Atrial Fibrillation management and drugs.

[seasider18]

Speaking to my GP today he showed me this site

cks.nice.org.uk/atrial-fibr...

There was another GP prescribing site that I can't find.

He also said that he had diagnosed three new cases of AF today.

[Rellim296]

Very interesting! Thank you seasider.

I was going well until I came across the word Phaeochromocytoma.

[seasider18 in reply to Rellim296]

I like to learn a new word every day but prefer ones that I can pronounce.

I stopped going to Football games when I could no longer pronounce the players names

[Rellim296 in reply to seasider18]

We went to a graduation ceremony a few years ago and that was a challenge to the orator with the list of students - Chinese, Polish, Spanish and others from places I can't spell.

I learnt petrichor the other day - the nice smell you get when rain falls after a dry spell.

[seasider18 in reply to Rellim296]

I went to A&E once and the Oriental triage nurse asked what medications I was on. I said Losartan and Verapamil and she said so you have Hypothermia.

Every time she came out to call a patient in no one replied as she hashed the names up to such an extent

[Finvola]

A really useful link - thank you for posting it. Three new cases in one day - I wonder if diagnosis is getting better or are our lifestyle choices getting worse.

[seasider18 in reply to Finvola]

Perhaps this is check for AF month. He is very good. I was speaking to a woman once when we were waiting for INR checks.

She said that she had gone with a cough and he listened to her chest and said that she had aortic stenosis. She had evidently been born with a faulty valve but had a career as a professional dancer in musicals without it being detected.

Like me she now has a Piggy valve.

Sometimes doctors surprise us. At my first ever appointment at another practice I said that I had lower back pain and he surprised me by doing a digital rectal examination and told me that I had an enlarged prostate and referred me to a urologist. I was most impressed.