mortality. With increasing numbers of patients using remote monitoring, keeping up with higher volume of remote monitoring transmissions creates challenges for device clinic staff. This international multidisciplinary document is intended to guide cardiac electrophysiologists, allied professionals, and hospital administrators in managing remote monitoring clinics. This includes guidance for remote monitoring clinic staffing, appropriate clinic workflows, patient education, and alert management. This expert consensus statement also addresses other topics such as communication of transmission results, use of third-party resources, manufacturer responsibilities, and programming concerns. The goal is to provide evidence-based recommendations impacting all aspects of remote monitoring services. Gaps in current knowledge and guidance for future research directions are also identified.
AF Agile Pathway – Emergency Department