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The CV disease template implies that junctional tachycardia includes both junctional ectopic and AVNRT, but this article implies that AVNRT is not a type of JT. Which is correct? Myoglobin ( talk) 18:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I corrected the spelling of "amiodarone". I changed the phrase "cardio-version" (sic) to "electrical cardioversion" in both of the two places where it occurs. The two places where these terms are used are slightly different, but they say the same thing in terms of ideas: "Amiodarone is used to treat this arrhythmia, cardio-version is not used." Both sentences originally said "amiodarone for rate control", so I "corrected" it to "rhythm control" or "to correct the rhythm". A rate control agent is a type of antiarrhythmic, and amiodarone is most definitely "the other kind", amiodarone is a rhythm control agent. (Edit / erratum: Amiodarone is widely considered class III, but it is not "pure" class III, it has weaker actions that would qualify as a rate control agent. So it's both, but the thing I wrote on the actual Wikipedia page didn't say "amiodarone is a rhythm control agent", it said it fixes "the rhythm". I just wanted to remove "rate control" to limit confusion.) Of course, successful rhythm control in a tachyarrhythmia will also bring down the rate. Because the arrhythmia has been corrected. I changed "cardio-version" to "electrical cardioversion" because IV amiodarone is chemical cardioversion. Both sentences say "cardio-version is not used" rather than "should not be used", and I did not change this, but it seems incorrect. The first problem is that it is not cited. The second problem is that even if it were cited and true, the fact that it "should not be used" is very different than "is not used". Inappropriate use of electrical cardioversion in AFib patients who are not on anticoagulants is indeed used - and then it kills the patient via ischemic stroke, when the blood clot you just shook loose from the left atrium reaches the brain. Saying "is not used" sounds like wishful thinking, "should not be used" is actual advice. I'm not going to change that, because I don't even know if it should or should not be used in this case. AFib is a lot more common, so there is a lot of data (and discussion) about when electrical cardioversion should and should not be used. Fluoborate ( talk) 11:49, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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The CV disease template implies that junctional tachycardia includes both junctional ectopic and AVNRT, but this article implies that AVNRT is not a type of JT. Which is correct? Myoglobin ( talk) 18:50, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I corrected the spelling of "amiodarone". I changed the phrase "cardio-version" (sic) to "electrical cardioversion" in both of the two places where it occurs. The two places where these terms are used are slightly different, but they say the same thing in terms of ideas: "Amiodarone is used to treat this arrhythmia, cardio-version is not used." Both sentences originally said "amiodarone for rate control", so I "corrected" it to "rhythm control" or "to correct the rhythm". A rate control agent is a type of antiarrhythmic, and amiodarone is most definitely "the other kind", amiodarone is a rhythm control agent. (Edit / erratum: Amiodarone is widely considered class III, but it is not "pure" class III, it has weaker actions that would qualify as a rate control agent. So it's both, but the thing I wrote on the actual Wikipedia page didn't say "amiodarone is a rhythm control agent", it said it fixes "the rhythm". I just wanted to remove "rate control" to limit confusion.) Of course, successful rhythm control in a tachyarrhythmia will also bring down the rate. Because the arrhythmia has been corrected. I changed "cardio-version" to "electrical cardioversion" because IV amiodarone is chemical cardioversion. Both sentences say "cardio-version is not used" rather than "should not be used", and I did not change this, but it seems incorrect. The first problem is that it is not cited. The second problem is that even if it were cited and true, the fact that it "should not be used" is very different than "is not used". Inappropriate use of electrical cardioversion in AFib patients who are not on anticoagulants is indeed used - and then it kills the patient via ischemic stroke, when the blood clot you just shook loose from the left atrium reaches the brain. Saying "is not used" sounds like wishful thinking, "should not be used" is actual advice. I'm not going to change that, because I don't even know if it should or should not be used in this case. AFib is a lot more common, so there is a lot of data (and discussion) about when electrical cardioversion should and should not be used. Fluoborate ( talk) 11:49, 29 April 2019 (UTC)