An outstanding addition to the Treatment Strategies series.

You will find such useful information as: Goals of Treatment; Treatment Choices; Advantages of Each Choice; Making A Selection; Anticipated Outcomes; Is Treatment Working?; and When To Change. For example, the complex topic of atrial fibrillation/flutter. Want to know when to coagulate acute AFF rather than go immediately to cardioversion? Check the Anticoagulation section under Making A Selection.

Want to know the difference between radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation vs. atrial flutter? Look it up in the Advantages of Each Choice section. Not certain whether anticoagulation in the elderly is indicated? Check the Other Concerns/Clinical Pearls heading.