The ACUTE Trial

Transesophageal echocardiography to guide electrical cardioversion in atrial fibrillation

  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • September 2002,
  • 69
  • (9)
  • 713-718;

ABSTRACT

The Assessment of Cardioversion Using Transesophageal Echocardiography (ACUTE) trial compared cardioversion following transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) against conventional management of atrial fibrillation (ie, cardioversion following 3 weeks of anticoagulation) in patients scheduled to undergo electrical cardioversion.

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