Abstract:The aim of this study was to determine whether electrical cardioversion is safe in digitalised patients
who have no clinical or electrocardiographic evidence of digoxin toxicity. We retrospectively analysed the occurrence
of immediate post-cardioversion ventricular arrhythmias in 50 patients receiving standard doses of digoxin
and without evidence of toxicity (digoxin group) and compared them to 33 patients not receiving digoxin who were
cardioverted in the same time period (control group). 10 patients (20%) i… Show more
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