I can't tell you how many patients I have had that convert on their own (from afib to sinus) as soon as we tell them they are scheduled to be cardioverted....
They especially love when I tell them "you've converted" and it always sounds like a religious experience (haha)
Technology is a wonderful thing...when it's working.... But great team work is priceless :)
A deathbed conversion?
(sorry. somebody had to say it)....
I can't tell you how many patients I have had that convert on their own (from afib to sinus) as soon as we tell them they are scheduled to be cardioverted...
Yeah, anticipation of noxious events can evoke spontaneous improvement in quite a few situations. I have had countless patients come in with a complaint of "urinary retention," only to suddenly experience a cure the moment I wave a Foley catheter in front of them- especially the drug users who refuse to give us a urine sample for toxicology. (It's a miracle- Hallelujah!)
Who says miracles don't happen anymore?