Giacomo Pucci, Edoardo Santoni, Valeria Bisogni, Camilla Calandri, Alberto Cerasari, Irene Dominioni, Leandro Sanesi, Marco D'Abbondanza, Vito Veca, Gaetano Vaudo
Atrial fibrillation (AF), the commonest sustained cardiac arrhythmia affecting the adult population, is often casually discovered among hospitalized people. AF onset is indeed triggered by several clinical conditions such as acute inflammatory states, infections, and electrolyte disturbance, frequently occurring during the hospitalization. We aimed to evaluate whether systematic AF screening, performed through an automated oscillometric blood pressure (BP) device (Microlife WatchBP Office AFIB, Microlife AG, Switzerland), is effective for detecting AF episodes in subjects admitted to an Internal Medicine ward...
March 20, 2021: Internal and Emergency Medicine