Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Joshua Cooper, MD

Dr. Josh Cooper, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, outlines present approaches to this common, but often complex arrhythmia. Host Dr. Lee Freedman talks with Dr. Cooper about reversible causes to rule out before embarking on treatment of the primary arrhythmia, as well as proper methods for controlling ventricular response, and assessing clot risk strata. When should we be satisfied with rate control and anticoagulation, versus a full conversion back to normal sinus rhythm?