If you think you’re having a heart attack, or maybe even a stroke, it may be atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib.
“Atrial fibrillation is an irregular fast heart beat,” explained Rainier Ponce, a nurse practitioner in the A-Fib clinic at Brown University Health. “Because it’s beating too fast, that can actually cause symptoms which can include light headedness, palpitations like they’re going to pass out.”
Getting the correct diagnosis in the emergency department is the first step…