Purpose. To control the ventricular rate during drug therapy for permanent atrial fibrillation.
Scope. Medicine.
Advantages. Based on the method, a formula has been developed for calculating the value of the discriminant function for achieving effective control of the ventricular rate during drug therapy for permanent atrial fibrillation.
Description. A method has been developed for predicting the time to achieve effective control of the ventricular rate during drug therapy for permanent atrial fibrillation, which consists in determining the patient’s age of atrial fibrillation, the functional class of heart failure, and heart rate variability indices.